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What has Dowie done?

Got Palace relegated!!
Started the downturn at Charlton that eventually got them relegated!!
Kept Covscum up:icon_sad: BUT Could have got Covscum relegated had it not been for the initial results after we beat them

Got Palace promoted BUT he was on a lucky run and had Andy Johnson around to score goals
Had Johnson not been around how soon would Palace have got relegated. B4 Easter?
 
Well, in fairness to him:

He got Oldham going extremely well in League One. Then when he took over at Palace he took them from about 18th at Christmas (with Andy Johnson in the side) to promotion. He then almost kept them up too.

I'm not a great fan of him at all..... But just trying to be impartial and fair. He has done some superb work in the past..
 
alex said:
Well, in fairness to him:

He got Oldham going extremely well in League One. Then when he took over at Palace he took them from about 18th at Christmas (with Andy Johnson in the side) to promotion. He then almost kept them up too.

I'm not a great fan of him at all..... But just trying to be impartial and fair. He has done some superb work in the past..
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On balance I think that Dowie has probably more to offer than our last couple of full time managers.... and is probably made of a bit sterner stuff than Worthington who had a fairly dismal run with Norwich following relegation in spite of relatively decent resources.

But then we had the bizarre stories of how Dowie ran some of the training sessions at Charlton. Who knows whether these stories were gossip, true or exagerations.

Overall his results are mixed but on the whole encouraging.

I don't think he is remotely top draw. But I can't imagine that a top drawer manager would be interested in the job. I don't think that Chris Coleman would come to the Walkers; I don't think Billy Davies will leave Derby this season (he is always going to be an edgy proposition, just like MON at Leicester - but I can't see him sitching to the Walkers and I don't know where there is a case for appointing Paul Ince. So it could be Dowie or the usual suspects: the Robsons, Hoddles etc.... who nobody else seems to want or those at a level that would want them can't afford them.

I think one of the basic misunderstandings is that managers will want to come to Leicester because of the opportunity to work with MM and spend his money. The problem with that is that MM doesn't really throw around lots of money on transfers and there are some managers who would not want to work with a 'controlling' owner. This is not to say MM's takeover was not for the good - it was because the club was just adrift.
 
Redditch Fox said:
I think one of the basic misunderstandings is that managers will want to come to Leicester because of the opportunity to work with MM and spend his money. The problem with that is that MM doesn't really throw around lots of money on transfers and there are some managers who would not want to work with a 'controlling' owner. This is not to say MM's takeover was not for the good - it was because the club was just adrift.
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Agree apart from this bit.

I think, on balance, a fairly big club punching under their weight with a new owner renowned as a "football man" (whatever that means) who will spend more than the average in this league would be a pretty appealing proposition to a lot of pretty decent managers.

Oh, and I thought I'd mention Newell again seeing as his name has dropped off the radar on here. Not my first choice but I still think he could do a job.

The more names in the hat the better - then we can keep this crap going at full pace for the next few weeks :icon_roll
 
DesertFox said:
Agree apart from this bit.

I think, on balance, a fairly big club punching under their weight with a new owner renowned as a "football man" (whatever that means) who will spend more than the average in this league would be a pretty appealing proposition to a lot of pretty decent managers.

Oh, and I thought I'd mention Newell again seeing as his name has dropped off the radar on here. Not my first choice but I still think he could do a job.

The more names in the hat the better - then we can keep this crap going at full pace for the next few weeks :icon_roll
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I understand all that about LCFC punching below their weight. Also in most circumstances it's a good thing - for obvious reasons - to follow failure. However, the pitfall at Leicester is the pitiful weakness of the current squad and the fact that there is no obious means of getting rid of many of them. This I think will put potential managers off the club. So, we are not so attractive to the likes of Billy Davies - although very attractive to the unemployed like for example Newell or the understandably opportunistic, like Ince.
 
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Agree Redditch...
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Yes, fair points Redditch.

I do think he's got something that most of the other candidates haven't though (insert gag). I can see him doing a really good job somewhere if the circumstances are right.

Mind you, I thought Levein was a good appointment.
 
Brown Nose said:
Yes, fair points Redditch.

Mind you, I thought Levein was a good appointment.
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As did I - and I believe some of his work was good - our academy are thriving...this is very much something he worked hard to get going to it's full potential.
 
alex said:
As did I - and I believe some of his work was good - our academy are thriving...this is very much something he worked hard to get going to it's full potential.
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Levein isn't stupid and attended to some important structural issues within the club like the academy; the wage structure and the age of the squad issue.

Unfortunately, he never seemed to get to grips with English football; doesn't have a very inspiring personality and appeared tactically inept.

So we did badly and he had to go.
 
Just reading on a local Coventry website, that it appears Iain Dowie has yet to sign his 3 ½ year contract with Coventry.

COVENTRY CITY have shrugged off renewed rumours linking manager Iain Dowie with Leicester City.

But they have refused to comment on suggestions that the Sky Blues boss is still to sign the three and a half year contract he agreed when he replaced Micky Adams in February.

Dowie - currently pre-occupied by his £1million legal battle with Crystal Palace supremo Simon Jordan - seemed to leave no doubt about his commitment to the Ricoh Arena when he spoke at the club's annual dinner last Wednesday.

But the stubborn speculation that Milan Mandaric sees him as the No.1 choice to take over at the Walkers Stadium is an unwelcome development for Coventry as they continue to negotiate with the American consortium on a takeover.

"There will always be speculation and it is nice to have interest in your manager, but there is no truth in the rumour," insisted managing director Paul Fletcher,

Asked about Dowie's contract situation, however, Fletcher said: "That's a matter for the chairman.

But Geoffrey Robinson would only say: "I have no comment to make other than to say that Iain Dowie has a fully agreed deal and is our manager."

Robinson added, however, that he hopes the proposed takeover by Manhattan Sports Capital Partners will be completed as soon as possible.

"The board are extremely positive and anxious that we make swift progress," he said.
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I will not accept Dowie as our manager at leicester city, i would rather have Paul ince then Dowie, he is a lair and a disgrace to football and a cheating c**t and he is worst then rob kelly.
 
if dowie gets the job i have a strong feeling i wont be commited to the club, i know that i will support them no matter what but i just take dowie as the manager. he is a lying fecking cheat
 
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