In a message dated 10/29/2007 8:56:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Mark Bursa writes:
> >> >>I fully agree with you about how the club has handled Poyet's >> departure. It >> is a complete change from what we've seen at any time up 'til >> now...including >> this management's prior actions. They can and should be commended. >> >> And I'll be happy to reconsider my opinion of Bates if changes like that >> continue to be made. I don't have any religious connection to my dislike >> of >> Bates. I just dislike what he's done. If he does different things that >> are >> good...I'll applaud him.<< >> Fair enough - though I think good things have been happening since the end >> of last season in terms of team management. If you mean what's been done this season, I agree. But that ignores a hell of a lot of crap done by Bates. > >> >>As for Eddie, yes I'd like to see him back. If he's up for it -- and >> you >> rightly ask (considering he's said he isn't) -- then no one would be more >> the >> right man for the job.<< >> >> >> But I don't think he's the right man for the job. Not now. And I think he >> realises that... >> I don't know. If he wanted it at his age -- as others at his age have -- he'd be the right man. But he doesn't ... so he isn't. > >> >>If he isn't....who then?<< >> >> A good, intelligent professional coach who brings something to the >> management team that Wise doesn't... preferably someone who was playing >> top-quality >> football until quite recently. >> >> Did someone say Gianfranco Zola? >> I'd be fine with Zola. > >> >> >>Vinnie? No. His heart would never be in it. Not because he makes more >> money acting -- though he does -- but because that's not what he's about.<< >> >> >> Just a daft suggestion really. I'm sure Vincent has no interest in sitting >> in a dugout in Swansea on a wet wednesday in November. >> >> Exactly. But I frankly think he'd be a crap coach. Its not like he accomplished what he accomplished because of an intimate knowledge of the game which he can now communicate to a new generation of players. He has one thing and only one thing he could communicate... > >> >>What's Batts doing?<< >> > Oh no. Just because a player was a fans' favourite doesn't make him coaching > material. Agreed....but Batts had more than that. He was the type of player who, if he wants to, could make a terrific coach. In his boring book, Batty makes it clear he wants nowt t'do wi' football > once he retires. So I suspect he's riding round on his motorbike all day. > Good luck to him. He can afford it. > If that's the truth -- and you can't assume that what a player says in a book he didn't personally write is the truth -- than you're right. > > Batty's refusal to compromise on his contract at the end (refusing to go out > on loan to save us a few quid etc) means his reputation is screwed at Leeds. > > Oh crap. I'd welcome him back in a heartbeat. MAG > > Mark > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist 6 in a bloody row!
