14-11-2016, 14:39
I can see your point Blue, but Benitez didn't save Newcastle and I (or your mum) could manage them to get out of the Championship! No-one has shown any sign of saving Villa since halfway through Doug Ellis's chairmanship. The last man to get Scunny anywhere was Marmalade (remember Alexander was sacked by a Fleetwood Town desperate to avoid relegation! Do you think they'll stay the course, or even that Josh Morris will keep scoring from midfield?) And Sheff Utd must be the worst example ever of how a new manager invigorates you - maybe this one is doing - but they've grabbed apparently capable managers and turned them into incompetents on an annual basis for years now. In the history of managerial substitutions these must be some of the least convincing examples you could've provided .......... Maybe you should have been looking at Leicester City or Burnley .........
If I were Chairman, Danny would be Director of Football, because I would not want to lose all that experience and Ritchie would be First Team Manager with responsibilty for coaching and team selection, and I'm afraid Mr Morgan would just have to go.
How many more injuries must we suffer before someone questions either our medical, or our training approach? Two more on Sunday ......
Humphrey's never managed before, a head wise enough not to go to war with him, but with whom he could talk through issues looks like a structure for the future to me. And like Benitez he should know he can stay (and learn) even if (which I think is when) we end up going down.
The trouble with Paul Cook's vision was that he was far-sighted enough to see what would happen on the break-up of his promotion team. Otherwise why would he have been talking to another club before we'd even missed out in the play-offs? All we are seeing now is his legacy. He saw that starting from scratch elsewhere looked a better job than re-building Chesterfield from what would be left of his team - with the funds he'd have available. He looks right!
I just find it impossible to accept that when you have a manager, who has taken a small club into the Premiership, and the best he now can do for you is to have you clear at the bottom of Division One, that the extent of your problem is that he is now a crap manager without any vision. Only in the sphere of sport would such a bizarre explanation even be offered. It is pretty obvious we have a lot of problems to solve to become anything other than a Division Two club. A starting point would be to recognise that having a nice stadium can't disguise a Division Two attitude and currently we can be relied upon to make decisions which lead straight back down. Leon Clarke scored against us, so did Lee Novak, how many more illustrations do we need of how, as a club, we've done all the groundwork to get to three points clear at the bottom of our division?
If I were Chairman, Danny would be Director of Football, because I would not want to lose all that experience and Ritchie would be First Team Manager with responsibilty for coaching and team selection, and I'm afraid Mr Morgan would just have to go.
How many more injuries must we suffer before someone questions either our medical, or our training approach? Two more on Sunday ......
Humphrey's never managed before, a head wise enough not to go to war with him, but with whom he could talk through issues looks like a structure for the future to me. And like Benitez he should know he can stay (and learn) even if (which I think is when) we end up going down.
The trouble with Paul Cook's vision was that he was far-sighted enough to see what would happen on the break-up of his promotion team. Otherwise why would he have been talking to another club before we'd even missed out in the play-offs? All we are seeing now is his legacy. He saw that starting from scratch elsewhere looked a better job than re-building Chesterfield from what would be left of his team - with the funds he'd have available. He looks right!
I just find it impossible to accept that when you have a manager, who has taken a small club into the Premiership, and the best he now can do for you is to have you clear at the bottom of Division One, that the extent of your problem is that he is now a crap manager without any vision. Only in the sphere of sport would such a bizarre explanation even be offered. It is pretty obvious we have a lot of problems to solve to become anything other than a Division Two club. A starting point would be to recognise that having a nice stadium can't disguise a Division Two attitude and currently we can be relied upon to make decisions which lead straight back down. Leon Clarke scored against us, so did Lee Novak, how many more illustrations do we need of how, as a club, we've done all the groundwork to get to three points clear at the bottom of our division?