Speculation Next Manager

[tedfoxxx]

Howe and Warburton would both tell us to bollocks probably.

We'll end up with Steve Clarke I reckon.

 

[SJN-Fox]

I think I read something saying he was still connected to the club...? Cant be 100% though that its correct.

I believe he was acting in some sort of unofficial advisory capacity to the owners.

 

[FOX Franks]

Howe and Warburton would both tell us to bollocks probably.

We'll end up with Steve Clarke I reckon.

Same Steve Clarke who has just joined Reading?

 

[Nottingham Fox]

Do the club get an old head in and hope they can keep us up then rebuild in the summer, or do they accept the fact we're more than likely going to be relegated and appoint someone with next season at the forefront of their mind?

 

[LCFC'sGodWears9]

Give it Super Stevie Howard.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Would rather have a good lower league manager.

Most of the names in the odds lists make me want to weep.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Same Steve Clarke who has just joined Reading?

That's how little I've been paying attention.

That Steve McClaren looks decent, doing a great job at 'Boro.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

feck me we are bugged now.. Martin O'Neill the only one I'd want out of the realistic possibilities.

Realistic? You're deluded if you think he would he make the step down from the Irish national job to join a likely-soon-to-be championship side.

We may as well as Roy Hodgson while we're at it.

 

[Motown Fox]

I'll throw (a long one) into the hat Robbie Neilson. His Heart may be elsewhere though.

 

[Jeff]

Realistic? You're deluded if you think he would he make the step down from the Irish national job to join a likely-soon-to-be championship side.

Step down?

Most managers only take on jobs like that when they can't get a proper club job, or when they're semi-retired.

 

[PFKAKTF FOX]

What's Dave "Harry" Bassett up to, he knows his way round a relegation battle......Peter Taylor is available too í*½í¸‚

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Realistic? You're deluded if you think he would he make the step down from the Irish national job to join a likely-soon-to-be championship side.

We may as well as Roy Hodgson while we're at it.

Call me deluded then, I don't think that'd be a factor if we made a good offer. However there is that thing where I believe he once said 'never go back'...

 

[jb5000]

Of those managers in England who are likely to be interested, I'd say the best is probably Nigel Adkins. So I hope we're about to hire some spanish tactical whizz that nobody here's heard of before.

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Realistic? You're deluded if you think he would he make the step down from the Irish national job to join a likely-soon-to-be championship side.

We may as well as Roy Hodgson while we're at it.

Call me deluded then, I don't think that'd be a factor if we made a good offer. However there is that thing where I believe he once said 'never go back'...

 

[LeeCovFox]

Realistic? You're deluded if you think he would he make the step down from the Irish national job to join a likely-soon-to-be championship side.

We may as well as Roy Hodgson while we're at it.

No Premier League club is a step down from any but the biggest international jobs these days. It's not the way it should be in my head either (international management seems like it should be the pinnacle) but that's the modern game. Remember, both Walter Smith and Alex McLeish walked out on Scotland (a more prestigious job than Ireland) and they were actually Scotsmen. The latter left for Brum, for crying out loud.

 

[Robin127]

Assuming the sacking is true I would say no to Laudrup. Read an article just before he was sacked by Swansea last year and it reported that all his managerial appointments have followed the same pattern, starts off really well, has some success and then can't keep it going with a hint of always looking for a job with a bigger club.

 

[LeeCovFox]

Call me deluded then, I don't think that'd be a factor if we made a good offer. However there is that thing where I believe he once said 'never go back'...

As much as I love O'Neill (although no doubt there's some truth to him behaving like a prick and some of his actions contributing to out fall into administration during his time here) there's definitely an 'I'm alright, Jack' streak there. If we doubled his money he'd be here in a shot. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see him take a contract to the end of the season here. Nobody looks obvious to me of the mentioned options, perhaps other than Lennon for the same reasons as O'Neill.

I'm for O'Neill coming in for a few months. It would get the fans on their feet in the ground, he at least has what it takes to get the players having a go, and even if we still went down it would probably be fun. That has been lacking for most of this season.

 

[LeeCovFox]

Assuming the sacking is true I would say no to Laudrup. Read an article just before he was sacked by Swansea last year and it reported that all his managerial appointments have followed the same pattern, starts off really well, has some success and then can't keep it going with a hint of always looking for a job with a bigger club.

I'd take him coming in and starting of really well; that would be enough to keep us up. His sides play good football and he won a trophy with a club smaller than our own and who probably have less money. Ticks a few boxes.

 

[SJN-Fox]

It's a win-win situation whoever takes the job. Keep us up, they're a hero. Take us down and they inherited a hopeless situation. No damage to their CV.

Maybe they'll keep the current back room staff on until the end of the season and appoint a new manager ready for building next year.

 

[Hazzman]

I believe he was acting in some sort of unofficial advisory capacity to the owners.

And there's no way he'd leave a club due to play in the latter stages of the Champions League.