General Manager Sack Watch

It's amazing how quick things can collapse for managers. Derby looked fine up until Boxing Day. Sat in 14th having just beaten West Brom and since then they've lost every match including a defeat on penalties in the FA Cup.

Likewise, Swansea as well. Six defeats in seven in all comps and a single point in 2025 so far. The shadow of the axe must be over Luke Williams's job there too.

We're cruising along nicely but it just takes one bad month to throw you right back into the relegation mix again.
 
unification said:
It's amazing how quick things can collapse for managers. Derby looked fine up until Boxing Day. Sat in 14th having just beaten West Brom and since then they've lost every match including a defeat on penalties in the FA Cup.

Likewise, Swansea as well. Six defeats in seven in all comps and a single point in 2025 so far. The shadow of the axe must be over Luke Williams's job there too.

We're cruising along nicely but it just takes one bad month to throw you right back into the relegation mix again.
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Exactly this and this is why it's a dangerous game to think we are clear - the same could easily happen to us. Two or three results either way can transform everything. Personally, I think we will have enough but I do think, ultimately, it will be a closer call than it looks right now. Lets see how we fare tomorrow because this is the first big side of note that we've faced under Rowett, the first real test to see if we've moved on from Des throwing in the towel at this sort of opposition. Are we going to try and make this a war tomorrow night, battle it out and get in their faces, or just meekly lie down, roll over and surrender. It will be a good pointer towards some tough fixtures to come.
 
dickwalton1964 said:
Exactly this and this is why it's a dangerous game to think we are clear - the same could easily happen to us. Two or three results either way can transform everything. Personally, I think we will have enough but I do think, ultimately, it will be a closer call than it looks right now. Lets see how we fare tomorrow because this is the first big side of note that we've faced under Rowett, the first real test to see if we've moved on from Des throwing in the towel at this sort of opposition. Are we going to try and make this a war tomorrow night, battle it out and get in their faces, or just meekly lie down, roll over and surrender. It will be a good pointer towards some tough fixtures to come.
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Agree wholly with this (which is why I've just posted about turning the game into a street fight on the preview thread).

But at the same time, also recognize that if we do fight but lose tomorrow, it's not terminal.

But the two games after that will go a very long way to determining if our season is going to be a relaxed cruise or a nailbiter.
4 or 6 points from Derby (a)/Pompey (h) and we're very nearly there. But lose one or both, and there's going to be anxious moments still to come.
 
Jeez. What's Hughes trying to prove? To manage the 92 before he retires?

It didn't really work out in the long term at Bradford and I can only see Carlisle being doomed this season (although Tranmere under Nigel Adkins - remember him? - are making a good go to wrestle their way into the relegation spots).

He'll be gone by or before the end of the season after they go down is my prediction.
 
I mean can't blame people being cynical but honestly good luck to him - clearly wants to stay in the game at any level. If the club are willing to give him a shot then so be it.
 
Oxford84 said:
Strange how Adkins was brilliant in his first 3 jobs winning promotions and breaking all kinds of records but since then has been sacked or left jobs without any success.
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I think changes in tactics/methods in the game passed him and his style of football by and he hasn't adapted sufficiently. Whereas at the start, he initially may have been part of the cohort leading the change.
 
Marked Ox said:
I think changes in tactics/methods in the game passed him and his style of football by and he hasn't adapted sufficiently. Whereas at the start, he initially may have been part of the cohort leading the change.
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You wonder how much is tactical and how much is generational, dealing with a certain type of player. Was a lot of talk as Sir Alex was going into retirement how he was completely done with modern agents and players.
 


Warne gone now which is a bit of a shame, 7 league defeats on the spin and only 3 goals scored in that time. With a healthy budget he's got a knack of getting teams to be big, strong and organised enough to get out of League 1 but has always struggled to step it up in The Championship when most teams are just as physically good and have the extra bit of class to break a team down, he doesn't have that extra bit of nous to work a way round it so his sacking will likely give them a bit of a shot in the arm.
 
Damn that kind of sucks that warne is gone. Will be a harder game now on Tuesday. Gerrard incoming?
 
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