stattowrexham (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stattowrexham) wrote,@ 2004-10-06 00:02:00 |
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England V Wales Match Build Up
Wales V Poland
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Kevin Ratcliffe stated tonight that he feels the Poland game is the much more important of the two games we've got coming up.
Basically he felt that if we get a draw from the England game and beat Poland that's a good return, the Poland is a must win game more than England as England are going to win the group anyhow (they rarely @#%$ up in the group stages).
Poland and Austria are Wales's main rivals for second spot so I tend to agree with him on this one, what if we beat England and lose to Poland! All for nothing really just a nice memory of beating the old enemy but memories don't get you to major championships.
If Northern Ireland can nick points of some other teams then who knows? By Thursday next week it could be all academic and we are out of the running so it's a massive week for the Welsh national team. Still we will have the Euro 2008 qualifiers to build for then :)
I still feel though with everything going on at Wrexham that the build up to the England game is passing me by. I suppose by the time it kicks off saturday and all the atmosphere thats when it'll become nerve wracking.
Brian Flynn seemed confident Wales could nick an upset. The topic of a foreigner managing Wales came up, the panel agreed that Wales's next manager should be Welsh.
I disagree myself, if it's the right person I don't care where they come from as we don't have a monopoly on pride!
Gary Speed was mentioned by Brian Flynn tonight as someone who needs to be involved in the Welsh set up whenever he comes to hang up his boots.
Kevin Ratcliffe mentioned that he felt Bobby Gould didn't involve people like himself and Ian Rush when their playing careers were coming to an end and that was disappointing as they felt they could offer a lot of advice to the squad at that time.
He made a point that managers tended to just get rid of players and not involve them whereas Mark Hughes encouraged Chris Coleman to be a part of the Wales set up after he got injured and also is involving Gary Speed in some aspects of the coaching now.
Incidentally, Flynn in the flesh is a really decent bloke who you can chat to, he came across very well. A strong point was made that all the effort in bringing Wrexham Football Club up (from it's youth policy and it's training ground) under the previous management is now going to waste under the stewardship of Alex Hamilton.
As for Flynn being the next Wales manager lets be fair what are the choices?
Toshack? Will he move back to the country.
Chris Coleman - Won't leave a well paid job at Fulham.
Tony Pulis? Dark horse who has ruled himself out of the race.
Ian Rush - Too inexperienced.
Flynn - Has the credentials but wouldn't be a popular choice even amongst Wrexham fans!
We are starting to scrape the barrel now. Who are the genuine candidates to be the next Wales manager?
Wales V Poland
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Kevin Ratcliffe stated tonight that he feels the Poland game is the much more important of the two games we've got coming up.
Basically he felt that if we get a draw from the England game and beat Poland that's a good return, the Poland is a must win game more than England as England are going to win the group anyhow (they rarely @#%$ up in the group stages).
Poland and Austria are Wales's main rivals for second spot so I tend to agree with him on this one, what if we beat England and lose to Poland! All for nothing really just a nice memory of beating the old enemy but memories don't get you to major championships.
If Northern Ireland can nick points of some other teams then who knows? By Thursday next week it could be all academic and we are out of the running so it's a massive week for the Welsh national team. Still we will have the Euro 2008 qualifiers to build for then :)
I still feel though with everything going on at Wrexham that the build up to the England game is passing me by. I suppose by the time it kicks off saturday and all the atmosphere thats when it'll become nerve wracking.
Brian Flynn seemed confident Wales could nick an upset. The topic of a foreigner managing Wales came up, the panel agreed that Wales's next manager should be Welsh.
I disagree myself, if it's the right person I don't care where they come from as we don't have a monopoly on pride!
Gary Speed was mentioned by Brian Flynn tonight as someone who needs to be involved in the Welsh set up whenever he comes to hang up his boots.
Kevin Ratcliffe mentioned that he felt Bobby Gould didn't involve people like himself and Ian Rush when their playing careers were coming to an end and that was disappointing as they felt they could offer a lot of advice to the squad at that time.
He made a point that managers tended to just get rid of players and not involve them whereas Mark Hughes encouraged Chris Coleman to be a part of the Wales set up after he got injured and also is involving Gary Speed in some aspects of the coaching now.
Incidentally, Flynn in the flesh is a really decent bloke who you can chat to, he came across very well. A strong point was made that all the effort in bringing Wrexham Football Club up (from it's youth policy and it's training ground) under the previous management is now going to waste under the stewardship of Alex Hamilton.
As for Flynn being the next Wales manager lets be fair what are the choices?
Toshack? Will he move back to the country.
Chris Coleman - Won't leave a well paid job at Fulham.
Tony Pulis? Dark horse who has ruled himself out of the race.
Ian Rush - Too inexperienced.
Flynn - Has the credentials but wouldn't be a popular choice even amongst Wrexham fans!
We are starting to scrape the barrel now. Who are the genuine candidates to be the next Wales manager?
