The Managerial Merry Go Round™

[Pilko]

Is that his old West Brom scarf?

[Guest chopey]

I still think he'll struggle to take them up this year

[54]

Really weird place for him to go like. Fair play I guess.

[Beren]

Wonder if he went to the interview with the old baseball cap.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

Cracking appointment for them to be fair.

[Optimistic Nut]

Aye, he's someone who'll definitely take them up in the next 18 months and probably keep them up initially. As a 3-4 year appointment until they stabilise in the Premier League again, great appointment.

[Figures 1-0 Football]

To the last two posts.

 

Decent enough for us too because he could easily have come in to a team like Swansea and kept them up.

[Wullie]

I see nowt in him to say he's a sure thing to take them up. Playing for promotion where you have to win every week is very different from the way he's been managing for the last ten years. His promotion with Stoke was a career first, in any division, and the last team to be promoted from the second tier with a lower points total than Stoke got was in 1988.

[Kimbo]

Pulis really isn't used to smiling is he.

[Away Day Gadgie]

I see nowt in him to say he's a sure thing to take them up. Playing for promotion where you have to win every week is very different from the way he's been managing for the last ten years. His promotion with Stoke was a career first, in any division, and the last team to be promoted from the second tier with a lower points total than Stoke got was in 1988.

 

Interesting stats them.  I'm quite intrigued to see how he does now.

[Wullie]

I see nowt in him to say he's a sure thing to take them up. Playing for promotion where you have to win every week is very different from the way he's been managing for the last ten years. His promotion with Stoke was a career first, in any division, and the last team to be promoted from the second tier with a lower points total than Stoke got was in 1988.

 

Interesting stats them.  I'm quite intrigued to see how he does now.

 

Slightly incorrect actually, he did take Gillingham up from the 4th tier in 2nd place in 1995.

 

You can tell they were his team like, check out the goals for and against compared to everyone else.

 

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[Guest neesy111]

Apparently boro's defence has been a mess under monk and it's basically the some one they've had for the last 2 years, so I suspect he'll sort that out.  They'll make the play-offs.

[Optimistic Nut]

That's Valencia title-winning stats-esque.

 

20 goals conceded in 46 games is unreal.

[Yorkie]

Certainly no guarantees but you have to think it's probably a good appointment.

[mrmojorisin75]

I see nowt in him to say he's a sure thing to take them up. Playing for promotion where you have to win every week is very different from the way he's been managing for the last ten years. His promotion with Stoke was a career first, in any division, and the last team to be promoted from the second tier with a lower points total than Stoke got was in 1988.

Devil's advocate wise you might look at it and say he's been pragmatic during his time in the PL, often having to manage with less resources than his opponents.

 

They've got two big strikers who can score and a decent back four theoretically, I wouldn't be shocked to see them up through the playoffs now.

[midds]

It'll be interesting to see how he approaches it. He's always been used to scrapping for survival, any means necessary, keep it tight and grind the results out to reach a certain number of points. Now he's going to have to switch things completely and look to attack, score and win as many games as possible. Complete flip of mentality for him, I'll be interested to see how he goes about it.

[Deuce]

If the choice was between Middlesbrough and Swansea, I’d have taken the former as well.

[mrmojorisin75]

It'll be interesting to see how he approaches it. He's always been used to scrapping for survival, any means necessary, keep it tight and grind the results out to reach a certain number of points. Now he's going to have to switch things completely and look to attack, score and win as many games as possible. Complete flip of mentality for him, I'll be interested to see how he goes about it.

I'm not seeing that myself, we didn't go and all out attack the champo with Rafa, we kept it tight from the off and tried to nick goals. We happened to have Gayle and a few others that were enough to tip games for us.

 

Boro spent loads on strikers, if he can tighten the defence (!) and get them scoring enough they'll go up. That's the formula for the champo and to me he seems very well suited.

 

I'm defending pulis apparently.

[Ketsbaia]

Boro have a strong defence on paper and it was good last season, Pulis will make it supreme.

[mrmojorisin75]

Boro have a strong defence on paper and it was good last season, Pulis will make it supreme.

Exactly, key will be whether he can get the strikers firing but they're a couple of big lumps for him to aim at

[Guest Howaythetoon]

Britton has to be under pressure surely?

[joeyt]

Swansea hire Carlos Carvahal as their new head coach

[Ketsbaia]

Preparing for promotion. Fair enough.

[sempuki]

Swansea hire Carlos Carvahal as their new head coach

Didn't see that coming.

[Disco]

Pray 4 English Giggsy.