Who should replace Alex McLeish as Scotland Manager?

I'm still backing the Amstrad CPC 6128 that flashes "4-4-2" in BASIC. He can do a good job at Hamden Park.

Well, at least a better than those four.

I'm not really against either 4 (or Kenny Dalglish who was mentioned by some people) but none of them have me excited either.
But I think Tommy Burns probably is the top candidate as he's been assistant manager and should have had the job before big eck.
Plus I think out of those candidates he is (hopefully) more likely to have his team play decent football.
10 years ago I would've snapped Souness up in a second but I think he's past it now.

Would anyone have liked Jimmy Calderwood as manager?

What, no Sam Allardyce?

My Dad hates McGhee cos he always takes his glasses off before doing TV interviews.

Also cos of him being a shit Wolves manager, obv.

"Hello my name is Berti...Stgov...and I come from a place...far far away"

Martin Jol

dalglish, for the lulz

Haha I hope it's Souness.

Big Sam is now available

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There is a shortlist of five, btw, poor wee Billy Davies, all forgotten about.

There is no-one in the fucking WORLD who would want Jimmy Calderwood as manager, is there?

I hope there's no-one who wants Billy Davies! (is there?)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7186059.stm

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Tommy ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Burns gets my vote

... no surprise there

Hopefully he'll say Scollandfooballclub in interviews.

Top 10 most succesful Scotland managers:

1. Alex McLeish (2007) - 70.00% (win percentage)
2. Ian McColl (1960–65) - 60.71%
3. Tommy Docherty (1971–72) - 58.33%
4. Selection committee (1872–1954 & 1954–58) - 58.27%
5. Matt Busby (1958) - 50.00%
6. Malcolm McDonald (1966–67) - 50.00%
7. Willie Ormond (1973–77) - 47.37%
8. Craig Brown (1993–2002) - 45.71%
9. Walter Smith (2004–07) - 43.75%
10. Jock Stein (1965–66) - 42.86%

Bring back the Selection Committee!

Craig Brown (1993–2002)

wonder if you'll ever get a Scotland manager reign this long again

If they had no amibition and got them to every other international tourney, maybe.

i don't think they'd get the chance to reach more than one tournament before heading off to either Rangers, Celtic or a midtable Prem club.

Craig Brown (1993–2002)

wonder if you'll ever get a Scotland manager reign this long again

If they play like Brown's teams, I hope not

i know you'd rather Scotland played good football than qualified for tournaments

True, just as long as Craig Brown's not the manager

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Anyone who is actually Scottish vote for Souness?

Mark McGhee with 0 votes is supposedly the hot favourite for the job.

There might be one or two people in Scotland who are fans of Souness, given that he played for and managed Rangers and set the ball rolling on their 9-in-a-row and all that.

Mark McGhee is not the hot favourite for the job, he just has more friends singing his praises in the press. The hot favourite is none other than Graeme Souness.

Graeme Souness 4/7
Mark McGhee 3/1
Tommy Burns 7/2
George Burley 4/1

A lot of the praise for Mark McGhee in the press seems to be for his sensitivity and dignity in his relations with the media following the death of Phil O'Donnell, as opposed to any real footballing credentials. Being a nice bloke and decent human being doesn't necessarily win you stuff. A poll on Real Radio this afternoon had 50%+ of respondents favouring Souness.

Andy Roxburgh. The 90s are back.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7196547.stm
1st Billy refuses to go through the interviews process now Tommy allegedly isn't so keen either.
Whoever is left standing gets the job it seems.

A poll on Real Radio this afternoon had 50%+ of respondents favouring Souness

How many weren't Rangers fans I wonder?

Looks like Souness doesn't fancy the wages.

Good

If they all knock it back does billy davies just get the job as he's available, desperate and cheap?

Want the scotland job, Onimo?

Well, yes. Or they could sound out more people who might actually be interested, other than people who they would like to be interested.

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Also, how can they give a job to Billy Davies when he's not going to take it?

oops, ailsa nearly got the job there!

i'm available, desperate, cheap and might even choose to play our best striker when we need a goal :-)

Archie Buchanan confirmed. "Eh...what team am I managing again?"

Some clown in the paper yesterday was wondering why Colin Hendry hadn't been mentioned as a potential candidate. I'm assuming he hasn't looked at the first division table recently.

(and yes, he did mention about his braveheart attitude, lol ridiculous jimmy-wigged morons)

"They can take our lives but they will never take our Jimmy wigs!"

Souness might be desperate enough for one last crack at a big job, supposedly he's up for the Republic Of Ireland job (Can't see that one happening)

Shearer seen scooting up the M74.

Colin Hendry has resigned on compassionate grounds
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/clyde/7196978.stm
I'm not suggesting he's in for the scotland job, just posting it here because he was mentioned a few posts ago.

Gordon Smith said yesterday the appointment would be announced at the end of january, but apparently they are to offer the job to...

Gordon Smith is a grade A wank.

Burley would be a good choice.

As much as I like Tommy Burns I think he's better left to youth development etc. rather than managing the national side.

Hugh Keevins and Davie Proven were moaning on the radio on sunday that top managers were being forced to suffer the indignity of being interviewed by amateurs in the sfa who have no place in football and how Gordon Smith should be the only man appointing who he thought was best.
I got my dad to switch off the car radio.

Provan

Offering job to Burley will be top lolz if he says no.

Do you think it's right that a bunch of business suits with no idea how to manage a football team are the ones to choose then, yes?

Do you think it's right Gordon Smith should choose?
Suits at clubs decide who is manager so why should it be any different

Doesn't matter whether or not *I* think it's right, it's his job as Chief Exec - I was asking you since you're the one that got someone to turn the radio off for you, such was your disgust. The SFA has a council and representatives therein at all levels of the game in Scotland, so some input from those who've been there might be not a bad idea (I have no idea how their selection / interview process actually goes and which particular suits do the interviewing, btw, but I don't see the boss having the final say being a terribly bad thing).

International management is not the same as club management, and the organisational structures are totally different so not a fair comparison and totally irrelevant to this.

As another thought, someone on one of the England threads (actually, it might have been on another message board, come to think of it) made the very valid point that it might be worth conducting exit interviews with people who had held the post previously to see what they thought the job meant to them, where they could have had better backing etc etc.

Seems like a compensation agreement's been reached with Southampton and it's just up to the SFA/Burley to agree terms. Like "don't pull any Romanov choosing-my-team-for-me shit on me and I might stay longer than five minutes", that sort of thing :-)

Burley's agent Athole Still said: "He's a football guy and by that I mean he likes his teams to play football.

Good. I like Burley.