Jack Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Its the word going round the offices this morning, I will try and find out more and let you know!I for one won't be happy with him!! Me neither. but at the end of the day if it is him we are gonna have to get behind him.
Tilley Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Its the word going round the offices this morning, I will try and find out more and let you know!I for one won't be happy with him!! Thanks, Please not Pearson or Gregory.
Flynny Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 If it's Pearson I'll have a go at this positivity thing because he's not failed THAT much, just quite a bit. If it's Gregory, or, god forbid, Bryan Robson, I'll go mental for a few days and then calm down. Grayson or Lambert I'd be pretty pleased with, and if we somehow got McLaren I'd be dead, dead pleased.
teblin Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 If it's Pearson I'll have a go at this positivity thing because he's not failed THAT much, just quite a bit. If it's Gregory, or, god forbid, Bryan Robson, I'll go mental for a few days and then calm down. Grayson or Lambert I'd be pretty pleased with, and if we somehow got McLaren I'd be dead, dead pleased. Mecury say it between worthington, gregs and pearson
Number 6 Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 If it's Pearson I'll have a go at this positivity thing because he's not failed THAT much, just quite a bit. If it's Gregory, or, god forbid, Bryan Robson, I'll go mental for a few days and then calm down. Grayson or Lambert I'd be pretty pleased with, and if we somehow got McLaren I'd be dead, dead pleased. Agreed. I think Pearson did well to keep Soton up. He took over and decided the best way to keep them up was to stop them losing. They only lost 4/14 in his time. Yes they drew a lot but no Soton fan would care about that right now. He did what was required of him, I'm surprised they didn't give him a full season.
teblin Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Agreed. I think Pearson did well to keep Soton up. He took and and decided to keep them up, he was going to stop them losing. They only lost 4/14 in his time. Yes they drew a lot but no Soton fan would care about that right now. He did what was required of him, I'm surprised they didn't give him a full season. I don't think they could afford too.
Tilley Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Mecury say it between worthington, gregs and pearson Worthington please.
Jack Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Worthington please. Surely he wouldn't leave Northern Ireland for us ?
Maybes Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Surely he wouldn't leave Northern Ireland for us ? He might to. Club football is obviously more day to day involved, he might be missing it. Personally I'd be very happy with Worth as manager!!
Tilley Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Surely he wouldn't leave Northern Ireland for us ? More than likely not, no. I'm very very worried about tomorrow After appraching Paul Ince I thought MM was barking up the right tree for a change! But if the Mercury is right, & it's between Gregory & Pearson, then I'm very worried.
Jack Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 More than likely not, no.I'm very very worried about tomorrow After appraching Paul Ince I thought MM was barking up the right tree for a change! But if the Mercury is right, & it's between Gregory & Pearson, then I'm very worried. Me too mate, me too.
Tilley Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Trio in frame for City job by Bill Anderson Nigel Worthington is the latest name to be thrown into speculation as Leicester City chairman Milan Mandaric faces decision-day. Former temporary City manager Worthington is joined by Nigel Pearson and John Gregory at the forefront of the list of those being most strongly tipped to take over the managerial vacancy at the Walkers Stadium. Mandaric will make his choice of manager by the end of today with an announcement expected tomorrow. Worthington, currently in charge of Northern Ireland, is being linked with the City job after he oversaw safety from the drop at the tail-end of the 2006/07 Championship season. He stepped in for the last five games after the departure of Robert Kelly. Although City already had enough points, Worthington, who would have to leave the Irish job, ensured mathematical certainty. He was under consideration to get the job permanently last year. But Mandaric went for Martin Allen, a decision he was soon to overturn. Pearson, ironically, is someone who, towards the end of last season, severely dented City's survival hopes and saved Southampton in the process. Pearson has worked with Bryan Robson at West Brom and Kevin Keegan at Newcastle, among others, and appeared hard done-by at Saints when a boardroom reshuffle saw him depart. Gregory was part of the Brian Little coaching staff when City first gained promotion into the Premiership. He has experience not just of the top flight, but also the tier in which City now find themselves. Mandaric will not reveal any names on his short-list at this time. But those three are understood to be among the main candidates under consideration although, I understand, not the only ones. The City chairman knows it has come down to the crunch and he said: "I expect to make my choice today but, for obvious reasons, I cannot say yet who is really in the frame at this stage. "What I do know is that he will have to be the right man to take us forward, and I believe he will be. "This decision is going to be the most important I will have made since I came here. "I know it has not gone anything like I planned for the club or anything like I expected. "But I have had tremendous support from the fans and I am sure they will carry on that support to the new manager, and the new team we will have to build." Trio In Frame For The Job.
Daggers Posted 16 June 2008 Author Posted 16 June 2008 Reading the other thread just confirms that I am going to fall out with a lot of people shortly - get a fucking grip. You all should have known that no one with any reputation whatsoever was going to come here and yet you all wanted to disrupt the club by booting out the incumbent manager. Sticking with Holloway until Xmas would have sent a clear message out that Mandaric would support his employees, it would have added a dimension to the recruitment process in the future. "Blah blah blah I don't ****ing want this bloke or that bloke blah blah blah" Suck it the fck up. Get on board with the situation and deal with it or piss off.
C-man Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 Looking at John Gregory's record, in his 438 games as a manager he's won 152 matches at a win rate of 34.7% Looking at Nigel Pearson's record, in his 51 games as a manager he's won 12 matches at a win rate of 23.5% Clearly neither manager has even a half decent success record and both have managed to be sacked or replaced several times. But how much does a previous record matter? Craig Levein won 40.4% of his matches as manager of Cowdenbeath and Hearts, but failed here. Even Peter Taylor had won almost 42% of his matches previous to managing us and he subsequently killed our club. These are two managers touted at the time as 'hot properties' that we got and neither could take us forward. Yes, neither Gregory or Pearson or indeed any other realistic managerial contender is going to fill me with joy or expectation, but I'll be there on August 9th singing my heart out, getting behind whoever is in the technical area and whatever players are still here by then.
Daggers Posted 16 June 2008 Author Posted 16 June 2008 I believe we are now at the stage where anyone with over three "years" FM08 experience is now being encouraged to apply for consideration.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 I believe we are now at the stage where anyone with over three "years" FM08 experience is now being encouraged to apply for consideration. WOOHOO! Dear Mr Mandaric...
Flynny Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 I've got 10 on one save file! And won the Champion's League three times concurrently! I'd be perfect!
Daggers Posted 16 June 2008 Author Posted 16 June 2008 I've got 10 on one save file! And won the Champion's League three times concurrently! I'd be perfect! I give you till Xmas.
Flynny Posted 16 June 2008 Posted 16 June 2008 I give you till Xmas. Fantastic. As my first move I'm moving Barry Hayles into a Player/Assistant Manager role. I doubt he'll offer much advice other than "kick it, innit" but that'll do for now. Baby steps, bit at a time, easy does it. For my next trick, I'm making sure Bell is signed, letting Howard, Oakley, and N'Gotty go, each of them overpaid failures, and begging Sheehan to come back, if only to make these boards a little more fun for the next season or two. As my final move, I plan on losing closely to MK Dons and then winning convincingly the following week, before leaving the club against the wishes of almost every fan but then being slowly demonised as the season wears on. (Seriously - why do people believe Milan didn't make half those signings just because he said so? He said he'd stay out of Ollies way too but he said he didn't know too much about Oakley)
AmericanScott Posted 18 June 2008 Posted 18 June 2008 Is there a job advert for the manager's job in the Job Centre? If not, there should be!
Zingari Posted 18 June 2008 Posted 18 June 2008 welcome mr Newell or mr Ince not sure about the other names
Kilworthfox Posted 18 June 2008 Posted 18 June 2008 C'mon people, just for a minute, think about how your reaction to the up and coming appointment is going to effect next season.You are a bright individual...but we both know that there are others out there who are a couple of red bricks short of a complete Lego set. They aren't sure what to think and so they'll just grab onto the first negative post they see. Hell, it is so much easier to be negative than positive, there's much less to invest and risk losing. We know that, right? Snowballing is not something I like to see on my favourite porn sites, nor is it something I like to see before the season has even kicked off...and I've seen it tonight in the Gregory thread. Whoever is appointed, whatever their history, no matter which other manager you would have preferred - if we don't get behind the appointment from the off then we really are going to be more fooked than Paris Hilton on a home-made video tape. I'm not throwing out some kind of nebulous call for lobotomised positivity - I just hope that we all put a little thought into the future we create next season in response to the appointment. Foxes. Boooooooooooo! i am booing first therefore i can claim Milan was right from the start 1st! "I booed him before he was appointed"
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