Playing devil’s advocate for a moment (I think it was a poor decision), when you do get a club that’s on the rise ‘back to where they belong’, you do tend to find they decide to jettison the person who gets them there in favour of a more established and ‘better’ name.
Terry Brown won a tonne of promotions with AFC Wimbledon but the first sticky patch he hit and he was gone in favour of Neal Ardley to take them up to the next level. Neil Warnock has been hired and fired with increasing regularity from many PL sides as he’s seen as a means to an end and not the end itself, Watford sack managers who do reasonably well in favour of new blood each season to stay fresh and I remember the anger at Nigel Adkins getting the boot at Southampton not long after their promotion to the top flight. Where the board got it right there was with a great appointment in Mauricio Pochettino. A further nod to them getting it right is that Nigel Adkins has had a far from stellar post-Southampton management career – fairly ordinary spells at Reading, Sheffield United and what’s looking increasingly like a short spell at Hull.
It goes to show that if the Hereford board get the appointment right, the anger will ebb away and all will be forgotten. Get it wrong and there will be calls for Peter Beadle to come back and the board to go.
