The Managerial Sack Race

[Joey Jones]

'Arry has just been on SSN with Jim White and he said that he had an uncomfortable night in a London hotel and he could hardly walk to the bathroom this morning due to his knee. So he phoned the Chairman to say he was struggling. What a load of bull

[Boogs]

'Arry has just been on SSN with Jim White and he said that he had an uncomfortable night in a London hotel and he could hardly walk to the bathroom this morning due to his knee. So he phoned the Chairman to say he was struggling. What a load of bull

He was told to **** off its so obvious he's saving face

[Doc_Piptorious]

That's so poor, he's done well before with Spurs but how managers even with such poor records keep getting recycled in the Premier League is a joke. Nobody gets an opportunity because the likes of Warnock are still taken seriously.

Warnock, Redknapp, Bruce, Lambert, Pardew, Allardyce, Hughes, Pulis and the list just grows and grows after those names.


Same old names just getting Premier league job after Premier league job.

[Chazza]

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[Shaggy]

[dom9]

Is that a vine? I can't see it.

Large swathes of this site have been rendered unreadable to me by vines.

[dww]

Warnock, Redknapp, Bruce, Lambert, Pardew, Allardyce, Hughes, Pulis and the list just grows and grows after those names.


Same old names just getting Premier league job after Premier league job.

Some of those have shown that they are good though. Pardew, Alladyce and Pulis have all shown they are good PL managers. Even Redknapp used to be good, if expensive and liable to run your club into the ground financially. Bruce tends to get promoted to the PL so it is hard to argue that he deserves his positions.

I used to really rate Lambert but his work at Villa has been pretty shocking.

Hughes was terrible at QPR but otherwise his record is pretty good, no?

Warnock is a fraud but in general I think the idea there is a cabal of managers appointed without looking at their records is out of date. In the last few seasons we have seem Koeman, van Gaal, Monk, Irvine, Carver, Pearson and Dyche introduced to the PL, and Pochettino is pretty new too.

[Alex]

Pulis seems to know how to keep a team in the Mid Table area. I dont think one of his sides has failed apart from maybe that Stoke one a few years ago that they threw money at.

[Shaggy]

Big Les Ferdinand promoted to director of football at QPR

[dww]

Pulis seems to know how to keep a team in the Mid Table area. I dont think one of his sides has failed apart from maybe that Stoke one a few years ago that they threw money at.

I think he is a bit like Moyes in that he is very good at getting a team to a decent standard but struggles to set them free and make a great team. That said his Palace team were a lot more inventive than his Stoke teams ever were so perhaps he is evolving as a manager.

[Alex]

I think Redknapps biggest failing was that he failed to evolve. Or that he got to a point and refused to change anymore.

He did well at Spurs, but football left him behind in the last 5 years. The game has changed quite a lot in that time.

[dww]

I think Redknapps biggest failing was that he failed to evolve. Or that he got to a point and refused to change anymore.

He did well at Spurs, but football left him behind in the last 5 years. The game has changed quite a lot in that time.

I think a lot of managers - Fergusson and Dalglish amongst them - live or die by their coaching choices. Redknapp really seemed to get stuck in an old boys network of contacts. He also had the problem of not really believing in coaching and thinking it was about buying the best players. Not really a recipe for sustainable success at a team like QPR.

[Alex]

He was incredibly short term in his thinking and eventually just kept defaulting to his tried and tested players. People like Defoe, Crouch, Kranjcar and stuff. Always the same faces.

When was the last time he brought through a Young player? When was the last time he adapted to a different game plan on the pitch. Most of the higher level managers do that in the Prem now. I cant remember him doing it ever.

[dww]

He was incredibly short term in his thinking and eventually just kept defaulting to his tried and tested players. People like Defoe, Crouch, Kranjcar and stuff. Always the same faces.

When was the last time he brought through a Young player? When was the last time he adapted to a different game plan on the pitch. Most of the higher level managers do that in the Prem now. I cant remember him doing it ever.

He actually used to be good at that. This season he swapped ****up back threes for barely functioning back fours on several occasions if that counts.

The point about young players and stale options is very true.

[Alex]

Ok, take your point on the Back 3 to 4 switch. But something that obvious is hard to miss.