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[sheepman]

Sol Campbell did a canny job at Macclesfield. Just saying.....

Shut up you fool don't you know the club monitors these boards.

 

[The Berk]

Yeh could be ok
However has not been out the game for a while ????????

Dunno mate but he built a good squad at Leicester that wasn’t too far away from the League winning side. And knacks wolves in his spare time.

 

[E.T. Fairfax]

What's John Gregory doing nowadays?

 

[E.T. Fairfax]

Is Mick Buxton still alive?

 

[Blyth_bucaneer]

I think it's about time Paul Ince was given a fair crack

When did he go through the change like?

 

[Nacho]

When did he go through the change like?

Paul Mince

 

[sheepman]

What's John Gregory doing nowadays?

Ha I'll match your John Gregory and raise you a Paul Jewell.

 

[monty987]

We need Paulo back !

 

[monty987]

Poyet or di canio, or Nigel clough Brian's son and born here. Super Kev as assistant.

 

[Nozs’ Hat]

Ha I'll match your John Gregory and raise you a Paul Jewell.

David O’Leary was on some of the bookmaker lists with fairly reasonable odds

 

[Munkyheed]

Claudio Ranieri

“There is a saying in Italy that you do not sell the bear’s skin until you have shot it.”

 

[sheepman]

Reid's bloodymindedness with regard to Johnson and several others (Summerbee?) was a major part of the decline but biggest single thing for me was our failure to replace Quinny effectively.

I think your right.
A bit simplistic as there was more to it but we hit on a system with Philips and Quinn which team's struggled to cope with but once they sussed us out we failed to move on. From the dizzy heights the decline was rapid.

 

[Nozs’ Hat]

Has there been any indication of a time frame for the appointment? Prefer someone this week to start working with the squad, getting their messages across before the Wycombe game.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

People saying Keane need a huge reality check like

 

[Letalent]

Wasn’t he a coach when Leicester won the premier ?

he taught Vardy how to shoot

 

[Main Stand Roker Wing]

Anybody, who can whip this squad into shape, motivate them, and get them playing decent, attacking, football, along the deck.
I was tired of seeing "football" which made my eyes bleed, every week, and losing the will to live, by half time, under Ross

 

[MrRAWhite]

I think most people wanted him gone after the surrender in the Play Off Final, I know I did. Everyone bangs on about his record of not losing games, however the draws a lot of people seem to skim over, his record this year was atrocious, especially what he had at his disposal. I was at Lincoln on Saturday and they were blowing out of there arses.

As for Big Sam, I totally agree he would galvanize this club once again, but unless this takeover goes through and there is a lot of money heading his way, the sad truth is he will not come back to Sunderland. I think Roy Keane would definitely lift the club and players, but would his ego get the better of him after a few months?

if none of these, do we stay with a UK manager or go for a manager like Daniel Stendal, although reading an article on him, his playing style would take a few months to embed in and we don't have that amount of time?

Going to be an interesting couple of weeks, tha'ts for sure

Is that the surrender from of fans who seemed to be on a sponsored silence for 90 minutes despite taking an early lead? We will never know for sure, but I think that played a massive part in us not getting promotion..

 

[Chunksafc]

Someone who understands us as fans and a club.

Someone to explain to the match day squad that they have to leave everything on the pitch and in return 30 thousand plus will sing their hearts out and roar them on

The odd decent tactic wouldn't hurt either

 

[Brian Storm]

Hard to say as I don't know what financial state we're in so what is realistic? If we could stretch Chris Hughton would be my man

Cheeper Budget then Michael Appleton looks a good shout

 

[Walnuts]

I think your right.
A bit simplistic as there was more to it but we hit on a system with Philips and Quinn which team's struggled to cope with but once they sussed us out we failed to move on. From the dizzy heights the decline was rapid.

The team between around 98 and 01 was a joy to watch. It had a bit of everything. The best strike force we are ever likely to see with support from either wing. Summerbee was one of the best crosses of a ball I’ve ever seen and Johnson and Gray on the left linked up so well. We had a good goalkeeper and with players like Makin, Ball, Rae and Butler we were up for any fight we found ourselves in. There were just partnerships all through the team that clicked.

Whether by luck or design, Reid put together a hell of a team. It fell apart when Makin, Summerbee and Clark fell out with him or the club and Quinn was never replaced (which was never going to be an easy job). The rebuild was a disaster with players like Wright, Piper, Flo and Babb, to name just a few, brought in.