by morganb » 02 Apr 2023 15:08
by Sutekh » 02 Apr 2023 17:46
morganb Brendan Rodgers has come available
by AthleticoSpizz » 02 Apr 2023 18:05
by tmesis » 02 Apr 2023 18:17
by AthleticoSpizz » 02 Apr 2023 18:40
by Ascotexgunner » 02 Apr 2023 19:04
tmesis I can't decide if getting a new guy in now would be a good or terrible idea.
The good would be the possibility of the 'new manager bounce', plus the chance to get to know the players before the summer rebuilding job.
The bad though would be our terrible position, as a club/team on the slide, with a rebuilding job hampered by a potential new transfer embargo and even stricter spending limits, and hindered further by the lack of a scouting set-up.
That's not really going to attract the highest calibre of candidate out there, so we could end up with a manager who is the equivalent of an end-of-the-transfer-window panic buy, and be stuck with him for another year or two.
Or, we could just end up with someone from the backroom staff as caretaker manager for the rest of the season, which is unlikely to end well.
The strange thing is that the ideal candidate would be a 21/22 Paul Ince, who could get them fired up and fighting for every point, which would probably be enough for us to stay up in this weak division.
by paultheroyal » 02 Apr 2023 19:59
Ascotexgunnertmesis I can't decide if getting a new guy in now would be a good or terrible idea.
The good would be the possibility of the 'new manager bounce', plus the chance to get to know the players before the summer rebuilding job.
The bad though would be our terrible position, as a club/team on the slide, with a rebuilding job hampered by a potential new transfer embargo and even stricter spending limits, and hindered further by the lack of a scouting set-up.
That's not really going to attract the highest calibre of candidate out there, so we could end up with a manager who is the equivalent of an end-of-the-transfer-window panic buy, and be stuck with him for another year or two.
Or, we could just end up with someone from the backroom staff as caretaker manager for the rest of the season, which is unlikely to end well.
The strange thing is that the ideal candidate would be a 21/22 Paul Ince, who could get them fired up and fighting for every point, which would probably be enough for us to stay up in this weak division.
"New Guy"?.....It's Mark Bowen or nothing. Anyone else will cost money.
by AthleticoSpizz » 02 Apr 2023 20:02
by Elm Park Kid » 02 Apr 2023 20:49
by The Royal Forester » 02 Apr 2023 21:21
by morganb » 02 Apr 2023 21:50
paultheroyalAscotexgunnertmesis I can't decide if getting a new guy in now would be a good or terrible idea.
The good would be the possibility of the 'new manager bounce', plus the chance to get to know the players before the summer rebuilding job.
The bad though would be our terrible position, as a club/team on the slide, with a rebuilding job hampered by a potential new transfer embargo and even stricter spending limits, and hindered further by the lack of a scouting set-up.
That's not really going to attract the highest calibre of candidate out there, so we could end up with a manager who is the equivalent of an end-of-the-transfer-window panic buy, and be stuck with him for another year or two.
Or, we could just end up with someone from the backroom staff as caretaker manager for the rest of the season, which is unlikely to end well.
The strange thing is that the ideal candidate would be a 21/22 Paul Ince, who could get them fired up and fighting for every point, which would probably be enough for us to stay up in this weak division.
"New Guy"?.....It's Mark Bowen or nothing. Anyone else will cost money.
Exactly that. How people fail to see this amazes me.
by Hendo » 03 Apr 2023 07:59
paultheroyalAscotexgunnertmesis I can't decide if getting a new guy in now would be a good or terrible idea.
The good would be the possibility of the 'new manager bounce', plus the chance to get to know the players before the summer rebuilding job.
The bad though would be our terrible position, as a club/team on the slide, with a rebuilding job hampered by a potential new transfer embargo and even stricter spending limits, and hindered further by the lack of a scouting set-up.
That's not really going to attract the highest calibre of candidate out there, so we could end up with a manager who is the equivalent of an end-of-the-transfer-window panic buy, and be stuck with him for another year or two.
Or, we could just end up with someone from the backroom staff as caretaker manager for the rest of the season, which is unlikely to end well.
The strange thing is that the ideal candidate would be a 21/22 Paul Ince, who could get them fired up and fighting for every point, which would probably be enough for us to stay up in this weak division.
"New Guy"?.....It's Mark Bowen or nothing. Anyone else will cost money.
Exactly that. How people fail to see this amazes me.
by Stranded » 03 Apr 2023 08:33
by Millsy » 03 Apr 2023 10:09
by Kitsondinho » 03 Apr 2023 10:39
by RoyalBlue » 03 Apr 2023 11:31
Millsy I can't believe the mentality of people.
As things stand we are 7 points off relegation with 7 games to go and 4 of the teams below us have a worse GD. Most would consider that a good position, unlikely to go down and hence a success for Ince under tough circumstances and against all odds.
Throw a 6 point deduction into the mix and all of a sudden we're in a dangerous relegation dogfight. How the hell would that be Ince's fault?? Suddenly he needs to go because of a 6 point drop?
FFS, he may not be the man to take us up to the PL (we have no evidence of that btw, don't know what he can do without restrictions), but one thing he's proven is his ability to get fight out of players threatened with relegation.
by Stranded » 03 Apr 2023 11:36
RoyalBlueMillsy I can't believe the mentality of people.
As things stand we are 7 points off relegation with 7 games to go and 4 of the teams below us have a worse GD. Most would consider that a good position, unlikely to go down and hence a success for Ince under tough circumstances and against all odds.
Throw a 6 point deduction into the mix and all of a sudden we're in a dangerous relegation dogfight. How the hell would that be Ince's fault?? Suddenly he needs to go because of a 6 point drop?
FFS, he may not be the man to take us up to the PL (we have no evidence of that btw, don't know what he can do without restrictions), but one thing he's proven is his ability to get fight out of players threatened with relegation.
He proved it once last season. He's not proven it this season. There are very good reasons why no other club has kept him for more than 12 months and why he hadn't been in management for 8 years.
And it will be his fault because he had the chance to keep the players focused on aiming high when they were doing well at the start of the season. Instead he banned all talk of playoffs and repeatedly and publicly talked down the abilities of his players, created a culture of negativity and predicted failure, and went into games trying to hold out for draws rather than going for wins. Had he not done so, we would've had far more points by now so any deduction would've not put us a risk of relegation.
by tidus_mi2 » 03 Apr 2023 11:38
Kitsondinho He isn’t going before May. No matter how much people hate it, he isn’t. Pauno was given ages. Stam was given ages. I still think we’ll have just enough to survive…by virtue of there being 3 worse teams. Wigan, Blackpool and QPR for me.
by Royal_jimmy » 03 Apr 2023 11:45
by tidus_mi2 » 03 Apr 2023 11:49
Royal_jimmy I'm starting to think Huddersfield could get out of it
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