do you think football managers take note of the pundits on MOTD?

MOTD may not know the specific details and goings on at the various training grounds across the country but they can certainly analysis every detail from a football match.

They would be fools not to pay attention. :)
 
Tuning in with a big cuppa tea to see what Shearer and co. thought about his tactics? Personally can't see it :p
 
All pundits suceed in doing post match is stating the bloody obvious. The manager has likely taken the advice before hearing it from them.
 
Shearer is a terrible pundit. He said that we didn't know anything about Ben Afra on Saturday's programme.

This is a player who's played for Lyon, Marseilles and France. Surely your job as a pundit is to do some research?

If I was Hodgson, I wouldn't pay any attention to what Shearer says.
 
Dixon is the only one I really think has any decent tactical knowledge on MotD these days. He honestly seems to have an intelligent football brain when he talks about it on there, and in his old columns on the BBC website. Though I might simply be giving him the benefit of the doubt since he's never bothered to put any of it into practice.

Hansen knows his stuff but just phones it in most of the time, Shearer's there on status alone, and god knows why they still employ Lawrenson.
 
I like Dixon, and even though he's still camera shy as hell Martin Keown gets his teeth stuck in as well.

To be fair to all of them they're either really inexperienced at manager level or have just settled in their nice cushy armchair jobs. I usually find I can predict what they're going to say or I've easily seen things during the match. I'm not an ex pro or manager; they're just keeping it really simple for an entertainment programme.

Don't forget as well, while the manager is the head figure for a good proportion of clubs it's probably his subordinates that do all the nitty gritty tactical work.
 
Pat Nevin for me.

Straight talking and inteligent without coming across as an 'im telling' you pundit like meses's shearer, green, gray and co.

Sadly though thats why the guy and those like him arn't in the prime box office tv spots.

People like andy gray made themselfs household names by being people you disagree with. Id be suprised if they themselfs belive half the pap they spout... just how anoying is it to hear gray say "nothing wrong with that" when X player has gone clean through the back of somebody, only for a few minutes later to have it happen again with different players, and he's calling for a card.

As for shearer's tactical nounce, shame for him the Newcastle/villa game was televised.
 
Andy Gray is a legend commentary wise. At the end of the day, it is his opinion and that is what he is paid for. Plus, each situation is different so impossible to compare.

Got to love the haters ^^^.
 
That would be like listening to commentators and paying attention.

I think that a lot of people could pull apart a teams performance. That is not the managers main role though it is. He doesnt just rock up and say 'guys, the gaps at the back were shocking, do this, do this' and all is well. That is the tricky part of being a manager, fixing the issues you see every week.
 
Aye fantastic. We talk now of the things he talked about all those years ago as if it was a new thing. Sky Sports are very much to blame. It is afterall - a game we love, there's no need for histrionics and the rest of the bull that comes with.
 
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