Ny first-team coach: Neil MacDonald

[Dennis]

http://www.leedsunited.com/page/NewsroomDetail/0,,10273~1233888,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_McDonald

[Ferre]

Kan ikke si at jeg vet all verden om MacDonald, men det ser ut som om han har en fin CV. Velkommen i teamet!

[Trond90]

Mac joins Mac 

[Budda]

Aldri hørt om karen, men sikkert en grei kar. Begynner å ligne noe nå.

[sveifors]

Erfaring fra lavere  div i england er velkommen

[berlin]

Umulig å si noe fra eller til om denne karen. Tradisjonelt sett kommer han vel neppe mange ganger i rampelyset heller,
det blir nok Macca og Steve som får ta den støyten, enten det er ros eller ris.

Det er uansett positivt at det er nå er 3 stk ledere på treningsfeltet ( ja, jeg antar at Macca ikke er en skrivebords-manager),
da det jo etterhvert er blitt en ganske stor tropp.

[Askertiger]

Ser at han skal ha berget Östersund fra nedrykk - men såvidt jeg kan se er laget i 1. divisjon (dvs 3. divisjon), og det er kanskje ikke den helt store bragden? 

Men greit nok, mannen har vært litt rundt omkring og fått erfaring fra forskjellige nivåer. Så noe kan han sikkert tilføre klubben. Er nok greit med nytt blod også på trenersiden.

[gill]

Husker han som spiller. I min barndom salmet guttegjengen på fotballklistremerke album...har bare fylt opp et album. Det er aller siste bilde som jeg måtte ha for fylle albumet var Neil McDonald fra Everton. Nå er han altså i Leeds.

[kjelvi]

Leeds coach wants to repair reputation


Neil McDonald: Reputation to rebuild

The only certainty of a manager's existence is that one day his job will pass to another, but Neil McDonald's exit from Carlisle United set a new standard for boardroom impatience.
McDonald was an unlikely candidate for the first managerial departure of the season, and his sacking at Brunton Park is clouded in mystery.
Carlisle began this season with a 1-1 draw away to Walsall on August 11. Two days later, McDonald was relieved of his duties.
To add to the confusion, his sacking came only 72 hours after the club's board had sanctioned the purchase of striker Joe Garner from Blackburn Rovers for a club record fee of £140,000.
Carlisle's peculiar explanation was that their directors had "lost confidence" in a manager who seemed to have done nothing wrong.
McDonald had been in the job for 14 months and saw his squad finish the previous season two places below the final play-off position in League One, but a summer of planning was rendered redundant by Carlisle's concerns.
With time on his hands, the 42-year-old travelled to Sweden to work with Ostersunds FK before moving quietly to Lincoln City in November to become Peter Jackson's assistant at Sincil Bank.
He resurfaced amid greater attention last week when he joined Leeds United as the club's first-team coach.
Gary McAllister, United's manager, did not know McDonald personally but was impressed enough by his reputation as a coach to recruit him until the end of the season.
Having seen his credentials questioned so ruthlessly at Brunton Park, McAllister's trust was a reassuring vote of confidence for McDonald.
"I haven't worked with Gary before but it's pleasing to think that he's heard enough about me to take me on board," he said.
"The situation at Carlisle knocked me back a bit because I believed I got the sack for nothing.
"Obviously, I didn't see it coming. But it was important to remind myself that leaving Carlisle didn't make me a bad coach and wouldn't stop me trying to achieve what I want in football.
"I've been to Sweden since then and I've had a great time with Lincoln, but Peter (Jackson) recognised that the opportunity at Leeds was impossible to turn down, and I felt the same.
"I've taken on a shorter contract that I had at Lincoln, but I didn't give much thought to that.
"The fact that Gary wants me here shows that my reputation is still intact, and I've got to back that up by helping him to get the best out of the players.
"But I think I can do that, and I still believe I did a good job for Carlisle."
United's coaching team of McAllister, McDonald and assistant boss Steve Staunton have all agreed contracts until the end of the season â€" McDonald's deal with Lincoln ran until the summer of 2009 â€" and Leeds are in the unusual position of having three top-level managers within their backroom staff.
McDonald was on the touchline for the first time during last Saturday's game at Northampton Town, and a resilient performance from Leeds on Tuesday evening garnered a point from their clash with Nottingham Forest, who were heading for a 1-0 victory until Jermaine Beckford converted a penalty with seven minutes to go.
Tuesday's 1-1 draw displayed obvious signs of fight amongst United's players.
But the club's new management team have assumed their positions at a time when Leeds are straining desperately to remain attached to League One's top six.
United's failure to win any of their last six matches has piled great importance on Saturday's game at Doncaster Rovers, the club who hold second place in the table, and the number of remaining fixtures is dwindling quickly.
Over the next 14 games, United must find the 29 points they are likely to need to be certain of a place in the play-offs.
McDonald said: "I'm here until the end of the season but hopefully that will be the start of my time with Leeds.
"Gary's made it clear to me and to everyone else that we've got to get out of this division, and it's very easy to focus on that target. Leeds have got great tradition as a football club and that's one of the major reasons for me coming here, but the here and now is more important at the moment.
"It goes without saying that we're under pressure.
"Players and coaches at Leeds United are always under pressure.
"Quite a few new players came in last month, and if pressure was a problem for them then they wouldn't have accepted the move. It's the same for me.
"Expectation comes with the job and I think we can handle it."

YEP

[Asbjørn]

 

...min første tanke etter å ha lest litt av artikkelen er jo: "Ahh, så det er han som egentlig har æren for Carlisles gode sesong i år..."

Hadde vi ikke hatt "stresset" med at vi bør opp i år kunne jeg lenet meg tilbake & tenkt at "dette går bra det, bare vi tar tiden til hjelp" 

Men så var det dette med DOLs gutter da, de hadde jo også fremtiden foran seg. Akk, ja...

Men, jo, kanskje Neil will be a good man for us