SpartakAnj Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 I'm not against appointing Clark but, baring in mind what the owners have said, it does feel like a slightly odd appointment. No experience of the championship and not a "global" name. Its all well and good being a bright up and coming manager but Peter Taylor was in that category and look what happened with that! Having said all of that, Clark would still be my third choice behind MON and Hughes. Anyone is better than Davies!!
lcfc_sam_p Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 I don't even know who I want in charge anymore. I was warming to the idea of clark but its a bigger gamble than most.
dannythefox Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 I don't even know who I want in charge anymore. I was warming to the idea of clark but its a bigger gamble than most. This. Right now it could be ANY of the top 10 on the list including O'Neill.
Stay Positive Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 With retrospect we can see all the errors in our past appointments, but even based on what we know now it's hard to explain why people like Bassett, Holloway, Sousa and Sven did as badly as they did, when you look at how they've done elsewhere. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. On the other hand you can be in the right place at the right time - look how useless the likes of Little, McGhee and Adams have been everywhere else! At the time we appointed most of these people, back as far as Hamilton, Pleat, Taylor, Levein... they all looked like good appointments on paper. One of the most eyebrow-raising appointments in recent times has got to have been Pearson! Davies, Clark, Hughes - any one of them could be a disaster just as easily as he could be a legend. You could say that about anybody though. How many of us, for example, thought Peter Taylor was a terrible appointment when it happened? The majority of folk were quite excited about it. And who was jumping for joy when O'Neill was appointed? Very few people, if memory serves me correctly. I think the Clark/Keegan thing is worth a punt, personally, but I'll get behind whoever is appointed, even if it's Roy Keane, Billy Davies or whoever..
The Year Of The Fox Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Surely Lee Clark doesn't tick the boxes for who the owners are looking for. He could be a great manager no doubt but a risk it would be and he wouldn't have the contacts to easily get the players the owners would want at the club. I think the owners have realised the bigger names in football have no experience of lower league football
Acetripper Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Well Foxes...I must say, all this talk that Lee Clark leaving for Leicester City is very unsettling for us Terriers. Having read all the contributions on here I have to agree, he doesn't have any experience of management above League One, he hasn't won anything and he's a bloody Geordie (that's an attempt at a joke) . Even though we've gone 41 regular League One games undefeated you may be surprised to hear our fans are pretty much divided on him. The main reason being our Play-Off Final defeat at Old Trafford last May where he played completely the wrong formation and tactics and allowed Peterborough Utd to grab the glory. That day we had over 33,000 fans there compared to their 12,000 and it bloody hurt because we thought it was our year! Lee Clark took quite a long time to find his best team with us and while in his first full season we scored goals for fun we also let in plenty of very silly goals with some school boy defending, leading to comparisons with Kevin Keegan when he was Newcastle Utd's manager (a team Lee played in). On 28th December 2010 we lost 4-1 at Southampton, who were several placed below us in League One at the time and that was the wake up call. Since that day we've lost only 5 times in 52 games played (all competitions). Not a bad record which ever standard of football you play in. Last Summer we sold two of our best players, Lee Peltier to yourselves and Anthony Pilkington to Norwich City causing us to bring in a number of young players, particularly in midfield positions. To be honest we've hardly missed those two, Jack Hunt, an academy graduate stepped into Peltier's boots and has done wonderful well (another one the watch) and we brought in wide player Danny Ward from Bolton Wanderers for a reported fee of £1Million, he's not a 'Pilks' but he's only young and he'll get better and better. It must be said that Lee Clark hasn't been the only reason for incredible run of results, Terry McDermott is our assistant manager and he has made a massive contribution too. In conclusion, I'd be very very sorry to see Lee Clark go, he's passionate and he says he loves our club but obviously the lad's ambitious and wants to manage at the highest level. He's bright, a brilliant coach, a throughly nice guy and if he goes to leicester City I'm sure he'll work tirelessly to bring you success. If he does become your manager I wish him well and just hope it doesn't derail our promotion push. That would be very hard to take.
lcfclee1978 Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 lee clark on talksport before 10am could be interesting.
ADAMSKI97 Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Lee Clark would be a bad appointment by the owners! firstly with his record it has gotta be a risk in my eyes and secondly if he is successful are we not just training him up for the Newcastle job sooner rather than later!!!
Acetripper Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Lee Clark would be a bad appointment by the owners! firstly with his record it has gotta be a risk in my eyes and secondly if he is successful are we not just training him up for the Newcastle job sooner rather than later!!! He's on record as saying he wants to manage Newcastle Utd eventually.
Babylon Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Other than a headline grabbing unbeaten run, I still really fail to see what is so attractive about him as manager.
surrifox Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 lambert and Adkins had hardly enjoyed stellar careers prior to joining Norwich and southampton and their appointments weren't ecstatically received but they seem to be doing OK
Babylon Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 lambert and Adkins had hardly enjoyed stellar careers prior to joining Norwich and southampton and their appointments weren't ecstatically received but they seem to be doing OK Adkins had been promoted twice from league one already. Lambert reached league cup semi finals with Wycombe, the playoffs and was doing well at Colchester.
AndyBrew Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Adkins had been promoted twice from league one already. Lambert reached league cup semi finals with Wycombe, the playoffs and was doing well at Colchester. yes but other than that
Ric Flair Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Just leave him where he is, we'll only ruin his managerial career anyway. If Hughes is keen I cannot for the life of me work out how he's not already been installed, given £20 million to spend and had The Avery hired out for him for the night. Not a better manager available bar O'Neill. It's not a trick, get the miserable coont in.
Acetripper Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 Other than a headline grabbing unbeaten run, I still really fail to see what is so attractive about him as manager. You'll just have to trust me on this one but Lee Clark is destined to become a top manager in this country. He goes about his duties in the correct manner, he's passionate and he clearly loves football. Okay his enthusiasm spills over sometimes and he take sit out on the media reporters but I was hoping he'd stay with us for the long term. Inevitably as soon as his success has been noted there's speculation every time a half decent job comes up. I was hoping he'd be the one to take us to the promised land but if it's not him it'll just have to be someone else.
Burmesefox Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 lambert and Adkins had hardly enjoyed stellar careers prior to joining Norwich and southampton and their appointments weren't ecstatically received but they seem to be doing OK Adkins was immense at Scunny. The man had no budget whatsoever and his office was like a portacabin. Think he did the cleaning himself!!
l444ry Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 No confirmation from City that O'Neill has rejected them and no official approach for Clark yet! This self imposed silence might mean they are waiting for the International break to appoint the new manager.
dannythefox Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 No confirmation from City that O'Neill has rejected them and no official approach for Clark yet! This self imposed silence must mean they must be waiting for the International break to appoint the new manager. Quite possible!
dannythefox Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 lee clark on talksport before 10am could be interesting. He's not been on yet
Saladin Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 IF any of this true, than the reason that someone reported as to why Sven got sacked (not signing enough 'BIG Names'), must be complete and utter bulls***, I just cannot see Clark reeling any of these so called BIG Names in? Come to think of it, a decent, well known, Director of Football may be just what we need aswell
Christoph Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 http://downatthemac.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general Haha check some of the threads out. That forum is not happy about us.
samuel Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 A good mate said he saw KK and LC at Banks road newsagents at 6.00 am yesterday morning.... So who knows!!!
UDDERS28901 Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 lee clark is a very passionate manager (huddersfield fan btw) and i think he may be joing you this week. on saturday after our win at yeovil he went over to fans and waved good bye, said in an interview he is sad to be leaving and had a meeting with players yesterday about something but wouldnt sayy. now i love lee clark and hope he stays with town but i doubt he will and i would be happy for him to join you because you are a fantastic fooball team and want to wish you good luck. you would have a very good manager in lee clark and he will get your promoted this season and i hope he does. also, how is lee peltier done since he left us? good luck for the season, you could go 31 games unbeatan utter balls Where did Lee Clark say he was saying goodbye? Its quite normal to wave at fans after an away win I have never seen or heard of any report of this so called interview where he says he is sad to be leaving If Leicester haven't or hadn't at the time made an approach how could he have done either of those things? The rest of that drivel convinces me you are a WUM
UDDERS28901 Posted 1 November 2011 Posted 1 November 2011 better. In conclusion, I'd be very very sorry to see Lee Clark go, he's passionate and he says he loves our club but obviously the lad's ambitious and wants to manage at the highest level. He's bright, a brilliant coach, a throughly nice guy and if he goes to leicester City I'm sure he'll work tirelessly to bring you success. If he does become your manager I wish him well and just hope it doesn't derail our promotion push. That would be very hard to take. He has never said that. And why should he? he comes from another part of he country, has never played for Town and is doing a job which he obviously sees as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. He professes loyalty to Dean Hoyle for the backing but that is all he has ever said. He will go if and when the right offer comes in, it may be now, but I don't honestly think the Leicester board want him.
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