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Offline hilts_coolerking

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #270 on: July 11, 2020, 05:20:03 PM »
Maybe wait til there's an actual vacancy before we have a poll? 

Sure but that’s like saying we shouldn’t be having a next manager thread without a vacancy. And if you want Dean Smith can be on it.
I see that and the speculation is fine but actually having a list of potentials?  I'm no Smith fan but it just seems a bit too premature, a bit disrespectful.  It's a long shot, and I'm 99% sure it won't happen, but it is still possible he might keep us up.

Online paul_e

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #271 on: July 11, 2020, 05:24:31 PM »
Poch and Nuno? What planet some of you on. 
Cocu has failed to get Derby into the play offs, Howe’s stock has plummeted.

There aren’t many possibles to be honest. Dyche is the first manager this season to take points at Anfield and he’s gettable imo. Other than that I’m scratching my head

I think Cocu and Howe are a better fit than Dyche who I don't think is in the mould of what the owners are after.

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #272 on: July 11, 2020, 05:24:32 PM »
Has an incumbent premiership manager ever dumped their club to take up a job in the championship? Ever?

Probably not, but as we are the only club of our size ever to play in the Championship then there aren't many similar circumstances to compare. The last truly big club to play in the second tier before 2016 was us, again, in 1988 and we persuaded Graham Taylor to drop a division.

What about Newcastle?

What about them? Those no-marks are nowhere near our size. Even they, though, managed to attract Benitez when it already looked extremely likely that he'd have to manage in the Championship. Leeds, another club with delusions of grandeur, attracted Bielsa after seventy years or so outside the top flight.

It would be a shock to precisely noone if a club of our stature were able to entice someone from a club like Burnley, even if they are in a higher division.

And, in answer to the initial question, Hearts just took Dundee United's manager, persuading him to drop a division, the other day. And Dundee United are a much bigger deal in Scottish football than Burnley are in England.

Offline mcgrath_85

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #273 on: July 11, 2020, 05:24:59 PM »
Maybe wait til there's an actual vacancy before we have a poll? 

Sure but that’s like saying we shouldn’t be having a next manager thread without a vacancy. And if you want Dean Smith can be on it.
I see that and the speculation is fine but actually having a list of potentials?  I'm no Smith fan but it just seems a bit too premature, a bit disrespectful.  It's a long shot, and I'm 99% sure it won't happen, but it is still possible he might keep us up.

The writings been on the wall since December. He’s been fortunate that a jammy cup run and (hopefully) a once in a lifetime pandemic saved his job respectively.
I personally think the way he and his coaching staff have handled this season is disrespectful to the club and fans, so sod poor Deans feelings. He’s fucked up good and proper. Nice bloke, shite manager.

Offline IFWaters

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #274 on: July 11, 2020, 06:03:55 PM »
Niko Kovac

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #275 on: July 11, 2020, 06:06:56 PM »
Stevie G

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #276 on: July 11, 2020, 06:07:09 PM »
Maybe wait til there's an actual vacancy before we have a poll? 

Sure but that’s like saying we shouldn’t be having a next manager thread without a vacancy. And if you want Dean Smith can be on it.
I see that and the speculation is fine but actually having a list of potentials?  I'm no Smith fan but it just seems a bit too premature, a bit disrespectful.  It's a long shot, and I'm 99% sure it won't happen, but it is still possible he might keep us up.

Fair enough Hilts. Sadly I think it’s all now a matter of time.

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #277 on: July 11, 2020, 06:07:44 PM »
Stevie G

Fuck no. He's nearly as much of a twat as Terry.

Online dicedlam

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #278 on: July 11, 2020, 06:08:07 PM »
I think from the very beginning the job was too big for Smith. Both he and O'Kelly didn't have the pedigree or the cred to start with, hence why JT was offered a role on the coaching staff.

What we need is a ruthless bastard, with a reputation of not taking any shit from primadonnas and demands from his players the very minimum of 100%.

We also need to rid those who think WE are privileged to have them at our club, along with the leaches that have only ever taken the money and made no impact whatsoever.

Dyche would be a good fit I think, so would Benitez, but if you really wanted to go left field I would have a crack at Gattuso.

Online Sexual Ealing

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #279 on: July 11, 2020, 06:10:44 PM »
Gattuso is mental. I approve.

Offline TonyD

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #280 on: July 11, 2020, 06:10:50 PM »
Quite a few interesting options being put forward.   This is hope.

Offline Richard E

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #281 on: July 11, 2020, 06:11:23 PM »
Cherie Lunghi. Good pedigree as a football manager.

Offline Rudy65

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #282 on: July 11, 2020, 06:11:30 PM »

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #283 on: July 11, 2020, 06:13:01 PM »
Appointing Steven fucking Gerrard after having given John fucking Terry a job would just confirm that Villa are trolling me.

Offline Richard E

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Re: Next manager
« Reply #284 on: July 11, 2020, 06:13:43 PM »
Appointing Steven fucking Gerrard after having given John fucking Terry a job would just confirm that Villa are trolling me.

Yeah, why don’t we go the whole bloody hog and appoint Bono as CEO?

 


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