I generally give Speakman the benefit of the doubt because we don't know what goes on behind closed doors and imo we've improved massively during his tenure, but yeah if this drags on and on it'll be on him. No reason we couldn't be doing preliminary interviews tomorrow and make a decision in days. Assuming we already pretty much know who we want.
I'm happy for him to take 2 or 3 weeks to get the best replacement long term. Our aim is to get mid table/ top half football. by rushing into a decision like we were with Roy could be disastrous for the club.
Hates technology so gets his younger partner to do all that side of things for him, starts off not really lining or trusting his partner who has been fast tracked because her education and family connection (her uncles is the chief of police!) But he realises she has his back when she doesn't grass him in for being heavy handed with a witness because it got results and she only cares about putting killers behind bars and turn out she has a knack for it. Just needs a bit of guidance!
AS long as we get the right appointment. Would rather take the extra time to get the right appointment than rush it and get the wrong one
Yes mate, I do, genuinely. Maybe not next week, but I do believe the next coach will be better. Time will tell of course. Alex Neil did brilliant, but he was on the scrapheap when we got him. He has gone to Stoke, not Everton or Leicester. His reputation and ability is at a certain level only. He is not top rank, but is riding a wave now and Stoke seems to be where he believes his level is. Says a bit about him I think. I believe, 100%, coaches will be lining up to take this job at our club. We are regarded in the highest regard we have been in years.
He has a great plan A. His plan B is to keep trying to make plan A work. I'm not convinced with Bielsa. I think he'd want far more involvement than we'd want him to have.
The club structure has been deliberately designed so that losing the Head Coach isn't such a big deal as losing the Manager. The Head Coach has to fit into the club's structure, not construct it around him. Therefore, losing Alex Neil isn't that big a deal. If he is unwilling to fit into the structure then it's right that he should go. It is, after all, that structure which has turned the club around and got us back into the Championship. The next man will have to fit into the structure and, if he doesn't, he'll go too, but the club will keep on the same path. I have complete faith that this approach will, eventually, get us back into the Premier League.
Not what you'd expect, well it is at the bottom but not the top. I liked Jack Ross but I could have sworn most of his results were low scoring draws. Probably just ended that way. Pretty much definitive proof that Reid was our best manager, that win % over so many games is impressive.
Only problem is he doesn't seem to be able to employ the right manager and when he does he pisses him off within months and he ****s off to a team at the bottom of the table. Quick question how many managers have we had since speakman arrived and at the moment we are managerless, not much point recruiting the right players if you have no one to lead them
It’s obviously all on the players really. Our transfer policy is one of the reasons (apparently) Neil has left. As he had no hand, I’m hopeful that the lads still sign. But signing a player without a head coach in charge is very tough. Would you leave your current role if the “manager” (loose term I know) you were about to start a new job with left his post?
