I may well not be the only one who doesn't really know how they feel about this! I've said all along that I'd probably stick with him a while longer and see if he can turn it around. But that also meant that it might be too late to save us. As I said earlier, a very difficult decision for the board. What I wouldn't like to see is people slagging off TF now, as has been the case on this thread!! Remember that the whole board have taken this decision and it certainly couldn't have been an easy one!! Thanks for getting us up Neil...I'll always be grateful to you for that and good luck!!
How can you say it's a bad decision - we are in free fall and unless something was changed now we would likely have continued in that vein all the way back to the championship. Yesterday was a shambles and the last straw for me. TF is a savvy businessman who successfully took on a state owned monopoly in Malaysia and made a huge success of his business against all the odds in an industry only slightly less volatile than football. His conundrum was when to pull the trigger - could he gamble on giving 15/20m quid to NW in the hope our fortunes turned around and then have to get someone in to inherit those signings if it didn't work....or make the decision now and let the new guy bring his own players in, give the club a lift that always seems to happen with a new manager - exhibit A Sunderland. We also needed someone with Premier League experience who can attract that quality of player. NW did miracles for us considering the regime(s) he worked under but sadly his limitations at this level have been exposed again. Despite the issues in the summer he did bring in 4/5 new players and our squad is, on paper at least, stronger than say Norwich and Swansea who are comfortably placed - at the moment - and appear to be better and more consistently managed. He has had 5 months with this squad and anyone who denies we are getting worse and less organised is a little deluded. I'm not in favour of a revolving door but Im also not in favour of a swift return to relegation either after waiting 15 years for promotion. It's a fact of this or any other business and TF frankly had no choice if he was going to perform his duties properly. I applaud him for his loyalty to NW in the summer and the backing he has given him but the time had come and it seems even NW knew that too. We won't be the last to go through this so we need to support the board and whoever is the new manager and hope we get the signings we need to stay up
with the speed new threads are going up it would be very easy to miss one and think you are putting up something new no need to be fighting amongst ourselves
Yeh agree 100 per cent with you Telford. A terrible decision, unless we have a manager of the very highest qualification waiting which I doubt.
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I can say it's a bad decision because that's what I think it is. I disagree we are in freefall. How we started the season exceeded most of our expectations I would guess, and we are now more or less where I thought we would be. Chris Wright was a hugely successful businessman but, by his own admission, made terrible decisions when he was in charge here. Success in business does not necessarily translate to success in the boardroom of a football club. If I think he's made a bad decision, "savvy businessman" or not, I will say so. So now he gambles on giving £15-20m to a new manager in the hope of turning our fortunes around? Turning our fortunes around from what exactly? From a position that those of us with realistic expectations of this season would take come May? And what new manager do you see coming in? Thankfully Schteve Van McClaren is now spoken for but the rest? Mark Hughes who walked away from Fulham because they didn't match up to his ambitions? (And was sacked from City for failing after 14 months on an unlimited budget?) Zola? Grant? Eriksson? Wilkins? Any other managerial geniuses out there I've missed? And bringing in new managers doesn't always give clubs a lift. I see you your exhibit A Sunderland, and raise you my exhibit B Paul Hart. (FWIW I do think that new managers generally do give a club a "lift", however temporary it may be. I just thought it was worth pointing out that it's not always the case, and should not be used as justification for bouncing a good servant of the club out the door.) What quality of player? Prem quality right? How could he have ever done that over the summer? "Issues"? ffs. Forget the transfer window for a minute. Who would you have brought in between the end of last season and the Fernandes takeover? Considering you're sat there with owners not looking to spend a cent on the team but just cash in on their investment. Who would you have brought in that he didn't? Who'd have wanted to come here anyway? And then when TF does come in you've got a few days to catch up on what every other club - well-run clubs like Norwich or Swansea for example, with stable boardrooms and no soap operas going on in the background - in the land has been doing in the previous month or two. Who would you have brought in the, by now truncated, transfer window? I think your post does him a massive injustice, not least by damning him with the faintest of praise; but I guess delusion is in the eye of the beholder. Glad to hear your not in favour of a revolving door-policy. Something we can agree on at last. We all waited 15 years for the top flight. I think the guy who got us here deserved better than the sack after a bad run lasting 38 days. But hey you're right. I hear you. It's all about business right. I really don't get this football lark. You applaud TF for his loyalty to NW in the summer? What else would he do? Okey-dokey let's go with the applause. I applaud Neil Warnock for taking over a basket-case of a club heading into the abyss, turning it around and ending canadahoops 15-year wait for promotion. I think he deserved better than this. I'll back the board by all means but don't expect me not to criticise a bad decision. I'll back the next manager whoever he may be, (even when he has a bad run lasting all of oooh let's say 38 days). Onwards and upwards eh?
