I feel like because we recruit young players from wherever they can be found, this means some people think a northern coach is somehow backwards or at odds with the recruitment. It's just mad.
I just hope we get it done, whether that is Marti, Lampard or Heck. Football is a fickle sport, if we had the time we have had now to talk about mowbray before appointing him, he had just been sacked by Blackburn after failing to achieve playoffs, we would all be screaming no, but look what he did. Just get someone in, crack on and if we have a good window who knows what can happen.
I've said all along that it won't be Heckingbottom and I'm sticking to it. KLD and KS will want to avoid at all cost, anything that will spark the negative reaction we all witnessed when Beale was appointed, which I fear is exactly what will happen, when we all know he was available when Beale was sacked.
It's got nothing to do with where he's from. Dave Challinor is from Chester, which is only slightly more southerly than Barnsley and he'd be a much more exciting appointment.
What's most frustrating for me, is that if Hecky got announced, the uproar will be pretty horrific, mostly on social media of course. And to the wider football community it will be Sunderland fans getting painted as being toxic again. They'll just seen Sunderland fans "protesting" against two consecutive managerial appointments and say we expect too much etc. They won't see any of the ridiculous context that got us to this point.
Ha ironically from that perspective its the opposite. Sign young foreign players ---> FFS we need experience of playing in Britain Appoint experienced British manager ---> FFS we need a young coach from Europe.
Oh Jeez. We’re appointing Suggs as the head coach. Just need Buster Bloodvessel as the assistant and we’re all sorted.
The fans need to be buck broken. Hire Heck on a 10 year deal and post laughing GIFs on social media with "nowt you can do about it" and "never ever be sacked, no matter what you do" flashing on the screen. Idiots man.
Are we going to get any context to this outrageous grenade that has been lobbed onto the board, and that people seem to have accepted as gospel though all speculative ITK activity in this process so far hasn't quite panned out?
That's a good link that. Just googled and it looks like Speakman hired him at Birmingham. Might be that they can all get on the same page with our set up.
