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Hull's Phil Brown appears to be in line for the chop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hull_city/8330852.stm

I think it would be a shame, he has done a lot of good things for that team.

How did the club expect Hull to operate in the first season in the Premiership - staying up was a miracle from the word go. Just shows you, it is better to be a competitive Championship side than a promoted side to the Premier.

He will lose his jobs, directors these days are plastics. If Hull go down they like many other one season wonders will dip to the lower leagues. E.g. Reading

Err... last time I looked Reading were still in the Championship.

Only for one more season, they are on their way down, down, down

brown should have been sacked ages ago.

Why? He kept them up when they were the biggest favourites of all time to go down.

because the rot set in last season and they were damn lucky to stay up in the end.their struggle this season was easy to forsee

But would anyone else be able to do any better?

Is this a Gordon Brown thread?

Don't really know why, but I think Brown's a twat. Did a good job keeping them up though, so credit where it's due.

Looks like it's the chairman who's been sacked, not the manager

and pearson going back…

He reminds me of ming the merciless

Did you know Ming?  What was he like?

Ming? If you wronged him you'd fucking know about it.

One thing I did find interesting was that in the season Hull won promotion, they lost over GBP9million.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/oct/28/hull-city-accounts-losses

Astounding figures.

Looks like Slade has been sacked by Brighton.

not a surprise - Brighton were one of the favourites to be there abouts at the end of the season and theyve been shit.

I can't see why they were favourites at all though. They were worse than us last season.

I don't know why they were one of the favourites, as they've been crap for a few years, and most of their finance has gone towards their new ground at Falmer.

The bookies also had Tranmere as one of the favourites also, after appointing Barnes, and we all know what happened with that...

his biggest mistake was not getting them relegated.

once we beat them I thought that was it, bunch of cunts. Hopefully this season.

Doubt it. They'll probably get a pretty decent manager in with the money they have. Coppell has already been mentioned.

So has Wise....

Wise won't go as he's still being paid £20k a week by Newcastle to do absolutely nothing, until March next year.

Nice work if you can get it !!

Always loved Slade and always wondered what Noddy was doing lately.

Peterborough have sacked Ferguson. WTF?

Next Brighton manager now then?

that will be Peter Taylor

It never ceases to amaze me how fucking stupid club chairmen can be.

Ferguson gets them two successive promotions, he gets a new four year contract in the summer and then they sack him when they struggle in The Championship (something which isn't that surprising) despite them only being a couple of wins away from getting out of the drop zone.

Same crazy shit at Middlesborough. They let Southgate rebuild the team in the summer and then as they're "only" 3rd in The Championship they sack him. Since they did, they've got only 1 point from 3 games.

Solely on the basis that their chairmen are cunts I hope Peterborough are relegated and Middlesborough miss out on promotion. Twats, the lot of them.

The curse of the new contract strikes again. It's amazing how many times a manager is given a new contract is then sacked within a year.

MacAnthony wants success, but they still struggle to get gates of 10k.

They will crumble soon I think. He'll be off if they get relegated.

I wonder how much spare cash MacAnthony actually has, as he's heavily involved in timeshare in Spain, which has collapsed in the last year

That has actually really surprised me! I know they arent doing too well but he has fone a lot of good for that club and i dont really think with their squad and no matter who they had in charge it really makes no difference for their chance of survival.

im supprised with that, thought posh have a very good team, possibley another season in league 1 would have done them good rather that 2 successive promotions.

Ferguson had sufficient dosh.

Dosh is a double-edged sword.

5Live reported earlier on he had the second lowest budget in the division. Don't know how accurate that is, but if it is, then perhaps not.

Also seems a little odd to sack him after they'd lost away to Newcastle - one side full of players just come down from the Prem, the other full of players still trying to make the step up from League 1 and with positions in the table to match. Did the Peterboro board really expect to get a result from that one?

Exactly. Either Peterborough are loonies or there's more to this than on-field performance.

Darren Ferguson, your old man's a cunt

That could be true, but Peterborough outspent everyone to get out of Div II apparently not being within a percentage of gate receipts was reported somewhere, not sure about DiV I, but a lot of money had been spent.  What is enough for the Championship? 

Here here.

I see the senile old bastard was whinging again on sunday..... Its alright when it happens in your favour though isnt it Sir Alex you old cunt.

Onto Darren Ferguson, a 4 year contract eh? Thats a nice payoff. He's a nice bloke too, what with assaulting his ex wife...

No idea, but spending big in League Two 2 years ago does not necessarily equate to a team that can compete in the Championship. And, for all I know, that might have been Ferguson's choice - to stick with the lads who got him promoted.

There's got to be more to this than results. Back to back promotions, then the bullet?

anal rape of aaron mclean.

also made george boyd get a haircut

Think Nemo might have it with his "loonies" assessment - remember this is a club that employs Barry Fry as Director of Football :)

Sky are linking Oxford's manager to the role http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5686212,00.html

That would be mildly amusing.

I reckon Peterboro sacked him because someone showed them the DVD of the League of Gentlemen and they were worried his antics would bring the club into disrepute
[url width=900 height=540]http://www.lofg.com/specialstuff/images/thegents/images/cap007.JPG[/url]

Ah, apparently Ferguson is being lined up to replaced the Oh-So-Orange one at Hull and that's why Peterborough got rid apparently.

But why they would sack him and not just hold on take the compensation?

Edit: The press conference with MacAnthony and Fry is ace, MacAnthony spends the whole time telling Fry to stop talking.

Looks like the Pox are worried about Wilder going, it does make me chuckle when i see comments on their boards like "Posh would be a bad career move O*ford are a bigger club" the word deluded comes to mind.

I remember thinking at the beginning of September that the only way Oxford were going to fail to go up this was if Wilder was poached.  Given his record there, it's a distinct possibility.

To be fair I'd have the scum down as being a bigger club than peterborough.

Not that it matters as peterborough are much better obviously

That Ferguson decision is shocking tbf.He has done a great job and rightly thought he would give the players who took them up a chance.Ok it has not worked that way so they should of let him try and change things come january

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/peterborough_united/8354912.stm

Kettering Manager to be appointed

Odd appointment. Consistent with their use of non-league resources though.

wtf ?????

Odd one, your struggling in the championship and needs some wins desperately, and have the january transfer window coming up, so you appoint a non league manager that have never managed above conference level thus not knowing any players that are likely to be available to strengthen and not knowing how the division works.

Strange decision that could very well back fire...or it could be inspired I suppose

Obviously likes appointing sons of famous footballers/managers.

haha

they can implode aswell as notts county