ooh it's a corner Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Ok, so Jan is under pressure and Rupert likes firing managers, but would Rupert give SCW his first chance at football management? SCW would have to take a substantial salary drop, but is it beyond the realm of possibility? And more importantly would we take SCW over JP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Ok, so Jan is under pressure and Rupert likes firing managers, but would Rupert give SCW his first chance at football management? SCW would have to take a substantial salary drop, but is it beyond the realm of possibility? And more importantly would we take SCW over JP? Anything is possible with Lowe!! Maybe Rupert having made one stupid appointment would then follow it up with another...his lunacy knows no limits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonjoe Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Is this a game of Nibble or Bite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 I would think it highly unlikely that he would come back as manager but then anything is possible, right? I would think it highly unlikely he would come back in any capacity right now with cash being so tight. I still think it was a lost opportinity when we let him go. Not as a future manager but as someone who worked with the manager and the club as a whole to get the best out of our set up. Still, we are where we are and we can speculate all day long, but I can't see anything changing anytime soon unless we continue to lose matches at the current rate...which can't go on, can it??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 I think it is a possibility under Lowe. I think it was always his plan. But I do not know whether SCW will want it or will be prepared to give up everything else to accept it. Replacing a Dutchman who at least knows how to kick a football with a sports scientist and sports management consultant would be a typical Lowe-like decision. Afterall, if he did many would get behind SCW (most would say it would fail and be right) but it would buy Lowe more time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Anything is possible with Lowe!! Maybe Rupert having made one stupid appointment would then follow it up with another...his lunacy knows no limits A lot of people thought that employing Strachan was a stupid idea. These things only play out in hindsight and I still see the logic behind the decision of bringing in JP and Wotte with the finances being as they are. If it is a three year plan, perhaps we can only properly judge it after three years? No one said we were going to set the wordl alight immediately and if we had won two or three more matches and scored a few more goals then I wouldn't have expected much more this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 A lot of people thought that employing Strachan was a stupid idea. These things only play out in hindsight and I still see the logic behind the decision of bringing in JP and Wotte with the finances being as they are. If it is a three year plan, perhaps we can only properly judge it after three years? No one said we were going to set the wordl alight immediately and if we had won two or three more matches and scored a few more goals then I wouldn't have expected much more this season. In 3 years we'll be in League 2 with 5-6000 people attending each game IMHO. This is as likely given the current evidence (and we havent seen the selling of the best nippas yet which IS going to happen according to Wilde a couple of months ago) as a complete turnaround. mmmmm ... so weighing up the likelihood of success or failure of Lowes '3 year plan' I think I am airing towards the realist viewpoint. It will fail and League 2 is a certainty. (BTW I genuinely believe our current squad - less 3-4 exceptions and loanees - is League 2 standard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 fickle game, three or four poor results we will all, myself included be hoping for change, three or four good results they will probably be ahead of target for this season (comparing surviving with minutes to spare with hugely better squad). Trouble is the poor results are looking more likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 he would but he wont,he knows that if jp gets the boot he will have to appease the masses,so he will go with the popular choice and that wont be scw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Block 5 Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Ok, so Jan is under pressure and Rupert likes firing managers, but would Rupert give SCW his first chance at football management? SCW would have to take a substantial salary drop, but is it beyond the realm of possibility? And more importantly would we take SCW over JP? Comedy thread of the week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelamprey Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 "A lot of people thought that employing Strachan was a stupid idea." ??????????? No they didnt. Not amongst the people with whom I watch football. Lowe is fighting a class war so the idea of Woodward back is clearly possible. I mean those football people, they are all terrible plebs aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 I thought he had been given a highly paid top post in getting competitors ready for the 2012 Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 I think SCW had qualities to offer us and there was no harm in him learning the game by helping out someone else with the youngsters. Despite the general feeling on here, I think RL and SCW are both intelligent people and will both know that SCW as manager here - even in Div 1 - would be inappropriate. I think the idea would have been to develop a level of knowledge and then work up from non league level. Having said that, he has moved on to other things since so the idea is dead anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docker-p Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 SCW is involved with the Olypic team now so would be highly unlikely to give that up for a return to SMS. And there is no way we could afford him anyway. Conservative estimates put his salary at upwards of 300K last time. But Rupert is clearly not in control of all his marbles so who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wopper Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 What did SCW do apart from sitting around looking lost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1976_Child Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Does Sir CW even have his manager's badges yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 what in Olympics? when you have gold medalists being interviewed immediately after winning their gold wishing to thank this guy from another sport then he must have done something right! (don't want him as our manager tho!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFLUENCED.COM Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 "A lot of people thought that employing Strachan was a stupid idea." ??????????? No they didnt. Not amongst the people with whom I watch football. His CV was not encouraging when he arrived and would have to agree that 'a lot' of people were more than sceptical about his appointment. He got people on side quickly in a similar way to which Pearson did through animated displays on the touchline, something which JP is being criticised for the lack of at the minute, was that animation productive ? results don't lie I suppose Don't see SCW back here in any way shape or form, unfortunatly imo, as he would have something to offer, not in a managerial sense but in coaching/fitness etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelamprey Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 NOBODY I KNEW WHO SUPPORTED SAINTS was anti Strachan when he joined. Tw*ts at work who supported other teams thought we would be. Strachan was just the type of manager we needed at the time. Anyone with the kind of empathy admittedly uncommon on message boards like this would understand why he was the right man for the job regardless of CV. Wooward has no qualities for the cost involved that we need. Eyetrainers and real wood lockers arent going to get us out of the hole we are in. Perhaps the kind of retard who works in the financial world and believes in magical cures and books of chinese crackerbarrel wisdom would fall for Woodwards incantations and snake oil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patred44 Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Ok, so Jan is under pressure and Rupert likes firing managers, but would Rupert give SCW his first chance at football management? SCW would have to take a substantial salary drop, but is it beyond the realm of possibility? And more importantly would we take SCW over JP? So, who do you think was giving Rupert advice, whilst he was out in the wilderness..?? None other than our egg chasing friend himsrlf..and still is apparentley.. The total youth policy, the appointment of a unkown manager, getting rid of the old school coaches etc..all ideals extoled by the former rugby coach. They all fall in with Lowes plans..Wouldn't be at all surprised if one or two, maybe more, of the new recruits weren't the idea of SCW. As for him to become head coach, that would have to look as if there was no alternative....a stage we nearly have reached FFS:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr X Posted 28 December, 2008 Share Posted 28 December, 2008 Ok, so Jan is under pressure and Rupert likes firing managers, but would Rupert give SCW his first chance at football management? SCW would have to take a substantial salary drop, but is it beyond the realm of possibility? And more importantly would we take SCW over JP? For the love of all things sane no!!!!!!! Replace one crazy experiment with another No thanks!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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