Sammy Lee returning as youth coach

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh, the 'FB' are actually his initials?! Silly me!

[plymouth wanderer]

Oh, the 'FB' are actually his initials?! Silly me!

[plymouth wanderer]

The bloke he is talking about is Coyle's brother in law and our kit man.

He walks around the pitch before games etc...he's fat. Very fat.

An embarrassment actually for a football club.

And its definitely not Fred Barber.

we got more than one porker at the club. Blimey

[Armchair Wanderer]

The bloke he is talking about is Coyle's brother in law and our kit man.

He walks around the pitch before games etc...he's fat. Very fat.

An embarrassment actually for a football club.

And its definitely not Fred Barber.

In Saturday's programme it says our kit man is Mike Clitheroe. Do we have more than one?

[boltonboris]

He's not the kitman either..

The kitman is Michael Clitheroe

[bobo the clown]

The bloke he is talking about is Coyle's brother in law.

Now THAT explains something.

I met OC & his missus a good few years ago. It was a case of Jack Spratt etc., . Thin as he was well .... let's say she made up for it.

[boltonboris]

Apparently, he's Tony McGrory. and he's the Kitman's 'assistant'!!!!

[bobo the clown]

Apparently, he's Tony McGrory. and he's the Kitman's 'assistant'!!!!

... and very fair too. Why wouldn't the poor love need an assistant ?

[boltonboris]

I hope the 26 year old kitman is getting a supervisor wage for looking after the 40odd year old junior!! Is he teaching him to turn on the tumble dryer?

[BWFC_Insane]

I hope the 26 year old kitman is getting a supervisor wage for looking after the 40odd year old junior!! Is he teaching him to turn on the tumble dryer?

That fat bloke is 40? He looks good for that!

[bobo the clown]

I hope the 26 year old kitman is getting a supervisor wage for looking after the 40odd year old junior!! Is he teaching him to turn on the tumble dryer?

Those cones don't put themselves out you know.

[Bruce Rioja]

Apparently, he's Tony McGrory. and he's the Kitman's 'assistant'!!!!

I hope you're fecking joking!

[bobo the clown]

This was the white collaar side of the business as 2011-12 began. It reads like the credits after a TV show. & How come we have half the Everton set up of a few years back ??

Club officials

Manager - Owen Coyle
Assistant manager - Sandy Stewart
First team coach - Steve Davis
Goalkeeping coach - Fred Barber
Goalkeeping coach - Phil Hughes
Assistant goalkeeping coach - Neil Edwards
Development coach - John Henry
Academy manager - Jimmy Phillips
Assistant academy manager - David Lee
Academy coach - Gavin McCann
Academy coach - Neil Pointon
Head physiotherapist - Andy Mitchell
Assistant physiotherapist - Mel Pejic
Assistant physiotherapist - Luke Bussey
Doctor - Jonathan Tobin
Strength and Conditioning coach - Michael Rawson
Chief Scout - Colin Harvey
Scout - Terry Darracott
Scout - Joe McLaughlin
Scout - Ernie Tippett
Scout - Clive Richards
Scout - Colin Chambers
Kit manager - Tony McGrory
Kit manager - James Barrow
Head of Recruitment - Cliff Roberts

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

How come we have half the Everton set up of a few years back ??

Ask Cliff Roberts, who is after all Head of Recruitment. He's a Scouser, and guess where his last job was?

[Ianmooreslovechild]

I dont get some of the animosity toward Lee here. He was injured after 4 games when he came as a player IIRC, was coach alongside Allardyce during a period when we were quite successful,inherited a declining team and mistakenly set out on a fools errand of trying to outfootball multimillionaire teams with a bunch of free signings at a time when the fans and the media where calling for a change from the Allardyce approach which had at the time become pretty stale.
Not really a cv deserving of lynching. From the perspective of families with talented young footballers as a parent would you be advising your kid to get coached by a former European cup winner with experience of playing abroad and coaching at a high level in the premiership or would you go for an average lower league fullback who had a year at rangers where they had to narrow the pitch to avoid being exploited down the flanks.
Having said that I hope there is a role somewhere for Phillips as he has been a great servant to the club and is actually a Bolton lad.

As a manager he was a disaster. He inherited a pretty sound setup, good players, Europe, bit of money and a positive vibe from fans and club alike. He stupidly signed piss poor players by the bucketload. I was almost on tears when Braathen and Wilhelmsson came in. And Xabi Alonso's inept older brother too? And then trying to play these shit players in a Barcelona-wanabee style?

Safe to say Lee was incompetent, if the club hadn't realized their grave mistake early on and brought in the wonder that is Megson, Sammy Lee singelhandedly could have brougt the club to it's knees.

Very rare to hear something positive about Megson nowadays, but he is a Mourinho class manager compared to Lee. Still an incompetent clogger killjoy and a Shitty manager though.

Still, Lee is welcome as a youth coach.

I'm not sure the setup Lee inherited was anything like the rose garden you paint.

2nd half of the season Allardyce left the team slipped after an exceptional first half season. Allardyce made a few poor signings before he left . Lee lost Faye and Ben Haim and spent a million quid on Gavin McCann. The rest were loans and frees. Course it didnt work.
The board didnt really back lee with any money while he was trying to revolutionise our playing style.Lee did fail but in all honesty he had a bum deal following Allardyce with no investment.

Megson,miserable git that he was, did get some financial backing(mostly the anelka money) and made good signings.Shame he didnt like them trying to play football. As a sidenote my sheff wed following friend down here thinks Megson is the messiah.

[jaffka]

Nice to see that Megson has found some love, eveyone needs it.

[Hoboh]

This was the white collaar side of the business as 2011-12 began. It reads like the credits after a TV show. & How come we have half the Everton set up of a few years back ??

Club officials

Manager - Owen Coyle
Assistant manager - Sandy Stewart
First team coach - Steve Davis
Goalkeeping coach - Fred Barber
Goalkeeping coach - Phil Hughes
Assistant goalkeeping coach - Neil Edwards
Development coach - John Henry
Academy manager - Jimmy Phillips
Assistant academy manager - David Lee
Academy coach - Gavin McCann
Academy coach - Neil Pointon
Head physiotherapist - Andy Mitchell
Assistant physiotherapist - Mel Pejic
Assistant physiotherapist - Luke Bussey
Doctor - Jonathan Tobin
Strength and Conditioning coach - Michael Rawson
Chief Scout - Colin Harvey
Scout - Terry Darracott
Scout - Joe McLaughlin
Scout - Ernie Tippett
Scout - Clive Richards
Scout - Colin Chambers
Kit manager - Tony McGrory
Kit manager - James Barrow
Head of Recruitment - Cliff Roberts

Piss take that and is this the Sandy stewart?



At least he's found WinterHills whereabouts

[Prufrock]

Every year Allardyce was here we had an ageing squad and fook all money to spend, yet we had a plan and finished top half... again. Could'a been that Sammy Lee was proper shit as a manager. JSL. As youth team coach, well, plenty with far better knowledge than we have reckoned he was very goods as a cog. And big of the club and him to accept it.

[bobo the clown]

.... is this the Sandy stewart?



At least he's found Winter Hills whereabouts

The Scotsman's Stump visible is it ?

[Armchair Wanderer]

Heard Phil Brown on the radio the other day, cup replay I think. I've always thought there should be some kind of job for him at the Reebok if he wants it.

I was at Preston v Orient on Saturday. Don't think I've ever seen a poorer side than what is essentially Phil Brown's Preston. Didn't manage a single shot at goal and all of their set-pieces ended up with their own 'keeper.

I always had this problem with Brown telling the likes of Djorkaeff, "Right, Youri, this is how we used to do it at Halifax.."

Didn't know about the Halifax thing. TBH, in terms of coaching it's hard to know who's good and who isn't. Same with Little Sam.

Phil Brown could be a Hollywood spokesman-type figure for us. Like Vieira at Citeh.