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He's a German (part Yank) 3rd Division/Second team coach. Not saying there is owt wrong with that but that puts him below Powell in terms of experience.
In other news, Symons got the boot at Fulham today. Troy Townsend is yet to comment on this. I won't hold my breath.
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He quit Dortmund in the Summer when his team were relegated. The link with Liverpool may be true or just paper talk or maybe we'd already approached him when Klopp went to Liverpool.
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09-11-2015, 19:51
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Everyone likes attacking football, but you have to keep getting the ball to play that way. You have to be capable of winning the ball high up the field to exert sufficient pressure on the opposition. Otherwise you are permanently trying to attack from your own final third, which as we all know often ends with the ball in your own net.
To an almost total outsider like me your new choice of manager sounds original and refreshing, but I feel sorry for Powell as I wasn't getting the impression it was so much Huddersfield's style that was the problem as that too few of your personnel were really good Championship players. Mid-table seemed to be a fair assessment of their potential.
To develop your youngsters you have to play them in the Championship. You can't become a League player watching from the bench. But that was clearly a risk too far for Powell. (Must say, however, I didn't understand signing Hiwula and sending him to Wigan. His weakness is apparently being so laid-back he's horizontal ....... surely that's what Huddersfield should have been working on, not hoping that another spell in Division One might knock it out of him.)
I suppose throughout Powell's tenure you've hovered too close to relegation to allow him to do much more than fire-fighting. Though he was promised time, if you were black and a football manager you wouldn't need too many diagrams drawing to work out your inevitable future trajectory once your team stopped winning. If you couldn't break into the top ten it was always just a matter of waiting for your Chairman to play Que Sera ..... even though it did turn out more Uber Alles.
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Devongone, paragraph four, sentence two. I feel for Chris Powell but am sure he was both appointed and dismissed exclusively on footballing issues.
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We were attacking when they scored the first two. The third came from our throw-in in our half.
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I certainly don't think his departure had anything to do with his colour.
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Steve Eyre followed Chris Powell out of the door today.
Don't think that was down to his colour either.
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And replaced by Mike Marsh.
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AAs we are discussing the managers, here is Wagners interview yesterday
