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A Premier League Coaching System?

By Mark Pierpoint :  30/12/2010 :  Comments (9) :

Steve Round ? Assistant Manager

Steve began his coaching career at Derby County. While at Pride Park he met Steve McClaren who later took him to Middlesbrough and England. During his time at the Riverside Round helped the club win the League Cup and reach the UEFA Cup final. He left Boro in December 2006, working under Sam Allardyce and Kevin Keegan at Newcastle before joining the Toffees in July 2008.

(Playing career consisted of being a full back at Derby before injury cut short his career)

Jimmy Lumsden ? first team coach

Jimmy was appointed as first-team coach by David Moyes in the summer of 2002. The duo had worked together at Preston North End, and Lumsden had also coached the manager when he was a young player at Celtic. He has played for Leeds, Southend, Greenock Morton, St Mirren and Clydebank

Andy Holden ? reserve team coach

Andy is Everton's Reserve boss and is involved in the first team set-up. A tough tackling defender during his playing days, the former Welsh international enjoyed spells at Chester City, Wigan and Oldham Athletic. He also helped out with first team coaching when Alan Irvine left for Preston.

Dave Billows ? head fitness coach

Dave's job is to ensure that Everton's playing squad are at their peak of physical fitness. He plays an important part in pre-season as he builds up the players' fitness in preparation for a gruelling season of football. Dave works alongside Steve Tashjian and the pair can be seen on matchdays conducting the pre-match warm-up.

Steve Tashjian ? fitness coach

Steve works alongside Dave Billows and is tasked with keeping the players at their best, physically. This includes plenty of work in pre-season and warm-ups for training sessions and matches. California native Steve joined Everton in the summer of 2009 having previously worked in the MLS for Columbus Crew

Overall, the only people who have not come from a lower league background are the fitness coaches. Creatively, we are clearly over reliant on Moyes and a bunch of people who have never played at a decent level or, in the case of Jimmy Lumsden, have been around since the beginning of time.

This article is not meant to denigrate professional coaches named above. Whilst it is not a call to sack them, surely with football as poor as ours they need a little support? All of them are of a lower league background. Hardworking, yes but probably low on the creativity scale.

Here is a radical thought for Moyes: Part of being a good manager is to know your limitations. We can all have a guess what ours is looking at our coaching team.

Instead of calling to get rid of the manager, he should be forced to seek help from elsewhere. If he doesn?t know a Plan B, he should be forced to find somebody who does have.

If he doesn?t like it, tough, he knows what he can do. To me this may be a more likely option to reviving our fortunes.

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