The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Brum Royal » 22 Oct 2013 12:42

At just shy of three years, Mowbray was the longest serving manager in the Champo too. Tough league to manage in.

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by soggy biscuit » 23 Oct 2013 12:47

Nigel Clough gets the Shef Utd job

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Badger Finger » 23 Oct 2013 16:11

Palace call a news conference at 1730...

Is it bye bye, Ollie?

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by genome » 23 Oct 2013 16:17

Say it ain't so

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Pepe the Horseman » 23 Oct 2013 16:22

Betting spended. Bit arsh.


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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by genome » 23 Oct 2013 16:23

Pepe the Horseman Betting suspended. Bit harsh.


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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Franchise FC » 23 Oct 2013 16:40

The problem is, in most cases, that a manager that is good enough to get a club out of the Championship is immediately up against it in the PL.

The step up is so vast for the players that they need to get a significant number of players, they may or may not gel straight away and even if they do they are unlikely to be strong enough players to make a material difference. Add to that the fact that sometimes you can get undone by a flash of brilliance, even when you're playing very well and winning (or two flashes of brilliance in Palace's case) and it's a recipe for a long, hard and usually fruitless season.

It's simply a matter of luck (and a little bit of scouting :wink: ) that someone like Michu gets picked up by one of the 'lesser' clubs and has a dramatic impact.

All that is particularly so for the club that goes up via the play-offs. They might as well sack the manager that wins the play-offs straight away.

Now someone will remark that Swansea and West Ham haven't gone that way, but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule.

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by HoneyRoastHoax » 23 Oct 2013 16:51

Hololoway gone

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by Sanguine » 23 Oct 2013 16:51

HoneyRoastHoax Hololoway gone


Madness.


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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by genome » 23 Oct 2013 17:04

Speaking before the game at Selhurst Park (Fulham), Parrish had told BBC Radio 5 live that Holloway's position was secure.


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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Nameless » 23 Oct 2013 17:10

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HoneyRoastHoax Hololoway gone


Madness.


He was never going to do any better than delay their relegation, and hard to see anyone else making a better job of it. Their summer transfer dealings were crazy and I think Holloway is probably a man out of time. You can only get results by being a bit crazy for so long....

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Mr Angry » 23 Oct 2013 17:35

Sunderland and Palace have, after 8 games, the same number of points combined as we did last season after 8 games...............

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by LUX » 23 Oct 2013 17:47

What odds would I get on Sunderland surviving? They have one point so far.

Palace have zero chance IMO. Alas.


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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Silver Fox » 23 Oct 2013 17:53

There have been bad teams in the prem before but I can't remember a year when two totally inept teams have featured?

No surprise that people will smh at Holloway's departure btw, the bloke is a poor manager, just because he trots out humorous bumpkin aphorisms doesn't mean he has any talent at all. Or as Winston Wolf famously said "just because you are a character, it doesn't mean you have character"

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by windermere_royal » 23 Oct 2013 17:58

Bloody madness. he gets them up against all the odds, then loses his job already, footballs gone mad, what did Parish expect, a f*cking champion league position?

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Stranded » 23 Oct 2013 18:15

Palace were 4th when he joined last year, hung on to 6th despite only winning only 2 of the last 18 games. His overall record is P46 W14 D14 L18. Hardly going to be enough to stay up or build a team to come back with that record.

Bar a very well managed play-offs he's been shocking there including signing more players than he could actually fit into the squad. Not surprised he's gone.

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by UTDSTEVE » 23 Oct 2013 18:31

He wasn't sacked, Parish has apparently been in talks with him since Monday to try and convince him to stay at the club. Pulis now favourite to take over.

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by AthleticoSpizz » 23 Oct 2013 18:32

windermere_royal Bloody madness. he gets them up against all the odds, then loses his job already, footballs gone mad, what did Parish expect, a f*cking champion league position?
and was only just on Talksquawk before the Fulham game, saying that Ollie was the man for them and it would be senseless to get rid of him.

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by TBM » 23 Oct 2013 19:26

All he's done is keep his CV looking good - he would have been sacked at some point this season

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Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

by Mr Optimist » 23 Oct 2013 20:58

Holloway basically saying he hasn't the stomach for the fight after eight games is going to resign him either to a life of managing outside the top flight or jacking it completely and get a job for the boys no stress pundit job in the media.

I suppose at least he doesn't have to shuffle along to the post match interviews saying we move on most weekends.

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