Nolan

They're 3 points above us.

Look at the table now and you can see these 9 points were essential. It seems that, other than top spot, everything is to play for from the position we're in. The 9 points between us and 2nd spot is assailable if we keep on as we are. Leicester is going to be a fascinating game. I absolutely don't want any coaching changes at the moment.

Just to point out the excellent mind games from Tonda's Presser yesterday...

Let's say Eckert has a particular way of playing. Bragg has been playing that way since then beginning of the season in the u21s. It may be just that he knows what Eckert wants the role to be better.

Alfie House suggests that Downes is being conserved for Leicester.

I believe the young lady of the Fan Advisory Board said Spots said "our interim manager is purely interim". That was a statement of fact at the time as he doesn't have a contract to be manager of the first team. It doesn't preclude that interim manager being offered a full time contract at any point after that.

So if we get 12 points from 12, after beating teams in 9th and 12th, it would be an idiotic decision to stick with the interim manager who guided the team to those results?

Scheiße. I joined this forum in 2006 when I was 13 und die world cup was in Deutschland. I knew then that one day I would become interim manager of die Heiligen.

The way it worked when Hassenhüttl went was Selles had a couple of game as interim. We installed Jones, sacked Jones in short order and went back to Selles. The way it worked when Martin went was Rusk had a couple of games as interim. We installed Juric, sacked Juric in short order and went back to Rusk. This time we've got two wins from three interim boss. I don't know whether anyone else would have won or lost those games, but if the man and the players click, why on earth would you change? He is still "interim" until he's not, but I do think it absolutely stupid to not keep on looking at his capabilities.

Hang on. Eckert can win games with 2 days training, but it will be a problem for experienced managers?

What is ludicrous is the amount of people be saying we don't want to Eckert based on "feels". He's won two from two. I've no idea if that keeps going or not. But there's also no guarantee that any other name comes in and gets points. Until there's any evidence that Eckert is utterly crap, and we've not seen that yet, let's see if we can continue the win streak. Absolutely no long term decision is needed yet.

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I have no problem at all with a manager with a 100% record taking charge of the next game.

I knew it would make for interesting discussion. I have zero idea if it bears any relationship with reality, but international breaks are dull.

Rumour I was told today was that there was a shortlist of three non British candidates. But that there would be no movement as the risk of a backlash if the new appointee lost after Eckert had won two, was too great. Would only be movement if Eckert dropped points.