(16-11-2014, 14:24)Devongone Wrote: A ridiculously high percentage of football managers who are sacked NEVER get the chance to try again elsewhere, yet football fans tend to discuss their potential demise with all the empathy you'd display when fetching the Raid to a bluebottle.
I'm not getting at Wednesday here, but the game is a disaster in terms of management. People are thrust into a position in which generally they have little or no experience, and if they fail, or become unpopular, or say the wrong thing, or fail to become the equivalent of the Chairman's favourite son, they are on their way. Hopefully during freefall they can grab hold of a coaching post to slow their plummet to earth ...... but some are never sighted again. And all too often their demise is heightened by panic-stricken fans for whom the grass is mostly greener.
How bad would it be if Wednesday went down again for a season? You'd recover. How likely does a play-off place look to any of you, even if you ditch your manager? Most people would look at your club and think it ought to be in the Premiership, but I haven't heard anyone say anything like that about individual players, or your current team.
You might dream of a Brian Clough coming in and transforming a powderpuff midfielder into an all-action tackling demon, but it's comic book stuff. In reality a new manager is going to need a bit of time to transform you. Change now, tempt your new manager to dive through the January window and you'll probably pull out a few misfits everyone else has been glad to see the back of ...... If you survive in the Championship you'll be starting a new season with lingering dissatisfaction, manager the equivalent of Judy Murray on Strictly.
Hang on, see what happens. If you've just somehow achieved safety towards the end of the season, or are already doomed that's the time to contemplate change. Get a new man or woman, white or black who has done the job before, and let them start when maybe they can see the wood for the trees. And maybe follow a plan rather than the random select button.
Whilst you make a number of good points generally, you haven't addressed the one specific problem relating to Wednesday. That is that SG isn't good enough to be a manager & shouldn't have been appointed in the first place. His previous track record was poor and although he had an initial impact, results always nosedived after a couple of months.
Changing managers is a costly process. Not the cost of payoffs but the cost of getting rid of all the previous manager's players & bringing in a new set of players. Teams that have the fewest managerial changes progress the most. The key for us is finding the right man & sticking with him.
(16-11-2014, 15:20)Thurnscoe_OWL Wrote: We're not doomed. We're stuck in a rut but are mid table, comfortably.
There are definitely at least 3 teams worse than us (Blackpool, Birmingham, Brighton and I bet Toy Town are down there come the end of the season).
Like I say, a couple of wins over the next few weeks and we're looking up again, no wins and we're sucked into a relegation battle
A month ago we were ten points above the relegation zone We are five points above relegation now. Another month and I suspect we will be in the bottom six.
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