Would you or have you ever

[Olly]

contacted a manager suggesting this or that with players or tactics?

[Jeffro]

Yeah, i called Pulis and offered him Martin Johnson as centre half.

[Kirill]

When Paul Hart was in charge, I advised him to field 7 defenders and he took my advice.

[PedalR]

Nah. Despite having views on everything I suspect I'd fall flat on my backside after 5 minutes if I were put in charge.
I knew someone who applies for every manager's job that comes up though - he's just an ordinary Joe like me and you and with zero proper credentials for the jobs. Despite this he gets a polite rejection letter in about 80% of cases and just ignored by rest. Haven't seen him in years but I presume he must have club-crested response letters from Chief Execs of virtually every top-fliigt club by now.

[MattyRangers]

Nah. Despite having views on everything I suspect I'd fall flat on my backside after 5 minutes if I were put in charge.
I knew someone who applies for every manager's job that comes up though - he's just an ordinary Joe like me and you and with zero proper credentials for the jobs. Despite this he gets a polite rejection letter in about 80% of cases and just ignored by rest. Haven't seen him in years but I presume he must have club-crested response letters from Chief Execs of virtually every top-fliigt club by now.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds_united_fan_is_world_record_holder_for_rejection_letters_from_football_clubs_1_2233662

[LoftusRoadLad]

I wrote to B&H Albion and asked if their team could come to our school and teach us the best methods for football training , low behold 3 weeks later they turned up with half the full squad !! Obviously they got in touch with the head first and the arso didn't tell us that they were coming...great day .

[NW_Hoopz]

contacted a manager suggesting this or that with players or tactics?

Oh yes ......... We went to a Manager/player question & answer session at Ealing town hall one year, when John Hollins was sent in to take the flak, not sure if he was in charge at the time. I asked him whether it would be a good idea to keep Tony Roberts behind after training and make him practice his goal kicks as he always kicked it into touch, sometimes not even getting past the half way line
Mr Hollins got very areated and laid into me asking what kind of fan I was criticising one his players. As I was sitting in the middle of the row of seats the compere had passed the microphone down to me, and so I decided to put him right on a few other mistakes he was making. While the compere was diving over trying to wrestle the mic back off me. I got one of the biggest cheers of the night

[Fez]

Oh yes ......... We went to a Manager/player question & answer session at Ealing town hall one year, when John Hollins was sent in to take the flak, not sure if he was in charge at the time. I asked him whether it would be a good idea to keep Tony Roberts behind after training and make him practice his goal kicks as he always kicked it into touch, sometimes not even getting past the half way line
Mr Hollins got very areated and laid into me asking what kind of fan I was criticising one his players. As I was sitting in the middle of the row of seats the compere had passed the microphone down to me, and so I decided to put him right on a few other mistakes he was making. While the compere was diving over trying to wrestle the mic back off me. I got one of the biggest cheers of the night

Haha that guys kicking was horrendous, I don't think I ever saw him take one that didn't go out for a throw in!

[mork]

I wrote to ray wilkins asking him very nicely not to sell Sir Les as we would get relegated. He replied to me with a lovely letter. Still have the reply from ray.

[mork]

I was right though.

[The Godfather]

I remember a home match against Norwich about five or six years ago. We'd been on a bad run and, during the players' warm-up before the game, a fan in the Upper Loft was shouting 'you bunch of useless ****s' (or something along those lines) at the top of his voice. Holloway turned round, made his way into the Loft and went to see the fan in the upper tier. He sat with him for 10-15 minutes discussing tactics.

We won the game 3-0.

[Kirill]

I remember a home match against Norwich about five or six years ago. We'd been on a bad run and, during the players' warm-up before the game, a fan in the Upper Loft was shouting 'you bunch of useless ****s' (or something along those lines) at the top of his voice. Holloway turned round, made his way into the Loft and went to see the fan in the upper tier. He sat with him for 10-15 minutes discussing tactics.

We won the game 3-0.

[superhoop67]

mate of mine in the 70's pulled Jim Gregory on the platform at Euston on the way back from an away game ,and started to give it to him about spending a few bob ,then was surrounded by 2 of the biggest blokes ever ,so he left it at that

[Olly]

Anyne sending questions tonight for Mick Jones on the QPR phone-in?

[BigDanShittu]

If someone from here does phone in could you please ask him why SWP never gets played on the right.