Can we add Capello to the list after tonights England performance. Not at all surprised just think we have gone back 2 years once again.
There is evidence that maintaining faith in a managerial structure can bring success - Ferguson is the obvious one; Liverpool's old "boot room" philosophy; Allardyce at Bolton. Adkins' appointment is an example of a change of manager bringing immediate success. But are the changes bringing success the exception? Cotterill may keep Forest up (largely thanks to the 10 point penalty on our neighbours) but this can hardly be the success that Forest were looking for. On balance keeping faith seems to win out. The simple reason that Adkins has been so quickly successful is that a) he is a genius (!) and b) he inherited a very good infrastructure left by Pardew. Most managers are bought in to a chaotic situation and need time to sort things out. On the specifics of Megson, maybe the Board have looked at the Adkins model! Clark has to have been unlucky. Last year he would have won promotion with Huddersfield but for the amazing run Saints put together late on following Brighton's incredible run early and mid season. You have be to be unlucky to be in a league where two teams go on these sorts of runs. Let's face it it hasn't happened in our league this year. It is surely obvious that Pardew went for reasons other than football. I think we might have got promoted with Pardew, but surely I am not alone in thinking that whatever he did we came out of it better with Adkins?
No, I meant what I said, that Capello was unfortunate to get the push, especially after watching England last night - it is Pearce and the FA who live in the past...
There is one difference with the Megson sacking. The team they look likely to lose out to is their biggest rival.
Imagine Pompey are second (a stretch I know) and we were third...do you imagine we'd sack Adkins? The world has gone mad where managers get sacked when the team is doing well. I know Pardew was sacked very early, but rules are different in Cortese World, and it worked out anyway.
Must admit, Megson is one of the all-time managerial grim reapers, up there with McClaren in my eyes. I'd be mortified if he came near us. Maybe Mandaric always knew that, but knew Megson would do a job until the right man came available. Maybe that's now, and so he has taken the opportunity. Could be Dave Jones, could be Sven. Hope for their sake it's the former. He probably knew Megson would not be the man to gudie them through the Championship too, so is acting now, while there are probably a few desperate, decent managers on the market.
No but I do imagine that there would be a large swathe of fans calling for it to happen, if, as is the case in Sheffield, both clubs think they are in the wrong Division. Don't get me wrong Fran, I think it's bizarre but it is a factor that isn't comparable to the other sackings mentioned.
Ah, I see where you're coming from. Yeah, FWIW, I agree with you. To me, Pearce is from the old England of passion and tigerish tackling, which was overtaken at least 10-15 years ago, probably much longer, but we've clung onto it for all of these years. The problem with England is that, at heart, even the more technically trained players of today are by instinct, old school like Pearce. This old school style has one weapon against the continental style or pass, pass and pass again, and that is pressing the opposition. If that opposition are good enough that pressing them doesn't really do much other than delay the inevitable, then England have nothing left. They have not sufficiently good pacey players of quality, like Germany have, whose counterattacks are so speedy and well executed, that one can only sit and applaud their quality. Now that is an effective answer to pass, pass and pass again. Mourinho is continental in style, and so employs the best of the passing game, that he can get the players to achieve, but also does a little in the line of counterattacking. It would make the most of currrent English players. Redknapp is classic West Ham United, a style of play that depends on the players being technically capable, and gets better, the better they are. It's the sort of passing game Saints currently play, except we eventually cross to the back post [classically to Ron Davies], whereas classic WHU play is to the near post [to Geoff Hurst]. On Capello, do remember he didn't get the push. He resigned. His game is all Italian with frills, providing the players are upto it. It wins you games, but it seems to require Italians to play it, at it's best. It's why Italy have won 4 World Cups.
