This speakman seems really poor at his job - there's no managers for either of the 2 senior teams and the little boys lost he brought in and currently steering the 1st team back to mid table seem woefully inadequate too. He has to be replaced surely?
What an absolute shambles. Looks like KLD is another chancer who isn’t prepared to get rid of the other chancers at the club. Until we are rid of SD and CM then he will forever be associated with them. The fans meeting on the 16th will be interesting so long as they ask the right questions and don’t allow the senior section to ask about cups of tea etc and also they should refuse to attend unless KLD and SD are at the meeting. We don’t want Davison, Speakman and his cronies taking notes and saying they will come back to them. We need to know share breakdown, plans for the future and what the hell has gone on over the last 30 days to unravel so quickly. Until we get those answers I won’t be back.
This fella nails it over the road. Currently overseeing a football club with no reserve/23s head coach since October and a 1st team with no manager/head coach for 11 days despite 'interest worldwide' - his own recruit personal development kid dodds has only ensured 6 points have been tossed away. No defensive cover at end of transfer window and doubts over goalkeeper position. These are Facts. my opinion is He was an academy coach at a struggling brum and has been promoted here somehow way above his capability. Aye - speakman has to go - utterly inept chancer, buzzword waffling to cover his own football inadequacies at Safcs cost.
The whole thing is just sickening. Got a little one who I've struggled to keep interested as we live in deepest darkest south east, Defoe got him excited so brought him up last week and he was buzzing for Keane and now to this **** show. I guess it's an introduction in to Sunderland for him but christ they don't half make it hard do they!
If you find out that it was the recruitment side that caused him to walk away .....That is what I've heard today.
Insightful as ever....when asked why did Keane turn it down he rehashed Keane's interview afore the Boro game last Friday word for word... contract has got be right etc etc....that was nearly a week ago!
Well I'm very disappointed that we didn't get Keane over the line. Who knows if he'd have done well ??? Nobody. The same as nobody knows why he didn't seal the deal. So no use whatsoever slagging Keane, Speakman, KLD or anyone at this moment in time ffs. We move on and hopefully quickly with the right appointment.
How old is your lad? Obviously I might be misreading your post but I'm assuming he is young enough to not have seen Keane as our manager and deffo not as a player. Did he see much of Defoe as a player? Just asking as it sounds like he was excited and buzzing cause his old man was? Unfortunately as an adult supporting SAFC that is hard to keep going . I have mentioned before I am married to a scouser and live in Liverpool and my little lad 6 shows some interest in SAFC cause I do but I can't see it lasting as he gets older and his mates and his Mum's (I'm allowed to use that word as that's what she is called to him being brought up here ) side of the family bar the odd Everton support a team that win a trophy every few years and have had no hard times in the last few decades (despite what the fans think when you listen to them, oh it's so **** we didn't finish in the top three this team is **** we didn't win this week)
They didn't really expand on what areas but I could see why Keane would have asked. I'd be asking questions about the recruitment in January and why only one defender was brought in and another midfield player when you could see more was needed but went out and brought the likes of Clarke and Roberts in, even Defoe in? I Could see Keane asking those questions.
WHO IS ALEX NEIL? The former Norwich manager has been out of work for several months after leaving Preston North End in March 2021. He joined Preston in 2017 when a certain Simon Grayson left to join us. It’s safe to say we don’t have the best track record of signing former Preston managers. Neil left Preston by mutual consent and left the club in an underwhelming 16th. He is now the favourite for our vacant job, which is really underwhelming news. The appointment of Roy Keane would’ve been a risk, but an exciting one. Now we take a risk on a different calibre of manager – another unremarkable British manager. This means it would be an entirely fresh approach from the last five appointm... oh wait, no it wouldn’t be. Neil began his short managerial career as Hamilton Academical where he had already been involved in coaching the club's youth team. He was appointed player-manager on an interim basis, but this was made permanent in May 2013, when Neill was just 31. Assisted by Frankie McAvoy, Neil led the club to promotion back to the top flight in his first full season, winning through the play-off system in May 2014. Hamilton then enjoyed a good start to the 2014–15 Scottish Premiership, defeating Celtic away for the first time in 76 years, before Neill was approached by Norwich in 2015. At 33, Neil was the second youngest manager in the Football League. A bold appointment from the Canaries, it initially proved a masterstroke. In his first game his team beat league leaders Bournemouth 2-1 only a day after taking charge. This immediate impact will be something absolutely necessary for us, should he be made Sunderland manager. He won 17 of his 25 games in his first season and Norwich secured a play-off place, finishing third. In British football’s fiercest rivalry, the East Anglia derby, Norwich beat Ipswich Town 4–2 on aggregate over two legs to get through the final. On 25 May, Neil led Norwich to a 2–0 victory over Middlesbrough in the 2015 Football League Championship play-off Final. It has been downhill for Neil ever since this high. Norwich were poor all season and immediately suffered relegation back to the Championship. Neil had his contract terminated in March 2017. Norwich had won only seven of their last 24 games in The Championship and were nine points outside the top six play-off places. They were 8th. He then joined Preston, where he spent four anonymous years in charge, where he did nothing to bolster his reputation in football management. Misery, anger and confusion are likely to arise if he gets the job. If Speakman trusts this man to take us up rather than Keane, it is his funeral. Neil has done nothing in 5 or 6 years to warrant this job and one spell of good form with Norwich is not enough to suggest he is the man to take us up this year. I was no Johnson fan, but swapping him for Neill would be absolutely baffling. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to amateur hour.
