Best of luck guys if Slade does come to you. He'll do you a job in stabilising the playing side of the club but don't expect to enjoy the football next season. He's the sort of "safe pair of hands" that you might just need right now given the clowns you now have running the club.
From our experience at Cardiff where we've had our own share of owner issues (though now it seems Tan has learned a lot), Slade is a dull, boring, frustrating 4-4-2 dinosaur of a manager taken on to win you nothing but steady the ship if nothing else.
If you're aiming for mid table safety, Slade's your guy - anything other than that would be a huge bonus given his lower league track record. In over 20 years managing down there he's never taken a team over the line to the next level. The only positive would be that I don't think that he's ever managed a team downwards either. That's probably the best you can expect.
BTW, as you know we had Tony Watt on loan for a while across here and I think we'd have taken him permanently if we hadn't been stuck with that transfer embargo in January. Brought a bit of life for a while to our flaccid performances under Slade though I don't think he set the world alight at Blackburn afterwards. Is he still with you and do you want to keep him?
From our experience at Cardiff where we've had our own share of owner issues (though now it seems Tan has learned a lot), Slade is a dull, boring, frustrating 4-4-2 dinosaur of a manager taken on to win you nothing but steady the ship if nothing else.
If you're aiming for mid table safety, Slade's your guy - anything other than that would be a huge bonus given his lower league track record. In over 20 years managing down there he's never taken a team over the line to the next level. The only positive would be that I don't think that he's ever managed a team downwards either. That's probably the best you can expect.
BTW, as you know we had Tony Watt on loan for a while across here and I think we'd have taken him permanently if we hadn't been stuck with that transfer embargo in January. Brought a bit of life for a while to our flaccid performances under Slade though I don't think he set the world alight at Blackburn afterwards. Is he still with you and do you want to keep him?
) and stabilised the playing side to the extent that we got to the fringes of the playoffs. However, that was it. Little imagination and couldn't inspire players to the next level. We all think he was sent "upstairs" as a reward for doing what he did, until something better came along.
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