Premier League 2025/26

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I suggest you send your CV in quick smart - I believe @Flobs and @Scott.Jones are also under consideration.

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They’ve started the in-match interviews with AFL coaches. Haven’t made it to players on the bench during play yet, but that’s because they’re not all subbed, as such, they’re often coming on and off for the entire match.

Anyways, it adds feck all and is stupid as.

Edit: what @Rooster said.

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100%

I can’t stand watching the AFL players singing the team song in the sheds post match.

And the poor coaches would rather be somewhere else so they add nuthin. Imagine a quick EPL manager chat just after they have given the poor old 4th official a bollocking. That would be wild.

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That’s unfair competition. :sob:

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Apart from anyone else, half time is short. The coaches and players only have around 10 minutes to discuss tactics before they need to be back on the pitch.

The last thing they need is giving nuggets of information like “we need to score more than them to win the game”. It’s not as if they will publicise their entire tactical plan.

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I’d imagine they’ll send someone like the sub goalie to mouth the platitudes.

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Time to get this assistant manager…

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Appoint an assistant manager just to take care of this.

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If we appointed Michael Owen to do it the broadcasters would soon give up asking…

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That’s what a club needs to do. Just keep a mouthpiece and take the piss

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its such a massive issue (not just in football either mind you, b ut thats for another day)…where ‘they’ tell you what will enhance the viewer spectacle…when most people are happy for the veil not to be lifted, most people are happy to just grab a beer or a cuppa at half time, go to the loo and come back and watch a game of football…

they essentially introduce something that actually detracts from the spectacle.

keep the viel down, keep the mystery…dont go in the rooms, the rooms are sacred, if you make the first team, thats when you enter the rooms, its not my place to see in there

i dont want Slot to have to think about what hes going to say the viewers, i want every second to be him focussed on what my team requires

and i dont want to hear what the sub thinks in the sixtieth minute, i just want to watch the game if you dont mind

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