Where Are They Now

[South Stand Seagull]

Jon Gallagher scored the first ever goal at Austin FCs new stadium in Texas last night. Good finish. 

nice crowd and beautiful stadium to be fair

[Zeus]

First i'd heard....well done Jon! 

[muttonhumper]

On 7/2/2021 at 5:54 PM, South Stand Seagull said:

Jon Gallagher scored the first ever goal at Austin FCs new stadium in Texas last night. Good finish. 

nice crowd and beautiful stadium to be fair

Austin is fucking ace.

Best city in the US.

Probably.

[For Fecks Sake]

Ian Cathro - assistant head coach at Tottenham under Nuno Espirito Santo.

Might have been a shite manager but certainly got a reputation in the coaching world.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

19 hours ago, For Fecks Sake said:

Ian Cathro - assistant head coach at Tottenham under Nuno Espirito Santo.

Might have been a shite manager but certainly got a reputation in the coaching world.

Scotland is too back to front to give a guy like Cathro a go. Or the Italian guy at Killie who had been at Chelsea, Juve and the Italian national team. The media and the pundits will go for anyone who isn't 5+ years hoofing the ball in Scotland. Jim Jefferies would be seen as a better appointment in our backwards country

[sheepcrooky]

2 hours ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Scotland is too back to front to give a guy like Cathro a go. Or the Italian guy at Killie who had been at Chelsea, Juve and the Italian national team. The media and the pundits will go for anyone who isn't 5+ years hoofing the ball in Scotland. Jim Jefferies would be seen as a better appointment in our backwards country

In Cathro’s case,I just don’t think he could handle being in charge. Being a manager will be completely different from being a coach and his demeanour just wasn’t set forward that. 
Some people make great coaches/assistants. Cathro might just be one of them. 
 

[Ten Caat]

36 minutes ago, sheepcrooky said:

In Cathro’s case,I just don’t think he could handle being in charge. Being a manager will be completely different from being a coach and his demeanour just wasn’t set forward that. 
Some people make great coaches/assistants. Cathro might just be one of them. 
 

I honestly think he just joined quite possibly the worst team in Scotland he could have chosen to with regards to what he does. Hibs would have been a far better fit  for his talents at that point (obviously there was no vacancy there of course). He was also very young at that point........I wouldn't rule him out of managing again aged about 40. The SFA love him, could see him getting appointed Scotland manager down the line replacing whoever replaces Clarke

[thedandydon]

Boris looking to rip the band aid off as of 19th July, doon here at least. Refreshing to hear them now talking about living with the virus and placing the onus on personal responsibility going forward. I can’t see many other countries achieving close to a 90% take up of the vaccines for their adult populations. We’ve reached a point where it’s about as good as its going to get so time to get back to something resembling normality again. There will always be dissenting voices, especially from those who’ve become feart to have any kind of contact with their fellow humans. Amazed at how many folk are inherently risk averse these days, even when confronted with the evidence that tells them there’s very little threat even if they did catch it.

[sheepcrooky]

15 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

I honestly think he just joined quite possibly the worst team in Scotland he could have chosen to with regards to what he does. Hibs would have been a far better fit  for his talents at that point (obviously there was no vacancy there of course). He was also very young at that point........I wouldn't rule him out of managing again aged about 40. The SFA love him, could see him getting appointed Scotland manager down the line replacing whoever replaces Clarke

Hearts with an established DoF should have been a great appointment for Cathro. Unfortunately that DoF was Levein who thought he was still fully in charge of the team side of things. 

[aberdeen1970]

Clearly a good coach but doesn't appear to have the ability to manage and be accountable for people and results. 

Nothing wrong with that. We're all built differently. 

I think he's found his niche. I don't think we'll ever see him as a manager again. 

 

[For Fecks Sake]

2 hours ago, sheepcrooky said:

In Cathro’s case,I just don’t think he could handle being in charge. Being a manager will be completely different from being a coach and his demeanour just wasn’t set forward that. 
Some people make great coaches/assistants. Cathro might just be one of them. 
 

 

1 hour ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Clearly a good coach but doesn't appear to have the ability to manage and be accountable for people and results. 

Nothing wrong with that. We're all built differently. 

I think he's found his niche. I don't think we'll ever see him as a manager again. 

 

These - need a different set of skills to manage a team as opposed to coach a team. 

[eddiec]

Steve Clarke was assistant to a few folk for years and did alright when he moved to manager 

[Simply Red]

Cathro was 30 when he got the hertz job. Far too young especially for someone with no pedigree as a player. 

No reason why he wont go on to become a decent no.1 as he gets older. 

Be interesting to see how Courts gets on at the arabs. Sacked by crimbo would be my guess. 

[Don Fonte]

Ash Taylor - signing for the mighty Walsall.

[alscotoz]

10 hours ago, Don Fonte said:

Ash Taylor - signing for the mighty Walsall.

Glad he's gone. Utter pish and before anyone comes back and says he was one of our best last season, what exactly does that prove?

Time's up.

We were shite last season.

[King Street Loon]

3 hours ago, alscotoz said:

Glad he's gone. Utter pish and before anyone comes back and says he was one of our best last season, what exactly does that prove?

Time's up.

We were shite last season.

Also that the general standard of our league is shite.

He was comfortable playing in our league in both spells up here.

[alscotoz]

9 minutes ago, King Street Loon said:

Also that the general standard of our league is shite.

He was comfortable playing in our league in both spells up here.

Yeah, that as well.

[Tord31]

Taylor did ok for us last season and was probably our best player in our shit spell of December to May.

I'd have kept him by virtue of not getting rid of all of the defenders at once but clearly Glass has given that nod to Mikey Devlin probably because he's been a cheaper option presumably.

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Stopped us getting (more) bullied.  Nothing like the scoring threat he should have been at set pieces though.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

4 hours ago, King Street Loon said:

Also that the general standard of our league is shite.

He was comfortable playing in our league in both spells up here.

I stand up for Ash Taylor more than most on here.... but I'm not sure comfortable is a word I would use to describe him

[dazzy_deff]

4 hours ago, King Street Loon said:

Also that the general standard of our league is shite.

He was comfortable playing in our league in both spells up here.

He had offers at a higher level. But Walsall was closest to home so can still put his kids to their school of choice. 

[jamiesd]

All the best to Ash. 

[Don_Corleone]

Taylor was limited, but he gave his all, so I wish him all the best. He had the raw ingredients to be a decent defender, but maybe not the concentration or intelligence to play at a higher level - hence why some games he was excellent and others he was a bombscare. I'd rather we gave him another year as defensive cover than Devlin who's a total waste of a wage - but ideally we'd have neither and bring someone better in.

[Joe pike]

2 hours ago, dazzy_deff said:

He had offers at a higher level. But Walsall was closest to home so can still put his kids to their school of choice. 

Of course he did.

His dream was always to play for Walsall.

[RUL]

He's a league 2 player. Found his level. 

[StandFree1982]

Taylor > Devlin 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

16 minutes ago, StandFree1982 said:

Taylor > Devlin 

Hamilton Devlin>Taylor>Aberdeen Devlin (so far)

[dazzy_deff]

1 hour ago, Joe pike said:

Of course he did.

His dream was always to play for Walsall.

Perhaps. Only going on what he said. 

[Ten Caat]

5 hours ago, dazzy_deff said:

He had offers at a higher level. But Walsall was closest to home so can still put his kids to their school of choice. 

Where did he say that? 

Presumably still has a house in the Northampton area? Around 60 miles from there to Walsall so commutable although I think I'd tire of that drive 5 or 6 days a week pdq.

If he meant from the Merseyside area then you are looking at 100 miles each way. That would fuck me off within a week

[Ten Caat]

3 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

What's your cut off mileage point for a daily commute , TC? 

About an hour each way tops. Never found any pleasure in driving.

Thankfully the worst I ever had do endure was 35 minutes (severe winter weather could nearly double that if the roads hadn't been cleared but it wasn't a frequent occurrance)