Precisely why would a head coach not decide who plays and gets opportunities??? They manage the team. They see them day to day and know the strengths and weaknesses of the players. Of course they should be picking the tactics and who gets to play. If the owners or GM don't like the results, hire someone else. That's how it goes. You put your trust in someone to lead, let them ********ing lead.
I talked to Mark about a lot of stuff, he was always candid about everything. He said there wasn't a better deal on offer. So that's how we got stuck with that deal. Back then, we were at the mercy of whoever would take us. It could have been worse, we could have been on ONN again. Remember that horseshit? Oh, and Zak, even though my time was after him, will always get the credit for his sarcastic adjective that became an actual official club descriptor.
St. Pauli and Mainz look FINE. I have no idea what you are on about, those stadiums would have been looked at as "OOH I WISH WE COULD BE IN A STADIUM AS NICE AS THAT" it you asked us in 2018. They look like more basic versions of our stadium, but they certainly don't look bad. Y'all are on some ********ed up shit tonight.
To say Lower.com field is a better stadium than Union Berlin's stadium is an insult. As someone who has been to a Union Berlin match (when they were in the second tier), I can safely say that Lower.com is nothing compared to the Stadium at the old forester's house. The atmosphere is great, and the walk to the stadium is beautiful, you walk right through a forest to get there!
Da ******** are you smoking? That stadium ain’t anywhere close to Scott’s Field. We have it good. It’s a nice facility to call home.
They are also four out of 18. Mainz was built (not rebuilt) in 2011, is 30K plus, and looks pretty darn similar to Scotts. Plans are already afoot to rebuild Union Berlin's stadium to a more modern 40K.
I stand corrected, nice goodbye letter on X that appears to be Nancy. 1997021319976673423 is not a valid tweet id
The last season with ONN was 2011. The channel folded at some point in 2012 when the team was on Columbus Sports Network and whatever channel had the other half of the schedule. (One channel had home games and the other channel had away. CSN basically went belly-up due to creation of the Big Ten Network. It was CSN's hope to get a lot of minor OSU stuff.) Part of the reason the FO liked ONN was because it was the same channel number every time with guaranteed coverage of games. But yeah, the picture quality definitely sucked. Someone once said it was because they didn't spend enough on their "outbound connection" (I forget the exact terminology.) Zak is the stuff of legends. Wherever he is, I hope he's living his best life. Once he quit the supporter scene, there was a rumor he simply bought tickets in another area and kept a low profile. Oddly enough, nobody ever saw him though. He was contacted the day of MLS Cup 2008 and his reaction was basically "oh wow whatever. I had no idea" which, yeah...unless he didn't pay any attention at all to local news, how did he not know?
I’m talking modern day infrasturcture. Luxury amenities. Player amenities. Media infrastructure. All that good stuff. I know the atmosphere there is better than here. Never suggested otherwise. But this whole conversation started because we were comparing facilities here to facilities in Europe.
Good. A rebuild for Union Berlin is badly needed. Mainz’s stadium may only be 15 years old but it’s still pretty bare bones from an amenities perspective, which is the main point of this discussion.
Then you might have added stadiums other than the bottom 4. Like Allianz and Borussia Park and Signal Iduna. I've been in at least 5 of the current stadia. Our place is nice, but I've taken the tour at Borussia Park and seen the amenities (and I've gotten to do the equivalent at Scotts). Not close, I've also seen the training grounds at Gladbach and Stuttgart (the latter is next to the Mercedes Benz Museum). Pretty nice. But the original point was (from another member) That's not true of the Bundesliga. They are also quite modern and getting moreso. Of the four stadia you noted, two are less than 20 years old and the other two were heavily refurbished/rebuilt in that same time. Many of the stadia I went to in 1978 (which was almost 50 years ago) are either gone completely or unimportant currently. Bokelberg--gone. Mungersdorf--gone. Rheinstadion--Gone. Berlin Olympic Stadium--heavily refurbished (it's a listed building tho). Sudstadion Koeln--5th division. Waldhof Mannheim--second team and training. In fact, some of the stadia I went to in the succeeding years (within the past 15) are also gone--Karlsruhe for one. And St. Pauli and Hamburg SV's places were heavily rebuilt. Germany is upgrading its facilities as fast as they can--and we haven't even talked about 2nd and 3rd division teams. I've heard the Arena auf Schalke is amazing, for one. Paderborn is pretty nice too. We have a nice place. But let's not be so uber-Columbus-centric. As much as I hated "He who shall not be named," he wasn't wrong about that.
Well, sometimes.... On the old (way old) rec.sport.soccer, there was a gal from the British Isles that used to talk about her experiences in going to games in England. She called it "A Guide to England's Public Toilets".....
I like Nancy, but good lord I will not miss getting absolutely smoked on corners. Good luck with that Celtic!!
The pitchforks are already starting to come out for him because he switched to 3 at the back for his first match.
They are going after him on twitter for changing the formation and not sticking with O'neill's system. Also ripping him for using the tactics clipboard. Not sure fans will give much grace.
So you got rid of a coach because he wasn’t winning, brought in a new coach, who immediately does something different, and then bitch because he changed something? That’s like declaring your team is full of bums, then griping when the front office gets rid of some if the bums. Like Nancy hasn’t spent a couple weeks planning to make changes, he didn’t start on the problem the minute he walked out of the locker room, today.
You left out the part about Martin O'Neil, their old favorite, coming in as interim manager and guiding Celtic to 5 straight victories since Nov. 9th, and moving Celtic up to level with Hearts in the league table, after the former manager was sacked. Now with the loss today, they have dropped back to second, and have a manger with a little clipboard and colored magnets. They will not give him a break, ever. That is unless he guides them to Scottish premiership first place and gets them into the Champions League. The supporters at Celtic, and the media in Glasgow, are pissed off and very unreasonable. They also want their entire board of directors to step down. https://thecelticbhoys.com/embarrassing-celtic-fans-react-wilfried-nancy-debut
The supporters wanted O'Neil to stay. They believed he was the legend that would save them. However, it sounded like O'Neil wanted to return to whatever the Scottish version of a retirement home in Florida is.
Nancy after today’s loss: “I’m not about losing or winning, I’m about having a good performance… We all want to win” He’s going to get himself run out of town real quick with statements like that unless he rips off about 15 straight domestic wins.
That sounds awfully like one of those: "We outplayed them, but they just got a few lucky bounces" excuses.