I would. But I never wanted him gone at the time. However, when has a second coming ever worked? (Moyes, probably. Mourinho as well)
I would, because I don’t trust SR to do better. I’m not a fan of going back to old managers, rarely works.
It's a big 'no' from me. Hes an overrated one-trick manager. Got found out and couldn't adjust. Was atrocious to watch at the end of his time here. The fact that he suffered the league's record defeat not once, but twice, is so shameful it's funny. Plus the players didn't like him. And he threw them under the bus when times got hard. My only worry is that Rohl will be too similar.
I’d still go for Rohl (if we can’t get Cooper) but I share the concern. A guy I work with has connections into Wednesday (he’s from Sheffield and used to coach up there) and the stories he tells are similar to what we learned about Ralph. Very strict, players not overly keen. Don’t think a bit of discipline would go amiss though.
His interview last game he was whining about not having the players to play "his style" He's another RM
I'm just really not sure on him. His results aren't great and I just don't think he can achieve with us. We're crying out for an old school disciplinarian, a practical no nonsense manager. He doesn't tick any boxes for me
He’s more of a risk than a Cooper, sure, but the goal is somehow to get up and manage the virtually impossible of staying up. That means we need to somehow find a competitive advantage (and get lucky), which means gambling a bit on someone with a ‘high ceiling’. If we take Cooper, he’ll likely get us up, but we’d almost certainly be straight back down again with him.
Cooper at least has some PL experience to fall back on, I think Rohl will be totally out of his depth (assuming we get there)
I think Cooper would give us the best chance of both tbh. I don’t think he’d be able to kick on and get us to finishing say 10th but think he’d be able to keep us up initially. You then roll the dice on someone else to hopefully get you up the table Irrelevant though as I don’t think he is in the frame at all
Bit of a myth. In the short time he was asst manager to Ralph, we earned a points average of 1.36 per game. The following season, without Rohl, our avg ppg was exactly the same; 1.36. So we neither got better nor worse.
May have been mentioned already, but it doesn't seem like the worst idea in the world to give it to Rusk...
