02-02-2021, 10:34 AM
(01-02-2021, 09:37 PM)exterminator Wrote:(01-02-2021, 12:20 PM)Northstandgeorge Wrote: In Jacketts defense great players dont necessarily make great coaches. None off Wenger, Jose, Alex Ferguson or Klopp had particularly stellar playing careers. All are or have been absolute top drawer coaches. Also only 3 teams have scored more goals than us in the division so we are doing something right. As for the suggestion to get Guy in coaching ,the reality is apart from his spell here the only coaching he has done in the football league is a short spell with Crawley about 8 years ago.
NSG those names you mention are "managers of the team" NOT specialist position coaches, in relation to position coaches you need "someone who the players can recognise has done the business in the role they are coaching".
Sorry moosh GNW for all his coaching abilities was never a prolific striker, Guy Whittingham was and has all the coaching badges and more than GNW has.
There is an argument that ex-defenders or ex-goalkeepers make the best coaches for strikers - they know what they could not deal with.
But the whole idea that you have to have been brilliant yourself in a position to coach that position is a total nonsense. Good coaches are good coaches because they have an instinct for coaching people not because they were good themesleves at playing. That's not to say good players can't be good coaches, but it is a totally different skill so the two do not necessarily follow. Any good coach can teach people how to be a far better player than they ever were, if they can't they shouldn't be coaching.