Neill Collins moves into management

[LoughboroBlade]

The new manager of the Tampa Bay Rowdy Roddy Pipers in the US soccerball leagues.

Could be a stepping stone to MLS management. Potential successor to Wilder in the making?

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

"It was the opportunity to mouth off at the rest of the team in an official capacity that really appealed to me, an opportunity that I never had under Nigel Clough, as you can read about in my upcoming blog, Woe Is Me - part 27" said Collins yesterday.

 

[Lmaobob]

"we stand for soccer"

fuck off

 

[Roygbiv]

Soccer is actually the original term for football in fairness to the Yanks

 

[sitwell]

Officially going to Tampa with the kids.

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Neils a good lad i wish him well .

 

[Booker4]

Collo's an intelligent bloke and can articulate himself well. Not so sure as a manager though, there's so many qualities you need to be a good manager such as able to motivate players, organise a team, buy well in the transfer marker - often to a small budget - able to be disciplined but also relate to the players. These are all qualities that Wilder, Warnock (hate saying it) and Bassett all have.

Collo seems a more reserved character to me, but I can see him being good football wise. Good look to him, hope it works out.

 

[northsomersetblade]

Soccer is actually the original term for football in fairness to the Yanks

As 'soc' iation football = soccer

'Rug' by football = rugger

As you were chaps. The Beak will be along in a mo

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

GLTTL

There - never used it before and first do so on this thread (probably the last)

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Soccer is actually the original term for football in fairness to the Yanks

And it differentiates it from football (grid iron)

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Hope their keeper is out of his teens and able to fight back.....

 

[zablade]

Soccer is actually the original term for football in fairness to the Yanks

Yep comes from Association

 

[Bladesman]

So when they lose a match I assume he is going blame George Long for it?

 

[sheffielder]

Top button wanker

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

"we stand for soccer"

fuck off

I lay down for American Football and Basketball and fall asleep.

 

[SwissBlade]

How is this Blades related?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

How is this Blades related?

I believe he used to play for us, but you’re right perhaps it doesn’t belong in the same section that in the past few days has seen threads about McNulty, Kenny, and Collins’s old partner in defence Maguire.

Can we have a section on the site for old players, and also a section for complaining about where threads are placed?

 

[SwissBlade]

I believe he used to play for us, but you’re right perhaps it doesn’t belong in the same section that in the past few days has seen threads about McNulty, Kenny, and Collins’s old partner in defence Maguire.

Can we have a section on the site for old players, and also a section for complaining about where threads are placed?

Oh I hadn’t realised, I was thinking he played against us 179 times

 

[cal the blade]

One of the few players after our relegation who I felt genuinely cared about the club . And along side Maguire he was a decent centre half aswell... Unfortunately as soon as Maguire left he spiraled but Ill always have time for Collins genuinely hope he does well .
Once a blade and all that...

 

[I should coco]

also a section for complaining about where threads are placed?

I want to complain that you've suggested the complaining section in the wrong thread!

 

[loyalblade95]

He may have had a poor last 2 years for but at times you could tell he genuinely cared about the blades good look to him in management

 

[BerksBlade]

I want to complain that you've suggested the complaining section in the wrong thread!

 

[S40BLADE]

I'll never forgive him for when he was ranting at George Long despite him not doing anything wrong during the game where Gillingham absolute pumped us first day of the season.

 

[bartman]

I'll never forgive him for when he was ranting at George Long despite him not doing anything wrong during the game where Gillingham absolute pumped us first day of the season.

Long didn't do anything wrong? Seriously ? He was awful that first half and his reluctance to come off his line was obvious ro all at the game

 

[DifferentClass]

And it differentiates it from football (grid iron)

Please, it's called handegg.

 

[Cassius Kray]

Soccer is actually the original term for football in fairness to the Yanks

The word 'football' is hundreds of years old. 'Soccer' less than two hundred. The Sheffield Rules, for example, were the rules of the Sheffield Football Association - not soccer.

As you probably already know, 'football' was a word used to describe a sport played in various ways that mixed in a lot of what we now know as football/rugby/aussie rules/american football. When the game we know today began to formalise it was referred to as 'Association Football', to distinguish it from rugby. 'Soccer' was a corruption of that phrase, derived from public school slang. It's possible that 'soccer' originates from before the single-word 'football' came to be widely understood as specifically that version of the game we play today, but it certainly wasn't the original term for football.

 

[RealMcCoy]

Where I grew up, if you were caught playing for a soccer team, you’d be banned from playing football.

 

[8lade]

Collins was a decent player but didn't we come to the conclusion he kept getting dropped as he wouldn't follow management orders?
If I may paraphrase The Mikado:

My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time -
To let the punishment fit the crime -
The punishment fit the crime;

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Yep comes from Association

So the game could have been called an Ass? Or at least some of its players!!

 

[GallonofMagnet]

Announce relegation.