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There is a ridiculous notion that persists in some peoples minds that because someone was a hard player or a horrible bastard on the pitch that that somehow how makes them more likely to get the best out of players as they will somehow knock their own attributes into them. Often its the very attributes that they showed on the pitch that makes them unsuited to man management and I say this in direct response to those who would tout guys like Brown as just what the current squad needs to give them a good boot up the arse.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/11/the-unlikely-story-of-how-dundee-united-became-an-insult-in-nigeria

Nah I was thinking of Aitken. He was supposed to have undermined Miller, if I remember correctly. Turned some players against him then went to the board.

Aye, he was a total dick. There's only so much belief suspension can go on with one character. I've seen a lot worse, but I wouldn't recommend it. Snowpiercer on Netflix been half decent.

We lost 1.2 goals a game last season and 0.94 goals a game this season so the defence has actually improved.

Made my feelings known in a different thread regarding this. For me it has to be Duncan Ferguson, he wants to manage, and I think his goal is to manage Everton one day, but he really should cut his teeth elsewhere. Why not us? I appreciate he has a lack of Managerial experience, but he's been coaching and learning under various Managers for many years now, again, I am an enormous believer in mentality, I think he'd have us fired up for a home game against a 3rd Division team in the early cup rounds as much as he would away to Rangers/Celtic. I don't believe for one minute he'd accept that our aim is 3rd and we should be happy with it, he'd demand and strive for better. We all know what type of character he is, personally I find him infectious, passionate, heart on his sleeve and purely wants the best. He's a lot more level headed now but you still wouldn't fuck about with him, we need that, as well as someone with good tactical sense, he's learned from Moyes, Marco Silva and is now Ancelotti's assistant. The game where he was caretaker Manager and they beat Chelsea 3-1, you know they made more tackles in that game than they had done in 37 years? He's old school but has good teachers. What he's done with a lot of the Everton youngsters as well, some of who still play for the 1st team, is highly regarded, It's just my opinion, I appreciate and accept that some will say " Fuck that " or maybe we couldn't afford him, but I genuinely believe he's exactly what we need. These 2 YT clips I have put up explain a bit about how he works.

I moved to Oz when I was 22 so I never got that many done. I think I did about 17. Getting up the mountains is something I really miss. It always felt like I had a clearer head after being on the hills.