Thanks Neil, at least you've had a go and you can say you have now. You showed great passion but sadly lacked in other departments. However, the board should've gone for Lennon in the first place. Even Sherwood would've been the better option.
What a depressing thread this has become. The suggestions being put forward are amazing, IMO. Karl Robinson, 14 years less experienced than Neil Adams with 4 years at Mk Dons after being promoted from assistant. Underwelmed wouldn't be sufficient. Neil Warrnock, a man at the end of his career who, if appointed, would cause me to lose interest in City after 42 years supporting the club. Jim Magilton just takes it to an even lower level. I just have to hope that the Board has more sense than most of those on here.
Sherwood would worry me, it'd be boom or bust again as it was with Adams. With the squad we've got a solid, experienced manager should be good enough to get us promoted, without taking another risk.
Interesting that despite this having been rumoured for a while this morning and supposedly a deal that was done for over 24 hours, his first reference to it was 5 minutes after the club made its official statement with information that was in the statement. Then all of a sudden he knows who's been contacted and what the plans are. He has proved far too many times how little he knows, he's just trying to wind people up.
Thank goodness the farce is finally over. Why on Earth would anyone want the likes of Sherwood in charge? Just ridiculous given what we have just been through.
Depressing perhaps Rick, but I think its a reasonable summary of the current state of the managerial job market, and where we are as a club. There aren't many decent, realistic targets out there. The next appointment isn't going to impress everyone, unless the board can pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Hmmm, so we're looking for someone who knows the division, who has taken a club to promotion, who will tighten us up at the back.........damn you Brighton!
I find it massively disturbing how many people want Sherwood. He was dreadful at Spurs, seems to just pick as many offensive players as possible and hope they got a few. He played players miles out of position and couldn't organise a defence if his life depended on it.
Not saying I want Sherwood, but how was he terrible?!? I think he had one of the best win % of any Spurs managers in recent history! Hardly dreadful IMO!
I very nearly described his as Spur's Neil Adams. To be honest I think more of Adams though. Thing is I can't see people rushing to get Adams in as their new manager but for some reason Tim Sherwood get connected with everything and fans seem broadly favourable.
And Adams had us top of the league, ask Spurs fans about him and most will give you some very frank answers.
Robinson has four years more managerial experience than Adams had. He's spent no money, brought good young players in (Dele Alli etc..) and most importantly has got the best out of what he's got. Totally unfair to write him off. Plays good football and has a winning mentality. With our board it'll be Phelan. Debate is totally academic.
Exactly what I said, before taken to task by Supers because, apparently, there are decent realistic targets out there. If that is the case I cannot understand why Brighton ended up with Hughton, Cardiff ended up with Slade, Wigan ended up with Malky when he is still under investigation by the FA etc etc. There have been many names mentioned but none would IMO be any more likely to improve matters than Phelan. Robinson got a lot of mention on Radio Norfolk because he is the choice of Rob 'know it all' Butler but even if we could prise him away would he want to leave a Club where his job is safe, who are 4 points off the top of the table with games in hand, who will soon have a catchment area to match ours due to population expansion and who already have a stadium bigger and better than ours. Read through this thread and you will see that every name mentioned results in even more negative responses. Whether I got my information from Wikipedia about Rosler's Norwegian career is irrelevant - it is still factually correct as was everything else I said about him. He is not an obvious stand out candidate. As far as I am concerned we are now in exactly the same position we were in the Summer.
