Let's hear it for Simon grayson

[Master Fox]

Grayson as manager with Walsh and Taggs as coaches sounds ideal, if a bit defensive. So bring in Claridge and Marshall as attacking strategists too.

That sounds awesome.

See, if only all Leicester fans were like you Willis.

Good on you son.

[Willis]

Or if Marshall and claridge have prior commitments, Graham Fenton

[The People's Hero]

Grayson as manager with Walsh and Taggs as coaches sounds ideal, if a bit defensive. So bring in Claridge and Marshall as attacking strategists too.

The worrying thing about this is that it's correctly spelt etc and it appears at first glace as though you may have a brain.

Unfortunately the content is frighteningly naive and bordering on completely stupid.

[Willis]

Come on, it wasn't a serious suggeastion. But I like to spell thing correctly.

[PontusK]

...and Kaamark as scout... he could un-earth some scandinavian bargains

[mancunianfox]

Kevin Poole as goalkeeping coach.

[Willis]

Whitlow as free kick coach and attack dog, with Garry Parker making half time tea.

[Lester LXXIV]

David Oldfield could be our 'scoring with yer head' coach!?

[Willis]

David Lowe - haircut consultant

[Babylon]

David Lowe - haircut consultant

[Lester LXXIV]

David Lowe - haircut consultant

Or Ian Ormondroyd???

[wirralsimon]

Grayson as manager with Walsh and Taggs as coaches sounds ideal, if a bit defensive. So bring in Claridge and Marshall as attacking strategists too.

Claridge and Marshall as fashion consultants - the Trinny and Susannah of the football world!

Simon

[Thracian]

Grayson as manager with Walsh and Taggs as coaches sounds ideal, if a bit defensive. So bring in Claridge and Marshall as attacking strategists too.

And not an attacker in sight - have you lot not had enough yet?

You're worse than our sodding chairman for wanting dourist management.

This is not an old boys' club, we need someone with imagination at the helm.

Grayson sounded a prosective leader in the summer but he didn't come, either cos he didn't want to or MM didn't think him good enough, and I cannot see how his credentials have improved since then.

It is time for someone with an attacking attitude.

Even with moderate results Megson's football was the visual equivalent of toothacre.

[DanTheFox07]

I'd take Grayson over Dowie any day

Agreed, Can`t go wrong with this man! I don`t think were going to get jewell unless mandaric gets serious with his Money!

[Manwell Pablo]

And not an attacker in sight - have you lot not had enough yet?

You're worse than our sodding chairman for wanting dourist management.

This is not an old boys' club, we need someone with imagination at the helm.

Grayson sounded a prosective leader in the summer but he didn't come, either cos he didn't want to or MM didn't think him good enough, and I cannot see how his credentials have improved since then.

It is time for someone with an attacking attitude.

Even with moderate results Megson's football was the visual equivalent of toothacre.

Just give me someone who wins football games I don't care how!

[davieG]

from daily mail

Blackpool boss Simon Grayson has emerged as a leading candidate to replace Gary Megson at Leicester.

Grayson, who spent five years at Leicester as a player in the Nineties, has established himself as one of the country's top young managers after steering Blackpool into the Championship last season. It is believed he would take former Leicester boss Brian Little as his assistant.

source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1779

Is this the same daily mail that has us down as Division 2 team.

Link

[Thracian]

Just give me someone who wins football games I don't care how!

We know that - you and a lot of others on here. Trouble is "never mind the football it's the winning that counts" hasn't worked, has it?

What we've actually had is shit football and largely shit results.

Because shit football will get shit results over a period of time.

[Manwell Pablo]

We know that - you and a lot of others on here. Trouble is "never mind the football it's the winning that counts" hasn't worked, has it?

What we've actually had is shit football and largely shit results.

Because shit football will get shit results over a period of time.

I've always said I don't care who it is as long as they get us winning, and I've never had the manager/s I want employed so I don't see how you can say that "it hasn't worked"

In any case, who would you want in charge now Kevin "The Wordsmith" Keegan has ruled himself out of ever managing in football ever again.

[mancunianfox]

We know that - you and a lot of others on here. Trouble is "never mind the football it's the winning that counts" hasn't worked, has it?

What we've actually had is shit football and largely shit results.

Because shit football will get shit results over a period of time.

I had to read that three times to make sense of that.

'What we've actually had is shit football and largely shit results, because shit football will get shit results over a period of time.'

Are you back on the Grayson bandwagon then? I seem to remember that you were pretty keen on him over the summer.

[Thracian]

I had to read that three times to make sense of that.

'What we've actually had is shit football and largely shit results, because shit football will get shit results over a period of time.'

Are you back on the Grayson bandwagon then? I seem to remember that you were pretty keen on him over the summer.

I don't want Grayson at all any more. I've said why elsewhere.

I don't want any sort of compromise. I'm sick of em and the sort of dross they've produced.

I want an attacking manager.

I want someone who recognises effective players and can blend them together in a team that plays football swiftly and ruthlessly from back to front.

And who recognises wasters and ships them out of the club on his first fu cking morning - even if he's got to send them home.

[Nationwider]

Whilst Simon Grayson has done an admirable job at Blackpool, like Martin Allen, he is still very green in managerial terms. To date, he has acquired players astutely, but only actually been able to spend £25,000 in his two year career. Blackpool average about 8k per home game and it would be a quantum leap for someone like Grayson to have to make. The media scrutiny that the club is now under following the arrival of Mandy and his revolving door is immense and throwing in another manager with no top-tier experience is asking for history to repeat itself (Levein, Kelly, Allen).

Grayson was a good servant of LCFC, but he was no legend. That word gets given way too much airtime in this forum. Like most of our other recent managers, he lacks the profile that's required to handle the bigger players on bigger wages that Manadric is inevitably going to want and need at some stage (and indeed the experience to handle Manadric himself). That's not to say he won't go on to be a great manager. I just think - like Allen - he's still 2/3 years away from earning the right to take on a big job.

If he was to take on a coaching role at LCFC underneath, say, a former LCFC manager that might have signed him during his career; a man with experience of working with a "deadly" chairman; a man who took us to three play-off finals before taking his next club to two successive top 5 Premiership finishes, then that might be different.

Mandy really does need experience. If he needs to take 2-3 months for the merry-go-round to throw up some more candidates, then so be it. The last thing he should do is to risk a populist choice that's currently flavour of the month, only for it to all go tits-up again by the New Year.

[mancunianfox]

I don't want Grayson at all any more. I've said why elsewhere.

I don't want any sort of compromise. I'm sick of em and the sort of dross they've produced.

I want an attacking manager.

I want someone who recognises effective players and can blend them together in a team that plays football swiftly and ruthlessly from back to front.

Sorry I hadn't read your comments elsewhere. I'm not sure what evidence there is to suggest that Grayson wouldn't be an attacking manager? Blackpool scored more goals at home last season than any other team in their division and found the net plenty of times away from home as well. Admittedly they are struggling this season but thats hardly suprising given the lack of quality in their squad.

Mandy really does need experience. If he needs to take 2-3 months for the merry-go-round to throw up some more candidates, then so be it. The last thing he should do is to risk a populist choice that's currently flavour of the month, only for it to all go tits-up again by the New Year.

Experience left us after six weeks. Worthington was experienced AND rubbish. Grayson has already achieved way more than Martin Allen so I don't think that comparison is a good one either.

[Nationwider]

Experience left us after six weeks.

The circumstances were a bit unusual though. I don't feel that's a reason not to look for another experienced manager.

Worthington was experienced AND rubbish.

...and never going realistically going to get the job anyway.

Grayson has already achieved way more than Martin Allen so I don't think that comparison is a good one either.

True. He has a promotion to his name (a big plus point) and spews a lot less psychobabble. He's no more experienced than him in absolute terms though, and I don't think either were/are ready for LCFC and MM.

[Ultra]

I don't want Grayson at all any more. I've said why elsewhere.

I don't want any sort of compromise. I'm sick of em and the sort of dross they've produced.

I want an attacking manager.

I want someone who recognises effective players and can blend them together in a team that plays football swiftly and ruthlessly from back to front.

And who recognises wasters and ships them out of the club on his first fu cking morning - even if he's got to send them home.

And those "wasters" would be straight on the phone to the PFA, or more probably, Mandaric. Word would go out about what a "bully" this manager was and before he knew it, he'd be out on his ear.

Why do you think Martin Allen got the boot?

[mancunianfox]

The circumstances were a bit unusual though. I don't feel that's a reason not to look for another experienced manager.

Agreed and to some extent I am playing devils advocate. However I don't think that experience is the only box that needs ticking. For me it is quite far down on the list of priorities. I don't want Grayson because he is an ex-player I want him because he is proving himself to be a good at his job.

He took up an unfashionable side who had been struggling for years when there were far 'bigger' teams in the division and he has experience of working with an eccentric/driven chairman. Though I wouldn't trust him with a lot of money he cannot be anyworse than Allen with the pursestrings and people still seem to hold him in high regard.