He might give us a slightly better chance of staying up, well actually a chance because currently I don't think we have one. But a lot more still needs to happen and I think there are more experienced and knowledgable managers of the English leagues than Riga out there
Isn't the current story doing the rounds that Riga wasn't retained due to his refusal to defer to and work closely with Fraeye? I hardly see him coming back if that was the case
The experiment had run out of managers to appoint from within the network. We would be looking at Fraeye until the end of the season. And only Roland knows after that. Duchatelet now has a way to retain the network philosophy and possibly stay up. Riga's job if he wants it. Doesn't really change anything for me though.
Can you imagine this photo with Fraye at the front? At least the players seemed to have respected Riga:
That group, for all of its limitations, had a lot of character . Bar Jacko and Diarra, I don't see that in this lot
They were also quite good at playing football. We'd have stayed up that year with Powell, Riga, Luzon or possibly even Peeters in charge. Our games in hand, the number of easy home games we had left, and the quality of the squad meant the manager was a pretty minor factor in my opinion.
He won less than half his games for us. Did well to keep us up and probably a nice bloke but not the man to take this club forward. Cannot believe people are getting excited by this.
Did you realise we were in 24th and on our knees after losing to Sheffield United. Should he apologize for not getting us into the top of of the table ?
The only coach, who managed to make Harriott and Sordell look half decent. At least if he came back it would be a sign of admission that they messed up, the first time around.
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Once your in the network you never leave the network ;-)
Perhaps I'm getting too cynical on everything Charlton !
I didn't realise the Metz job was going to give up on him.
And what do you mean GETTING cynical : - )
A better manager than Fraeye, obviously, but then so is my mum.
If not I'm out.
Not sure how I would feel about it tbh. Indifferent I guess.
Should he apologize for not getting us into the top of of the table ?
The only coach, who managed to make Harriott and Sordell look half decent.
At least if he came back it would be a sign of admission that they messed up,
the first time around.