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Adi Boothroyd sacked by Watford, dropping likes flies now these managers.

Interesting... Boothroyd was the next best thing not so long ago.

Watford are on a bit of a spiral now though.

Think they are a bit fucked off the field arent they?

So thats QPR, Watford & Carlisle all looking for managers. I wonder if Holloyway will turn up at any of their grounds

I can see Boothroyd going to QPR or even Charlton when Pardew is effectly sacked aka leaves by mutual consent.

Says in the papers up here Charlton cant afford to pay Pardew off, still has 18 months left.

QPR it is then.

I am surprised Calderwood is still at Forest.

  One wonders if Watford's season might have been different had Reading not been awarded the "goal" that wasn't

Bothroyd to swindon..

Stan ternant has left huddersfield

Boothroyd to Huddersfield.

 So that's three who've beaten us quite easily, have sacked their manager.

Apparenty Kenny Jackett is being lined up by Watford.

This is getting silly now. I'm glad we kept Malpas.

boothroyds recent results have been poor.that said he has lost a few of his better players.
did a fantastic job there for a while and i'm sure will get another job pronto

Didn't Elton John get involved at one stage more recently and criticised the board and backed Bothryd

I'm sure that Poyet will end up at one of the mangerless clubs, wouldn't surprise me if it is QPR

You almost have to say fair play to Fitton for sticking by his own man really.... and he has started to turn it around!

Or Fitton, looks what's out there Calderwood and Malpas can not be far from the chop, Malpas or Pardew, who would you want?

His problem was his reliance on one way of playing and a basic system.  It worked with the right group of players and while other teams weren't used to it (see Stoke in a few season, wouldn't mind betting they get the same problem), but once the money ran dry and players moved on, he struggled.  He tried changing things but clearly was far too geared to one formula.  Ardiles had the same problem at Spurs.  He carried on with the same set-up he used here and after a while people worked it out, never adjusted and waved goodbye.

It's why Fergie has lasted so long I think, because he's built a couple of teams with different styles, formations etc.  He adapts, bastard.

What a pointless comment.

Just for that I'm going to say Malpas over any of them, anyday.

I'm a pointless person so it doesn't worry me what you think.
Malpas or Pardew?
So my pointless view being Pardew every day of the week, every day of the year.

 You may well be right, but I noticed a pointless thing the other day, namely there are only 7 foreign managers working in the 92 clubs....for the purposes of this argument Irishmen are regarded as non foreign.

 4 in the prem  Scolari, Benitez, Wenger and Zola.

 2 in the CCC Martinez and Poortvliet

 1 in L1 di Matteo.

 My point being that, current trends tend to be away from foreigners.

That is quite an amazing statistic, you somehow think there is so many more.
How many English/British chairmen are there in the Premier, just out of interest?

I've always thought Pardew was incredibly over rated

I'll guess that over half are.

Sad day for me, he did a great job

John Ward to Watford on a temp basis....

you heard it here first




(not really it was in one of the red tops)

Granted, the last 3 results have been a step in the right direction, but Malpas record of 4 wins in 14 is still dire, a win ratio of only 29%.

The improvement must continue over the next month if he is to keep his job- we are only 3 points from the drop zone and many slips may find us in there. If you are in the bottom 4 at xmas its damn hard to get out

We know it's not good enough, but the guy is making steps forward - he's not getting the sack and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deal-with-it.

Agree that his ratio this has not been impressive but we do seem to have turned a corner. I can only hope that we keep getting results. Downside is that the next 3 League games are Leicester, Wover and Posh which certainly won't be easy.

We only had 5 wins this time last year. The difference is we were harder to beat. Long way to go for Malpas and the team, hopefully they can improve each game.

Well if we're just picking managers we want I'll have Mourinho.

We need to be realistic here, there is no way in hell Alan Pardew would even become Swindon boss, so there is no point even asking the question because its never going to be a direct choice between the two.

"And our next Mastermind contestant. Your name?"  "STFC Bart."  "And your chosen subject?"  "Spouting the same repetitive, mind numbingly obvious comments, again and again and again and again and again and again............."  "STFC Bart, you have two minutes to bore the shit out of everyone, starting now." 

Tbf Steve what he has said is true.

Yup. The next month will be a real test of whether we've genuinely turned a corner or if it's just a 3 game flash in the pan. I'm not even sure what kind of points target would convince me of that -  I think it's more the nature of the performances tbh

I think the performances and points come hand in hand. When we have played well we have taken points. I would be suprised that a decent showing would not generate any points.

Well I wasn't thinking so much of zero points over that period - clearly that would show something was wrong. More thinking about the scenario where we play well but lose/draw against strong sides - I'm thinking of Leicester and Posh here, not Wovers

Yes mate. But it is also obvious and repetitive.

Given the recent performances I am quite hopeful of a decent haul from the next few games, what worries me though is we play some tricky games between now and the Crewe game and a poor run will put us back to 5 games ago.