Can't believe it

[Tony_Munky_Canary]

I've never heard of half the managers in the bottom two divisions, let alone the conference, and I'll be honest there are one or two in this division I'd not come across until this year so I see absolutely no reason at all why one of those clubs wouldn't have taken a punt on Neil Adams as manager. He's fully qualified and had success with coaching our youth team so why wouldn't someone have given him a job had he applied for any of them? He clearly interviews well, is intelligent and is very knowledgable of the game - he was even decorated at a high level as a player so it would hardly be tantamount to giving the job to the bloke who cuts the grass and marks out the pitch for heaven's sake.

All managers have to start somewhere and rely on someone to give them their first job, every single one of them from Mourinho to Bryan Gunn and everyone in between.

 

[Swedish Dave]

We may not be familiar with many of them, but the managers of the top ten teams in the Conference have an average of 11 years management experience and have managed 3 clubs.

 

[Resurgam]

i would say keane set ipswich back four years at least (or more to the point, marcus evans did with his decision making). when he took over they were a play off chasing side, full of young players who played good football. magilton had a poor season where they drifted but they still had a good nucleus. keane came in and turned their club upside down, spent all the cash they had on poor players and alienated just about everyone connected to the suffolk side. when he left, jewell came in and compounded his errors by making more mistakes and frankly, how they've avoided being relegated to league one during that time i will never know. how long has mccarthy been there now? two years maybe? he's begun to claw the club back towards the top of the table, somewhere they already were when keane came in. so i would agree that keane (who orchestrated the slide) put their club back at least four years as although they did better last season, this is the first time they've seriously challenged for promotion or been anywhere near where they were before that. they remind me of us when worthington came in and had to try and sort out the mess bryan hamilton left.

just back to us, as stated yesterday, i don't think we are in a 'keane' scenario, but if this season goes badly i think we will only have one further shot at getting it right or we will likely spend a long time in the doldrums and what a waste of a great opportunity that would be. and so very norwich! i'll repeat a question i asked yesterday: would any other club, other than norwich, both in the football league or even non league (lets say down as low as the 6th tier of the pyramid) have appointed neil adams?

Looking at their track record, I reckon Leeds would have