It's a low bar but yes, beggars can't be choosers...
Tonda Eckert named new Head Coach
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I posted this on the Will Still thread:
Whoever is appointed, I personally will back them as I always do, and I will back them longer than most as I always do.....having said that FFS SR please appoint someone with experience playing/managing/both in the top 2 divisions of English Football. Someone who will get instant respect, not yet another experiment.
Someone like Carrick or Gerrard are available and would fit the brief, experienced and won it all as players, with some management experience, also available now.
Whoever comes in, I would be more than happy to see them shun any bad eggs, anybody not willing to work for this great club and these great fans, can get sold in January.
Recall any loan players that are interested and bring them back into the fold, also promote from U21s as I'm sure those guys would play their hearts out. Also surely there is a unregistered Striker we can sign now???
Whoever is appointed, I personally will back them as I always do, and I will back them longer than most as I always do.....having said that FFS SR please appoint someone with experience playing/managing/both in the top 2 divisions of English Football. Someone who will get instant respect, not yet another experiment.
Someone like Carrick or Gerrard are available and would fit the brief, experienced and won it all as players, with some management experience, also available now.
Whoever comes in, I would be more than happy to see them shun any bad eggs, anybody not willing to work for this great club and these great fans, can get sold in January.
Recall any loan players that are interested and bring them back into the fold, also promote from U21s as I'm sure those guys would play their hearts out. Also surely there is a unregistered Striker we can sign now???
There's nothing to celebrate here as per usual. Will Still was not a **** manager, he didnt do a bad job. If the players on the pitch had converted half the chances they created into goals, all this manager merry go round number 6 would have been unnecessary. So, for me it makes bugger all difference who they appoint until the goal scorers start scoring goals again.
He was sacked back in June.
The things that worry me about Carrick. He's another young, pretty new to management kind of hire. He's only managed Boro (and caretacker at Man Utd for a couple of games), so just doesn't have the experience. He comes across to me as another quiet, softly spoken type. Boro seem to have improved since he's gone (albeit it's too early to judge that really). With the lack of experience he'll never have come in to a basket case club like ours and hasn't managed a club where the expectation is that we will dominate teams, win most games and get promoted. Is he a big enough character to be able to do that?
The things that I like about him: he has some Championship experience. He has worked with, and got the best out of Archer and Azaz in the past. He is a 'name' to our bunch of ego's so hopefully they will respect him from the off. He has obviously worked as a player and a coach at a big club that is expected to win all the time and has experienced playing for great managers.
I've not really paid close attention to his management so far, so don't know the style of play or formation that he favours or anything like that. He does have some of the things we are looking for in a new manager and there isn't a huge amount out there but it's not like I really want Carrick, I'd just far rather Carrick then promoting the U21 lad if that is the bar we are set by SR.
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Of course, it went so well the last time we saw an unemployed manager on TV and decided to hire him!
I think I said this elsewhere: how much have SR paid out in compensation, yet they won’t fork out on a striker.
If SR listen to senior players at the club and bring back RM, I’m done with giving them my money.
Senior players should concentrate on winning bloody football games rather than talk up a manager who oversaw one of the worst football teams ever to play in the premier league.
Actually if I were SR, I’d be looking at getting rid of those SENIOR players over the next couple of transfer windows.
Senior players should concentrate on winning bloody football games rather than talk up a manager who oversaw one of the worst football teams ever to play in the premier league.
Actually if I were SR, I’d be looking at getting rid of those SENIOR players over the next couple of transfer windows.
Been a bit of a failure everywhere he’s managed.
No experience of Championship.
Our fans would obsess over his penis.
Still does not speak well
Lots of people were impressed by him on Monday night football if I remember rightly.
There are a couple of red flags:
He’s wedded to a possession style in a similar way Martin was.
Boro fans bemoaned his lack of flexibility and said he has his favourites, also like Martin.
However, there are a lot of positives too. I think it would be a smarter choice than Still or the u21 manager.
The fact he got goals out of Archer and Azaz is a massive positive.
Lot of Boro fans at my WF group. When we had Martin, it was a constant competition to see who had the most deluded manager. Same philosophy, same stubbornness, same lack of world class players to make it work. Sounds like a shoe in for Saints.
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Yeah, I don't think in an ideal world he's anybody's first choice, but I fear there'll be questions over whoever we appoint. (Unless it's Marco Rose).