Baggies are thinking about changing their manager again - you couldn't make it up! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26350661
"Senior players have expressed their concerns to Mel after struggling to adapt to the 50-year-old's preference for a high-tempo pressing game." That's not really surprising. It must be difficult to adapt to playing like that midway into the season. Utter madness though. I really have no idea why they sacked Steve Clarke in the first place.
Just a year ago West Brom were the model, well-run club that aimed for consistency in manager and player recruitment policy. They were an example of careful management and yo-yoing to eventually secure Prem League status. I actually still think they are an excellent example, but the manager farce has really taken the gloss off it and it looks like it may well cause them to revert to yo-yoing type (to our benefit).
Clubs might as well stop appointing managers and just appoint scape goats, so whenever they aren't performing, they just sack the scape goat and then carry on as if the problems solved!
shows it can go wrong by sacking a manager, especially if they are brought in and change playing styles. like sunderland, if wba drop, they will come back easily enough in 1 or 2 seasons
Brilliant idea! And during matches the scapegoat can stand in the technical area making wild gesticulations and generally shouting pointlessly. That way the crowd knows exactly who to blame for not motivating the players enough.
Sometimes easier said than done Max. Look at the Championship this year and where are Wigan, Reading & Blackburn?
Great news to my ears Munky - all we need now is for Cardiff to join in the trend, and we´ll be well safe
That would never happen though would it, Vincent Tan is too intelligent, circumspect and professional for such a radical reaction!
And Scape goats aren't nearly as expensive as managers so you could get as many as you like through the course of the season! Just keep firing until morale and position in the table improve!
Wba (at least twice in the last 10 yrs) and sunderland (once?) have been down and bounced back quickly, as they hav been relatively stable, so are imo more likely to come back up than a blackburn who have had issues. it's not easy
This is a perfect example of why it is a bad idea to change managers midway through the season. The new man will need time to get to know his squad's limitations and strengths, and if he wants to completely change the culture and playing style of the squad then surely he needs a prolonged period of time to do this, pre-season for example. To come in part way through the campaign and attempt to radically alter the way he wants the team to be set-up and play is a disaster waiting to happen if you ask me, be interesting to see how Magath gets on at Fulham, I just can't see that being a success at all. Sunderland did it early enough so that Poyet had plenty enough time to make his mark, and with Palace Pulis didn't try do do anything too radical other than tighten them up and make them less porous at the back. As has been said this is all good news for us and should make us even more grateful that we have a superb CEO in McNasty
It's even more ridiculous when you consider he was robbed the honour of being the first manager to beat Mourinho at Stamford Bridge by an absolutely ridiculous refereeing decision in the dying seconds. He thoroughly deserved the win that day, and then within a fortnight he was sacked. Bonkers and I hope they go down. It made me wonder if there was more too it than just footballing reasons, as is quite often the case with such things that we never really find out about.
When you see things like this going on it makes you think that we must benefit from having a degree of stability within the club.How do they expect their team to perform with that kind of disruption ?
Up until last year they had a brilliant sporting director, Dan Ashworth, who was then "poached" by the FA. If he had still been in place I don't think any of this would have happened.
