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Posted
1 minute ago, Dusic said:

- Mentioned by reliable sources as being a candidate as soon as he replaced Still (Ornstein, House, Blackmore etc)

- Since won 2/2 and some signs of progress

- Spors told FAB that he was comfortable taking time as trusts Eckert

- Eckert very coy when asked about it all, certainly hasnt said anything about going back to his old job anytime soon

- Spors knowing Eckert very well and championing bringing him in following tough recruitment process

- No serious links to other candidates aside from O'Neil which will obviously not happen

- Financial cost of bringing in someone else plus staff and paying off existing staff

- Gut feeling considering the above and the way Eckert has spoken & acted.

All IMHO of course, 

Morph

So all in your opinion but you think we should all be agreed on it? 

Posted
29 minutes ago, saintwbu said:

Your point is that if we had a better striker we’d have won more games, my point is if we’d had a better manager we’d have won more games. Scoring goals has been a problem, but terrible setup and even worse substitutions has been a bigger one. 

Maybe if Sheff Wednesday had a better manager they’d have beat us? Or maybe not because our manager is the best of all time just waiting to be given a chance? 

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Posted
23 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I watch a lot of Danish football and this guy is awesome. He likes to play with a treble outer pivot which means we increase turnovers, you'll often see his false 9s overlapping the inverted defensive wingers getting into the red zone creating a high level of XA, which when lead to quite a few conversions and a high XG. He likes a goal tender with high hand denial numbers so might not like Baz and prefers a 1-2-1-3-3 system which becomes 4-1-1-1-2-1 when defending. This is the most exciting link of the summer we can expect high numbers with an awesome philosophy. 

 

That rules him out then. Our squad can’t follow anymore than simple instructions, and even that is a push 

Posted
12 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

Maybe if Sheff Wednesday had a better manager they’d have beat us? Or maybe not because our manager is the best of all time just waiting to be given a chance? 

Maybe mate, or given the quality of our squad, if our manager had played a logical setup and not made bizarre substitutions we might have held onto leads at Watford, Derby and Blackburn, and xG wouldn’t have been of any importance?

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Posted
42 minutes ago, Dusic said:

Everyone agreed at (whether you like it or not) its highly likely Eckert is in charge at Charlton?

Yes, because we have stupid people in charge, despite the club stooge suggesting there is hate for him on here, there isn't.

We just know the job here will be to bog for him and needs an experienced and strong personality

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Posted
11 hours ago, Fabrice29 said:

Dont really understand the Eckert hate on here. Suspect he doesn't get the job and he's not my first choice but a manager delivering wins in this league is just getting dismissed again on here for some reason :D 

Nobody hates him. 

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When Lowe was looking to save a few bob (wouldn't let Moyes bring in his back room staff) he went for Stuart Gray which was pretty short lived and then, of course, having not learned his lesson that promoting from within rarely works, went for Steve Wigley. Again it soon imploded. I think it was Liverpool who went down the Shankley, Paisley, Fagan route who first convinced the football world promoting from within works. We are no Liverpool.

Posted
11 hours ago, Fabrice29 said:

I've spoke to people in both corners of the ground yesterday and can assure you it wasn't heard by everyone. Both the away fans and Itchen corner think Northam has been quiet this season, and yesterday.

I sit in the chapel and agree you can barely hear the northam from there most of the time but did hear the GON chant on more than one occasion.

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38 minutes ago, saintwbu said:

Maybe mate, or given the quality of our squad, if our manager had played a logical setup and not made bizarre substitutions we might have held onto leads at Watford, Derby and Blackburn, and xG wouldn’t have been of any importance?

Yeah maybe, which was kind of my point originally. Seeing out wins is good. Thanks.

Posted
11 hours ago, Forester said:

As others have pointed out, we don’t have a great record 

I hate ‘fixed it for you’ posts but……

Posted
1 hour ago, Charlie Wayman said:

A win rate of 100% is not to be sneezed at.

In a sample size of two, against two of the worst teams we will face all season, where we rode our luck and only really played anything even resembling decent football for one half against the basket-case bottom team and relied on them having an emergency loan keeper who is even worse than ours to give us the lead. I've not seen a single shred of evidence to suggest that Eckert would be any improvement at all on Still.

We are in the mess we are in because SR fucked up by appointing a young, inexperienced manager in the summer who was never the right person to steady the ship after the total catastrophe of last season, and Eckert has even less experience (none at all at first team level, let alone in the Championship).

Giving him the job would be beyond negligent, and frankly I am gobsmacked that we have any fans who actually think it's not the worst idea.

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Posted
1 hour ago, DT said:

Russell Martin is 5-1 for the Norwich job. Can really see that happening.

Really hope we don't go lazy and appoint Tonka toy.

Rodgers is the best we could hope for from that list.

Unless Rasmus gets his clever clever oar in and appoints a 13 year old computer programmer from Penge.

Don't be ridiculous - he wouldn't appoint someone from Penge.......🙄

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1 hour ago, Turkish said:

I watch a lot of Danish football and this guy is awesome. He likes to play with a treble outer pivot which means we increase turnovers, you'll often see his false 9s overlapping the inverted defensive wingers getting into the red zone creating a high level of XA, which when lead to quite a few conversions and a high XG. He likes a goal tender with high hand denial numbers so might not like Baz and prefers a 1-2-1-3-3 system which becomes 4-1-1-1-2-1 when defending. This is the most exciting link of the summer we can expect high numbers with an awesome philosophy. 

 

You've let yourself down there I'm afraid.  Surely you meant against the ball, or maybe even out of possession.....?

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

 

Giving him the job would be beyond negligent, and frankly I am gobsmacked that we have any fans who actually think it's not the worst idea.

Generally speaking, I hate this kind of statement.  I mean, in most cases I can at least understand an argument from a different point of view even if I disagree with it.

I've got my reservations when it comes to Eckert, many for the reasons you mention, but the lad has won two out of two and while the performances haven't all been great, he's at least done what he needed to in a week where he wouldn't have had any time to work on much at all.  If anyone expected him to come in, win both games and dramatically change the style and formation then that's probably overly optimistic.

Personally I've got an open mind on him and given there doesn't appear to be a stand out contender for the job then I'm happy for him to carry on as interim, give him some more opportunities and see where we are after 10 or so games.

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Praising Eckert for the last two games is ridiculous. The difference between those two games and the ones before was our finishing. The performances as a whole were still woeful

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Posted
6 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

Generally speaking, I hate this kind of statement.  I mean, in most cases I can at least understand an argument from a different point of view even if I disagree with it.

I've got my reservations when it comes to Eckert, many for the reasons you mention, but the lad has won two out of two and while the performances haven't all been great, he's at least done what he needed to in a week where he wouldn't have had any time to work on much at all.  If anyone expected him to come in, win both games and dramatically change the style and formation then that's probably overly optimistic.

Personally I've got an open mind on him and given there doesn't appear to be a stand out contender for the job then I'm happy for him to carry on as interim, give him some more opportunities and see where we are after 10 or so games.

Eckert has done little other than being in the building. I would have expected Will Still to have beaten Weds, who are pretty woeful. 
 

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4 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

Generally speaking, I hate this kind of statement.  I mean, in most cases I can at least understand an argument from a different point of view even if I disagree with it.

I've got my reservations when it comes to Eckert, many for the reasons you mention, but the lad has won two out of two and while the performances haven't all been great, he's at least done what he needed to in a week where he wouldn't have had any time to work on much at all.  If anyone expected him to come in, win both games and dramatically change the style and formation then that's probably overly optimistic.

Personally I've got an open mind on him and given there doesn't appear to be a stand out contender for the job then I'm happy for him to carry on as interim, give him some more opportunities and see where we are after 10 or so games.

OK I respect the fact that you have a different view, but I also have to firmly disagree with you.

Giving another ten games to a young coach with no experience of ever managing a first team in the vain hope that he might turn out to be OK would be just insanity in our current situation - doing the same thing again and expecting a different result.

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1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Eckert has done little other than being in the building. I would have expected Will Still to have beaten Weds, who are pretty woeful. 
 

I'm not so sure, I don't know if it was my imagination, but sitting there watching on Saturday I saw more effort than before - I actually think they've stepped up a gear. I'm not saying that's to do with the manager, but maybe there was a lack of effort under Still? That's how I observed it anyway. 

Put it another way, goals aside, I was less bored in that match than the previous ones 😂

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Posted
16 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Eckert has done little other than being in the building. I would have expected Will Still to have beaten Weds, who are pretty woeful. 
 

Given we destroy careers of most managers and players then for his own good he should come out and say he doesn’t want it

Posted
9 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

I'm not so sure, I don't know if it was my imagination, but sitting there watching on Saturday I saw more effort than before - I actually think they've stepped up a gear. I'm not saying that's to do with the manager, but maybe there was a lack of effort under Still? That's how I observed it anyway. 

Put it another way, goals aside, I was less bored in that match than the previous ones 😂

Fair point. I pit that to the dire opposition was faced, which was a bit like Swansea.

Weds still had nearly 60% of the ball and 1 less shot that is, but never looked like winning to be fair.

my point about the claim Eckart has “done what he needed to do”… is that I am not sure he has done much / anything other than being in the holding for these fixtures. Against 2 poor sides, we faced as many shots as we did against Blackburn and Preston, with an almost identical expected goals.

difference here, Leo scored a worldly and the weds keeper / defender threw one in.

good to win 2 on the bounce but this is unfair to suggest Eckart is turning it around. 

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