urban.spaceman Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 11 games to go - we’re 8 points off 7th and relegation respectively. While I personally don’t believe we’re in danger of relegation (just a couple of wins would see us safe), the way I see it the club have 3 options with the manager’s position: 1. Hire an interim manager until the summer. 2. Retain Stowell and Sadler for the rest of the season. 3. Hire a permanent manager now. 4. Re-hire Pearson for a laugh. What should we do?
jammie82uk Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Very simple for me we need an interim manager for the rest of the season to give time to look and get the permanent manager appointed for the preseason and transfer window opening
lcfc sheff Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 I fear with an interim doing well we could fall into the same trap we had with Shakespeare.
Fox92 Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Interim untill end of season. We're not going down but it'd be nice to go up the league abit.
KrefelderFox666 Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 I don't get the interim solution. Why pay someone to get us nowhere when we can keep Stowell on (who I assume is getting the same pay as before)? Keep Stowell/Sadler until the end of this season, cheap and comfortable. Then hire a permanent to start June.
davieG Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 If we can get the manager we really want there's no point in going for an interim, if they're not available then yeah an interim but that could be Stowell or someone else but not just anyone else just for the sake of it. I'd
Voll Blau Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Interim would be stupid because if they end up going on an amazing run we'll have to retain them even if that wasn't the plan. We're not going down, so we'd just be wasting money and the club could be giving themselves a potential headache if they actually end up killing it for the rest of the season.
mozartfox Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 20 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said: I fear with an interim doing well we could fall into the same trap we had with Shakespeare. Valid point. But if we go down the interim route make it clear to FT that it is only interim even if the chosen one records 11 wins.
Harry - LCFC Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 If we can't get a manager we want then we wait. There's no urgent need to make a long-term appointment.
David Hankey Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Forget the interim rubbish, we have to get a permanent position sorted and go forward from there. We're still 8 points short of what Ranieri saw as safety i.e. 40 points. That should concentrate the mind.
z-layrex Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Everyone saying we can't go down, we are in horrific form and could easily carry on losing.
Gerard Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 11 minutes ago, Babylon said: Not get relegated would be nice. I'm looking over our shoulder at the minute. Really tough run in and we've lost at home to relegation threatened Cardiff and Southampton in recent weeks. Need to beat Brighton tomorrow or it becomes a concern.
weller54 Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 28 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said: I fear with an interim doing well we could fall into the same trap we had with Shakespeare. This! Get the permanent choice in ASAP and let him see what's needed for next season!
Gerard Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 3 minutes ago, Harry - LCFC said: If we can't get a manager we want then we wait. There's no urgent need to make a long-term appointment. Agreed, target the manager we want and make sure we get him in the summer if we have to. If it's Brendan Rodgers then he'll be hard to get here before the summer especially as he could do a treble treble in his three years at Celtic. Just make sure we get the right man in for the summer, that is all.
weller54 Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 3 minutes ago, z-layrex said: Everyone saying we can't go down, we are in horrific form and could easily carry on losing. Was Sid James and Hattie Jacques in that one?
RonnieTodger Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 I'd be happy with Appleton until the end of the season. We're not going to get what we want until the summer, so why rush into a half-arsed appointment? Puel taking over Leicester in the relegation zone is a myth, Appleton's Leicester won at Swansea and we moved up to about 14th.
Great Boos Up Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Get a new manager before the end of season rush. If they are amazing, they will move on and if naff, be moved on. We're in a manager cycle now unfortunately because we kept giving interims the job instead of chasing the person we want.
TrentFox Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 26 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said: I don't get the interim solution. Why pay someone to get us nowhere when we can keep Stowell on (who I assume is getting the same pay as before)? Keep Stowell/Sadler until the end of this season, cheap and comfortable. Then hire a permanent to start June. It may not be the best analogy I’ve ever come up with, but I think if my MD left and the company said, that in order to save some dosh, we’re going to ask the janitor to run things for a while ........ Well, it would probably tell me I was in the wrong business for my ambition.
StriderHiryu Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 25 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said: I don't get the interim solution. Why pay someone to get us nowhere when we can keep Stowell on (who I assume is getting the same pay as before)? Keep Stowell/Sadler until the end of this season, cheap and comfortable. Then hire a permanent to start June. Same for me. I'm not against getting an interim manager in, but I don't really see the point given that they won't be here for the duration. What if they do an amazing job like Shakespeare? When we appointed Shakey I personally felt he deserved the chance because of the turnaround he made, but it quickly transpired he was out of his depth. I suppose if we really did start plummeting down the league an interim could be an option but it would take an enormous down turn to go down this season. If we did something crazy like brought in Cambiasso in as interim coach for the last 11 games that might be interesting and fun, though I don't think even that would be a good option. My feeling is Appleton will come back and do a good job and it will make it difficult at the end of the season to see what is done next.
Gubbins Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Does anyone really see Mike Stowell a mediocre coach at best, really improving our league position? Outside of the new manager bounce he may get for a couple of games I'm pretty sure we'd end up with the situation that Everton had last season with Unsworth. We'd probably stay up but not by much.
Stadt Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 Even if an interim manager did well we wouldn’t appoint them permanently.
KrefelderFox666 Posted 25 February 2019 Posted 25 February 2019 10 minutes ago, TrentFox said: It may not be the best analogy I’ve ever come up with, but I think if my MD left and the company said, that in order to save some dosh, we’re going to ask the janitor to run things for a while ........ Well, it would probably tell me I was in the wrong business for my ambition. It really isn't. I know what you are trying to say but this is apples and pears.
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