champs08
Well-known member
I look back at recent manager appointments and it tells a very accurate story of what we are and how we work closely within our budgets.
Rowett after Harris was a new style with championship experience. He was excellent for us in the main, and a top bloke, but he wasn’t able to take us on to the next level. In a many fans eyes, he became stale and lacked tactical nouse, limiting us to being just a mid table championship side with the odd run at the play offs. He left before it got messy, because the fans wanted free flowing attacking football, the type of approach that Newcastle or Spurs are used to. 100 mile an hour attack attack attack. If we lose 5-4 each week then so be it.
After serious consideration we go for a football purist that had no club management experience, but had great calibre, good connections and ideas to get the club playing in the new way, pass pass pass, move move move, triangles, hexagons, octagons and whatever “one” will get the fans on their feet.
That failed. Players couldn’t do it, manager couldn’t man manage as he wasn’t used to it and we hadn’t the funds to really make it happen, even if we had half a dozen transfer windows.
Welcome back Mr Harris. He gets us organised, giving 100% as a minimum every game, galvanising the team and crowd from the first minute of his second tenure to date.
We beat Southampton at their place, Leicester at home, get a point against West Brom that we should’ve won and even though we lost to Rotherham and Huddersfield, has actually taken this team to believe they can beat anyone again.
Then fast forward to the end of the season. Let’s say we are safe, we have championship football again next season and another mini clear out of player.
We get to the end May and we still have Neil as manager. We are linked with a few loan players, after some decent lower league players and manage to keep the core of the squad.
Do you want Neil Harris as manager, or do you want another potential Edwards, or Rowett clone or something else.
I reckon half will say Harris, half will say something else.
What does something else look like, because right now, I’m offering Harris another deal.
Thoughts would be good
Rowett after Harris was a new style with championship experience. He was excellent for us in the main, and a top bloke, but he wasn’t able to take us on to the next level. In a many fans eyes, he became stale and lacked tactical nouse, limiting us to being just a mid table championship side with the odd run at the play offs. He left before it got messy, because the fans wanted free flowing attacking football, the type of approach that Newcastle or Spurs are used to. 100 mile an hour attack attack attack. If we lose 5-4 each week then so be it.
After serious consideration we go for a football purist that had no club management experience, but had great calibre, good connections and ideas to get the club playing in the new way, pass pass pass, move move move, triangles, hexagons, octagons and whatever “one” will get the fans on their feet.
That failed. Players couldn’t do it, manager couldn’t man manage as he wasn’t used to it and we hadn’t the funds to really make it happen, even if we had half a dozen transfer windows.
Welcome back Mr Harris. He gets us organised, giving 100% as a minimum every game, galvanising the team and crowd from the first minute of his second tenure to date.
We beat Southampton at their place, Leicester at home, get a point against West Brom that we should’ve won and even though we lost to Rotherham and Huddersfield, has actually taken this team to believe they can beat anyone again.
Then fast forward to the end of the season. Let’s say we are safe, we have championship football again next season and another mini clear out of player.
We get to the end May and we still have Neil as manager. We are linked with a few loan players, after some decent lower league players and manage to keep the core of the squad.
Do you want Neil Harris as manager, or do you want another potential Edwards, or Rowett clone or something else.
I reckon half will say Harris, half will say something else.
What does something else look like, because right now, I’m offering Harris another deal.
Thoughts would be good