Next Reading Manager: Press Conference @ 9:15

[mr_number]

If you're making decisions based on what the fans think then you really are an idiot.

+1

[Who Moved The Goalposts?]

Coppell linked....

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... et-1759239

"Its emerging that Reading did not have a successor lined-up when they sacked Brian McDermott on Monday , just 33 days after he won Premier League manager of the Month for January".

So with 9 games to go - 4 of which are Man Yoo, Arse, Liverpool and City -we are starting a search...

Don't believe for a second the sacking was about "saving the season" so why would they?

It was because he lost the fans and Anton saw it.

We'll get a new manager in, who's remit won't be "save Reading at all costs" but "Do your best this season, but it's all about the long term plan, nice football please".

100% agree. In that respect, the timing is actually about right as on on one respect AZ can't win, and on another he can't lose.

[Tommy Youlden's Ears]

If you're making decisions based on what the fans think then you really are an idiot.

Ssshhh. If he listens to us he might sell up and fug off back to whichever tax-hole he calls home.

[mr_number]

100% agree. In that respect, the timing is actually about right as on on one respect AZ can't win, and on another he can't lose.

"Can't win, can't lose...oxf*rd it, I'll sack one of our best managers ever." Anton, Monday afternoon.

[maffff]

If you're making decisions based on what the fans think then you really are an idiot.

But if he's lost the players?

[mr_number]

If you're making decisions based on what the fans think then you really are an idiot.

But if he's lost the players?

He should have kept a closer eye on them etc etc

[HoneyRoastHoax]

If you're making decisions based on what the fans think then you really are an idiot.

Not entirely mags, There has been a lot of booing recently, thats not going to entice first timers and kids to the club is it?

It has to be a factor. We're the customers, if the customers don't like the staff the staff have to go. We're the money

[Hoop Blah]

If you're making decisions based on what the fans think then you really are an idiot.

Not really.

The fans are the ones who really make the club. A manager who has the fans against them is a dead man walking. You only have to see the likes of Megson, McLeish, Rafa recently to see that.

I'd agree that on specific issues going with the fans is daft, but when it gets to a tipping point then it's all fair really (I don't think we'd got anywhere near that tipping point by the way, and I think the fans reaction to McDermott was only a tiny factor in Zingaravich's decision).

[The Rouge]

He is not a crazy owner, he thinks he knows his football, he is a businessman, he would have come to his own decision about the manager situation.

But in part at least, the vocal fans on Saturday got him sacked.

[The Rouge]

If you're making decisions based on what the fans think then you really are an idiot.

Not really.

The fans are the ones who really make the club.

Not wanting to put words in his mouth but I think he means, from reading what many of you put on here, and seeing people at the game, some of you are complete idiots.

[sandman]

Definitely don't want Adkins. He'd get us playing nicer football but after spending £20m in the summer and end up no better than we are is a joke. We might be shit but at least it didn't cost us £20m.

Would like anybody that will get us playing nice football (apart from Adkins, did I mention that?). It didn't work under Rogers because he wasn't given the budget to bring in decent players. With Zingarevich's money [b]we could be the next Swansea [/b]:!:

Shudder

Centre back passes to centre back, passes back to the keeper, to the centre back, to the defensive midfielder....continues for the next half an hour aaannndd they're over the half way line, oh wait they've gone back to the keeper.

Oh and Rodgers had money to work with.

Yeah, we don't want two good seasons in the PL and a cup win. Boooo.

Do we really have to be like those tossers do it? I'm sick of hearing about bl00dy Swansea and their bastardized version of Spanish football.

[Sanguine]

Apparently it's more effective than McDermott's version of tiki-taka.

[Wycombe Royal]

He is not a crazy owner, he thinks he knows his football, he is a businessman, he would have come to his own decision about the manager situation.

But in part at least, the vocal fans on Saturday got him sacked.

If he is as crazy as some seem to think then McD would not have lasted this long, if anything he would have fired him when he took over the club. In mt opinion AZ has been too loyal to McD and should have fired him in December.

[The Rouge]

He is not a crazy owner, he thinks he knows his football, he is a businessman, he would have come to his own decision about the manager situation.

But in part at least, the vocal fans on Saturday got him sacked.

If he is as crazy as some seem to think then McD would not have lasted this long, if anything he would have fired him when he took over the club. In mt opinion AZ has been too loyal to McD and should have fired him in December.

That is a view, but kind of on a tangent to the inference above.

[sandman]

Apparently it's more effective than McDermott's version of tiki-taka.

So Brian wasn't a successful manager then? it's a shame you have so little respect for Brian's achievements under his style and indeed our identity as a club that you just want to copy someone else rather than make our own way. Then again that's the story of English football, we must do what Brazil do because they've won a tournament...oh wait the French are bringing through players because they have a training centre lets follow them... hang on a sec the Spanish are playing passing football let's do that.

I love watching La Liga which is why I hate watching Swansea knock it around their centre backs and keeper for half an hour and claim that they're playing the "Spanish way".

[Sanguine]

That’s a big leap. McDermott’s football was very effective in the Championship, and I have a huge amount of respect for the man and what he achieved at Reading. But that doesn’t mean there are not other ways to play football and other ways to succeed. As you know I followed Liverpool growing up – a diet of patient passing football, I quite like Swansea’s (and more recently Liverpool’s) approach, I wouldn’t be disappointed at all if we started to play that way. Any sort of style that sees us retain possession of the ball, and look comfortable with it, would be very welcome.

[Hoop Blah]

Just to pick up on the consistent trend that Di Matteo will need an open cheque book to do any good (presumably just because he was at Chelsea) what is the evidence for that?

At both MK Dons and West Brom he spent very little (£0 on transfer fee's at MK Dons and about £4m in the Championship with West Brom). We'll also be one of the more cash rich teams in the Championship next season (if relegated of course!) so budgets shouldn't be too bad anyway.

[Who Moved The Goalposts?]

That’s a big leap. McDermott’s football was very effective in the Championship, and I have a huge amount of respect for the man and what he achieved at Reading. But that doesn’t mean there are not other ways to play football and other ways to succeed. As you know I followed Liverpool growing up – a diet of patient passing football, I quite like Swansea’s (and more recently Liverpool’s) approach, I wouldn’t be disappointed at all if we started to play that way. Any sort of style that sees us retain possession of the ball, and look comfortable with it, would be very welcome.

And therein lies one of the reasons behind AZ's decision to sack Brian. Eveyone knows he may have been capable of getting us back up. A playoff final and champions in two successive seasons proves that. The major doubt is his ability to adapt to the requirements of the PL once there. I don't think Brian has it in him, and neither does the board by the looks of it.

[leicsRoyal]

I wouldn't be suprised to see an interim appointed until the end of the season, someone whose career would not be affected by survival or relegation but someone who may have the know how to give us some hope.

The trouble is with the timing of sacking McD is that a manager with a decent CV is unlikely to want to put relegation on it so we are going to be very limited in the balance between the right man for the job and the right job for the man thus not getting what we really need at this moment in time.

[melonhead]

That’s a big leap. McDermott’s football was very effective in the Championship, and I have a huge amount of respect for the man and what he achieved at Reading. But that doesn’t mean there are not other ways to play football and other ways to succeed. As you know I followed Liverpool growing up – a diet of patient passing football, I quite like Swansea’s (and more recently Liverpool’s) approach, I wouldn’t be disappointed at all if we started to play that way. Any sort of style that sees us retain possession of the ball, and look comfortable with it, would be very welcome.

And therein lies one of the reasons behind AZ's decision to sack Brian. Eveyone knows he may have been capable of getting us back up. A playoff final and champions in two successive seasons proves that. The major doubt is his ability to adapt to the requirements of the PL once there. I don't think Brian has it in him, and neither does the board by the looks of it.

have to remember this board has a very high mong quotient.