It's parkinson

Do you think deliberate misinformation may be being leaked to try and track down the source of the leaks

 

Shocking appointment if true. Will we be allowed to be critical about it?

 

George Smiley would be hard pressed to sort the truth, half truths etc etc in this lot.
It's a dogs breakfast

 

Mate as I said I'm not expecting 'silky football' and my concerns are about his underwhelming record in all three lower leagues.

Three midtable seasons in L1 with Colchester followed by a promotion and a disastrous half season with Hull in the Championship.
The second half of the season relegating Charlton.
Two seasons in L1 with Charlton without promotion ending in a sacking.
Five seasons with Bradford taking them from L2 to L1 via the playoffs befot quitting for Bolton.
Then promoting Bolton to the Championship, and two relegation battles ending in relegation.

I'm not saying that he didn't have to fire fight at some of those clubs, I'm not saying he didn't achieve some difficult promotions and a league cup final on a shoe string.

But he's managed clubs without much expectations and quite rightly had success at the ones where he was given time and stability.

I'll back him if he comes, but we need promotion this season, and if Phil Parkinson long balls his way out of this league landing every second Sunderland touch on the head of Charlie Wyke I'll think:
"Fantastic! Needs must! We had to play this way to get out of L1".

Is we sign Ainsworth and our players connive and sh*thouse us out of the league by falling down in and around the box for free kicks and penalties from the training ground I'll go:
"Well, it wasn't that bad, and all the other teams are defensive as f*ck sh*thouses against us and they got a taste of their own medicine".

I'm a SAFC fan and I can be as 'one eyed' as Arsene Wenger when it comes to my club, but I don't see PP as the bloke to get us out of this league this season.

And yes, as much as you deride them, I don't think his overall stats point to a bloke who can quickly galvanise a team and get us the 70 points we need.

 

Not great news but with no money what can you expect?

 

Stendel?

 

Out of the 4 'top runners' apart from Parkinson, Stendel and Pearson are without clubs and Ainsworth is Wycombe manager ffs.

None of them would cost much.

If he's penny pinching he shouldn't have bothered sacking Ross.

 

With no money ( that's obvious) how can we attract a decent manager?

 

But it's an obvious money related appointment. Do you not think?

 

This has just crossed my mind.

 

Stendel is without a club and I can’t imagine he will command a bigger salary than Parkinson. If it’s back room staff that’s an issue and Parkinson is happy to go along with what we’ve got then that in itself is an equally bad decision.

 

Stendel is without a club and I can’t imagine he will command a bigger salary than Parkinson. If it’s back room staff that’s an issue and Parkinson is happy to go along with what we’ve got then that in itself is an equally bad decision.

 

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@HEISENBERG

 

Looking more likely to be a bag of Revels than a box of chocolates.

 

nothing wrong with a bag of Revels, apart from the raisin ones - they can **** off the horrible little sneaky look like a coffee one bastards



sorry, too much caffeine today

 

Aye but Parky is a Revel compared to a Thornton's (not Sean) type of manager.

 

Parky 1.14 on Sky. Its happened IMO.

 

Said this a few pages back, but I thought it was more to get a feel for the reaction if he was appointed rather than to spot leaks. Either way, entirely plausible.

 

Drifting out on oddschecker mind

https://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/sunderland/next-permanent-manager

 

He's drifted - he was 1/10 earlier