The Managerial Merry Go Round™

[Froggy]

2 minutes ago, joeyt said:

Mark Robins sacked from Coventry

 

Did an amazing job there

 

Feels like a mental decision.

[LFEE]

Something must of gone on. He’d got things back on track.

[54]

Thats a ridiculous decision, I know they've not started the season amazingly, but he's done an outrageous job and surely he'd earnt more than enough good grace to allow him a 14 game bad patch, which he was actually starting to turn around. 

[Pilko]

Wank Frank second favourite behind Moyes in the early betting for the Coventry job

[Paullow]

Always interesting reading the fans perspective and the vast majority do seem to this it was a mistake, although some are thinking it wasn't unexpected:

 

https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/robins-gone.163984/

 

That said, although some of the early matches were in and around the Man Utd FA Cup semi final, where they were a whisker from making the final, they did end the season with only 1 point from their final 6 matches:

 

 

And this year they are on the same amount of points as Plymouth who are currently in the relegation zone, and 4W 4D 12L from his final 20 league matches isn't great reading. Plus their next 3 matches are 3 of the top 4 (Sunderland away, Sheff U home, Burnley away) and then Millwall and WBA shortly after that, so 5 of the current top 7 (top 6 if WBA get something tonight) in their next 6 games, meaning they will have played a lot of the weaker sides in their opening 14 matches, and would likely have got worse before it got better.

 

[RS]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglex0701xo
 

any word on the managerial sex case?  I’m assuming he’ll be moving on sometime soon. 

[Groundhog63]

10 minutes ago, RS said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglex0701xo
 

any word on the managerial sex case?  I’m assuming he’ll be moving on sometime soon. 

 

Have to narrow down club "boss". Media have a habit of headlining a catch all. 

If it's a manager then, given one of the claimed assaults was in the 90s, then that narrows it right down. 

British and, at least, 18ish by 1990?

By "boss" they could mean manager, director, coach, anything. 

[JigsawGoesToPieces]

18 minutes ago, RS said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglex0701xo
 

any word on the managerial sex case?  I’m assuming he’ll be moving on sometime soon. 

 

Could it be

 

[RS]

37 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

 

Have to narrow down club "boss". Media have a habit of headlining a catch all. 

If it's a manager then, given one of the claimed assaults was in the 90s, then that narrows it right down. 

British and, at least, 18ish by 1990?

By "boss" they could mean manager, director, coach, anything. 

Ex Fulham “boss” is a shoe-in 

[Tiresias]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/08/jose-mourinho-wants-newcastle-if-eddie-howe-leaves?CMP=share_btn_url

 

He can fuck right off. Would be a terrible terrible appointment even if Howe somehow implodes completely

 

 

Edited November 8, 2024 by Tiresias

[Bunk Moreland]

4 minutes ago, Tiresias said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/08/jose-mourinho-wants-newcastle-if-eddie-howe-leaves?CMP=share_btn_url

 

He can fuck right off. Would be a terrible terrible appointment even if Howe somehow implodes completely

 

 

 

 I love Mou and would love to see him back in the PL... just not for us 

[HawK]

I know I'm not going to get many friends saying this, but I wouldn't mind Mourinho at all for a couple of seasons, just so he can fulfill his Mr Robson arc. I'd like to think he'd be a bit more invested here than another random club. 

[Steve Charlton]

Hope Eddies here for another 10yrs

[Collage]

Re: Mourinho: It's too late. The man is a has-been and our squad is totally wrong for him. It would make zero sense.

[andycap]

If howe were to go for whatever reason I'd take him as long as he's not pushed out by mourinho. 

[Menace]

Ah it's Louise Taylor never mind eh

[La Parka]

I love Mou. 

[Menace]

27 minutes ago, HawK said:

I know I'm not going to get many friends saying this, but I wouldn't mind Mourinho at all for a couple of seasons, just so he can fulfill his Mr Robson arc. I'd like to think he'd be a bit more invested here than another random club. 

 

He's a busted flush. Genuinely reckon him coming here would be Souness tier where he just fights with our players and sets us back a few years.

[Tiresias]

I would have to be convinced he isn't a completely spent force. His Spurs were rubbish to watch and not exactly producing results.

[HawK]

Just now, Menace said:

 

He's a busted flush. Genuinely reckon him coming here would be Souness tier where he just fights with our players and sets us back a few years.

 

I don't think we could say we didn't see it coming if it did tbf. 

 

That said, I'd still want to roll the dice, I'd be hopeful it'd be more positive than not. But I'm a hopeless romantic

[Interpolic]

Lav Brexit, lav Top Gear, lav the special one cos 'e tells it like it is - simple as.

[Armchair Pundit]

Feels a bit like another 'Steve Bruce' appointment to me, put out there and encouraged by the media because Jose has a tenuous link to us and it'd make good soap opera football for them to report on.

 

(obviously has a bit more about him though than Bruce)

[HaydnNUFC]

I'm ambivalent towards Jose, really. I really like the affinity he has for us through how he loved and admired SBR. I totally get that sentiment but if we're ever looking for a successor to Howe, Jose is not an appointment that progresses the club.

 

 

Edited November 8, 2024 by HaydnNUFC

[TBG]

His average time spent at clubs is 1.82 years so you can why he's the perfect man for a long-term project.

 

 

Edited November 8, 2024 by TBG

[Superior Acuña]

Seems like a backwards appointment. Part of me reckons he’d come in and win the League Cup or something though.