Just a quick google finds: "KENNY Jackett is hopeful Millwall's end-of-season form will be the platform for a top-ten finish in the Championship next year." Peterborough don't seem to have too many such quotes knocking around, but i'm sure they are somewhere. I see a player talking about wanting a top-half finish back in February this year.
Would be good if he got back into football and at Championship level too. There are obviously some of our fans who have issues with him for whatever reasons - but I always thought he could have taken us back to the Premier League and I know this may be a bit OTT to some, but given some years of experience he could be given a chance at Everton, Liverpool or Spurs as manager.
Agreed, on top of which he'd also have a small squad at Burnley, and a harsh fixture list at some point in the season! Frankly I doubt they have any interest in him, or he in them. More press speculation and back page flatulence would be my guess
I felt he had good footballing principles but I guess we won't find out probably what he can achieve as a manager. The fans that have issues with him overlook the fact that several key players underperformed at a critical time last year, he could only use the squad that he inherited.
Maybe because the ones not playing weren't up to it? Anyway it's all history now gets a bit tedious rehashing these old arguments.
It hasn't actually come from the press, it came from a Tweeter in Burnley who has a lot of followers and seems to know someone at the club.
Fair summary from Swanny. http://www.thisishullandeastriding....mby-deserves/story-17107366-detail/story.html
I haven't read the boards as much recently and not seen your take on Bruce. What's your stance on him and the Allan's ambition after the summer?
Nick was a good player, was never going to be as good as a manager. He seemed unable to make the step up up and away from the players. It was a mistake, everyone should move on and he should enjoy his retirement.
The mistake was giving him the job permanently IMO. He should have taken temporary management until the end of the year with a view to a permanent deal, not retire from football entirely and then if things happened the way they did, he'd still be in our squad at least. Both Barmby and the Allams rushed into things really, and obviously it was a cheaper, more fan-friendly, romantic way to appoint a new manager so it was going to happen but a little more planning and thought would have made such a difference.
Appointing Nick wasn't a cheap option, he stayed on players wages and got more than Pearson. He wasn't given the chance to prove himself, the owners gave up on him shortly after appointing him and gave him no money at all. Life's a bitch.
Never looked at it that way... But in a sense, it just shows the inexperience of both Barmby and the Allams. You can't have both together, it's always gonna end badly.
I suspect Bruce is on twice what Barmby was on, if we'd appointed him instead of Barmby, we'd have been paying way more. So yes, making someone already on the payroll manager saved money, but keeping him as manager would have been the cheap option.
