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Offline DB

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1080 on: October 20, 2022, 12:17:36 PM »
We have got worse since he left. But no thanks to him coming back for SG

Offline villabear

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1081 on: October 20, 2022, 12:21:35 PM »
I wasn't being serious as I agree it wasn't much better when he was here. It was more the fact another manager has turned them down.

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1082 on: October 20, 2022, 12:22:04 PM »
I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest. He didn't ever come across as a nice guy as a player, and the whole 'Look me in the eye' nonsense was pathetic. And he'll get paid £15m for being shite if/when we sack him.

Quite.

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1083 on: October 20, 2022, 12:27:59 PM »
Frank = owners now aiming for also ran / don’t get relegated.  Rogers = can’t get anybody better because our transfer budget isn’t tempting enough. 
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Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1084 on: October 20, 2022, 12:29:15 PM »
Frank is just very annoying.

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1085 on: October 20, 2022, 12:34:04 PM »
Frank = owners now aiming for also ran / don’t get relegated.  Rogers = can’t get anybody better because our transfer budget isn’t tempting enough. 
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Agree.  Strong "no" to Rodgers - stinks of a completely lack of ambition or will to compete in this division, at least above mid-table level.

Frank - less against, but it'd feel really rather underwhelming to go from talk about Poch or Emery and end up with Brentford's manager again!  Absolutely no offence meant towards Brentford there, it'd just feel like we were randomly picking off their players and managers until it worked out.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1086 on: October 20, 2022, 12:41:40 PM »
Frank is just very annoying.

The hair, the humour or the accent?

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1087 on: October 20, 2022, 12:47:42 PM »
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Poch or Emery and end up with Brentford's manager again!  Absolutely no offence meant towards Brentford there, it'd just feel like we were randomly picking off their players and managers until it worked out.

Yes.

There would also an element of can't get Martinez, let's go for McLeish about it. Without the added B-lose nonsense, obv.

Caught an interview with Noel Mooney (current Welsh FA CEO) last weekend. He was asked about the choice of head coach for the Ireland women's team - a process he oversaw.

He said rather than getting hung up on a particular name, he asked the players and others involved about the type of manager they wanted. 

Sounds simple, but if you want Poch because of his focus on integration with academy structures, hands off approach to transfers and how his teams press from the front, you don't then go for Frank (or similar) if you can't get him.
« Last Edit: October 20, 2022, 12:49:51 PM by KevinGage »

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1088 on: October 20, 2022, 01:05:43 PM »
IF we sack Gerrard (I am starting to doubt that we will) then we need to ensure we have got our prime candidate ready and willing to take the job, we cannot afford to be without a manager for a few weeks.
We don't want to be like Wolves who are being turned down by Managers and then have to keep looking for the next one on the list!

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1089 on: October 20, 2022, 01:08:18 PM »
Frank is just very annoying.

The hair, the humour or the accent?

I just have the feeling that he would be another that the job/club would end up being too big for.

Offline Goldenballs

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1090 on: October 20, 2022, 01:23:02 PM »
If it was a choice between Rogers and Frank, then it would be Rogers every time.

I still Rogers would do a good job for us, but would much rather we go the next level up, obviously. Frank would be seriously depressing.

Offline Clark W Griswold

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1091 on: October 20, 2022, 01:31:29 PM »
Rogers would be the best appointment since O Neill but that really isn't saying a lot. Certainly would be less exciting than Poch.

Frank would be a better appointment than Gerrard but definately a dull, uninspiring one.

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1092 on: October 20, 2022, 01:35:43 PM »
Rogers would be the best appointment since O Neill but that really isn't saying a lot. Certainly would be less exciting than Poch.

Frank would be a better appointment than Gerrard but definately a dull, uninspiring one.

Frank strikes me as the modern day Lambert equivalent.

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1093 on: October 20, 2022, 01:36:02 PM »
Frank is just very annoying.

The hair, the humour or the accent?
Well I certainly dont find him funny, the accent I guess he cant help. The Hair is a very bad idea. He comes over as a bit to full of himself.

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Re: Next Manager Speculation/Hopes
« Reply #1094 on: October 20, 2022, 01:48:08 PM »
Frank is just very annoying.

The hair, the humour or the accent?
Well I certainly dont find him funny, the accent I guess he cant help. The Hair is a very bad idea. He comes over as a bit to full of himself.

The most apt description was from someone on here who said something along the lines of "he looks like a ski instructor who spends his nights at the resort shagging young Scandinavians".

 


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