Realistic Managerial Replacements

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

On 26/10/2025 at 19:47, Sankey93 said:

Bo Svensson

 

Craaaaaaaiiiig David

[honeybradger]

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Don't do that.

 

Look, the man is a *****, he shouldn't ever be allowed to "manage" a football club and even left alone to just coach a squad he'll eventually fall over because his man management of actual human beings is trash tier. 

 

But when he's got confidence in his squad and his squad have confidence in him he's a pretty good coach. 

 

We played probably the best football I've ever seen us play under Rodgers and if you're going to try and pretend that was down to Claude Puel, who couldn't coach a team to attack if it was to save the world, I'm going to pay Mark to ban you for life. 

 

It's possible to hold contrasting thoughts and nuance in your head. Rodgers can be a cvnt we're glad to see the back of but also won us the FA Cup and played some absolutely cracking football when things were good. 

 

Not saying it was down to Puel, he built a good squad but his tactics held the squad back. I'm saying the playstyle that Rodgers gets credit for in his first couple of years with us was already there from the game after Puel was sacked and before Rodgers was properly appointed (brighton 2-1 win). So how does he get credit for implementing that playstyle when it was present before he even spoke to the players and it deteriorated the longer he coached them.

 

What often is referred to as Rodger's ball was in reality 'Tielemans ball', where we controlled games but also penetrated the opposition before Rodgers could coach it out of them. Rodgers ball is just mindless passing between the centrebacks and we saw that playstyle develop the longer he was in position, surely the intended playstyle of a manager has to be the style that develops the longer he is manager, not the playstyle that is there during the honeymoon period where the players are playing freely.

[Muzzy_no7]

1 hour ago, cityfanlee23 said:

 

 

Challinor would be a gamble I could fully get behind, massively exciting. Would take him tomorrow if he was available to us. 

Thing is though, he would need to come with Simon Wilson DoF and coaches Clint Hill and Meulensteen.

 

We know our club is incredibly slow at getting coaching staff in and we certainly won’t go for Wilson, who would be equally as key as Challinor. 

[cityfanlee23]

44 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Thing is though, he would need to come with Simon Wilson DoF and coaches Clint Hill and Meulensteen.

 

We know our club is incredibly slow at getting coaching staff in and we certainly won’t go for Wilson, who would be equally as key as Challinor. 

Yep, never going to happen sadly 

[Finnegan]

"Realistic Managerial Replacements" 

 

Foxestalk posts a bunch of hipster suggestions our board will never have heard of. 

 

[AjcW]

7 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

"Realistic Managerial Replacements" 

 

Foxestalk posts a bunch of hipster suggestions our board will never have heard of. 

 

Dave Challinor has just spat out his Bovril and taken off his bobble hat in disgust at being called a hipster  

[Nolucklcfc]

2 hours ago, honeybradger said:

Before Rodgers took over we played 'peak Rodgers ball' in the Brighton 2-1 win. Not sure the way we played was down to him or due to the quality of player we had, the squad he inherited was ridiculous.

Nah come on; I don’t like him at all but he did take the team to a new level. 

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, AjcW said:

Dave Challinor has just spat out his Bovril and taken off his bobble hat in disgust at being called a hipster  

 

He has no experience managing in the league we are currently playing in. 

 

He's a hipster suggestions to Jon Rudkin. 

 

[Lionator]

1 hour ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Thing is though, he would need to come with Simon Wilson DoF and coaches Clint Hill and Meulensteen.

 

We know our club is incredibly slow at getting coaching staff in and we certainly won’t go for Wilson, who would be equally as key as Challinor. 

Add in the fact Stockport are well off financially and will be at our level this time next season. 

[Stadt]

We've appointed 2 managers already in a job under the Thais ever. Even one of those was the man they seemingly forced out to make way for ****ing Paulo Sousa in the first place.

 

Not that they've even paid any attention to any managers, you can only draw up a managerial shortlist AFTER you've sacked the incumbent. If we do sack Marti they'll go to transfermarkt out of work coaches and try and contact the 5 or 6 they've heard of, get told to **** off by 4 and appoint Gary O'Neil

 

 

[Sly]

Welcome Big Ange 

[Manwell Pablo]

Genuinely shocked we’ve managed 2 hours without Brendan being bought up. 
 

Maybe this website is on the mend. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

14 hours ago, Sly said:

Brendan at his best was potentially the best Manager we’ve had.

 

Brendan at his worst was every bit as bad as any terrible coach we’ve ever had. 
 

They’re like Ying / Yang unfortunately and you can’t have one without the other.

 

Hindsight states that maybe Head Coaches are best served on a two to three year cycle! 

He's kind of proven that today.

[Guppys Love Child]

2 hours ago, Manwell Pablo said:

Genuinely shocked we’ve managed 2 hours without Brendan being bought up. 
 

Maybe this website is on the mend. 

Good.  And his name shouldn't even be on any list associated with the club if/when Marti get his marching orders.

 

He's a major part of the reason we are in this current situation, and he's a lying, manipulate, back stabbing, sabotaging, throughly despicable excuse if a man. He exibibits all of the trates I find most distasteful in people...

 

Aaarrrhhh...look what you've made me do just by mentioning his name, I've gone on a mini rant. Oh well back in therapy for me then..

 

[K789]

Brian barry Murphy looks good

[Wortho]

On 28/10/2025 at 01:33, JJD_LCFC said:

Desmond is correct about Brendan. We saw this during his last 18 months here. (First 18 months Brendan was fantastic) as soon as things didn’t go his way. He downed tools and we are where we are today due to him! Alienated a host of players, dire recruitment which happened his whole career then blames others for poor standard of players,  finally … played Danny ward for 25+ premier league games! He wanted to be sacked for a payout with us.

how do you relegate a team with Maddison, Barnes, Vardy, tielemans, ndidi! Ruin the morale and atmosphere at the club, and started when Brendan downed tools and gave up. 

Great post

[Chelmofox]

5 hours ago, K789 said:

Brian barry Murphy looks good

Didnt he get pelters on here because the feedback was the 1st team didnt understand what to do in training?

[ClaphamFox]

7 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Didnt he get pelters on here because the feedback was the 1st team didnt understand what to do in training?

There was a story about the squad getting the hump with him during one session because the drills were too complicated for them, and it got a little heated. He then apologised and apparently that was the end of it. But I suspect the issue was the toxic culture in the squad meant they were unwilling to learn new things rather than Barry Murphy not understanding how to plan a training session. Either way, he doesn't seem to be having much trouble getting the Cardiff players to understand him...

[Chelmofox]

9 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

There was a story about the squad getting the hump with him during one session because the drills were too complicated for them, and it got a little heated. He then apologised and apparently that was the end of it. But I suspect the issue was the toxic culture in the squad meant they were unwilling to learn new things rather than Barry Murphy not understanding how to plan a training session. Either way, he doesn't seem to be having much trouble getting the Cardiff players to understand him...

Maybe they need to take english classes at Seagrave too. Although the guy has too many names, he seems to have started well at Cardiff for sure.

[Danizen]

22 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

He has no experience managing in the league we are currently playing in. 

 

He's a hipster suggestions to Jon Rudkin. 

 

That also applies to anyone who hasn't been a pundit of Sky Sports or MOTD in the last three months. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

43 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

There was a story about the squad getting the hump with him during one session because the drills were too complicated for them, and it got a little heated. He then apologised and apparently that was the end of it. But I suspect the issue was the toxic culture in the squad meant they were unwilling to learn new things rather than Barry Murphy not understanding how to plan a training session. Either way, he doesn't seem to be having much trouble getting the Cardiff players to understand him...

It was likely our dickhead players not wanting to listen or get onboard with someone that they perceived as beneath them. 

[sporter113]

6 hours ago, K789 said:

Brian barry Murphy looks good

Could've just promoted him, but instead we'll pay millions of £ in compensation to bring him back 6 months later 😂

[ClaphamFox]

24 minutes ago, sporter113 said:

Could've just promoted him, but instead we'll pay millions of £ in compensation to bring him back 6 months later 😂

It's the Leicester way.

[Les-TA-Jon]

27 minutes ago, sporter113 said:

Could've just promoted him, but instead we'll pay millions of £ in compensation to bring him back 6 months later 😂

Didn't Cardiff pay us compensation to get him though? 

[moore_94]

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