Albino Rover Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I started this thread in the L2 forum as a bit of a laugh, but as I mentioned in there, clubs with better coaching infrastructure and more successful ex-players will have lots of interesting picks as potential managers of the future- I'd be interested to know what you big team fans see in your clubs' futures. Who is destined to occupy your club's technical area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Callum Davidson looks like hes being groomed to become our next manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Paul Telfer (2019) At the end of the 2018/19 season, Paul Hartley will move down south to take charge of Bristol City who have just narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premiership after a thrilling season which has ended in the team losing out to Nottingham Forrest in the play off final. Bristol City are under new ownership and have had a high turnover of managers in the last few seasons but Hartley feels he is up to the job of spending their millions. His time at Dundee has been a success and he's left behind a young squad who have finished in the top six for the last three consecutive seasons and narrowly lost out to Celtic in a Scottish Cup final on penalties. Telfer who previously applied for the Dundee job in 2014 has just taken League One side Raith Rovers to the title in his first year in charge. James McPake (2020) Oh no. Things aren't that easy. After an awful first half of the season, Telfer has Dundee sitting 7 points adrift at the bottom of the league. Despite having fan support initially on side, Telfer's position becomes untenable when he is suspended by the SFA for head butting a ball boy at Ibrox. 34 year old McPake who has been working as a player/coach is appointed manager for the rest of the season. Barry Smith (2020) Oh oh, Dundee have been relegated. Despite a great fightback where McPake manages to take the team to 9th place, Dundee are back in administration and the points deduction has been sufficient to relegate the Dees back to the 3rd tier. Despite being a fan favourite, James McPake decides it would be better if the club got a chance at a total rebuild. Due to the crisis of the situation, Barry Smith is the only name that comes to mind and he tenders his resignation at Linlithgow Rose to come back and manage Dundee. Paul Hartley (2021) Dundee win the league convincingly. After considering his job complete, Smith decides to leave Dundee once again to make way for former manager Paul Hartley. At Bristol City, Hartley was an instant success and took the club to promotion in his first year in charge. Despite four great seasons where European qualification was consistently achieved, Hartley become victim to a Premiership boardroom struggle and was sacked as manager. He then takes over as Scotland boss but a bad Euros campaign kills much optimism and after coach Paul McGowan has the team arrested before an important match, Hartley is held responsible and cast aside. With Dundee out of administration and with new ownership (a consortium from Nevada have recently bought the club), Hartley sees a chance to rebuild his career. James McPake (2028) After seven years at the club, Hartley has doubled Dundee's major honour haul and they are now a real force in Scottish Football. This time, he says bye for good as he's approached by big spending Bristol Rovers as they aim to beat his former side, Bristol City, to Champions League qualification. 44 year old McPake is the natural choice having since returned to the club as Hartley's assistant and feels ready to continue the great work Hartley has done over the past few years.................. he gets Dundee relegated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainkev Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Our next four managers (Jim McIntyre, Jim Duffy, Jim Leishman and Jimmy Calderwood) will be diddies who will bring much dross, strife and bottom six finishes to us arabs. Garry Kenneth (2017) will ride in to the rescue becoming our fifth manager, leading us to loads and loads of trophies and remaining our manager until death. However as this will be in the future and we'll have better science, we'll be able to download Garry's brain into a robot who will then manage us forever more, becoming in the process the first ever centre-half turned manager turned robot. Turned manager again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killiesquirrel Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Gary Locke Gary Holt James Fowler Manuel Pascali Kris Boyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Diego Simeone Jocky Scott Noel Blake Jocky Scott Stuart Baxter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Our next four managers (Jim McIntyre, Jim Duffy, Jim Leishman and Jimmy Calderwood) will be diddies who will bring much dross, strife and bottom six finishes to us arabs. Garry Kenneth (2017) will ride in to the rescue becoming our fifth manager, leading us to loads and loads of trophies and remaining our manager until death. However as this will be in the future and we'll have better science, we'll be able to download Garry's brain into a robot who will then manage us forever more, becoming in the process the first ever centre-half turned manager turned robot. Turned manager again. Anyone else notice the flaw in this otherwise credible scenario? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 2-3 more years of Derek McInnes after which he leaves for West Bromwich Albion. The board move to appoint John Hughes who has masterminded ICT's revolution. Not a success. Club finishes 7th in first season before dropping to 9th 2nd season. Seems more adept at punching above his weight than being successful at a higher level. Sacked at the end of the season. Club jumps on the promote-from-within bandwagon extremely late and give the job to player/coach Andy Considine. Uninspiring. 6th, then demoted back to coach in his second season in charge with the team sitting 7th, some distance off 6th. Looking for new ways to inspire a bored and dwindling support the board look overseas for inspiration. Step forward John Arne Riise. Fresh from winning the Norwegian league with Viking Stavanger and finishing second in Sweden with AIK he brings Scandinavians in their droves. Rumours of aggressive motivational tactics and a dressing room split between Considine and Riise are rife with players taking sides on social media (now banned from football altogether) and sanctions being thrown at the club. Wins one game from his 13 in charge and actually leaves the club worse off points-wise than when he came in. Sacked. Andy Considine made caretaker til the end of the season. Stops the rot and punts out most of the Swedes and Norwegians (including an ageing Steffan Johansen). Greame Shinnie (now successful player/manager at Caley) is brought in despite offers from elsewhere citing "family reasons". Derek McInnes returns as Director of Football. Together they rebuild the club to what it once was and win Aberdeen's first trophy in ten years. The Scottish League Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 A disappointing lack of Darren Young in your predictions, Russell. It'll happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Malkmus Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Richie Foran then 4 guys who haven't been born yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moo Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Bomber Jocky Bomber Jocky Bomber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron_t Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Ian Cathro will be United's next manager. Not sure who the 4 after him will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Diego Simeone Jocky Scott Noel Blake Jocky Scott Stuart Baxter No jim Duffy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Fabian Caballero Lee Wilkie Pat Fenlon Jocky Scott Jimmy Calderwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 After Ian Barraclough was fired for having too much positivity after 15 straight defeats the club brought in.... Tommy Griffin, the Waterford United manager after rumours that he'd successfully managed the unfashionable League of Ireland club to a domestic cup win against a team of trainee priests (Killarney Vatican, 1st round Irish Cup). However his reign as manager is disrupted by a transfer policy that sees him only sign players who are named after mythical beasts. First signing Gary Minotaur proves to be a success, but Jamie Hydra, Stevie Unicorn and Barry Werewolf prove to be poorer signings and the club is relegated on the last day of the 2015/16 season when Bob Sasquatch scores an OG in the last minute of injury time. Season 2016/17 sees Motherwell start the season with a new manager. As a club with a reputation for left field appointments the clubs draws up a short list of Johnny Vegas, Evander Holyfield and the stuffed remains of a Persian cat that had once belonged to Freddie Mercury but eventually selects Gail Porter making her the first bald, nymphomaniac female manager in Scottish football history. However the season starts poorly with many of the clubs top players looking lethargic and possibly sexually exhausted from the new managers high intensity training regime. Under pressure before Christmas comes round, Porter resigns in disgust before a League Cup tie when Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne offers her one of his old wigs. After the unsuccessful spell under Porter, quite literally on many occasions, Motherwell go for an internal appointment. Kevin Duddy becomes the youngest manager of a professional football club in history at 15, having been rapidly promoted from pie heater upper in the Davie Cooper stand to General Office manager to Employee Without Portfolio and finally to Head Coach and Team Manager. It is an unpopular appointment with the support, most of whom are intensely jealous of his rising star but Duddy doesn't build any bridges with his gleekit, zitty face or shy, childish interviews in which he usually claims, awkwardly looking at his shoes, that everyone is against him. His period as manager lasts only a few weeks after he clashes with chairman Les Hutchinson, refusing to open the curtains or clean up the managers office shouting "I NEVER ASKED TO BE MANAGER!" and then storming out and slamming the front door. Duddy then spends a period of gardening leave drinking cider at a play park instead of studying for his exams. Rangers fan Hutchinson approaches hero Ally McCoist to take over, who is attracted to the position by the chance of finally have a fighting chance of winning the Championship with a big team and the really good steak pies. After signing associates Lee McCulloch and Frankie Dettori on £20,000 per week contracts there is some consternation about the financial viability of his transfer policy, particularly after Argyll McCoist is signed on a £7.5M bail fee from the Children's Panel. McCoist exceeds expectations by not appearing in public too often with gravy and crust all over his face and by leading the club to a glorious penalty shoot out defeat in the Petrofac Cup against Annan Athletic. After a number of seasons bumping along mid table Motherwell are no longer able to fund McCoists budget expectations after a bad run on the scratch cards and McCoist steps down to become Andy Goram's full time carer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 A disappointing lack of Darren Young in your predictions, Russell. It'll happen. Always liked him as a player! If he's available in 2022 I'll be first on the bell to the board! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 St Mirren next 5 Teale > Longwell > Longwells Assistant > That assistants assistant > you get the drift. Alternatively a merry-go-round of South American chain smoking no marks until we go tits up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quitongo's Left Peg Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Gary Locke Gary Holt James Fowler Manuel Pascali Kris Boyd Count me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Callum Davidson will take over after the departure of Tommy Wright. Callum continues the mid table league positioning and odd cup run before leaving for a job down south. In steps Jody Morris, a man who was offered a job before Lomas took over and feels he's prepared for a proper job after managing Chelsea's youth teams. 2 mediocre seasons that finish with us in the playoff position doesn't help and he leaves at end of contract. This time the board goes for his assistant to see if they can recreate the Tommy Wright factor, step forward Rowan Vine, unpopular amongst the fans from the get go he lasts 5 months before walking out after an incident in Loft. The board Approaches Steve Lomas, and with club legend Alan Main as assistant bring the club back to the top flight, challenge cup victory. Lomas takes the West Ham job after winning the club the league cup. The club then decides that the next best thing to do is bring in a Legend of Scottish football, a man to bring the punters in. In comes Darren Fletcher with positivity and a caged Wayne Rooney to act as youth team coach. The club finishes 2nd behind celtic on goal difference and ahead of 3rd placed aberdeen by one goal. Yes I am rambling shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 David Longwell Steven Thompson Jim Goodwin James Dayton Mark McAusland Each promoted from assistant to manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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