New Manager

[Exiled Bob]

Some managers fit clubs and some clubs fit managers.

Macari at Swindon vs Macari at Stoke and West Ham, Ardiles at Swindon vs Ardiles at Newcastle, Hoddle at Swindon vs Hoddle at Chelsea and Spurs.

Macari was a success at Stoke, certainly first time around. And Hoddle didn't have a bad record at Chelsea either, only leaving to take the England job.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Nathan Jones showing for the second time how difficult it is stepping up to be boss of a big club (compared to Luton, anyway).

[Peter Venkman]

Macari was a success at Stoke, certainly first time around. And Hoddle didn't have a bad record at Chelsea either, only leaving to take the England job.

Hoddle had a win % of just 33% at Chelsea, yes Lou did wlel first time round at Stoke but awful 2nd time and awful at Birmingham and Celtic and not great at Huddersfield too.

[singingiiiffy]

Nathan Jones showing for the second time how difficult it is stepping up to be boss of a big club (compared to Luton, anyway).

luton not exactly missing him either

[Peter Venkman]

luton not exactly missing him either

Partly because he built a good squad there, seems out of his depth at bigger clubs though for sure.

[Batch]

Ah, if you are going to be serious about this Rokerite...

I don't think the Cowley bros are a fit for what we are trying to do.

As far as I understand it, the current direction is to get in younger players who we believe we can develop with a few sold at the right time - to keep the lights on.

It appears we wish to be a passing, possession based team - based on comments from the sporting director - as this puts them into the shop window better. That's not to say I personally believe we aren't trying to get promoted as a priority over this.

We have gone more heavily, or at least more publicly, into stats based recruiting to try and identify the players to recruit. The manager having input from that list.

Would the Cowley bros buy into that?  My opinion is
- Its too restrictive and somewhat against the style they employed at other clubs.
- We've recruited for our possession based style (with varying degrees of success).
- We aren't going to have oodles of January budget to change things.

Now some counters to that
- I don't know if the recruitment model will be persisted
- I don't really know the "Cowley bros way" in any depth

I'm not saying they couldn't be successful. I'm not sure we are set up right now to utilise them.

[Peter Venkman]

Ah, if you are going to be serious about this Rokerite...

I don't think the Cowley bros are a fit for what we are trying to do.

As far as I understand it, the current direction is to get in younger players who we believe we can develop with a few sold at the right time - to keep the lights on.

It appears we wish to be a passing, possession based team - based on comments from the sporting director - as this puts them into the shop window better. That's not to say I personally believe we aren't trying to get promoted as a priority over this.

We have gone more heavily, or at least more publicly, into stats based recruiting to try and identify the players to recruit. The manager having input from that list.

Would the Cowley bros buy into that?  My opinion is
- Its too restrictive and somewhat against the style they employed at other clubs.
- We've recruited for our possession based style (with varying degrees of success).
- We aren't going to have oodles of January budget to change things.

Now some counters to that
- I don't know if the recruitment model will be persisted
- I don't really know the "Cowley bros way" in any depth

I'm not saying they couldn't be successful. I'm not sure we are set up right now to utilise them.

100%.

At Pompey and Lincoln they bought big, strong, experienced players at the expense of younger players and prefer to play a non possession based direct style of football, everything our current set up is against.

Also all irrelevant anyway as we wouldn;t pay the sort of wages that the "team" would want I am certain, out of work or not.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

That’s good enough for me! Get them in!

[Exiled Bob]

Hoddle had a win % of just 33% at Chelsea, yes Lou did wlel first time round at Stoke but awful 2nd time and awful at Birmingham and Celtic and not great at Huddersfield too.

In his 2nd stint at Stoke Macari got them to the play-offs and then mid-table. Hardly awful. He also got Huddersfield to the play-offs. Even at Birmingham he wasn't awful. He left them to go to Stoke having won a cup with them and steadied them after a poor start to the season under their previous manager (Dave Mackay).
Hoddle, in his first season at Chelsea, got them to FA Cup final and in his second season to the semi final of the Cup Winners Cup as well as doing the double over double-winning Man United. He made them a strong cup team and attracted the likes of Gullit to the club. Far from being awful, you could argue he started the ball rolling towards their success not longer after he left. It's not all about win percentages....

[Bob's Orange]

FWIW I just had a scan of the next manager market on BV for Crawley and they have 2 managers miles ahead in the betting market -

Garner - 11/8
Scott Lindsey - 8/15

I wonder if Crawley are looking to get the band back together down in Sussex.

[Peter Venkman]

FWIW I just had a scan of the next manager market on BV for Crawley and they have 2 managers miles ahead in the betting market -

Garner - 11/8
Scott Lindsey - 8/15

I wonder if Crawley are looking to get the band back together down in Sussex.

It has been suggested.

[Batch]

Could be, you can understand Lindsey thinking 'stuff this manager lark, it's not for me' and head somewhere as an assistant.

[Bob's Orange]

It has been suggested.

Would make the last game of the season even more spicy!

[Jilted John]

It's not all about win percentages....

At the end of the day it actually is. Win games.

[4D]

Especially if former Crawley boss Evans joined us