After a very bad run of form where Pompey have won only one of the last six league games, and won only five out of seventeen game in all competitions since Janauary - losing ten of them - Kenny Jackett lost his job.
After almost four years in the job he's got pretty good stats - only two managers in the history of the club have better win ratios, and neither played as many games as him, and only eight managers played more games than him - so he'll go down as one of our statistically successful manager, but he never quite achieved the end result.
Twice we got to the League One playoffs only to lose in the Semi-Finals both times, and twice we got to the EFL Cup final but only managed one win.
Overall, Jackett has been a successful Portsmouth Manager but he's likely not going to be remembers as such becuase of the play-off defeats and the dire performance in the second EFL Trophy Final which cost him his job.
Now, I think the Covid outbreak Pompey suffered in December derailed the season and we might have pushed on to win the league if that never happened, but it did and we've never found our form since. Jackett might have even lost the dressing room after the recent poor form.
So even I, someone who is not generally in favour of sacking managers, believe it was the right decision for him to go.
The question is, who will be his successor.
The front-runner is looking to be Daniel Stendel. A former Hannover 96, Barnsley and Hearts boss. Still pretty early into his career as a manager, he won 50% of his games at Hannover but still got sacked, won almost 50% of his games at Barnsley and got them promoted to the Championship at the first time of asking but got sack, and was turning things around at Hearts when the pandemic hit causing the season to end and costing him his job as Hearts got relegated. He's a well regarded young coach but wants a long-term contract and reports are that Pompey were offering a short-term deal, so that may prevent him from securing the role.
Neil Harris is another favourite. A former Millwall and Cardiff boss who managed to get Millwall promoted from League One via the playoffs and resigned from them with a 41% win ratio over 245 games, while at Cardiff he got them to finish 5th in the Championship in his first season before losing in the play-offs and getting sacked the next year during a bad run of form.
Other, reported, candidates include Lee Bowyer, Chris Coleman, Danny Crowley and Phil Parkinson.
After almost four years in the job he's got pretty good stats - only two managers in the history of the club have better win ratios, and neither played as many games as him, and only eight managers played more games than him - so he'll go down as one of our statistically successful manager, but he never quite achieved the end result.
Twice we got to the League One playoffs only to lose in the Semi-Finals both times, and twice we got to the EFL Cup final but only managed one win.
Overall, Jackett has been a successful Portsmouth Manager but he's likely not going to be remembers as such becuase of the play-off defeats and the dire performance in the second EFL Trophy Final which cost him his job.
Now, I think the Covid outbreak Pompey suffered in December derailed the season and we might have pushed on to win the league if that never happened, but it did and we've never found our form since. Jackett might have even lost the dressing room after the recent poor form.
So even I, someone who is not generally in favour of sacking managers, believe it was the right decision for him to go.
The question is, who will be his successor.
The front-runner is looking to be Daniel Stendel. A former Hannover 96, Barnsley and Hearts boss. Still pretty early into his career as a manager, he won 50% of his games at Hannover but still got sacked, won almost 50% of his games at Barnsley and got them promoted to the Championship at the first time of asking but got sack, and was turning things around at Hearts when the pandemic hit causing the season to end and costing him his job as Hearts got relegated. He's a well regarded young coach but wants a long-term contract and reports are that Pompey were offering a short-term deal, so that may prevent him from securing the role.
Neil Harris is another favourite. A former Millwall and Cardiff boss who managed to get Millwall promoted from League One via the playoffs and resigned from them with a 41% win ratio over 245 games, while at Cardiff he got them to finish 5th in the Championship in his first season before losing in the play-offs and getting sacked the next year during a bad run of form.
Other, reported, candidates include Lee Bowyer, Chris Coleman, Danny Crowley and Phil Parkinson.
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