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I just love listening to Ian McCall. He reeks of common sense and has a humour about him that reduces football to just the sport that it is rather than the life and death thing that supporters tend to make it.  Could listen to him all night.

Well done Ian and, particularly the diplomatic answer to the comments made by your predecessor at the club. Looking forward to the next few years being a Jag.

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Caldwell absolutely full of sh1te as usual.

'Didn't get enough time'. 

'What did you walk into?' 'A team that wasn't winning.' He never changed that in almost a year.

'There's a lot of stories coming out of Firhill. They're made up.'

Interviewer got stuck into him, right enough.

And Bunter ripped the p1sh out of him, subtly, for his David Brent verbiage (as did, Yogi, to a certain extent, about how to deal with players).

'Making it too complicated'.

'Trying to coach  players to things they couldn't do - one of the biggest mistakes. Football ... a simple game. I would never mention the word 'philosophy'.

'Doolan - I wouldn't have done that, how it was handled … plenty to offer thistle on and off the park.'

(Yogi)  'you have to be sure when the players you let go … the ones you bring in are better'.

And so on and so on ...

 

 

 

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Who would EVER admit they were out of their depth? It's not a human trait and certainly not in the society in which we currently exist . We BLAME others and are good at making excuses. Or, like Trump, just tell bare faced lies. And if somebody in his position gets away with it others down the pecking order will be encouraged just to tell outrageous porkies or invent their own truths.

Sad world indeed.

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3 hours ago, jagfaelivi said:

Who would EVER admit they were out of their depth? It's not a human trait and certainly not in the society in which we currently exist . We BLAME others and are good at making excuses. Or, like Trump, just tell bare faced lies. And if somebody in his position gets away with it others down the pecking order will be encouraged just to tell outrageous porkies or invent their own truths.

Sad world indeed.

The answer to that was also in the interview. Mark Kerr admitted that, as a new inexperienced manager, he would (as a friend) be calling upon both Bunter and Yogi for advice.

And he said it in plain language, too.

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Listened to the podcast and thought given the subject matter McCall was diplomatic enough. It's now perfectly clear that if Caldwell has a future in the game it'll be as a coach rather than a manager. Normally I'd be inclined to believe a young manager can learn from his mistakes but it's just as clear Gary hardly believes he's made much error and he's learned next to nothing from his managerial experiences.

Listening to the broadcast it's not just Caldwell that has a tendency to rewrite history. Hughes ranting on about player injuries at Falkirk was another case in question. Won't go into details but he was being rather economical with the truth re that particular time in his managerial career.  

Oops forgot. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ian-mccall-offers-gary-caldwell-20700774 

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