posted Feb 20, 2009

in my personal opinion i think that we should give the job of head coach to a man, who is similar to alex ferguson in many ways, greg chappel. He doesnt have time for pleasentaries. he gets the job done, both when he was a player and a coach. He will sort out the riff raff in the english setup. Get rid of any dead-wood and get the english game heading into the right direction in which duncan fletcher started leading us.

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posted Feb 20, 2009

need a big person in the roll and theres none bigger than Ian Botham!

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posted Feb 21, 2009

Too many cooks..............

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posted Feb 21, 2009

We should be looking to poach the best of the best in there fields.

Spinners - Shane Warne
Batsman - Brian Lara or Micheal Clarke
Pace Bowlers - Someone from South Africas setup
Head Coach - Tom Moody would be ideal would bring Australias winning mentality to the team.

I just fill we should start to adopt a burning desire to win with longterm specialists for certain roles.


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Too many cooks..............

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posted Feb 21, 2009

In cricket coach has to just play a supporting role and it is not like football.

Greg Chappell didn't do that either with South Australia or in India and was a total failure, Buchanan is a lucky coach as he had McGrath, and Warne in their prime. Once Mark Waugh rightly said in a a team meeting after yet another session of over analysis by Buchanan that John I think bowling line and length and the odd bouncer should be enough!

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posted Feb 21, 2009

Lets get someone who is experienced and tested at a national level, not an assistant coach who's superior was sacked..

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posted Feb 21, 2009

A coach can't do much in cricket. It is the players who have to perform.

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posted Feb 21, 2009

Of course, it has to be someone who actually wants the job. Moody and Warne, both have categorically stated they would not do it. Being the coach of the Eng X1 is not a safe job, since it is result driven. If Fletcher, and Moores cant get a thing out of the team, who else would bother? Being the Eng cricket coach doesnt look that good on the resume, either. There isnt a lot of cachet attached to the position.

ps. When approached about it, Buchanan gave one of his deep chuckles. No way on this earth, was what he said.

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posted Feb 21, 2009

'Being the Eng cricket coach doesnt look that good on the resume, either. There isnt a lot of cachet attached to the position.'

What a pile of rubbish! Being the cricket coach of any national test team looks good on the CV, especially a top tier nation like England! And whats the nonsense about Fletcher not getting anything out of the team, he led us to 2nd in the test nation tables and was at the helm during the 2005 Ashes victory!

Also why would you want Warne as a coach? He is unproven and you should not hire someone just on their cricket playing reputation as its foolish. As a spin bowling coach its fine, but other than that Warne should earn his coaching spurs further down the pecking order before any test nation should consider him as head coach.

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posted Feb 21, 2009

I believe that Geoff Cook of Durham CCC will be the perfect coach for England, he is experienced in senior aswell as youth coaching, produced a world class star (Steve Harminson), has a great relationship with players staff and fans aswell he doesnt focus on one area of cricket like one day or test he focuses on both and made durham succed in both compertions in 2 years as head coach there

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