Yeah surely they can just put out some kind of update statement especially after the last few results!
It is mind. Either there is a big announcement being lined up or there are big repercussions from this mess or maybe both.
probably why damned if they ,do damned if they don't.....unless they announce who the manager/coach & coaching team will be. Just got the be patient or we'll all have coronaries. I've got a ticket for Saturday and was going to take my 7yr old lad to his first game. If there is no positive announcement it will put him, and probably me, off for life. I'm partially hoping the dog eats the tickets when they arrive in the post
That's good imo. It means serious negotiations are taking place rather than a revolving door of interviewees coming and going. I was told a week past Keane had agreed to come, a personal 18 month contract agreed and a list of conditions, from both sides, to go through. The chap who tells me things isn't obliged to and I can't ask him ten times a day if there's any update. It's like the old story of the woman who asks why, in fifty years, her husband has never said that he loves her. "I told you on our wedding day, if the situation changes you'll be the first to be informed."
the worry is we go into Saturday's game with Dodd still in charge and get turned over yet again and out of play off places
Automatics are gone but we could lose the next 5 and still have a chance of the play offs. Being 7th with 14 games to go doesn't rule us out
I agree it's a worry but it would be a bigger one if we gave Keane everything he wants just to speed things up .... ... if he walks after a couple of months, because things weren't done properly, the club would cop all the blame.
Normally I'd go with playing the games, like around international breaks etc but we wouldn't have lost any ground this time as everybody else had games in hand too.
I think it is worth remembering that Roy Keane really wants to get back into management and for all were in a mess he really won't be getting many better offers in terms of club. Further to this if he is appointed given is reputation he has to make it work and cant walk out early or he won't get another management job. Can completely understand why it may be hard to reach that final agreement but let's hope we get there
I agree with that comment. However, could that not be because the other names being suggested are so uninspiring. All lower league managers with records similar to Parky's or those drawing their pension. The only other one is Lennon, who did okay at Celtic in a traditional 2-horse race, but was found out at Bolton.
I honestly don’t know enough about Lennon to judge so not defending him BUT Bolton was a mess at leadership level when he was there. I know people judge us like that now, but far far worse.
True but it would take some sort of almighty collapse for Wigan to fall away (appreciate they lost last night and their own form is poor but we are in even worse form)
Charlton was a mess when Bowyer was there, but he still got them up and Rooney is doing a reasonable job at Derby, who are in disarray off the field. I don't think we're a mess at the very top now, unlike we were with our predecessors, but this episode has highlighted just how poor a job Speakman has done in recruiting the right people for the right positions and adequate recruitment of his backroom team.
The more I think about it, Roy Keane would be mad to give up his Sky Sports/ITV gig and come here to this ****ing **** show of a club
