Dr T has pulled the trigger

[exiled on the wirral!]

3 weeks ago Di Matteo was in a Ford Mondeo after being picked up by Dr Tony...now he should be sacked. It's a good job we are not fickle. Embarrassing from some people on here.

[exiled on the wirral!]

Just waiting for Pulis to be mentioned now.

[eamonn]

Out of interest, can anyone give me an example in the modern era of a club being unable to hire a manager, despite offering lots of money and so on, because the owner isn't trusted not to sack them? I mean, people like Cellino and the madman at Palermo have been known to sack the same manager twice in one season and people still go and work for them.

Quite right, it's football and it's bonkers and the money talks, nearly every time.

Plus most managers would have a big enough ego to think that with a budget of £50m for players he could get a team motoring in no time.
 Just get Rowett in, he'll probably not even claim severance pay if sacked, just ask for a season ticket for life.

[Clampy]

I'm sure there'd be a line of suitable managers a mile long who'd want to work for an owner that let their predecessor spend £50 million then sacked him three weeks after the window closed.

As long as the job came with the usual two or three year contract, of course there would be.

So we keep paying them out every time it dosen't go right after 8 games?

You're ignoring the cost of persisting with failing managers, which is far in excess of the cost of paying off a contract in most circumstances.

I didn't realise 8 games in was a faliure.

[brian green]

I can live with ground out victories laying the foundations for a top manager when we get back to the top flight.  As Graham Taylor said when you are going backwards you have to stand still before you can go forwards.  I believe we are going backwards.

[brontebilly]

Has Steve Bruce become this seasons David Moyes

Bruce's selling point is his ability to get teams promoted but RDM has two promotions on his CV.

Clarke would be the obvious choice. Not sure why RDM is making such a mess of it but it really is not working at all.

[Villa in Denmark]

Has Steve Bruce become this seasons David Moyes

Apparently so.  How low have ......

[wittonwarrior]

3 weeks ago Di Matteo was in a Ford Mondeo after being picked up by Dr Tony...now he should be sacked. It's a good job we are not fickle. Embarrassing from some people on here.

How true.

[Clampy]

I can live with ground out victories laying the foundations for a top manager when we get back to the top flight.  As Graham Taylor said when you are going backwards you have to stand still before you can go forwards.  I believe we are going backwards.

We are roughly on the same amount of points this time in 1987 when he took over.

[wittonwarrior]

First away I have missed today, but from what I have seen so far home and away we are moving  forward, the results will come.  New team needs gelling.  Can't happen overnight.  RDM is our man.

[Dave Wall]

I can live with ground out victories laying the foundations for a top manager when we get back to the top flight.  As Graham Taylor said when you are going backwards you have to stand still before you can go forwards.  I believe we are going backwards.

We are not loosing week after week any more could be said we are standing still.

[four fornicholl]

I can live with ground out victories laying the foundations for a top manager when we get back to the top flight.  As Graham Taylor said when you are going backwards you have to stand still before you can go forwards.  I believe we are going backwards.

We are not loosing week after week any more could be said we are standing still.

So we have now found our level. League 1 next season we would then start winning?
Whats happening is far from acceptable up to now.

[brian green]

We are playing no better against inferior opposition.  I think that is regression.  And yes, Graham Taylor did work wonders with us but I have seen nothing this season from RDM to put him in the same class as GT. Joe Mercer did a similarly herculean job.  To be absolutely truthful I am past caring what happens next.

[Risso]

I'm sure there'd be a line of suitable managers a mile long who'd want to work for an owner that let their predecessor spend £50 million then sacked him three weeks after the window closed.

As long as the job came with the usual two or three year contract, of course there would be.

So we keep paying them out every time it dosen't go right after 8 games?

You're ignoring the cost of persisting with failing managers, which is far in excess of the cost of paying off a contract in most circumstances.

I didn't realise 8 games in was a faliure.

It is, unless you think where we are is acceptable. 

[Matt Collins]

We are playing no better against inferior opposition.  I think that is regression.  And yes, Graham Taylor did work wonders with us but I have seen nothing this season from RDM to put him in the same class as GT. Joe Mercer did a similarly herculean job.  To be absolutely truthful I am past caring what happens next.

Except we obviously are. Give me the equivalent of the forest performance, or Rotherham, or Derby, from last season.