Next Manager Speculation and wishful thinking thread

[Brend'Watkins]

my mate just Whatsapped me and said bring him home......he was talking about Olof Mellberg

I'm not sure if Andy was taking the piss as he usually thinks weirdly 

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The Doc

If it’s Olaf or Gerrard I’d want Olaf even though it’s too soon for him.

[brontebilly]

Pretty sure O'Neill, for all his faults, isn't a Loyalist. If he wants to think of himself as British or Irish then he can. Suspect he would prefer the latter.

Loyal to himself

Definitely more of a mé feiner than a sinn feiner.

MONs record in Scotland was a lot more superior to Gerrard's too.

[cannock villa]

Are we as fans too scared of what happened with the bad appointments of managers since O Neil upto Deano to see this rationally.
We know we have the players to be in a better position than we are. Gerrard is having a bad press on this thread but maybe he will bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm. He may not, but there is no guarantee any appointment.

[paul_e]

Is Scouse actually nice? I'm not sure I've ever met someone who has eaten it.

There's a crude sex joke here for the taking if anyone wants to lower the tone.

[Drummond]

my mate just Whatsapped me and said bring him home......he was talking about Olof Mellberg

I'm not sure if Andy was taking the piss as he usually thinks weirdly 

UTV
The Doc

If it’s Olaf or Gerrard I’d want Olaf even though it’s too soon for him.

Olof!

Olaf is some living snowman character in Frozen. Trust me, I know.

[paul_e]

Are we as fans too scared of what happened with the bad appointments of managers since O Neil upto Deano to see this rationally.
We know we have the players to be in a better position than we are. Gerrard is having a bad press on this thread but maybe he will bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm. He may not, but there is no guarantee any appointment.

Again this is true but part of getting things right is to judge them.

It's a gamble and, like any gamble, people who study and understand the game/sport and make decisions based statistics and experience win much more often than the people who pick a horse in the grand national because they like the name. The vast majority of people putting Gerrard forward are doing the latter.

[Risso]

Is Scouse actually nice? I'm not sure I've ever met someone who has eaten it.

Yep, it's just a stew like Lancashire Hotpot. Nice and filling on a cold evening.

[Brend'Watkins]

Are we as fans too scared of what happened with the bad appointments of managers since O Neil upto Deano to see this rationally.
We know we have the players to be in a better position than we are. Gerrard is having a bad press on this thread but maybe he will bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm. He may not, but there is no guarantee any appointment.

Again this is true but part of getting things right is to judge them.

It's a gamble and, like any gamble, people who study and understand the game/sport and make decisions based statistics and experience win much more often than the people who pick a horse in the grand national because they like the name. The vast majority of people putting Gerrard forward are doing the latter.

It’s a gamble not sacking Dean, a gamble keeping him and a gamble whoever replaces him. The timing I think they’ve got right as far too often we have tended to hang in there.

[Sexual Ealing]

Is Scouse actually nice? I'm not sure I've ever met someone who has eaten it.

Yep, it's just a stew like Lancashire Hotpot. Nice and filling on a cold evening.

I've always assumed (based on nothing) that it's sausage-based. Is it sausage based?

Another lowbrow joke has become available, but it's a genuine question!

[Beard82]

I can honestly say, that if true, this is up there with TSM2 for me.

This feels like the very moment we realize that this whole period in our history is yet another false dawn.

If you look at all the good things this club has done over the past 3 years, the last 6 months will have undone a lot of them.  It will have also undone a lot of the trust people have in CP and JL

I see this stalling our progress further.  I really hope I'm wrong, but this is hugely disappointing from our club, who I finally thought knew better.

I hope we hold Steven to the same standards that we are led to believe, and if we don't finish top half he gets the boot. 

[Risso]

The club is very obviously moving away from the old football manager way of doing things, which is why Smith was called "Head Coach" and why they've brought in the new fangled ideas people like Danks and MacPhee. My guess is that they think that somebody younger like Gerrard will be more receptive to that way of working.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Purslow bringing in Gerrard would be like when Doug appointed DOL because they'd met previously at the airport.

[Sexual Ealing]

The club is very obviously moving away from the old football manager way of doing things, which is why Smith was called "Head Coach" and why they've brought in the new fangled ideas people like Danks and MacPhee. My guess is that they think that somebody younger like Gerrard will be more receptive to that way of working.

His only experience is as an old-school, controls everything manager at Sevco though?

[Brazilian Villain]

I'm still going to check inbound flights, restaurant reservations and estate agents in Sutton Coldfield though.

Forget the Sutton estate agents, Slippy G has his family based in Liverpool.

I'm sure Chris Sutton estate agents would happily move him to Brum.

[AV82EC]

Purslow bringing in Gerrard would be like when Doug appointed DOL because they'd met previously at the airport.

This does have a whiff of the Ellisian about it.