Something's fishy and, after seeing the team, I would say something stinks! I commented without thinking too deeply!
I cant imagine a single reason why we should doubt what were told by the club... Think this is genuine, best wishes to Neil either way.
Hall even sent his best wishes while being interviewed. I cannot believe people look into something else.
I may be wrong (it happens) but I thought that clubs that employ a Director of Football usually appoint a First-team Coach, rather than a manager, as a consequence. It is then the DoF's responsibly to address the shortcoming within the playing staff in terms of identifying transfer targets and dealing with contracts and departures, leaving the Coach to focus almost solely on preparing the side for matches, i.e. training, team selection, tactics and running the team from the dugout. And therein lies the problem. How many names currently in the frame are solely coaches as opposed to managers? As others have said previously, why would anybody with anything approaching the skillset we desperately require to sort out this ragtag bunch want to come here only for Les Ferdinand to be hanging about like Banquo's ghost telling 'em who they need to buy, who should be sold and who should be the first name on the team sheet each week. I'm struggling to think of anywhere in England where the DoF role has been an undisputed success. I guess there must be examples, but those are probably at clubs where the individual occupying the DoF seat has been very low profile and hasn't needed to be publicly recognised.
Les Reed at Southampton is the shining example, and he doesn't work with weedy coaches, but top class ones like Pochettino and Koeman. They are just properly chosen to fit in with the philosophy of the club. Won't work with QPR, because we don't have a philosophy. I could be wrong, we might be nihilists.
Tonight's result makes the need to know what is happening managerially more pressing. We're slipping down the league towards the bottom three
Quite a different role to what I believe Leslie does solely cos his beloved Spurs no longer require his services, and fits with my 'low profile' point too. Reed is more about youth development and keeping the shorts clean.
The longer our search for a manager goes on, the more likely it will be a younger manager. All the older ones will have been retired by now. By the time we nominate JFH ................... he would of won 2 PL titles, 1 FA Cup & 4 League Cups. I can now understand why we are waiting .................. so he can get more experience. All makes sense now.
on the Football League programme tonight they are saying Jimmy is a done deal. Not 100% convinced he is what we need right now
Hate to say this but i think JFH is not the answer and he will probably start off okay then go to pot. Just have this feeling that's all.
someone on sky sports said before the game said this was our most important managerial appointment for many years - they're not wrong. You're right though - Les is probably looking at Pearson and thinking he's too tricky a customer to work with. Probably prefer a less experienced candidate like JFH to toe the party line. I'm just counting the days before the latest disaster becomes apparent...
