Austin MacPhee

[Mister E]

This might be and almost certainly is based on nothing tangible at all, but he looked to have ideas above his station from the word go. Running all over the technical area and gesturing to the players all game, like he was the manager.

Well, we'll be watching our new Head Coach do that next week.

[Nev]

This might be and almost certainly is based on nothing tangible at all, but he looked to have ideas above his station from the word go. Running all over the technical area and gesturing to the players all game, like he was the manager.

This was definitely the vibe.

Yeah, very odd behavior that.

That's one of the planks that my theory about our decline was built upon. Dean should've told him to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and he might still be in a job.

I link that descent of our team spirit, culminating in Matt Targett's desperate interview to something with the coaching staff, something upset the apple cart from last season. Targett was at pains to defend Smith, so I think it was down to the changes made in the summer....

[Risso]

I agree Nev, it looked to me like like Smith had been fatally undermined. He didn’t help himself of course, but it made it harder for him to turn things round.

[Des Little]

All this reeks of unwarranted intrusion by Lange et al.  Once that starts, the writing is usually on the wall.  I would expect that Gerrard would have made the lines of responsibility very clear from the off. 

[dave shelley]

All this reeks of unwarranted intrusion by Lange et al.  Once that starts, the writing is usually on the wall.  I would expect that Gerrard would have made the lines of responsibility very clear from the off. 

He'd be stupid if he didn't.

[Demitri_C]

Uts really gojng to be exciting to see how gerrards 1st team lines up. He wont tolerate any of the stupid mistakes mings makes thats for sure

[Mister E]

All this reeks of unwarranted intrusion by Lange et al.  Once that starts, the writing is usually on the wall.  I would expect that Gerrard would have made the lines of responsibility very clear from the off. 

The only counter to this conspiracy theory is that Smith had worked previously (or certainly had some association) with MacPhee via Brentford and their Danish club. I do agree that the leaping-around bit by MacPhee was unseemly, to say the least.

[Risso]

All this reeks of unwarranted intrusion by Lange et al.  Once that starts, the writing is usually on the wall.  I would expect that Gerrard would have made the lines of responsibility very clear from the off. 

The only counter to this conspiracy theory is that Smith had worked previously (or certainly had some association) with MacPhee via Brentford and their Danish club. I do agree that the leaping-around bit by MacPhee was unseemly, to say the least.

MacPhee joined the Danish club long after Smith had left Brentford though.

[passport1]

I think that it's been reported this morning that he along with Cutler  and Danks is staying.


'Specialist set-piece coach Austin MacPhee, who also holds a senior position with the Scotland national team, and first-team coach Aaron Danks are likely to stay. Both of them were brought in by the club, rather than by Gerrard’s predecessor, Dean Smith'

[Nev]

Early season McPhee was rightly seen as an asset to our play, hence the Danny Murphy thing but then what he may have added then became policy throughout so 3 in five long throws from certain positions became 5 in 5 and it started to go wrong. What was successful at Old Trafford, as part of a game plan, became the game plan.

[Monty]

Fuck's sake. Well, hopefully Gerrard and Beale put him in his place on the long throws.

[Richard]

Do we really need 6 coaches ?

[chrisw1]

I'm very pleased Cuttler is staying, delighted in fact.

I don't mind the others staying whilst Gerrard runs the rule over them to see if he thinks they'll fit in, but this is on the assumption that Beale is head coach of course.

[sickbeggar]

All this reeks of unwarranted intrusion by Lange et al.  Once that starts, the writing is usually on the wall.  I would expect that Gerrard would have made the lines of responsibility very clear from the off.

yeah very worrying especially if they're keeping him over Mr Gerrard's say so. I guess we'll never know what interference Smith experienced because he's too much of a gentlemen to spill the beans but I think we all got the feeling something wasn't right pretty much from pre-season.

[Nev]

I think that it's been reported this morning that he along with Cutler  and Danks is staying.


'Specialist set-piece coach Austin MacPhee, who also holds a senior position with the Scotland national team, and first-team coach Aaron Danks are likely to stay. Both of them were brought in by the club, rather than by Gerrard’s predecessor, Dean Smith'

This would back up my theory as well as making me very, very fucking angry.