Squad announced for Czechs and Cyprus

[blobbyblob]

Reports on today fm that Doyle is now out for sure

[geysir]

Sure, it's results that count but having people on your side is a big help to deflect criticism when things go wrong on the pitch. That's when good communication & avoiding gaffes like the McCarthy vs Doherty comparison come to your aid.

Well, you tell me
Stan ridiculed because he couldn't remember the exact fixture mentioned in a scouting report.
Because he delegates, he is accused of a lack of meticulous scouting preparation. Because he starts a 10 line answer to a question with you tell me. Remember, this is a guy who has lived in an ultra paranoid media solitary confinement for 15 years, who kept his lips sealed about all and sundry when others couldn't wait to barter their banal thoughts.
Surely we can be patient while Stan learns the minor details of management, taking a deep breath, defreeze, communicate with his arms unfolded with no need to regard a microphone as an assault weapon and regard interviewers as a conduit to communicate with the supporters even with the knowledge that the media will scrutinise every word to manufacture every possible twist.

[Stuttgart88]

I'm not sure whether you're agreeing or disagreeing with me there!

Of course Stan's allowed to delegate. The Doc vs McCarthy thing was a slip. So what, you're right. But it does give those who are quick to criticise him ammunition to beat him with that's all. I was merely pointing out the benefit of better communication.

I didn't realise "you tell me" was followed by 10 further lines.

[geysir]

Just my version of putting things into perspective.

here's the 10 lines spoken in the "mixed area", same defensive defiant attitude but more expansive than when frozen in front of the tv camera.

Asked how he can improve things 'in terms of creating chances from open play' he's nonplussed.
"You tell me about the first half.
We had as many chances,
if not more.
We had the Germans pinned in their own half,
and you saw throughout the World Cup
how they pinned teams back - for 20 minutes
they didn't know what hit them.
I can't ask anything more than that.
The Germans probably won't
have a harder game here."

[endabob1]

Just looking at the original squad 3 midfielders picked (A.Reid, S.Reid & Kavanagh) that won't be available for Cypurs and Quinn called up as a replacement not available , so 4 midfielders out and he still refuses to call up Carsley. He's no Pele but to suggest that he's that far down the pecking order suggests to me that there's something not quite right between Stan & Carsley.