New Manager Thread

[Lord Duckhunter]

33 minutes ago, Turkish said:

As fo Wilder you were on here after one game saying he hasn’t turned Sheffield United around

Wilder was good friend with an old mate of mine. Wilder was his best man, that’s how close they were. I haven’t seen the bloke for years as he lives abroad, but keep up with him on FB, every time he’s back he’s posts pictures of a night out with Wilder or in the players/directors lounge at a game. Anyway, I messaged him  when Wilder got sacked, “we need your mate at Saints”. He replied “he’d love to”. Imagine the meltdown had we done so 😂😂

[Turkish]

On 10/11/2025 at 13:51, Fabrice29 said:

I would but like you said we put forward that not long ago. The principles of the argument haven’t changed though. Experience doesn’t get you results. Otherwise Sheffield United would be out of the bottom 3 by now. 

My apologies it wasn’t 1 game, but……

21 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

I think the post and the first page of the thread I reference show why I called you a misogynist to be fair. But hey let’s ignore that I’ve proven you wrong about the Wilder point if you like. 

Can we focus on that ‘Mr Wrong’ title though, surely fully grown men can come up with something better than that? 
 

 

“Experience doesn’t get you results otherwise Sheffield United would be out of the bottom 3 by now”

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Edited January 11 by Turkish

[Fabrice29]

 

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

 

“Experience doesn’t get you results otherwise Sheffield United would be out of the bottom 3 by now”

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

TE's points per game record in the league this season is better than Wilders so I'd really save this hill to die on until next week at least if I were you.

[Turkish]

Just now, Fabrice29 said:

 

TE's points per game record in the league this season is better than Wilders so I'd really save this hill to die on until next week at least if I were you.

The same players that were getting pumped every week with Seles are now out of the bottom 3 one point below us with a game in hand yet it’s NOTHING to do with manager 😂😂😂😂😂

[Fabrice29]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

The same players that were getting pumped every week with Seles are now out of the bottom 3 one point below us with a game in hand yet it’s NOTHING to do with manager 😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah didn’t say it’s NOTHING to do with the manager did I. Honestly, you’ve got to be better at the quoting thing. 

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

Yeah didn’t say it’s NOTHING to do with the manager did I. Honestly, you’ve got to be better at the quoting thing. 

Ah sorry, again I must apologies. It’s everything to do with Russell Martin 😍😍😍😍

Edited January 11 by Turkish

[Andy Hill]

We desperately need a Manager that has something about him. A peanut is more inspiring than TE. 

[Midfield_General]

Glasgow29’s fishing trip is going well then

He’s gonna need a bigger boat 

[Saint NL]

So the fans wanted Carrick and he's now Man United manager.

We also wanted Rosenior, he ended up at Chelsea.

 

Maybe we were aiming too high? 

Maybe the quality of manager at the moment is poor.

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Saint NL said:

So the fans wanted Carrick and he's now Man United manager.

We also wanted Rosenior, he ended up at Chelsea.

 

Maybe we were aiming too high? 

Maybe the quality of manager at the moment is poor.

I thought a lot of fans didn’t want Carrick? I seem to remember a lot of people moaning he didn’t pull up trees at Middlesbrough 

[tdmickey3]

19 hours ago, Saint NL said:

So the fans wanted Carrick and he's now Man United manager.

We also wanted Rosenior, he ended up at Chelsea.

 

Maybe we were aiming too high? 

Maybe the quality of manager at the moment is poor.

It always is at SFC

Edited Wednesday at 08:20 by tdmickey3

[Willo of Whiteley]

Rosenior was out of our league when we sacked Will Still.

Carrick hasn’t pulled up any trees at Middlesbrough. But he was always going to get it over Ole Gunner Solskjaer. 
If they’d brought him back it’s basically another admission of failure from the board (going back to the same person).

[LuckyNumber7]

On 1/13/2026 at 1:11 PM, Saint NL said:

So the fans wanted Carrick and he's now Man United manager.

We also wanted Rosenior, he ended up at Chelsea.

 

Maybe we were aiming too high? 

Maybe the quality of manager at the moment is poor.

I'm not sure many fans did want Carrick? Regardless, he's only at Man Utd because of his connections with the club. Boro fans don't think too highly of him.

As for Rosenior, anyone who thought he'd have left Strasbourg to come here is utterly deluded.

[Dr. Kucho]

I don’t think a new manager will have a huge effect on our results. Might have a short bounce but we’ll end up the same as we are now. 

We’ve had Hasenhuttl, Jones, Selles, Martin, Juric, Rusk, Still and now Eckert. They can’t all be poor managers with clueless tactics. I think, no ITK just purely my thoughts, that the club have a certain playing philosophy in mind and expect the managers to play that way.

They always go for managers who are relatively inexperienced and for who we are a big club. They never seem to approach managers who have been around and see us as a challenge. 

It will only change when those in charge say to Spors and the manager. “Don’t care how or with who, just win games and get results”.

[tdmickey3]

If and it’s a big if we get another coach/manager it won’t be until the summer, someone from a work experience scheme I expect.

 

[Mr X]

It's pretty obvious Tonda Is here to stay for the rest of this season but he best not be here next season.....bar him suddenly achieving the greatest turn around in form and tactics we have ever seen.... Which isn't looking likely... He looks like another Sport Republic dud that got lucky for four or five games and they mistook it for talent! 

[Give it to Ron]

17 minutes ago, Mr X said:

It's pretty obvious Tonda Is here to stay for the rest of this season but he best not be here next season.....bar him suddenly achieving the greatest turn around in form and tactics we have ever seen.... Which isn't looking likely... He looks like another Sport Republic dud that got lucky for four or five games and they mistook it for talent! 

I think he will be given time as he is Spors main choice. If Spors leaves then it may change but I believe he will be given time to learn and grow in the job.

SR don’t seem to want promotion this season so Tonda is their man.

Whether results or fans change that I don’t know but I have no faith in either and feel detached from this shower. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

30 minutes ago, Mr X said:

It's pretty obvious Tonda Is here to stay for the rest of this season but he best not be here next season.....bar him suddenly achieving the greatest turn around in form and tactics we have ever seen.... Which isn't looking likely... He looks like another Sport Republic dud that got lucky for four or five games and they mistook it for talent! 

Sport Republic love a yes man though

[bugenhagen]

11 minutes ago, Give it to Ron said:

I think he will be given time as he is Spors main choice. If Spors leaves then it may change but I believe he will be given time to learn and grow in the job.

SR don’t seem to want promotion this season so Tonda is their man.

Whether results or fans change that I don’t know but I have no faith in either and feel detached from this shower. 

He has to win the odd game to stay in the job. I think the next 3 games are massive for him.

But I have no faith in the club to get the next appointment right if they sack him this season or next, so I have no idea what I want… 

 

[Badger]

5 hours ago, Dr. Kucho said:

I don’t think a new manager will have a huge effect on our results. Might have a short bounce but we’ll end up the same as we are now. 

We’ve had Hasenhuttl, Jones, Selles, Martin, Juric, Rusk, Still and now Eckert. They can’t all be poor managers with clueless tactics. I think, no ITK just purely my thoughts, that the club have a certain playing philosophy in mind and expect the managers to play that way.

They always go for managers who are relatively inexperienced and for who we are a big club. They never seem to approach managers who have been around and see us as a challenge. 

It will only change when those in charge say to Spors and the manager. “Don’t care how or with who, just win games and get results”.

You sure ?

Although this may horrify some, but a Nathan Jones now, in the Championship, might not have been a bad shout.

[bugenhagen]

6 minutes ago, Badger said:

You sure ?

Although this may horrify some, but a Nathan Jones now, in the Championship, might not have been a bad shout.

Well, at least he was pound for pound the fittest man in Europe, or something…

I’d take Crazy Jones over Tonda every day of the week!

[Willo of Whiteley]

Bump 🤣

[It's There]

Gotta happen and needs to be experienced. I'd take some of the old dinosaurs- Pullis, Warnock, Fat Sam... they would sort these prima donnas out in a couple of weeks and have us organised. I am fed up with the poor decisions that fans can clearly see. We need a STRIKER, a dominating centre Half, and to stop playing around at the back. It's not rocket science... and I'm normally the one who wants to give managers  more time!

[Baird of the land]

Adkins to the end of the season

[sockeye]

It's a poisoned chalice.

[hypochondriac]

I can see why they gave him the job but the job of a senior leadership team is to cut through the noise and make the right calls not necessarily the popular or kneejerk ones. Look at saints sacking Adkins for example, something almost no fans would have supported but ultimately it was the right thing to do. That was a ballsy decision. Appointing Tonda was a terrible error I truth even if the fanbase were happy with it after the good start. He's the opposite of what we required.

[Pamplemousse]

Bite the bullet and bring back Martin. He'll galvanise these players at least.

Then sack him at the end of the season and bin off these loser players.

[S-Clarke]

Ben Garner anyone?

Or maybe a Lallana, Ben Reeves and Andrew Surman trio.

The golden era is just around the corner.

[Gloucester Saint]

16 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Ben Garner anyone?

Or maybe a Lallana, Ben Reeves and Andrew Surman trio.

The golden era is just around the corner.

Joel Garner couldn’t do worse - would add height. Getting on a bit though. 

[ChrisPY]

Carrick, Gerrard, Rodgers and O’Neil were all realistic options that if offered the right deal and sold on the club’s ambition could have been appointed after Still was sacked. I can’t see us getting anyone of their level now so we’re going to have to hope we get lucky with another gamble.

[Willo of Whiteley]

No one wanted Gary O’Neil. That’s on the fans.

 

[ChrisPY]

5 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

No one wanted Gary O’Neil. That’s on the fans.

 

Partly but if reports were true and he was genuinely considered the best person for the job after interview, there needs to be a level of conviction from those at the top to trust their judgement and know that a positive start will erode the fans initial negativity around the appointment.

[Badger]

6 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

No one wanted Gary O’Neil. That’s on the fans.

 

That’s a bit like people not wanting Hoddle back.

It wasn’t the non-appointment of Hoddle that cost us, there were other options to Sturrock, Wigley etc as things panned out. 

[Mboto Gorge]

2 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Ben Garner anyone?

Or maybe a Lallana, Ben Reeves and Andrew Surman trio.

The golden era is just around the corner.

The irony is we probably had a better coaching set up in our administration season. This current skeleton level of inexperienced dross supporting the equally inexperienced Tonda, is the sort of set up that a club actually in administration would have as a stop gap because they couldn’t afford anything better

What beggars belief is we, as a fairly financially stable football club, have CHOSEN to have these coaches and piss weak, inexperienced set up. You couldn’t make it up

Edited 6 hours ago by Mboto Gorge

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

Bite the bullet and bring back Martin. He'll galvanise these players at least.

Then sack him at the end of the season and bin off these loser players.

Oh God @Pamplemousse don’t join the Martin crush 😍 stalkers on here, you’re too good a poster for that.

Moreover, I want the wankers he brought in and/or lionised - Downes, Manning, Wood, Stephens, Bazunu et al all gone permanently.

[Harry_SFC]

5 minutes ago, ChrisPY said:

Partly but if reports were true and he was genuinely considered the best person for the job after interview, there needs to be a level of conviction from those at the top to trust their judgement and know that a positive start will erode the fans initial negativity around the appointment.

They went for the easy option. Saw the majority of the fans were against it and Tonda started winning games. 

I would've respected them more for appointing O'Neil to be honest. 

[Turkish]

The current list of available candidates is pretty uninspiring. Gerrard and Viera probably the two standouts. I can’t see SR paying out more compensation for anyone employed or anyone half decent who would leave a job to come of this shit show

[Badger]

2 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

Adkins to the end of the season

Sentiment aside, why ? 
 

As great as he was in his time with us, it’s over 10 years since he left. Is he strong enough to sort out our dressing room ? Got my doubts.

 

[Harry_SFC]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

The current list of available candidates is pretty uninspiring. Gerrard and Viera probably the two standouts. I can’t see SR paying out more compensation for anyone employed or anyone half decent who would leave a job to come of this shit show

The ironic thing is if they'd have paid out for a decent manager in the first place it would've saved them a bit of money from firing a load.

[Badger]

4 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

They went for the easy option. Saw the majority of the fans were against it and Tonda started winning games. 

I would've respected them more for appointing O'Neil to be honest. 

Until we’d lost a couple of games and then the anti-skate vitriol would have started. 
 

And let’s not pretend O’Neil was anything special. 

[Badger]

1 minute ago, Harry_SFC said:

The ironic thing is if they'd have paid out for a decent manager in the first place it would've saved them a bit of money from firing a load.

Again. 

[ChrisPY]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

The current list of available candidates is pretty uninspiring. Gerrard and Viera probably the two standouts. I can’t see SR paying out more compensation for anyone employed or anyone half decent who would leave a job to come of this shit show

Think Gerrard’s likely to wait at least until the summer before taking a new job. Slot’s under increasing pressure and he’d be most likely if they were looking for an interim until the end of the season.

[Harry_SFC]

2 minutes ago, Badger said:

Until we’d lost a couple of games and then the anti-skate vitriol would have started. 
 

And let’s not pretend O’Neil was anything special. 

Oh O'Neil isn't anything special and wasn't my first choice but he'd certainly be more inspiring than Tonda is. 

It hasn't taken us long to turn on Tonda so wouldn't be a huge difference on that front. 

[saints-til-i-die]

26 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

No one wanted Gary O’Neil. That’s on the fans.

 

I still don’t 

[AlexLaw76]

hear me out.....Jack Stephens player manager?

[Saint Neil]

[madge]

I’d heard adkins was a decent man manager and pretty decent tactically, kept things simple but changed tactics game on game and played players where they were best suited.would certainly get the fans up for it. He’s had some ups and downs since though.  But at least he’s got experience at this level, can handle decent players too. I do think we’ve some good players in this squad. So there you go…

Edited 6 hours ago by madge

[Baird of the land]

11 minutes ago, Badger said:

Sentiment aside, why ? 
 

As great as he was in his time with us, it’s over 10 years since he left. Is he strong enough to sort out our dressing room ? Got my doubts.

 

An experienced manager, positive football style with strong ties to the club and who fans would get behind, seems ideal for a short term appointment. Think O’Neill at Celtic.

the summer now seems the much better time to be trying to get the right long term pick made.

[AlexLaw76]

It will be Wilfred Nancy.

Stats man, wedded to 3 at the back no matter what

[Lord Duckhunter]

29 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

Think O’Neill at Celtic.

Are you really comparing Nigel Adkin’s to Martin O Neil. 
 

“Nigel Adkin’s he’s the man to address a toxic dressing room , kick a few arses & install discipline, his record and experience will gain instant respect from a group of underperforming posers” , said absolutely nobody in football…