by Elm Park Kid »
27 Jun 2023 11:49
Snowflake Royal Elm Park Kid Royal_jimmy Maybe read what Southampton fans have to say about him. They think he isn't cut out to be a manager anywhere.
Ince and now Selles are 2 appointments I've been so underwhelmed by.
I just want Dayong Pang gone and I want the Dai's to bog off.
I would assess our recent managerial appointments as such:
Ince - Made sense at the time.
Pauno - Baffling
Bowen - Sort of made sense but Bowen should have realised he was needed in the boardroom more.
Gomes - Baffling
Clement - Understandable gamble.
Stam - Blinded by the name. Regardless of how it turned out, still think it was a poor choice.
I would say making a player's dad, who hadn't managed for 8 years is hilarious, but not that bad.
Making Ince permanent was a poor poor call.
Bowen was an actively good call, very experienced coach already having a positive impact internally, otherwise agree.
Don't forget with PInce that given the transfer embargo and threat of points deduction that we really might not have had much choice in terms of who we appointed. PInce came in and did enough to avoid a relegation battle, we shouldn't underplay the importance of his relationship with Tom, and did at least have some experience of the league and had shown in the past he could get results in certain situations.
I know that fans on here like to rewrite history, but our sole ambition at the start of last season was avoiding relegation, and PInce was seen by many as a not ideal, but sensible choice. Before the points deduction we were looking like we would easily do that. He handled that whole situation extremely poorly, but I not going to blame those in charge for not predicting it.
