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Welsh FA will conduct a review in to what’s gone wrong:

Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:16 pm

Welsh football bosses will conduct a standard review into what has gone wrong with Rob Page's national team this summer as they look to get their Euro 2024 campaign back on track.

Abject defeats against Armenia and Turkey have led to a clamour for the head of Page, with many fans throughout Wales demanding he is replaced as manager.


Football writer Thomas Lewis from the Daily Post has already called for Page to go, suggesting an Osian Roberts-Patrick Vieira double act or ex-Luton and Southampton boss Nathan Jones as alternatives.



The FA of Wales hierarchy are unlikely to react in knee-jerk fashion and look likely to back their under-fire manager.


But they will have a full and thorough debrief into what happened in the last two games, something which is normal procedure after every international camp.


This will involve speaking to Page himself, the players, backroom staff and other interested parties.


The intention is to find out why things have suddenly hurtled backwards at an alarming rate and how to put Wales back on the upward trajectory again.

The FAW have made huge strides in recent times, with capacity crowds at Cardiff City Stadium despite a poor run of results showing the thirst is still there to watch Aaron Ramsey and his team. Wales' age-grade sides are doing well, participation in football across the country is on the rise, women's football is growing and Wales have a significant seat in the UEFA corridors of power these days.



But everything needs to be underpinned by success for the national team, which brings in large chunks of the revenue. As such the FAW will want to know how Page intends to turn things around for the remaining autumn Euro qualifiers with Croatia and Turkey at home and Latvia and Armenia away.

Much has been made of Page's four-year contract, which he was given just nine months ago, and how the FAW couldn't afford to pay him off should they choose to proceed down that route. However, our understanding is that wouldn't necessarily be an issue and that terms have been struck in the contract for a scenario like this.

Even without Gareth Bale, Wales fully expected to qualify from a group containing a Croatian side perhaps past their best, a Turkey team which hasn't set the world on fire in recent times, plus football minnows Latvia and Armenia.
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Re: Welsh FA will conduct a review in to what’s gone wrong:

Wed Jun 21, 2023 3:42 pm

Normal service for the 50 years before Bale has been resumed, get used to it.

Review done! Pay me my money FAW.

Re: Welsh FA will conduct a review in to what’s gone wrong:

Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:52 pm

Conduct interviews for a new manager not a standard review !
Clueless at World Cup …and should have gone after woeful displays

Re: Welsh FA will conduct a review in to what’s gone wrong:

Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:45 pm

just a case of an half decent team with a shit manager