Next Permanent Kilmarnock Manager

[TommyDickFingers]

37 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:

Fucksake killie you were meant to appoint mark mcghee.

He got my vote in the poll. 

I hope he pumps every other c*nt  tbh, as long as our record v's each other stays fairly similar. 

Good luck to the loon and kudos for not following a well trodden path of shite.

[YassinMoutaouakil]

2 hours ago, derbydan said:

Same could have been said when Clarke got the job.

No it couldn't, literally the only reason Clarke was managing Killie is that he was a massive lifelong Killie fan. Everyone was 100% aware of that.

[Sting777]

Fair play to the Killie board. That is a very ambitious managerial signing!

[GNU_Linux]

Ken its early days but any word on backroom staff?

[C4mmy31]

6 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said:

Ken its early days but any word on backroom staff?

Alex Dyer will still be an assistant, Billy Thomson the goalkeeping coach. 

No mention so far if AA wants anyone else in thou......

We will find out on Thursday when he officially takes over as the players return to training with his 1st presser scheduled for the 20th also......

Edited June 16, 2019 by C4mmy31

[kbp1960]

12 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said:

Ken its early days but any word on backroom staff?

Zola is leaving Chelsea so I guess anything is possible in Killie these days

[Thistle_do_nicely]

4 hours ago, Blaze said:

Serious question.

If he has such a high pedigree and respected all over Europe, then why is he coming to Kilmarnock? Can he not get a bigger gig?


 

Getting a first managerial gig at a top flight level club with solid foundations and great support from boardroom level would be pretty attractive to most aspiring managers, imo. You could go chasing money/a higher profile start elsewhere but then in all likelihood end up having a stint akin to Frank De Boer's few weeks at Palace.

[RossC93]

24 minutes ago, Thistle_do_nicely said:

Getting a first managerial gig at a top flight level club with solid foundations and great support from boardroom level would be pretty attractive to most aspiring managers, imo. You could go chasing money/a higher profile start elsewhere but then in all likelihood end up having a stint akin to Frank De Boer's few weeks at Palace.

Frank de Boer spent several years at Ajax before going to Palace. Bizarre comparison. 

[The_Kincardine]

Even though the Killie fans were insufferable on the recent Cyprus and Belgium match threads due to their intolerance of any criticism of Steve Clarke you have to admire what Billy Bowie is doing at Rugby Park.

They eschewed the lazy option with the signing of Clarke and it worked well.  They're doing the same thing by appointing another manager that no one would have thought of but who has a terrific pedigree.  I assume Alessio won't come cheap (as Clarke didn't) but a manager who can get the best out of players is much more cost-effective than a chequebook manager. 

I hope it works well for you.  Not too well, mind

[RandomGuy.]

35 minutes ago, Thistle_do_nicely said:

Getting a first managerial gig at a top flight level club with solid foundations and great support from boardroom level would be pretty attractive to most aspiring managers, imo. You could go chasing money/a higher profile start elsewhere but then in all likelihood end up having a stint akin to Frank De Boer's few weeks at Palace.

 

10 minutes ago, RossC93 said:

Frank de Boer spent several years at Ajax before going to Palace. Bizarre comparison. 

Can only assume thistle do nicely is one of those weird folk who think football outside England doesnt exist.

[Redstarstranraer]

Fair play to Killie, an ambitious and fairly exciting appointment.  Alessio has some pretty decent footballing pedigree albeit his record as a manager in his own right (admittedly a long while back at a pretty low level) isn't that great.  You'd think though that working at the level he has since with Conte he can bring a lot to Kilmarnock.  Bit of a gamble but then so is any appointment to some degree.  

Great to see an appointment that eschews the usual managerial merry go round up here.  Scottish football really needs an appointment like this to work.  The whole culture around the game here seems thirty or forty years out of date, with unimaginative chairmen appointing equally limited managers from a shallow pool of supposed talent washed out from the pubs of Largs.  The media promotes and protects the same clique of journeymen out of a combination of nepotism, laziness, small-mindedness and the fundamental fact the journalists are as limited as the managers.  It's like a symbiotic shiteness.  Hopefully the likes of Alessio can demonstrate to chairmen up and down Scotland that you can look beyond the usual suspects and be a bit more innovative in terms of appointments and all other aspects of the game.

So aside from when you're playing Hibs obviously I hope this works out.

 

[Thistle_do_nicely]

23 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

 

Can only assume thistle do nicely is one of those weird folk who think football outside England doesnt exist.

No, but it was the first thing that came to mind in terms of short-lived managerial appointments. Thought of mentioning Cathro too tbh but that doesn't quite seem apt.

[RandomGuy.]

1 minute ago, Thistle_do_nicely said:

No, but it was the first thing that came to mind in terms of short-lived managerial appointments. Thought of mentioning Cathro too tbh but that doesn't quite seem apt.

Yes, comparing someone who's taking charge of a Scottish club for the first time having spent most of his career as a member of the coaching staff to De Boer, who won multiple titles at Ajax, and had a stint as Inter manager, is better than Cathro, a man who spent most of his career as a member of the coaching staf and was taking charge of a Scottish club for the first time.

None of us have a clue how he'll get on, can't wait for the Scottish "media experts" to fire out a multitude of lazy stereotypes instead of actually researching him though.

[Coooombe]

One thing's for sure here is that the owners of Angelo's chippy in the town centre are over the moon today.

[KillieMogwai]

22 minutes ago, Coooombe said:

One thing's for sure here is that the owners of Angelo's chippy in the town centre are over the moon today.

IF YOU BUILD IT, HE WILL COME

Edited June 16, 2019 by KillieMogwai
Turns out I've been getting the quote wrong for years.

[jagfox]

If Angelo Alessio takes Kilmarnock down, will they ever come back up? 

[Fide]

9 hours ago, YassinMoutaouakil said:

No it couldn't, literally the only reason Clarke was managing Killie is that he was a massive lifelong Killie fan. Everyone was 100% aware of that.

It's not quite as simple as that.  We were Clarke's local team growing up and while there might have been a fondness, he isn't a "massive lifelong Killie fan".  His brother, who's an ex player, and may have had a word in Sir Steve's shell-like, is.  AFAIK, Clarke's position was that he was financially set up for life from previous jobs, so money wasn't an issue.  He felt he'd been hard done to at perhaps Reading and West Brom and wanted a project he could prove himself at - and along came the Killie job.

[sparky88]

11 hours ago, theauldyin said:

Mama MIA !! what a time to be a KILLIE FAN .

I can't help wondering how a Celtic fan feels, with their team having just appointed ex Hibs and Bolton manager Neil Lennon, whilst Killie are bringing in ex Juventus and Italy assistant manager Angelo Alessio. 

[Estragon]

38 minutes ago, sparky88 said:

I can't help wondering how a Celtic fan feels, with their team having just appointed ex Hibs and Bolton manager Neil Lennon, whilst Killie are bringing in ex Juventus and Italy assistant manager Angelo Alessio. 

Just wait until we sign David Turnbull...

[kennysmassiveego]

7 hours ago, jagfox99 said:

If Angelo Alessio takes Kilmarnock down, will they ever come back up? 

Yes , but if Thistle keep Caldwell they’ll never come back up .