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Dodds has got a reasonably safe job here at the moment but if he were to go for the Managers job the chances are that this time next year he would be out of a job.
He might fancy going on the Manager merry go round or he might prefer to live here and be the head coach for the foreseeable future.

If he’s a really good coach I hope we keep him as a coach.
I don’t get the feeling he would be very successful as a Manager though I could be wrong.
Don’t mind him personally but think he should step back as 1st team coach, him and proctor seem to be good coaches so let them help with the coaching. A new man coming in should always bring his own number 2 in to be 1st team coach
 
You got some factual evidence to back this claim up?
look at the record man every head coach has been the cheap option

Alex Neil was cheapest option was out of work did good left us in the ****e way he left

Tony Mowbray cheapest option out of work did good job

Micheal Beale cheapest option was ****e and dont believe Speakman for one second saying he was first choice

and for the record i hope they prove me totally wrong in summer but wont hold my breath
 
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look at the record man every head coach has been the cheap option

Alex Neil was cheapest option was out of work did good left us in the ****e way he left

Tony Mowbray cheapest option out of work did good job

Micheal Beale cheapest option was ****e and dont believe Speakman for one second he was first choice
I asked for factual evidence, you've given me nothing of the sort.

Most manager/head coach appointments these days are out of work, something like 70%.

Is sacking two head coaches in the same season the cheap option? The cheap option would've been giving Dodds the job in December.

Question the decision making all you like, it's fully deserved, but don't make unsubstantiated claims and pass them off as fact. It makes the fanbase look stupid.
 
Maresca - Assistant at Man City
Farke - Out of work
McKenna - Assistant at Man Utd
Martin - Swansea
Corberan - Out of work
Rosenior - Out of work
Wagner - Out of work
Lowe - Plymouth
Robins - Out of work
Ismael - Out of work
Manning - Oxford
Carrick - Out of work
Bulut - Out of work
Foster - Assistant at Al-Ettifaq
Eustace - Out of work
Williams - Notts County
Mowbray - Out of work
Breitenreiter - Out of work
Harris - Cambridge
Cifuentes - Hammarby
Schumacher - Plymouth
Röhl - Out of work
Richardson - Out of work

The current other 23 managers/head coaches in the championship. Just 7 of them came from other manager/head coach jobs.
 
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well one thing for certain we will go cheap as always with our owners
Christ, not this **** again! How many times in the last 40 years have we paid compensation for a manager to take him from another club?

Does this supposed "cheap option" always result in failure? Does selecting the right man, who happens to be out of work mean it's the "cheap option"?

How much compensation did we pay for Peter Reid, Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane, Alex Neil or Tony Mowbray? Each one of them got us promoted, apart from Mowbray who massively over-achieved in his first season.

You could also add Gus Poyet, Sam Allardyce, Martin O'Neil & Dick Advocaat as supposed "cheap options" who kept us in the PL against the odds.

It's such a lazy narrative
 
For reference, the managers we have paid compensation for in the last 40 years have been:

Denis Smith
Steve Bruce
Simon Grayson
Jack Ross
 
Don't slag the owners FFS, some on here will alienate you as a bad person.
I don't know if you heard OFFICIALLY today, Juan is looking to buy a club in Uruguay.
 
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Don't slag the owners FFS, some on here will alienate you as a bad person.
I don't know if you heard OFFICIALLY today, Juan is looking to buy a club in Uruguay.
Criticising the owners and anyone at the football club is absolutely fine as long as it's deserved and can be backed up with reasoning. Simply saying stuff like 'cheap option' or 'no ambition' is where the problem lies because you aren't getting into the crux of the issue, instead you are just chucking out buzzwords which will naturally rile people on both sides up.
 
Criticising the owners and anyone at the football club is absolutely fine as long as it's deserved and can be backed up with reasoning. Simply saying stuff like 'cheap option' or 'no ambition' is where the problem lies because you aren't getting into the crux of the issue, instead you are just chucking out buzzwords which will naturally rile people on both sides up.
I think you could make a case for the Beale appt being one done with budgets in mind personally. The fact he had no assistant should have been a red flag to him, and more fool him for taking it really on that basis. We hear the press tell us we wanted Still but either his compensation or his demands over his coaching team caused us to move on, again arguably indicating a leaning to cautious use of money when it comes to coaching appointments. Then of course their is the wages we pay. I have no idea on that score to be honest, but you might guess Neil got more at Stoke.
 
Don't slag the owners FFS, some on here will alienate you as a bad person.
I don't know if you heard OFFICIALLY today, Juan is looking to buy a club in Uruguay.
That's wrong. Sartori is NOT looking to buy a club in Uruguay. He is trying to be elected President of Club Nacional.

Nacional are run along similar lines to Barcelona and club members can stand to be elected to positions within the club. Sartori is well known as a Nacional fan and has been a member for 6 years. Usually you need to have been a member for 8 years to stand for president.

If anything, this could be beneficial, forming links between the two clubs.