PillieKie Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Was reading a review of Clarke's first season at West Brom, it was saying one of his biggest successes was turning their bad home form around. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_dug Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Good. Wonder if they were at a game today to size up the opposition. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 I would have expected them to have been at Hampden and then Firhill. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Repatriated Posted October 22, 2017 Report Share Posted October 22, 2017 Steve Clarke here to finish what King Kenny started. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post skygod Posted October 23, 2017 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 FOR Kilmarnock to get someone of the calibre of Steve Clarke to manage their football club is a real coup for them. Now, what they must do is show patience, back his ideas, give him time to implement them and then enjoy the fruits of his labours. What they mustn’t do is show any knee-jerk reactions during the next 18 months and sack him. I believe they have had seven bosses in the past seven years and constantly chopping and changing doesn’t do anyone any favours. As Steve said himself in his opening statement, he is at the club to fix it and bring stability. I’ve no doubt he will achieve those aims. Why am I so confident? Well, I’ve known Steve for a long number of years and always admired his work as a coach, as well as his honesty and dignity as a person. That’s why he was my first signing when I took over at Liverpool for the second time, back in January 2011. I spoke to Steve over the phone about my assistant’s role on a Sunday afternoon and he was at the training ground first thing the following morning to start his new job. He had an excellent CV and had worked under Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, helping the club to win two Premier League titles and the FA Cup. Gianfranco Zola then took him to be his No. 2 when he landed the West Ham job. Steve’s stock was constantly on the up. It was when I got to work close up with Steve that my admiration and appreciation grew. He was absolutely excellent on the training field and first-class with the players. From helping develop younger ones such as Jordan Henderson, Jon Flanagan and Martin Kelly, to dealing with senior lads, Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez, they all respected Steve and trusted his judgment. We worked together for almost 18 months and we achieved some decent success. He then moved on to manage West Brom and Reading and he was very good for both clubs. He was keen to get back into the game and the last time I met him was at Anfield, just over a week ago, when he was there as a guest for the opening of the Kenny Dalglish Stand. We had a blether and he told me he was heading up to Kilmarnock. He was thrilled and I’m chuffed for him. He is an Ayrshire lad, born in Saltcoats, and he knows what the club is all about. I think the Kilmarnock supporters will be able to identify with Steve and that is vitally important. There has to be a mutual feeling and maybe there has been a disconnect with some of the previous managers and that has led to a fall in attendances. Steve will already have been working the players hard and imparting his wisdom on to them. They have some talented young players at the football club and Adam Frizzell displayed a glimpse of that with his stunning goal last week against Partick Thistle in the 2-0 victory. Steve just loves being on the training pitch and the players will love his ideas and knowledge. Of course, he has a real tough start with Rangers at Ibrox in midweek and then Celtic at Parkhead. He couldn’t have asked for a tougher start. But he will not shirk from the challenge. It’s a tough ask to get a point from either game, but it’s about what he does in the long run. First of all, he will want to climb the table and win games against the teams in the same zone as Killie. Then, given time and backing, he will look to build a team capable of challenging for a place in the top five. That is a realistic aim. I wish Steve well and I have a good feeling about how the relationship will go between the club and their new boss. I was sorry it didn’t work out for Lee McCulloch, the previous manager. I’ve known Lee for almost 15 years, from when he was a team-mate of my son, Paul, at Wigan. We also met up during summer when Lee had Kilmarnock at La Manga for a pre-season camp. Lee put his heart and soul into Kilmarnock. I know how much it hurt him that it didn’t come to fruition the way he wanted. Perhaps, if he had someone such as Steve on his staff to work with and learn from it would have all been different. But I’ve every confidence in Lee that he will bounce back, wiser and stronger for the experiences he had in the past eight or nine months. He will be enjoying his break just now, but he is too talented to be out of the game for a lengthy period. (Kenny Dalglish, Sunday Post) 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Repatriated Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 That's what you call a glowing endorsement! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historyman Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Isle of Wight Exile said: That's what you call a glowing endorsement! Of both Steve Clarke and Lee McCulloch. It was just like Dalglish's autobiography, he just said nice things about everyone he had ever met in the game. Unbelievably dull. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Repatriated Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 Good point! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scouser2 Posted October 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 Steve Clarke says he has resisted the temptation to make major changes in his first few days as Kilmarnock manager. Clarke, appointed last week, takes his side to face Rangers at Ibrox on Wednesday in his first match in charge. "You can't come in and bombard them with too much information," he said. "We have worked on one or two basic principles that should be good enough to help us go forward, and slowly over the season we will keep adding little principles, better principles." Former Reading and West Brom manager Clarke, who replaced Lee McCulloch at Rugby Park, hopes to introduce a "better style of play" at Kilmarnock as the season goes on. "It's going to be slowly, slowly that things will start to change, but hopefully the Kilmarnock fans will see one or two changes in the coming matches," he explained. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 I hope he's spent the last week or so trying to get rid of the defeatist attitude a lot of Scottish players have about playing the old firm away. go out and give them a game, if you get beat, at least you gave it a shot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azert Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 14 minutes ago, aldo said: I hope he's spent the last week or so trying to get rid of the defeatist attitude a lot of Scottish players have about playing the old firm away. go out and give them a game, if you get beat, at least you gave it a shot Even Broadfoot's pre-match interview for Rangers has a whiff of defeatist attitude to it. All about frustrating them and hoping for the best. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prahakillie Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Scouser2 said: "You can't come in and bombard them with too much information," he said. He's obviously met Broadfoot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullitt Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, azertyuiop said: Even Broadfoot's pre-match interview for Rangers has a whiff of defeatist attitude to it. All about frustrating them and hoping for the best. I didn't get that vibe to be fair. In fact I thought his mood was more quietly confident. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4mmy31 Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 29 minutes ago, Bullitt said: I didn't get that vibe to be fair. In fact I thought his mood was more quietly confident. Snap 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 http://sport.bt.com/clarke-explains-why-he-chose-kilmarnock-91364223694188 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ki11ie Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 Loved Dyer's passion at the end up giving it large to us, Clarke stood back and looked on, superb!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4mmy31 Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 56 minutes ago, skygod said: http://sport.bt.com/clarke-explains-why-he-chose-kilmarnock-91364223694188 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pompey Repatriated Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, skygod said: http://sport.bt.com/clarke-explains-why-he-chose-kilmarnock-91364223694188 Like that he said "i came back here to Kilmarnock". Edited October 25, 2017 by Isle of Wight Exile 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scouser2 Posted October 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 Saw his interview on BT tonight . Very impressive again ... Said he already had in mind where he wanted the club to be at by Xmas and in the longer term 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfc_superteam Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 (edited) With the papers reporting that Rangers willing to spend £1.5 million to get McInness hopefully themselves or Aberdeen don't make a move for Clarke. I know he is just in the door but you never know! Rangers are said to be looking at British candidates Edited October 27, 2017 by kfc_superteam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullitt Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 28 minutes ago, kfc_superteam said: With the papers reporting that Rangers willing to spend £1.5 million to get McInness hopefully themselves or Aberdeen don't make a move for Clarke. I know he is just in the door but you never know! Rangers are said to be looking at British candidates He’s 40/1 with bookmakers. However there’s a snowballs chance in hell we would walk out the club two weeks into a new project. Don't worry! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arderkilliesier Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 There is no doubt Clarke and Dyer will attract interest from other clubs....lets hope so, as it should mean they are doing a good job for us...as previously posted by many its now the turn of the fans to back the board by turning up in numbers to match their investment and show our new management team that they made a wise choice in coming here, it may also provide them with the confidence to provide more funds during the transfer window to improve the squad. But lets be honest if the gates and external income streams don't improve the will to invest by the board will wane.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Repatriated Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 All I want is enough time for Clarke to stamp his mark on the club and put the necessary infrastructure in place. Then if a better move does come along, I'm happy for him to leave and either Dyer or someone else like Gary Holt come in and pickup where Clarke left off. With all the necessary groundwork already in place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz of the 20/20 Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 3 minutes ago, Isle of Wight Exile said: All I want is enough time for Clarke to stamp his mark on the club and put the necessary infrastructure in place. Then if a better move does come along, I'm happy for him to leave and either Dyer or someone else like Gary Holt come in and pickup where Clarke left off. With all the necessary groundwork already in place. Nah I'd rather just keep him until he retires. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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