the FA needs to employ Stuart Webber

let him work on a full overhaul of the structure and development cycle across the various levels and bring in specialist coaches for particular competitions/matches.

International football seems to be even more suited to a DOF structure than clubs are. There are so many different facets to it (from identifying who should be selected, coaching tactics, managing during long qualifying campaigns, managing during high intensity tournaments, bringing players through the U18/U21 structures etc) that you're always going to struggle finding a good manager who can (and wants) to do all of that.

And if yoiu do manage to find someone who is good at all the back office stuff, they are inevitably going to get binned because they can't win a trophy within their allotted 4 years.

Maybe the FA has someone doing the Webber role but a lazy Google searching effort is telling me that they do.

Posted By: CWC on March 25th 2021 at 16:26:37

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Mad that boothroyd manager of the u21s (n/m) (Other Football) - loz, Mar 25, 15:40:24
- He's done quite well overall, hasn't he? (Other Football) - Huge Small, Mar 25, 15:57:38
  - U21s were awful in the last tournament (Other Football) - jamesward, Mar 25, 15:59:15
- Has he resigned yet? Great example of talented players but not playing as a team in any (Other Football) - Pixelman, Mar 25, 15:54:01
- He was awful at Colchester who played shocking football under him (n/m) (Other Football) - essexcanary, Mar 25, 15:44:49
- It is great practice for being managed by Southgate at senior level (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, Mar 25, 15:43:44
  - Two failed club managers (Other Football) - jamesward, Mar 25, 15:50:39
    - to be fair we have tried quite a lot of different kinds of managers over the past 65 years (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Mar 25, 15:52:40
      - the FA needs to employ Stuart Webber (Other Football) - CWC, Mar 25, 16:26:37
        
        They have a Technical Director. Not sure what their role is exactly (Other Football) - jamesward, Mar 25, 16:52:54
        
        That's interesting (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Mar 25, 16:30:58
      - *55* years (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Mar 25, 15:53:21

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