New Manager Debate (Merged)

[skintsaint]

1 minute ago, Badger said:

I don’t think Sturrock was as bad as many now want us to believe.

One thing that is forgotten is that he had us winning away from home and scoring goals in the process. Wasn’t it 3-1 at Man City, and 4-1 win at Wolves. 
 

He may not have been popular in the dressing room, but I’d be happy with some of those results now. 

Think he beat Liverpool first game as well. 

[Badger]

7 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Think he beat Liverpool first game as well. 

Yes, good memory! 
 

[leesaint88]

26 minutes ago, Badger said:

I don’t think Sturrock was as bad as many now want us to believe.

One thing that is forgotten is that he had us winning away from home and scoring goals in the process. Wasn’t it 3-1 at Man City, and 4-1 win at Wolves. 
 

He may not have been popular in the dressing room, but I’d be happy with some of those results now. 

Won 5, drew 2 and lost 6.

I'm more impressed he had a 50% win rate at Swindon whilst managing over 50 games. 

[Dman]

19 hours ago, qwertyell said:

But does that make him a good fit for us? Boro (and Plymouth) fans warned that he was a luxury player who barely strolls about out of possession and drifts through games.

Will Still - supposedly - wants us to press with big energy, which would make Azaz absolutely the wrong profile of player to sign. The press collapses entirely if not everyone commits to it.

I've no idea if Azaz is anything special or not, but he didn't achieve anything with Boro (in fact, they seem to be a better team without him), and sure as shit hasn't shown anything with us that would suggest we should exempt him from basic tactical duties because he's too bloody amazing to muck in with everyone else. 

Far from convinced he'll prove to be a successful signing. 

 

As a side who've recently been relegated, he is exactly the type of player we should be a fit for us. The players who make a difference. Score and set up the goals to get us promoted.

The fact we're backs against the walls in most games, not getting the ball to the luxury players in the final 3rd sums up how poorly we've been managed. 

[Badger]

3 minutes ago, Dman said:

As a side who've recently been relegated, he is exactly the type of player we should be a fit for us. The players who make a difference. Score and set up the goals to get us promoted.

The fact we're backs against the walls in most games, not getting the ball to the luxury players in the final 3rd sums up how poorly we've been managed. 

But it looked as if he was asked to play as a DM on Saturday at Blackburn. 

[Lighthouse]

42 minutes ago, leesaint88 said:

Won 5, drew 2 and lost 6.

I'm more impressed he had a 50% win rate at Swindon whilst managing over 50 games. 

He was also hit by a pretty hefty injury problem in his time here. IIRC Niemi, Le Saux, Pahars, Killer and Oakley were out for a large part of his tenure.

[Dr. Kucho]

I am still undecided on sacking Still or giving him more time.

So far Sports Republic have appointed,

Nathan Jones

Ruben Selles

Russel Martin

Ivan Juric

Simon Rusk 

Will Still

They can’t all be poor managers and not all players are rubbish. 

[redkeith]

28 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

He was also hit by a pretty hefty injury problem in his time here. IIRC Niemi, Le Saux, Pahars, Killer and Oakley were out for a large part of his tenure.

I liked Sturrock, and he did give us some good games initially. 

However, once he had a pre season with the players it all fell apart. I remember the first game of the season away at Villa. Everyone on the way back to the station were saying, correctly as it turned out, that we would be relegated. 

We had Folly, who was a promising DM, playing box to box like he was Viearra. We nearly scored near the end from a Delap long throw. 2 minutes later we got another throw in the same area and Delap threw it short. 

[AlexLaw76]

Sturrock was shite. Look who he managed before and since.

rarely, if ever, does a league 1 level manager jump 2 divisions and succeed.

it is like West Ham appointing Phil Parkinson this summer. Never ever going to succeed 

Edited 35 minutes ago by AlexLaw76