Agree with Josh on that one - He looked out of his depth this season at times - I wouldn't call him a failure though - He got us promoted from the depths of League 1... Lets give him a little credit.
From Leeds' point of view this was the right appointment. Personally I think February is the wrong time to sack someone (do it in November or at the end of the season), but once that decision was made, Warnock was the right replacement. From Warnock's point of view, having been poorly treated by his last three clubs he has now signed for Ken Bates. Good luck with that Col.
I totally disagree for one. If Grayson had been given the funds to bring in someone decent at the start of the season and the funds to offer decent wages to first choice targets and to keep Gradel we would be in the top 4. If he had still been in charge today and he had been given the funds to sign the CB and CM he was after during the transfer window we would also be at least 4 points better off probably 6. I do hope Warnock will get more out of the players, I hope he will manage to shape the team into a promotion winning team but I am not expecting him to perform a miracle. He will need some financial backing one way or another from Bates and we know Bates never did that for Grayson. Bates has actually done the first thing right in 18 months and that is appointing Warnock.
Bates you love him or hate him - but he defiantly has made the right decision regards Neil Warnock. If any manager can get you out of this league it will be him. I reckon this will be his last job in football to get Leeds back to the premiership. As said as long as your board backs him,you have the man for the job.
I didn't say Grayson was a failure, I stated that he had failed to get what was the expectation of the board at both teams. Blackpool and Leeds wanted promotion to the EPL or to be in the play offs at the end of the season, and Grayson did not achieve that. There may be an argument about why he failed to achieve this and I'm sympathetic to these arguments, however facts are facts and he did not achieve what the expectation of the club was.
Blackpool didn't want promotion, Blackpool wanted to stay in the league, which they did. We wanted promotion but realistically the funds Larry received weren't anywhere near enough to expect to be that high up the table.
Warnock's not going to perform a miracle and I reckon he'll end up walking out after arguing with bates over funding.
I mentioned in another post the exact same horrible feeling... Bates can promise backing to Warnock now and there will be no way of telling until the end of the season comes if Bates will deliver any kind of financial backing. He hasn't given Grayson the funds so will it be different with Warnock? I just hope Bates hasn't made a promise that he will fail to deliver and we find ourselves managerless come the start of next season.
I guarantee he's made a promise that he'll fail to deliver, it's his speciality. He'll have promised Warnock funding just like he promised to buy back Elland Road and promised to buy back Thorpe Arch and promised us Gradel and Howson were going nowhere and 1000 other promises that he's failed to deliver then threw excuses at us and said "it's not my fault, blame him"
