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He was originally with us but we let him go as a kid I believe, not had a bad career, remember him being sent off at Valley Parade playing for Oxford, 0-0 at half time we ran out 5-0 winners.

 

What has Mr Blond (sorry Bland) had to say?

 

That we need time to gel.

 

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devil’s advocate would say, why does a manager need an office at the stadium when he only spends a few hours there on matchdays and 90% of his week at the training ground. pretty sure the majority of chairman / owners will have an office at the training ground. to be honest, i’d be surprised if they all didn’t. sheff united definitely do.

 

Lets see if fans do protest first. Fans keep saying that they've never known the atmosphere be so toxic yet there's been plenty of time during my time supporting City that the majority of the ground has been up in arms about the manager especially, maybe not about the chairmen but definitely about hounding the manager out.

 

Josh was trying to be largely positive regarding Edin, but he's a bit too unintelligent to understand what he's saying.

he mentioned, mid flow, how he deals with Edin day in day out.... why? why do the players see Rahic DAILY??
and Rahic has an office at the training ground - and watches training - but doesn't get involved - no of course not, but I bet he discussed what he saw with Collins and offered his 'expert opinion' after the session!

 

You can pass exams,coaching courses and whatever,but if you don't possess the skills to implement what you've learnt,you are not going to be successful.

Trouble is, Edin thinks his "knowledge of football" including zero experience of the English game,and a coaching qualification he has never put into practise,is good enough for him to interfere with day to day coaching.

The players play for the manager / coach not the employer.If they are working under his scrutiny how confusing is that?

 

It's not confusing at all really. The players play for the manager/team mates, whether the chairman is watching or not gives no relevance to their performance (or it shouldn't).

 

There’s room for more

 

I’m not disagreeing with what you are saying about our current situation at all.

But what you said originally was not that. We will always go backwards at some stage unless we continue to progress and end up in the premier league with no gaps in between. How likely is that though?

My point was we have been taken backwards in the past and we are at the moment. I am not disputing that. But it is still salvageable.

As for the comment regarding Hopkin not been up to parkys standard. Probably not. However not when he first joined us. He had a lot of failures on his cv did parky but did a fantastic job at city. Compare that to Grayson and he was garbage here in his short spell.

Point being previous means nothing

 

I'm not involved in football coaching but I'd be gobsmacked if there was no practical assessment to prove that you can implement the theory as part of gaining coaching qualifications. I'm currently on a coaching pathway in another (virtually entirely amateur) sport which culminates in a 16 hour practical exam and I can't see a heavily regulated multi billion £ industry having a lower barrier to gaining essential qualifications than that. Then again, it is corrupt football governing bodies we're talking about so who knows...

 

We are always open to new members

 

And on that note not seen two of those for a while. Think they’ve given up

 

I’ve never said it’s a guarantee they will turn it around but I was replying to bronco who stated no owner has ever taken us backwards or something along those lines.

Hopkin has stated he is looking at players and I think he will get who he wants rather than what Edin wants. You don’t have to believe it but that’s what he’s saying in the press so what else do we have to go with?

And of course it was the parky era turnaround but as said I was replying to broncos specific comments

 

Funny how we all see the situation differently, football fans eh .

 

So there are different FA qualifications.

Here's the link to the FA Coaching Pathway:
file:///C:/Users/Ian/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe/TempState/Downloads/fa-education-coaching-pathway%20(1).pdf

I have Level 2 and have been trying to get on the Level 3 / Uefa B course for several years but unless you are coaching at some sort of professional academy or an ex pro you cannot get on the courses. Each of the county FA's tend to run only 1 course a year for about 24 applicants. You need to exhibit a 'log book' of experience and they visit coaching sessions to assess and mentor you...

Edin has quoted at the outset that he had a coaching qualification, which I am assuming is from Germany but Germany has more qualified coaches and they are required to do many more hours on their log book to achieve more senior qualifications. So I don't know what qualification he has got exactly or where he got it....

So this what Mikey had as a Uefa A badged coach:
http://www.thefa.com/get-involved/coach/courses/all-courses/the-fa-uefa-a-licence?utm_medium=news_article&utm_source=thefa.com&utm_content=discover-the-coaching-pathway&utm_campaign=oct_2016

So if you look there is a total of 18 days tutoring plus however many 'log book' hours and mentoring sessions in between.

 

There will be practical assessment I have no doubt but it's not the real world and you only have to compare his man management skills with what the likely outcome would be if he was the coach!

 

i haven’t visited all training grounds in the country so i can only comment on those that i have.. can i ask how you know it’s a first for bradford city? or is it just something you believe but don’t know for fact?

ed woodward, also has an office at carrington.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ed-woodward-keeping-closer-eye-on-jose-mourinhos-training-sessions-at-manchester-united-zjhh0cc76