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Forpadydeplasterer said:
Imo one of the biggest mistakes the club have made is not growing a set and sacking Mowbray after the Luton game. Everyman and his dog knew he wasn't the man the club wanted to take them forward (rightly or wrongly) and from then on it was when he would go and not if. Our preferred head coach was then off the table.
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Him doing so well and being so likeable made it hard like but the relationship was for at that point and ****e strikers made it worse
 
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Brainy Dose said:
Sacking TM after the Luton match would have taken the wisdom of Job.....hindsight has to be put into context marra.
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They were seriously thinking about it at the time and had someone lined up, but didn't in the end due to fan pressure.

From that moment, Mowbray knew he was on borrowed time. Sacking him and then appointing Beale because you couldn't get Will Still is another issue altogether. However if they had stuck to there original plan and got Farioli in the summer we would've cut out all the ****.
 
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Forpadydeplasterer said:
They were seriously thinking about it at the time and had someone lined up, but didn't in the end due to fan pressure.

From that moment, Mowbray knew he was on borrowed time. Sacking him and then appointing Beale because you couldn't get Will Still is another issue altogether. However if they had stuck to there original plan and got Farioli in the summer we would've cut out all the ****.
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So,was Farioli the initial target?
 
Forpadydeplasterer said:
They were seriously thinking about it at the time and had someone lined up, but didn't in the end due to fan pressure.

From that moment, Mowbray knew he was on borrowed time. Sacking him and then appointing Beale because you couldn't get Will Still is another issue altogether. However if they had stuck to there original plan and got Farioli in the summer we would've cut out all the ****.
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I cant accept that such a big decision as replacing the head coach in the summer was swayed by Fan Pressure. Thats just bizarre suggestion
 
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Southern A said:
I've read that piece from Scott Wilson, its a good piece. I can't say I entirely agree with it but definitely see the argument.

If the club wait until the summer to appoint somebody who was out of work now, its not a good look.

I don't however agree with him that KLD needs to come out and tell the fans we've found a manager but he's in work. For one, that would be admitting we (and that manager) have broken rules. Secondly they've already told us Dodds will be here until the end of season.

I also don't think we should move away from our preferred candidate to find somebody out of work now. That makes little sense to me.

So whilst I think its a well written and thought out piece, and I agree with most of it, I don't agree with everything he says.
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The problem with this kind of opinion is that people only want a new head coach "now" until it's not the man they wanted. The same people who want a new coach now, will also claim it's the "cheap option" or a "yes man" when the new coach is someone who is currently unemployed.

The fact that Heckingbottom (a coach who got promoted from this division last year) is seen pretty widely by our fanbase as the worst of the realistic options shows just how high our expectations are. A large proportion of our fans who want a new coach now, probably think Steve Cooper is waiting by the phone, desperate to take the job.

We need to get the appointment right. That's the most important thing. We're hopefully talking about an appointment for the next 150 games, not just the next 6.
 
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Brainy Dose said:
Ok,he's a more believable source...so,how did fan pressure influence it?
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Because fans complained they didn't want Mowbray sacked.

They released it through Romano, like we usually do, and fan reaction wasn't the best so they pulled the plug. I'm not making it up, just Google it
 
SourPatch2 said:
That scott wilson piece is a horrific piece of journalism mind. Aye great idea for our owner to break the rules and announce that we have appointed an unnamed in work coach. I despair that some of the fanbase agree with him.
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It's a terrible piece. Just picks up on the over the top reactions and reiterates them, rather than offering any kind of insight or analysis.
 
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Forpadydeplasterer said:
Because fans complained they didn't want Mowbray sacked.

They released it through Romano, like we usually do, and fan reaction wasn't the best so they pulled the plug. I'm not making it up, just Google it
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So,we didn't appoint Fabioli because of fan influence?
 
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