I know what you mean, saying goodbye to an awfully big amount of dear players is quite harsh on fans and seems unfair - yet I think most of the fans have come to understood that this current team is a bit rubbish on pitch. Sigh. And needs fresh blood.
Frings is not in it for half-assed stuff like bench sitting and all that. I suppose he will sign up for 101.how-to-become-a-coach class now. We'll see.
Werder is a bit topsy-turvey these days. Hope we get a well-functioning team together in time for the trainings camps. We need some newbies with long hair AND tatts AND attitude ;) Preferbly Harley riders ;)
I know what you mean, saying goodbye to an awfully big amount of dear players is quite harsh on fans and seems unfair - yet I think most of the fans have come to understood that this current team is a bit rubbish on pitch. Sigh. And needs fresh blood.
Not necessarily. They just need to get shuffled about a bit (and play a different system with the players they have since both Markos are rubbish playing "Raute" on whatever side they're on...)
I'm mailing heartfelt letters these days, things I really couldn't tell the guys face to face, but there's a real NEED to express these things. The pain of losing people, the fear of losing people...the uncertainty, in general...
I suppose he will sign up for 101.how-to-become-a-coach class now. We'll see. And when Schaaf finally retires in 2020, Frings will be there (after having spent years coaching Alemannia Aachen and dropping in for dental work at my dad's every once in a while:-) See, that would be a classic first line for a dad/
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Tolle Analyse! Ich denke da war sehr viel Wahrheit drin. Er sollte gehen bevor es zu spät ist (was er ja tut) und so weh es auch tut, ist es wohl die richtige Entscheidung. Ich werde ihn vermissen und hoffe, dass wir ihn bald an der Seitenlinie wiederfinden ;-) Hach, ich schwelge dann mal in Erinnerungen... Ich werde wohl nie den Blick vergessen, als ich seinem Ferrari zu nahe kam. Fasse ihn an und ich töte dich, sagte da sein Blick. Und ich grinste nur zurück und ließ es bleiben - das Anfassen ;-) Ach ja ...
(Bin zu faul auf englisch zu switchen. Mein Gehirn hat jetzt Feierabend)
Ach so ... und natürlich hoffe ich, dass Werder nächste Saison eine Mannschaft hat mit der sie wieder oben angreifen können. *Daumen drück*
My hopes are on the byline too! I am curious to see what kind of coach he will become!
Thanks for your post and your shared memory! I have uninentionally crossed his path too, at times, but was never actually in touching distance of his Hummer/Ferrari/Harley etc...
After going into last season with three and a half defenders, I'm not really sure I'm ready to automatically put all my trust in whatever plan KATS have. And it's all very well assuming Frings wouldn't be willing to be part of a back-up plan, but 2 days ago everyone was assuming he must have said no because he wasn't offered enough money. Maybe he would have taken the chance to be part of a plan B. Either way...now we still need both a plan A and B.
(As for Frings coming back to Aachen...well, he's younger than Zdebel who's played that position a few times this season, but a lot older than Kratz who's been first choice and Burkhardt who's been injured, and we do seem to have the ~young/vitality~ approach going on at the moment, rather than the ~old/experience~...I think some more experienced players wouldn't be a bad thing, so if Frings is happy to largely benchwarm for c. €250,000, he could be the man. But that seems unlikely. ...Plus, fan-wise, no one likes him... So I'd be more than surprised.)
As for your list of plusses on the Frings grading report -- well, I think this team together has played below par and the few goals he scored where crucial, undeniably (for simply there were so few ;))Exactly. He scored the same number of BL-goals this season as last season, but that was enough to boost him from 5th to 3rd, just because no one else is doing better. It's the no one else doing better that's the problem as I see it, not Frings plodding along. And it's the same with the other things on that list - he was taking corners because no one else was doing them productively (Marin, Hunt), he was scoring crucial goals because no one else had already sorted the match. ...So now who's going to do all the things that Frings was only doing because other people on the team couldn't or just weren't doing them? (I'm not saying this in a rhetorical "omg, how will we function without him??"-way, but in a literal sense of who's going to be picking up the slack now
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I know what you mean, saying goodbye to an awfully big amount of dear players is quite harsh on fans and seems unfair - yet I think most of the fans have come to understood that this current team is a bit rubbish on pitch. Sigh. And needs fresh blood.
Frings is not in it for half-assed stuff like bench sitting and all that. I suppose he will sign up for 101.how-to-become-a-coach class now. We'll see.
Werder is a bit topsy-turvey these days. Hope we get a well-functioning team together in time for the trainings camps. We need some newbies with long hair AND tatts AND attitude ;) Preferbly Harley riders ;)
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*sniffles some more* Ta...
I know what you mean, saying goodbye to an awfully big amount of dear players is quite harsh on fans and seems unfair - yet I think most of the fans have come to understood that this current team is a bit rubbish on pitch. Sigh. And needs fresh blood.
Not necessarily. They just need to get shuffled about a bit (and play a different system with the players they have since both Markos are rubbish playing "Raute" on whatever side they're on...)
I'm mailing heartfelt letters these days, things I really couldn't tell the guys face to face, but there's a real NEED to express these things. The pain of losing people, the fear of losing people...the uncertainty, in general...
I suppose he will sign up for 101.how-to-become-a-coach class now. We'll see.
And when Schaaf finally retires in 2020, Frings will be there (after having spent years coaching Alemannia Aachen and dropping in for dental work at my dad's every once in a while:-) See, that would be a classic first line for a dad/ ( ... )
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Hach, ich schwelge dann mal in Erinnerungen... Ich werde wohl nie den Blick vergessen, als ich seinem Ferrari zu nahe kam. Fasse ihn an und ich töte dich, sagte da sein Blick. Und ich grinste nur zurück und ließ es bleiben - das Anfassen ;-) Ach ja ...
(Bin zu faul auf englisch zu switchen. Mein Gehirn hat jetzt Feierabend)
Ach so ... und natürlich hoffe ich, dass Werder nächste Saison eine Mannschaft hat mit der sie wieder oben angreifen können. *Daumen drück*
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Thanks for your post and your shared memory! I have uninentionally crossed his path too, at times, but was never actually in touching distance of his Hummer/Ferrari/Harley etc...
Here he is - giving excellent shank eyes!
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After going into last season with three and a half defenders, I'm not really sure I'm ready to automatically put all my trust in whatever plan KATS have. And it's all very well assuming Frings wouldn't be willing to be part of a back-up plan, but 2 days ago everyone was assuming he must have said no because he wasn't offered enough money. Maybe he would have taken the chance to be part of a plan B. Either way...now we still need both a plan A and B.
(As for Frings coming back to Aachen...well, he's younger than Zdebel who's played that position a few times this season, but a lot older than Kratz who's been first choice and Burkhardt who's been injured, and we do seem to have the ~young/vitality~ approach going on at the moment, rather than the ~old/experience~...I think some more experienced players wouldn't be a bad thing, so if Frings is happy to largely benchwarm for c. €250,000, he could be the man. But that seems unlikely. ...Plus, fan-wise, no one likes him... So I'd be more than surprised.)
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