Barclays Premier League 2014/15 - Real World Football - FM24

19 games played so half way into the season now. I predicted top 4 would be Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal & Man Utd in that order with West Brom Hull & Burnley. Not too bad, i'm sticking with that and i'll throw in Spurs to come 8th.

George14brfc

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29 Dec 2014 23:29:51

Whats this about Collocini being favorite for the job ha ha

Poe

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29 Dec 2014 23:36:56

Coloccini will get the job as an interim manager until the summer, probably.

He's in a win-win situation there Ashley - fans will support Coloccini as he's a good guy, and we're in no danger of going down.

Rather have him in charge than Pardew, too.

George14brfc

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29 Dec 2014 23:38:17

Ah I see fair enough. Player manager?

George14brfc

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29 Dec 2014 23:55:33

Jamie Carragher's reaction to it

Shola

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29 Dec 2014 23:56:23

Coloccini will sell himself to San Lorenzo though.

Number 1

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30 Dec 2014 00:04:26

Apparently Coloccini hasn't taken UEFA coaching licenses, nevermind the Pro License Premier League managers must have on general principle.

I don't think appointing him is a good idea, but daft ideas like that appear to the normal at St. James'.

George14brfc

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30 Dec 2014 00:06:01

By Number 1 | On 30 December 2014 - 00:04 AM

Apparently Coloccini hasn't taken UEFA coaching licenses, nevermind the Pro License Premier League managers must have on general principle.

I don't think appointing him is a good idea, but daft ideas like that appear to the normal at St. James'.

Ah I remember Accrington Stanley getting fined when James Beattie didn't have his badges.

Franck

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30 Dec 2014 00:23:42

By Number 1 | On 30 December 2014 - 01:04 AM

Apparently Coloccini hasn't taken UEFA coaching licenses, nevermind the Pro License Premier League managers must have on general principle.

I don't think appointing him is a good idea, but daft ideas like that appear to the normal at St. James'.

That can easily be worked around by giving him some made up job title instead of manager or head coach while someone with coaching badges gets that job title without actually filling that role.

King Luis

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30 Dec 2014 00:27:20

By Number 1 | On 30 December 2014 - 00:04 AM

Apparently Coloccini hasn't taken UEFA coaching licenses, nevermind the Pro License Premier League managers must have on general principle.

I don't think appointing him is a good idea, but daft ideas like that appear to the normal at St. James'.

Gigg's didn't have his either last year did he?

Poe

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30 Dec 2014 00:37:23

aye don't need them to be interim manager.

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30 Dec 2014 00:43:02

By King Luis | On 30 December 2014 - 00:27 AM

Gigg's didn't have his either last year did he?

I'm pretty sure he took some when he was still playing. And is close to/had already obtained his pro license.

Don't think you need it if you're only going to be performing the job short term, either, and UEFA have always granted grace periods to new managers who don't have it. E.g. I don't think either Avram Grant or Paul Ince had it when they started in the Premier Leage.

BR.

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30 Dec 2014 02:11:47

Bloody hell, no managerial changes from the first game of the season until Christmas and then all this! Gonna be interesting to see who West Brom (this was always going to happen with Irvine, average lower league record, bizarre appointment) and especially Newcastle appoint. And if Pardew can keep Palace up.

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30 Dec 2014 03:44:02

Why WBA hired Irvine in the first place is still a mysterioum, yeah.

Poe

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30 Dec 2014 14:54:43

Love how it's only West Ham and Charlton fans that aren't having a go at Newcastle fans for wanting Pardew gone.

Number 1

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30 Dec 2014 15:05:15

Tbf Charlton fans are probably still wondering how he got us 5th after almost leading them to two relegations.

Franck

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30 Dec 2014 15:17:57

Charlton have fans?

Shola

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30 Dec 2014 16:06:45

Feel a bit sorry for Irvine. Seems like an impossible job. Take over a team that finished 17th, and given a few outcasts and strays that weren't his pick.

Regarding Pardew, a fairly average manager. Probably taken the club as far as he could. One excellent season, one poor season and 18 months of alright. Nowhere near the disaster some have made him out to be.

The likely list of replacements seem to be underwhelming or unlikely.

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30 Dec 2014 17:06:56

Nigel Worthington has gone from 100/1 to 4/1 in an hour

Poe

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30 Dec 2014 17:08:14

Be just as bad if not worse than Pardew.

Ninja

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30 Dec 2014 17:48:39

Who, realistically, do you want to get it?

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30 Dec 2014 17:51:40

By Slashman X | On 30 December 2014 - 17:06 PM

Nigel Worthington has gone from 100/1 to 4/1 in an hour

Nigel Worthington? Who stepped down from York because he himself admitted he wasn't doing a good job? In league two? That Nigel Worthington? Bloody hell

King Luis

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30 Dec 2014 18:12:31

I get the impression that alot of Newcastle fans won't be happy regardless of who they get, in many ways they're like Liverpool in thinking the club should always be doing better than is realistic.

Poe

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By Ninja | On 30 December 2014 - 17:48 PM

Who, realistically, do you want to get it?

Beardsley/Carver til the end of the season then reassess. De Boer intimated he'd be willing to leave Ajax for us at the start of the season but Ashley is unlikely to appoint somebody who he'll have to pay compensation for.

I really wouldn't mind Sherwood - he'd play decent football and keep us in midtable - which is all we're going to be under Mike Ashley. Just don't want any more boring defensive football to watch - I go and pay 600 a season for a season ticket and I'd like to be entertained. Seen way too many games under Pardew where we're camped on our box launching failed counter attack after counter attack through players with 0 attacking quality like Gouffran and Sammy Ameobi.

By King Luis | On 30 December 2014 - 18:12 PM

I get the impression that alot of Newcastle fans won't be happy regardless of who they get, in many ways they're like Liverpool in thinking the club should always be doing better than is realistic.

Not really, midtable is enough for most fans - our form throughout 2014 would have had us relegated most seasons.

Shola

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30 Dec 2014 18:47:23

I wonder how much money was actually initially placed on Nigel Worthington to create that much movement.

Why are we going of Calendar Years now, rather than footballing years? Newcastle were in the top 10 for pretty much all of last year, and Pardew has left the club far clear of relegation at the halfway point this year.

I don't know who I want, none of the managers that I know sound appealing (Hoddle/Bruce/Sherwood/Pulis) and I honestly don't know enough about the foreign guys (Tuchel/Galtier/DeBoer). Right now I'd rather take a chance on a foreign guy.

I also like a look of that guy at Augsburg.

I'd also be willing to wait until the end of the season for the right man, than appoint the wrong man now.