Jackirius Posted 6 January 2011 Posted 6 January 2011 I saw about 10 facebook statuses on this from all my friends who are Ipswich fans rejoicing in him leaving. Also... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/burnley/9346752.stm Didn't really think it was topic worthy... But if he did go, then that would make my week (unless we beat man city).
StanSP Posted 6 January 2011 Posted 6 January 2011 Odd timing but maybe it saves them from the humiliation they''ll get playing Arsenal. I would include Chelsea as well but with their shitness recently, Ipswich might beat them!
davieG Posted 6 January 2011 Posted 6 January 2011 Keane Leaves Town Thu 06th Jan 2011 22:52 TWTD understands that Town manager Roy Keane has parted company with the club. The Blues boss has been under pressure with Town having dropped to 19th in the Championship despite a promising start to the season which saw them hit second. <br clear="all"> Keane, whose contract was due to end in June, joined the Blues in April 2009 after Jim Magilton’s sacking and despite winning his first two games in charge at the end of the 2008/09 season never threatened to repeat his success at Sunderland. The end looked to have been on the cards for some weeks now with Marcus Evans apparently unwilling to commit funds for transfers and Keane having exchanged angry words and gestures with fans after Monday’s 1-0 loss at home to Nottingham Forest. Earlier today, Paddy Power stopped betting on the identity of Keane’s likely successor with former Wigan, Bradford, Sheffield Wednesday and Derby boss Paul Jewell’s odds having been cut from 20/1 to 6/5. Former Newcastle manager Chris Hughton and ex-Charlton boss Alan Curbishley have both previously been linked with the Blues. http://www.twtd.co.uk/news.php?storyid=17640
Matt Posted 6 January 2011 Posted 6 January 2011 Thought he was quite decent at Sunderland in his first season but clearly beginners luck, after that he has failed.
wurmer Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 also http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1344794/Roy-Keane-sacked-Ipswich-Tractor-Boys-dismiss-boss-promotion-promise-falls-short.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
z-layrex Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 It's like every club who loses games fires their manager, not everyone can fooking win!
Finnegan Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 It's like every club who loses games fires their manager, not everyone can fooking win! I'm kind of fed up of the LMA moaning about it, though. Managers used as scapegoats, they say. Fine. But Avram Grant and Roy Hodgson have both been spectacularly shit, as has Houllier and Keane is arguably worse than the lot.
Stevosevic Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 Will they get the Paul Jewell of Wigan and Bradford? Or the Paul Jewell of Sheffield Wednesday and Derby?
Jon the Hat Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 Good. The bloke is a grade A ****, with no management skills whatsoever, who has now made a lot of money by being a gobby bloke who used to be a World class player. Hopefully this will be the end of his management career and we wont have to read about him anymore.
Finnegan Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 Always think of him fondly for telling McCarthy where to do one, mind.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 I'm kind of fed up of the LMA moaning about it, though. Managers used as scapegoats, they say. Fine. But Avram Grant and Roy Hodgson have both been spectacularly shit, as has Houllier and Keane is arguably worse than the lot. But then again SOMEONE has to be the worst in the league, one team has to lose if the other is to win. It's starting to get silly that any team that spends most of its season in the bottom half of its league will change its manager. Hodgson has proven his quality and I think Grant did okay at Chelsea. Have they suddenly become bad managers? There's just so many other factors that come into the equation that a manager struggles to control, it's impossible to guarentee a manager's effect on a team when he joins. I'll probably get strung up for this, but MoN could come back here and have a right mare! Still, they get paid well for what they do, and they're hardly left destitute (at least in the top two leagues) if they get the sack.
davieG Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 But then again SOMEONE has to be the worst in the league, one team has to lose if the other is to win. It's starting to get silly that any team that spends most of its season in the bottom half of its league will change its manager. Hodgson has proven his quality and I think Grant did okay at Chelsea. Have they suddenly become bad managers? There's just so many other factors that come into the equation that a manager struggles to control, it's impossible to guarentee a manager's effect on a team when he joins. I'll probably get strung up for this, but MoN could come back here and have a right mare! Still, they get paid well for what they do, and they're hardly left destitute (at least in the top two leagues) if they get the sack. It's not as if they haven't got other members rubbing their hands with glee at their imminent demise, ones that are still living comfortable off their previous pay-offs.
Zingari Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 very true Trav i think Ipswich have occasionally punched above their weight and hold quite unrealistic expectations , add to this the relative success of Norwich at the moment and i believe the board have a clouded judgement and have been very rash
Finnegan Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 Yeah I hear you. But Hodgson has been REALLY bad. I know they dont have Unitf's squad or Chelsea's money but this stuff about them being mid-table at best is bullshit. They're still a top six team on paper imo. He's not just been shit, he's been M&S shit.
Jon the Hat Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 Yeah I hear you. But Hodgson has been REALLY bad. I know they dont have Unitf's squad or Chelsea's money but this stuff about them being mid-table at best is bullshit. They're still a top six team on paper imo. He's not just been shit, he's been M&S shit. Hodgson is a decent medium sized club manager, but he is out of his depth at Liverpool. Seems to me there is something about clubs like Liverpool and Man U for example which means youhave to be a politician as well as a manager to survive. There are so many other things going on that you either have to be involved in everything like Fergie or have a really good Director who has your back to let you get on with it. Hodgson has neither.
FoxyPV Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 He's been a dead man walking for quite a while. I can't see him being back in management for a long time.
Finnegan Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 You have to be a twat to manage the egos of big players. Fergie? Twat. Mourinho? Twat. Hodgson? Nice bloke. Sincerely think even a Wenger would struggle at a Yanited or Chelsea.
shen Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 Yeah I hear you. But Hodgson has been REALLY bad. I know they dont have Unitf's squad or Chelsea's money but this stuff about them being mid-table at best is bullshit. They're still a top six team on paper imo. He's not just been shit, he's been M&S shit. His record suggests that Hodgson should not have a problem getting the best out of his teams. The teams I've watched him manage (Fulham, Finland and Copenhagen), all played organized professional football and functioned like a strong unit. So something has gone a bit wrong at Liverpool, but the question is what? Is it the number of self-inflated egos present there? People blaming him for his signings are being ridiculous. Replacing someone like Mascherano was always going to be tough, and when he goes for a proven experienced (and cheap) international whom he knows well and who has cut it at top level in Spain, Germany and Italy few would have argued it wasn't a shrewd signing. So far it hasn't paid off. Meireles has been one of the best (of an admittedly underperforming bunch) so no finger-pointing there. Saying that Konchesky 'isn't good enough' are seemingly already forgetting he just won the Europa League last year and that Liverpool made three European finals with players like Finnan, Traore and Pennant in the squad. No more than average (or worse) Joe players in the Prem. Actually Joe Cole is the only signing I'd say was poor, but I can understand why he thought it was a risk worth taking. I don't believe that it's down to Hodgson that Liverpool are failing this year...
Corky Posted 7 January 2011 Posted 7 January 2011 Spent money and not delivered in the league over 18 months.
Zingari Posted 9 January 2011 Posted 9 January 2011 beaten 7 - 0 today !! well that sure justified the boards decision to sack him
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