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Post by njdragon on Sept 25, 2013 5:57:53 GMT
Port Vale: Page takes temporary charge after Adams operation www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24227965Will be interesting to follow his results here considering he is also Wales U21 Team Assistant. Good experience for him. |
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Post by welshiron on Oct 29, 2014 17:46:30 GMT
Given the Port Vale job until the end of the season
Nice to see another young welsh coach (40 is young to me) getting a chance.
Have mixed feelings as to whether I want Kit Symons to get the Fulham job
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Post by biwmares on Oct 29, 2014 18:50:29 GMT
Good luck to him
Is he not involved with the younger Welsh national teams in some capacity?
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Post by welshwizard79 on Oct 29, 2014 20:08:26 GMT
Good luck to him Is he not involved with the younger Welsh national teams in some capacity? Assistant too Geraint Williams. |
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Post by zenith on Feb 20, 2017 13:24:39 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39025652Robert Page is the Football Association of Wales' (FAW) number one target to be the new manager of the Under-21 and intermediate age group teams. Page has been interviewed by the FAW, but no contract has been signed yet. The 42-year-old is currently first team coach at Championship club Nottingham Forest after he was sacked by League One side Northampton Town in January. The former Cardiff City and Watford defender was capped 41 times by Wales in a 10-year international career. If he takes over, Page will succeed Geraint Williams whose contract was not renewed by the FAW when it expired last year. The former Derby and Ipswich midfielder had been in charge since 2012.
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Post by ystradwales on Feb 20, 2017 14:31:47 GMT
Not sure what to make of this.
Yes he started his coaching career as a youth team coach with Port Vale so would have more experience than Williams had.
However, I'm not sure what impression our talented youngsters will have of him. He would need to appoint a new coaching team as well given that David Hughes also left to Join Aston Villa as u18 manager
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Post by welshiron on Feb 20, 2017 14:58:21 GMT
I think this is a decent appointment, any new man will want to bring in his own coaches anyway
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Post by rob on Feb 20, 2017 18:44:31 GMT
Until this season was highly rated at Northampton.
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Post by CrackityJones on Feb 20, 2017 19:09:11 GMT
The fact he has previous experience coaching youth level is an immediate improvement on Williams. Developing youngsters is a whole different ball game to managing seasoned professionals.
Could be a shrewd appointment.
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Post by zenith on Mar 5, 2017 10:54:09 GMT
Any news on this?
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Post by CrackityJones on Sept 1, 2017 20:11:43 GMT
Not doing too bad so far is he?
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Post by hookd on Sept 1, 2017 21:58:08 GMT
Not doing too bad so far is he? So far so good, but I did find it a bit disheartening that when we were 3-0 up and 3 mins into injury time, we were on the break and he screamed take it to the corner! Not the mindset we need! |
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Post by phillywelsh83 on Sept 4, 2017 15:52:58 GMT
Not doing too bad so far is he? So far so good, but I did find it a bit disheartening that when we were 3-0 up and 3 mins into injury time, we were on the break and he screamed take it to the corner! Not the mindset we need! But we won 3-0, so im happy enough |
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Post by quetzal on Mar 29, 2018 18:55:50 GMT
What’s the feeling? I’d love to give Bellamy a shot at this job.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 19:25:17 GMT
What’s the feeling? I’d love to give Bellamy a shot at this job. Four games left in the group. My feeling is let's see where we are in the autumn. I'm open minded if I see improvement in those games. It's a funny one though. It seems in the UK the youth teams is a development platform for not just players, but managers too. I guess it's the nature of the beast, but it seems as though that can be a risky philosophy. I'd like to see Bellamy in there too if he's ever available for it. |
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Post by cymru98 on Mar 29, 2018 19:29:26 GMT
What’s the feeling? I’d love to give Bellamy a shot at this job. Good shout, don’t know what happened to him being a coach at Cardiff youth levels. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 19:37:24 GMT
What’s the feeling? I’d love to give Bellamy a shot at this job. Good shout, don’t know what happened to him being a coach at Cardiff youth levels. He's still there as u18s manager. His results seemed to have gotten progressively much better during his time in the role. He has a very good group of players, though being an optimist, it often feels like that. I believe they had an odd heavy loss as they lost players to international, but then bounced back to beat a young Sheffield United side 8-0 the other day. |
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Post by quetzal on Mar 29, 2018 20:08:38 GMT
What’s the feeling? I’d love to give Bellamy a shot at this job. Four games left in the group. My feeling is let's see where we are in the autumn. I'm open minded if I see improvement in those games. It's a funny one though. It seems in the UK the youth teams is a development platform for not just players, but managers too. I guess it's the nature of the beast, but it seems as though that can be a risky philosophy. I'd like to see Bellamy in there too if he's ever available for it. Giggs might not be open to the move. See it has a threat instead of looking at the big picture |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 22:13:13 GMT
Four games left in the group. My feeling is let's see where we are in the autumn. I'm open minded if I see improvement in those games. It's a funny one though. It seems in the UK the youth teams is a development platform for not just players, but managers too. I guess it's the nature of the beast, but it seems as though that can be a risky philosophy. I'd like to see Bellamy in there too if he's ever available for it. Giggs might not be open to the move. See it has a threat instead of looking at the big picture I do see what you mean, but don't think he should have a say in the matter and doubt that he actually would. Maybe I'm being naive. Giggs will be in the Wales role for two tournament cycles maximum I would imagine. Maybe even just the one, if he is radically successful or radically unsuccessful. So the threat of a successful u21 manager shouldn't bother him as they would need a tournament cycle (or, going on u21 trends, one qualifying campaign) to make a case for themself. |
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Post by ae15 on Mar 30, 2018 1:45:07 GMT
I'd like to see one of Bellamy or Rush in the role.
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Post by quetzal on Mar 30, 2018 9:13:20 GMT
Such a shame to write Robert off. But looks like he’s not getting the results. Rhondda people love being Welsh. Hope Page proves me wrong
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Post by zenith on Mar 30, 2018 9:43:02 GMT
To be fair you could say his best players I.e. Ampadu, Woodburn have not been available with Brooks and Wilson. But still, it is no excuse.
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Post by alarch on Mar 30, 2018 10:17:55 GMT
Too early to write Page off, but I've not been any more impressed with the way we play under his tenure than I was with his predecessor. I struggle to discern the Welsh Way in the way the U23s perform.
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Post by joseywales37 on Mar 30, 2018 11:46:14 GMT
What’s the feeling? I’d love to give Bellamy a shot at this job. I like Page, but everything looks all over the shop tactics wise and doesn't seem to get best out of players. Yeh I can see Bellars doing well, but would defo have to give Cam Toshack a shout for what he has done for young Swans, has more or less taken academy to top. Ian Rush is someone else who I thought might be quite good. |
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Post by CrackityJones on Nov 6, 2020 10:30:56 GMT
The latest EJFOF podcast discuss Page in a lot of detail.
Best of luck to him stepping up in Giggs' absence. Hopefully it goes well because lets face it, he's the most likely to take the hot seat if Giggs is relieved of his duties.
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Post by allezlesrouges on Nov 6, 2020 11:28:50 GMT
The latest EJFOF podcast discuss Page in a lot of detail. Best of luck to him stepping up in Giggs' absence. Hopefully it goes well because lets face it, he's the most likely to take the hot seat if Giggs is relieved of his duties. Yeah I'm not going to judge him too harshly on his results with our youth. Must be so difficult to do that job with your best players constantly being snatched up. Let's see how he does for us in these 3 then go from there |
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Post by gwernybwch on Nov 7, 2020 8:55:43 GMT
The latest EJFOF podcast discuss Page in a lot of detail. Best of luck to him stepping up in Giggs' absence. Hopefully it goes well because lets face it, he's the most likely to take the hot seat if Giggs is relieved of his duties. There was mention that our run of not conceding goals started when he started as Assistant Manager. I've not 'fact checked' that, but if true, he definitely has brought something to the management team. |
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Post by allezlesrouges on Nov 7, 2020 12:01:51 GMT
The latest EJFOF podcast discuss Page in a lot of detail. Best of luck to him stepping up in Giggs' absence. Hopefully it goes well because lets face it, he's the most likely to take the hot seat if Giggs is relieved of his duties. There was mention that our run of not conceding goals started when he started as Assistant Manager. I've not 'fact checked' that, but if true, he definitely has brought something to the management team. Osian left our setup either just before or just after Azerbaijan & Belarus home. Belarus was the game we trialled Moore up front with Jonny as the no.10 & that's when our performances started improving, it's also when Page would have come in for Osh so it's hard to say the cause and effect. Moore made us better defensively because he took the pressure off our defence who were playing around with it a lot more back then. With Moore in there we were able to lump it if we were under pressure and we kept the ball a lot of times so our defensive record definitely improved with that |
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Post by CrackityJones on Nov 9, 2020 21:42:10 GMT
Interview with Page on the squad here:
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Post by cadno on Nov 12, 2020 19:32:48 GMT
Anyone else already more impressed with the way Robert Page speaks with the media compared to Mr Giggs? RG is still early into his managment career and he has improved on that front tbf  |
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