Exactly right. We'd have no trouble getting someone interested, but paying them is a different matter entirely. Which is why we've got Andy Thorn.
But isnt that the game we love...without being pedantic..Chris Powell got the backing from the fans but more than that the RESPECT from the players..what a legend he played for England, for Charlton in the Prem etc etc maybe LC would command the same respect and bring in new ideas as being only recently a member of a very succesful Everton team and a Cov player with the Sky Blues at heart???
There is just no credibility to this idea. What resounding evidence is there that managers get better the longer they are in the chair? And if the theory is completely wrong, then it can be extremely damaging to stick with a poor, underperforming manager for a long period of time. All they'd be doing is damaging the club.
I agree to the extent that you shouldn't chop and change every two years regardless, but the mistake that the club has made over the past decade is in chopping strong-performing managers (Nilsson, Black) - exactly the types who could have had that five year reign.
As I've said before, the only times we haven't opened the revolving door everybody gets so excited about on an underperforming manager, we've got relegated .
Just to throw a name in Kevin Blackwell. Knows the lower leagues and instills passion and drive in his teams and is busting a gut to get back involved. Been abroad for the last year although I can't see Thorn being hung out to dry just yet.
Thorn won the FA cup Wimbledon, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that one of the true underdog stories in FA cup history?
That commands respect and again, I stand to be corrected, but I'm fairly sure Shaw nor Carsley have won the FA cup?
I think it's just Powell is a good manager which has gained him respect than being a top player.
Why can everybody not see what AT has done, the worst stats for any Coventry manager of all time. He is NOT a manager, he has to go, but he is a yes man for SISU so he will be there to the end of the season. We will stay in Div 1 and that will be classed by AT as a great year. My thoughts, AT AND SISU out
Unfortunately it is not going to happen, worse is that he should have gone 12 months ago.
Hang on where are all the AT lovers ...................... mulling over berating people saying what your all saying tonight only it was months ago.
points win prizes .................................. 3 points from a possible 9. (two home games included)
Great start !
Hang on where are all the AT lovers ...................... mulling over berating people saying what your all saying tonight only it was months ago.
points win prizes .................................. 3 points from a possible 9. (two home games included)
Great start !
Tbf to him, none of the goals were his fault today, players weren't tired, just individual mistakes. He was somewhat at fault for what happened, after their equaliser.
It is clear AT's aim is promotion, not to stay in L1.
What makes that clear? Is it him going all out for wins when we are drawing by throwing the kitchen sink at them?
Let's all TE=gaz;250013]Well it's gone 9pm now and no news that Thorn has gone. :thinking about:
Did the op say that he was going tonight or Thursday ?
Oh well, the clock is ticking ....[/QUOTE]
Lets all hope for the sake of the club it is true.
Did the op say that he was going tonight or Thursday ?
Oh well, the clock is ticking ....[/QUOTE]
Lets all hope for the sake of the club it is true.
Sad pathetic post from someone who knows he has backed a dud. You have my sympathy.
I think we may have to take a gamble, Norwich did it with Lambert, Charlton did it with Powell, Huddersfield did it with Clark and came very close!
I've just seen Dennis Wise and Vinny Samways tucking into a Chicken Bhuna at the Standard Sweet Centre on Foleshill Road. Word is they had just had a few beers in the General Wolfe and were on their way to the Ricoh to sort everything out.
You heard it here first.
You heard it here first.
Personally I think we should make the change sooner rather than later...he has shown himself to be tactically inept over the last year and I'm sure I wasn't the only one that felt even at 2-0 we wouldn't hold on for the win....nothing's changed. We can't hold a lead and that has been a constant throughout his reign and I can't see that changing...can anyone?
This is like Big Brother....
In a geordie accent
23.13pm...
In the Big Brother House.... aka Ricoh Arena
Andy Thorn enters the diary room....
Yes and they also had a lot more spending power than us. In addition to numbers free signings and loan players-
Norwich paid fees for 8 players including £500k for Holt
Charlton paid fees for 9 players including £375k for Stephens
Huddlesfield paid fees for 6 players (2008/09) including £500k for Denton
We have paid a fee for 1 player - Barton reportedly about £150k.
Would that mean we would be getting rid of Shaw if Samways came in as assistant to wise
I gather he isnt being sacked tonight then! I said id give him to xmas, but i give up with him now! Get Thorn Out!!!!
23:30pm Andy Thorn is crying in the diary room, complaining that David Bell ate his last Scotch egg
And if he goes, it's defo Shaw and Carsley. This is from someone who likes to think they're in the know at club. Not sure how true, but just saying what I heard. This in no way means I believe it or have written proof.
What do you mean 'apparently'?
Lets be honest, you know exactly the same as the rest of us do.
Let me guess, your friends taxi driver was driving Waggott home and over heard him on the phone to Thorn?
I mean someone who is in and around the board members on match days said in pub. I am only passing on - as I said not saying its gospel. I know as much as I hear. I don't know what anyone else knows.
Btw, I think he is full of it as he likes to think he's a counselled ear so I listen to him in a sarcastic way. Just saying what he said tonight. The end. No venom, no superiority, just adding on a loose thing I heard on a sharing forum. That ok?
Will the board just make their mind up! They are sacking him today, then the Stevenage game, and according to some the end of the season!