Bob sacked.

how many games was he in charge for

 

anyone with PL experience please. The time for untested and hungry young managers is over. Survival over style is what is needed now.

 

Too ****ing many.

 

Only just picking up on this - I tend to be incommunicado over the festive period and hunker down, getting pissed and playing board games with the family.

This 'news' is the BEST reason to get blotto tonight.

 

Sky reporting on the yellow bar 2 we will be approaching are Coleman or Rowett, that worries me, for me Coleman will 100% take us down, I just don't think he is as good as everyone thinks. He has not been in club management for a long time and I will be worried if we go for him, as for Rowett I know he did a tidy job at Birmingham and would probably prefer him to Coleman (maybe in the minority here) but I wonder what players he could attract. Neither really inspire me to get us out of the ****.

 

Wow 11 games. Is that a record

 

Nope.

 

Would prefer Coleman over Rowett so long as Osian Came with him.

 

Can't see Coleman getting it. He won't walk away from Wales, plus he prefers managing abroad.

 

Coleman was mooted as a possible Manager down here several years ago.
He scotched the idea, saying something along the lines of, "I have no interest in Managing at Swansea. I have family living there, and if things didn't work out, goodness knows what the supporters would do to them". Wise man. He knows the Swansea crowd too well.

 

He said on SSN last week that he wants to manage a club that aspire to play in the Champions League and as he says, he won't get that opportunity in the PL.

 

His status has been considerably raised due to Wales' recent success, and it seems he has reviewed his aspirations in the light of that.
That's only to be expected, I suppose, but should Wales start to decline, then his star will surely fade.
It's a tricky dilemma for Coleman. Does he go for broke, or stay in charge of Wales, and keep his fingers crossed.
Not so many years ago he could only have dreamed of where he's currently at.

 

Coleman is only doing well for Wales as he has a reasonable good squad, not to mention Bale, Ramsey, and Allen, he would take us down with our current squad at Swansea, I still remember how inept he was when watching his Coventry team at the Liberty, Coleman is a big No for me, he just got lucky with the Wales squad he inherited..........

 

And Osian Roberts don't underestimate his influence on Wales success. Highly rated coach by most top managers. For me he is the man behind the man!

 

Yes I know, and I agree with you, but would he come with Coleman?

 

I think this is already happening and Wales have been pretty poor this year, during which I think Coleman shows his limitations and his inability to change things for the better, I believe he is a championship manager at best and would be gutted if he got the job here. He qualified fo the euros through a poor group and If people are honest we played well maybe 4 times in qualifying, Belgium twice and maybe away at Israel and I am sure there was another, struggled against Andorra away and managed 2 goals at home, as for the euros, when it mattered he run out of ideas, Played well against Slovakia, beat a very poor Russian side, but was out thought and his team were extremely poor against Woys England, the game against Belgium I have to say was one of the best performances by a wales team, but then ran completely out of ideas against Portugal, yes I know we are missing 2 players but he just played totally wrong tactics and as for the World qualifying we have been to be honest very poor. He has one way of playing and when it is going wrong he doesn't seem to have the knowledge to put things right. I don't believe he has the tools for the Pl. I really hope he doesn't get it. I maybe in the minority but will be gutted if he does and for me that will confirm relegation.

 

Whereas I remember he did very, very well with Fulham.

 

That is a long time ago and I can ago remember him doing not so well at other clubs. Mind you he did have some ok players in that Fulham side, Edwin van der Sar, Louis Saha, Steed Malbranque and Luís Boa Morte, to name a few

 

Home at last and it looks like you Guys have had a torrid time over the Christmas period. Didn't read a word about the Swans while away, far too busy sleeping, so I'm a bit shell shocked reading all the goings on and with the big announcement last night, Princess Leah, dead, shocking.

Re the Swans, were we really that bad? Things were awful when I left before Christmas, how could it have got even worse? The results were ridiculous, 3-1, WBA, 3-0 Middlesborough, 1-4 to West Ham, what the hell happened?

In the end Bob Bradley got what he deserved. He came here after delusionally stating that he was as good as Guardiola and or Klopp. We could have told him then and I think some did, that he's not in their league and after 85 days he's proved it.

In his 85 days he took a poor team and made it worse, the poor position he inherited deteriorated into the position we find ourselves now. He took us from being concerned about relegation to almost accepting it. He made the poor manager he replaced look desirable, he turned a nervous defence into a sieve and turned a team lacking confidence into 11 nervous wrecks. Also in his time worried fans who were 50-50 about Guidolin turned into a hostile, angry mob verging on 100% against him. He could not stay another minute, his position was untenable and it was obvious to the vast majority that it was his inexperience and inability to manage a team at this level that put him there in the first place.

We knew this would happen we just didn't know that it would take only 85 days for our nightmares to morph into reality. I have no faith at all in the board and even less confidence that they'll get the next appointment right. The last time they got it right was with Laudrup and look what happened there. Even if they secured van Gaal I could see us scrapping 17th with a goal difference 1 better than 18th place.

 

That is the most frustrating part, isn't it. The American owners indulging. I doubt Bob Bradley's name would ever have appeared on the radar in the first place otherwise.