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Thought I would throw a thread up for people to suggest upcoming coaches we should be monitoring. Not that I am in any rush to see Mowbray gone, but some seem to be willing to try someone else. Who then would you nominate and why? The why bit is important.

Plenty of young ex players starting their coaching journeys. Fabregas, Yaya, Van Persie. Loads of others finished recently who have done the badges. Just throwing these names as the suggestion is we are going european.
Bored of all the negativity.
What did people think of the suggestions in the original post on this thread?

Cesc- currently assistant at Como. Won 3, drew 1, lost 1 in a five game spell as caretaker. They're currently 4th in Serie B.

van Persie- currently combining first team coaching with being co-head coach of u18/19s at Feyenoord. His first coaching job was under Dick Advocaat. Feyenoord are currently 2nd in the Eredivisie.

Yaya Toure- has had coaching jobs at Olimpik Donetsk, Akhmat Grozny, Standard Liege and with the Saudi national team. Also had a spell as an academy coach at Spurs.

What about these ones

Kenwyne Jones- currently Head Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago women's team.

Henning Berg- has managed Lyn, Lillestrøm, Blackburn, Legia Warsaw, Videoton, Stabæk, Omonia Nicosia, Pafos, and is currently manager of AIK. Overall win percentage of 45.97

Sylvinho- has managed Lyon, Corinthians Paulista, and is currently manager of Albania.

Some of them don't have impressive management CVs but are big names in the game.

None of them are likely to be our next Head Coach but discussing their merits is more interesting than constant squabbling about things that no one knows did or might happen.
 
The negativity! People need to man up, they this is only KLD 3rd full season in charge, 1st season promotion, 2nd season of playoffs, and 3rd looks like like a mid table finish. You would think we were Reading the way some are going on

Watching us struggling in the premier League then short pulling out.
Falling through the leagues with the threat of bankruptcy and oblivion was gut wrenching.

SD, CM and JS were a glimmer of hope as we bottomed out thankfully in league 1 and not lower but it turned sour.
During those dark days, if someone said there's a young billionaire with foreign football connections going to take the reigns, get us promoted back to the championship and finish in the playoffs the first season, but may struggle to reach them the next due to changes in coaching staff,

Who the fùck wouldn't of ripped their arm off ???

As for the black cats bar, I'm more concerned with the recent run of form and hope (i can't stand it) for a decent coach to come in.

If anyone is bothered about black and white shìte around the ground, go and get the Davey lamp opened up and pull the shìte out of that fooker :emoticon-0148-yes:
While you're there, there's a statue of a bloke, arms outstretched wearing a trilby. :rolleyes:
 
I can't see anyone that's behaved like they're spoilt. There's an argument that Speakman might be a bit too arrogant.

I'm just struggling to understand the hate for KLD. It's like and night and day compared to Donald and Methven. Granted, not everything has been perfect but its a lot better than it was. People want KLD gone? Do they not think about the alternatives? There's a very real danger we could end up with someone like the blokes at Reading and Wednesday.
Is there really a hatred for KLD ? I am not seeing or hearing any hate towards him apart from on here and other social media sites, by and large I think people are pretty happy with his ownership "so far " The crowds we are getting are the hardcore support and I think the slight dwindling of the crowd recently is mainly down to the recent recruitment, it has been poor but thats on KS. I am fairly sure that will be dealt with in the summer as its proven that poor coaching / management with the 1st team has resulted in swift decisions as we seen with TM & MB. In the eyes of the ownership Mowbray & Beale failed so were sacked, surely that rule of thumb will be used when the dust settles at the end of the season and a review of recruitment is taken. KLD has put money in for recruitment its how its been spent thats the problem, there are 9 of us each match day, all season ticket holders and only 4 of us went on Saturday and that was mainly down to not enjoying whats been served up recently, me personally I cant see the point in paying for a season ticket and not going to the match and I told the lads that on Saturday but thats their choice.
I think we will see big changes this summer and I do think KS will be shown the door, if anything the ownership are proven to be calm and collective but the recent poor decisions appear to have been made by KS and for that alone I think he has to go. KLD is a breath of fresh air for me but does he really want the agro is probably the question he is asking himself at the moment.
 
Is there really a hatred for KLD ? I am not seeing or hearing any hate towards him apart from on here and other social media sites, by and large I think people are pretty happy with his ownership "so far " The crowds we are getting are the hardcore support and I think the slight dwindling of the crowd recently is mainly down to the recent recruitment, it has been poor but thats on KS. I am fairly sure that will be dealt with in the summer as its proven that poor coaching / management with the 1st team has resulted in swift decisions as we seen with TM & MB. In the eyes of the ownership Mowbray & Beale failed so were sacked, surely that rule of thumb will be used when the dust settles at the end of the season and a review of recruitment is taken. KLD has put money in for recruitment its how its been spent thats the problem, there are 9 of us each match day, all season ticket holders and only 4 of us went on Saturday and that was mainly down to not enjoying whats been served up recently, me personally I cant see the point in paying for a season ticket and not going to the match and I told the lads that on Saturday but thats their choice.
I think we will see big changes this summer and I do think KS will be shown the door, if anything the ownership are proven to be calm and collective but the recent poor decisions appear to have been made by KS and for that alone I think he has to go. KLD is a breath of fresh air for me but does he really want the agro is probably the question he is asking himself at the moment.
I agree with all of this marra. Big summer rebuild ahead
 
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Is there really a hatred for KLD ? I am not seeing or hearing any hate towards him apart from on here and other social media sites, by and large I think people are pretty happy with his ownership "so far " The crowds we are getting are the hardcore support and I think the slight dwindling of the crowd recently is mainly down to the recent recruitment, it has been poor but thats on KS. I am fairly sure that will be dealt with in the summer as its proven that poor coaching / management with the 1st team has resulted in swift decisions as we seen with TM & MB. In the eyes of the ownership Mowbray & Beale failed so were sacked, surely that rule of thumb will be used when the dust settles at the end of the season and a review of recruitment is taken. KLD has put money in for recruitment its how its been spent thats the problem, there are 9 of us each match day, all season ticket holders and only 4 of us went on Saturday and that was mainly down to not enjoying whats been served up recently, me personally I cant see the point in paying for a season ticket and not going to the match and I told the lads that on Saturday but thats their choice.
I think we will see big changes this summer and I do think KS will be shown the door, if anything the ownership are proven to be calm and collective but the recent poor decisions appear to have been made by KS and for that alone I think he has to go. KLD is a breath of fresh air for me but does he really want the agro is probably the question he is asking himself at the moment.
There's anecdotal evidence posted on here that people have stopped going because of KLD. The few people that I'm still in touch with that have season tickets don't seem to have any problem with him though. There seems to be plenty of hate for him on here and in the fanzines. Like I say, I don't get it.
 
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Bored of all the negativity.
What did people think of the suggestions in the original post on this thread?

Cesc- currently assistant at Como. Won 3, drew 1, lost 1 in a five game spell as caretaker. They're currently 4th in Serie B.

van Persie- currently combining first team coaching with being co-head coach of u18/19s at Feyenoord. His first coaching job was under Dick Advocaat. Feyenoord are currently 2nd in the Eredivisie.

Yaya Toure- has had coaching jobs at Olimpik Donetsk, Akhmat Grozny, Standard Liege and with the Saudi national team. Also had a spell as an academy coach at Spurs.

What about these ones

Kenwyne Jones- currently Head Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago women's team.

Henning Berg- has managed Lyn, Lillestrøm, Blackburn, Legia Warsaw, Videoton, Stabæk, Omonia Nicosia, Pafos, and is currently manager of AIK. Overall win percentage of 45.97

Sylvinho- has managed Lyon, Corinthians Paulista, and is currently manager of Albania.

Some of them don't have impressive management CVs but are big names in the game.

None of them are likely to be our next Head Coach but discussing their merits is more interesting than constant squabbling about things that no one knows did or might happen.
I still like Cesc but not for us now. I think we need someone more seasoned. Same alplies to Van Persie.

Berg is a really interesting shout mate.
 
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Couldn't careless that they were in there, they had that stand so safc fans weren't going to use it

There'll be Mags in the bars again, and over the ground, for the Bruce Springsteen concert.

Keeping the BCB closed would've deprived people of a shift at work I've no doubt they'd appreciate.

Calling people scum, vermin, etc, isn't a good look imo.
 
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I still like Cesc but not for us now. I think we need someone more seasoned. Same alplies to Van Persie.

Berg is a really interesting shout mate.
I think he's the only realistic one out of the three I added to your list. I was trying to think of people that would make interesting talking points.

At Omonia, he got them very tight in defence and relied heavily on local players coming through, which is unusual in the Cypriot league. Swedish season starts at the end of the month so he'll have done a full pre-season with AIK which might make it difficult to get him.
 
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