Who Could Be the Next Manager

Have a day off mate. Everyone knows you're hard for Mousinho. Your love of pompey this year is ****ing boring.

 

As much as I think Ian posts some far fetched tripe at times, this is probably the most least offending post he’s written in a while….

 

He’ll wait for Leeds opportunity.

 

I'm sure most of these managers follow the money. Win or lose their bank balance gets bigger

 

I'm afraid that the concept of anyone apart from the fans actually caring about 'their' club no longer exists. Players and managers are employees, who get (usually very well) paid to perform. One can have rose-tinted nostalgia about players playing for their boyhood club, and/or managers managing their local team, but it all comes down to money. Owners of clubs, at least at our level,are more often than not overseas interests, who employ foreign people to entice overseas managers, who then use their overseas links to purchase overseas players. Add to that the player agents who expect, and usually receive, wildly inflated fees for English players, and we end up with the only 'local' thing about any club being the fans themselves. Even that is being eroded, as shown by the multinational TV deals, enabling viewers (aka fans) in other countries to watch football. Once the AI-generated crowd, with accompanying noises, are added to the soundtrack, football matches could take place anywhere in the world, but us fans will still consider that we have a club and team to support.

Still, we won, so we're heading for the promised land of the Premier League, where real people stand and watch real players who are picked by real managers, and paid by real owners. Bring back scarves, football rattles and unnecessarily hot cups of Bovril, that's what I say!

 

Am very much in the no need to rush camp.

Eckert thrust into a difficult situation to steady our **** season and he has come through it with credit.

Whoever we appoint, I hope he sticks around with the under 21s or another capacity as I think he is an asset to the club.

What he has done in a week, he has been a Knight in shinning armour.

In fact back in 1999, Blur sang about him.
Tonda is the knight.

COYR

 

reading their forum Robins seems the popular choice who they think they can get. Not sure why they think they could get him given the league positions, as when he was talked about on here everyone thought we would have no chance.

 

Their ex player maybe?

 

Possibly. Apparently he was someone they looked at before hiring Manning, they also turned Will Still down for the job. Not many seem keen on Martin

 

They took the bristol city manager when they were much higher in the table so maybe they think it would happen again.

They are deluded though. Robins wouldnt leave for anyone in this division.

 

How could you possibly know that?

 

Me too .

International break coming up , give him 4 games after that . Then have a think .

if we lose all 4 games , get someone else in .

if we win 2 draw or lose the other 2 , that’s 4 wins out of 6 .

Would we want to change ?

I know the above is simplistic , I’ve not even looked at who we are playing next ,

It’s probably a useless post anyway , as part of me thinks that they perhaps didn’t think we would win the next 2 games after sacking WS .

They probably have someone already lined up .

 

I tend to agree with your thinking. Don't rush, give him a few games and see where we are going into December. He got back to back wins with our team, maybe he has a little something

 

It's an opinion.

 

Fair. Apologies, didn't intend for that to come across so confrontational.

I think he potentially would, depends on who's asking and how confident he is of leading Stoke to a top 6 place.

 

No worries.

He left Cov once before and it didnt work out, so was very loyal during his 2nd spell. He then came close to PL promotion a couple of times but never quite made it, so i dont think he would throw away such a good opportunity to finally become a PL manager.

I doubt he relocated when moving from coventry to stoke either so i cant seem him risking it unless it was a huge step up.

 

O’Neil no longer odds on and is out to 7/4

Tonda now the favourite and is odds on at 4/7. Logical money would’ve gone on him after back to back wins (regardless of opposition and performance)

 

If the fans were chanting how much they didn't want O'Neil as manager, would O'Neil want come and be dead in the water before he arrived. I doubt it.

The only concern I would have of Tonda being our new manager is whether the players work rate would drop to how it was the moment he was given the job.

 

I'd be shocked if they appointed O'Neill after yesterday tbh.

I still think it might be Tonda, similar to you I worry about what would happen once we hit a bad patch.

 

I hope it’s not Tonda. He doesn’t fill me with optimism.