General (POLL) Next Oxford United Manager

[Leysboy]

Someone that used to live in Kirtlington will do me.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Someone that used to live in Kirtlington will do me.

Jake Wright it is!

 

[Leysboy]

I’ve not had an alcoholic drink for 2 and 1/2 years, but I must confess… I’ve got a rather nice bottle of Bollinger at the ready, for when it’s announced that KR is gone.

 

[uptheus]

Strange. What is it about the multiple promotion winning, organised, and tactically astute coach that you don't like?

Too old school.

 

[Pompeyyellows]

At the moment I'd take literally anyone, KR has ground me down. The new manager bounce should be enough to ensure survival.

 

[RgYellows]

At the moment I'd take literally anyone, KR has ground me down. The new manager bounce should be enough to ensure survival.

Waddock it is!

 

[uptheus]

At the moment I'd take literally anyone, KR has ground me down. The new manager bounce should be enough to ensure survival.

Please don’t count our chickens…remember Jim Smith 2nd time around.

 

[yellowbow]

Get Dean Whitehead in

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Mark Warburton for me, plays good football & if going down the DOF route, he’s comfortable working with one

 

[Bornyellow]

Neil Critchley now officially sacked.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Neil Critchley has been sacked by QPR

Wednesday 14.27.

I have no reason now to doubt my source of the same person who told me Karl Robinson applied and spoke to QPR this summer.

 

[Johnf]

Andy Whing ?

 

[SirAndyOfCrosby]

I get everybody wants someone 'fashionable' (or at least bespoke), but there are a few options probably under our noses.

What about Darrell Clarke? Excellent record at multiple clubs. Promotions, incremental improvement. Never anywhere with a decent budget either.

He also has a ready-made assistant who knows OUFC well

A year on and Darrell Clarke has taken over a side that were rock bottom of the division and literally couldn't score a goal.

He's subsequently produced Top 12 form.

He took Goodwin from an under-used wide player and turned him into a £400k striker in a matter of weeks.

He then replaced him with a striker who wasn't making any waves at the level below - but he knew would thrive under the right conditions - and Matty is subsequently banging them in.

He literally gets more out of a given squad. Squeezes everything out of them. Recruits well within modest budgets. Remarkable that he hasn't been given a better job - one with a budget.

Always improving. Never excusing. Incremental improvements.

Fantastic manager.

 

[QuietYeller]

A year on and Darrell Clarke has taken over a side that were rock bottom of the division and literally couldn't score a goal.

He's subsequently produced Top 12 form.

He took Goodwin from an under-used wide player and turned him into a £400k striker in a matter of weeks.

He then replaced him with a striker who wasn't making any waves at the level below - but he knew would thrive under the right conditions - and Matty is subsequently banging them in.

He literally gets more out of a given squad. Squeezes everything out of them. Recruits well within modest budgets. Remarkable that he hasn't been given a better job - one with a budget.

Always improving. Never excusing. Incremental improvements.

Fantastic manager.

You may be right.
All managers have good patches of form tho. Let’s see if he’s still having them perform (like all managers should) over a reasonable period of time.

 

[Foley]

A year on and Darrell Clarke has taken over a side that were rock bottom of the division and literally couldn't score a goal.

He's subsequently produced Top 12 form.

He took Goodwin from an under-used wide player and turned him into a £400k striker in a matter of weeks.

He then replaced him with a striker who wasn't making any waves at the level below - but he knew would thrive under the right conditions - and Matty is subsequently banging them in.

He literally gets more out of a given squad. Squeezes everything out of them. Recruits well within modest budgets. Remarkable that he hasn't been given a better job - one with a budget.

Always improving. Never excusing. Incremental improvements.

Fantastic manager.

Sacked by Bristol Rovers and Port Vale .
'Fantastic ' manager.
He has done well at Cheltenham so far

 

[TailsWeWin]

A year on and Darrell Clarke has taken over a side that were rock bottom of the division and literally couldn't score a goal.

He's subsequently produced Top 12 form.

He took Goodwin from an under-used wide player and turned him into a £400k striker in a matter of weeks.

He then replaced him with a striker who wasn't making any waves at the level below - but he knew would thrive under the right conditions - and Matty is subsequently banging them in.

He literally gets more out of a given squad. Squeezes everything out of them. Recruits well within modest budgets. Remarkable that he hasn't been given a better job - one with a budget.

Always improving. Never excusing. Incremental improvements.

Fantastic manager.

Rather insulting to both CTFC and Darrell to suggest he’d suddenly want to ditch his project in Cheltnum for a club run by two wallies.
The locals here would be dead unimpressed!

 

[Marston Road yellow]

Do you know what I think? We should sack des immediately and get Darrell in. After all the windows have closed and on the back of a 6 game unbeaten run.

They hit rock bottom and needed a lift and I don’t disagree that he’s done well there, but this is a different project with different players and Different expectations. If they were in a position to challenge for the playoffs I might see your point, but they are not.

Whatever’s you think of Des we are currently the 5th best team in league 1.
They are 21st, which is a relegation spot and will probably be in a dog fight till the end of the season.

And before you raise form, we play a full season not 5 or 10 games. Let’s see where both clubs are come May.

 

[Swaby39]

Do you know what I think? We should sack des immediately and get Darrell in. After all the windows have closed and on the back of a 6 game unbeaten run.

They hit rock bottom and needed a lift and I don’t disagree that he’s done well there, but this is a different project with different players and Different expectations. If they were in a position to challenge for the playoffs I might see your point, but they are not.

Whatever’s you think of Des we are currently the 5th best team in league 1.
They are 21st, which is a relegation spot and will probably be in a dog fight till the end of the season.

And before you raise form, we play a full season not 5 or 10 games. Let’s see where both clubs are come May.

There was no suggestion we do that and quite obviously the point is to highlight what can be done with a limited squad, with limited resource in a short time while we bleat on about how hard done by we've been. They may only be 21st but they looked dead and buried and didn't even score for 11 games!

You can't exclude form when it suits. Yes we can say over the season we've been the 5th best side and that's absolutely true, I'm a big believer in tables don't lie, but that's owing in large part to being THE best, or among the two best for the first 12 or so games under a different manager. Since Manning left (Clarke went in before that), we sit 14th while Cheltenham sit 10th having played a game less. Oh, and we spent a fortune in January, crowned coincidentally with their standout player, while they haven't spent a penny on fees all season. Since selling us Goodwin they've managed 2 more points than us with a game to spare and we can't have any complaints about the fixtures.

So I'm not dismissing what you're saying as it's perfectly factual but it depends where you want to draw the comparisons because in the fine print is a much more damning position that the one you've chosen to focus on. The reality is one club has pulled itself together from rock bottom and propelled forward while the other is still soul searching in mid table from once being in a real position if strength. We continue to dine out on Manning's success but the league will catch up soon. Fwiw I'm ot suggesting, and I don't think AndyofCrosby was either, that Oxford and Cheltenham are comparable jobs because they aren't. But it does cut through the fat of some of the excuses and smokescreens being put out there that are letting Des off extremely lightly at times. If Clarke can do the job he's done at Cheltenham, it's not in any way unfair to expect a bit more than we're getting out of a manager that cost us the best part of a million quid.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

There was no suggestion we do that and quite obviously the point is to highlight what can be done with a limited squad, with limited resource in a short time while we bleat on about how hard done by we've been. They may only be 21st but they looked dead and buried and didn't even score for 11 games!

You can't exclude form when it suits. Yes we can say over the season we've been the 5th best side and that's absolutely true, I'm a big believer in tables don't lie, but that's owing in large part to being THE best, or among the two best for the first 12 or so games under a different manager. Since Manning left (Clarke went in before that), we sit 14th while Cheltenham sit 10th having played a game less. Oh, and we spent a fortune in January, crowned coincidentally with their standout player, while they haven't spent a penny on fees all season. Since selling us Goodwin they've managed 2 more points than us with a game to spare and we can't have any complaints about the fixtures.

So I'm not dismissing what you're saying as it's perfectly factual but it depends where you want to draw the comparisons because in the fine print is a much more damning position that the one you've chosen to focus on. The reality is one club has pulled itself together and propelled forward while the other is still soul searching in mid table. Fwiw I'm ot suggesting, and I don't think AndyofCrosby was either, that Oxford and Cheltenham are comparable jobs because they aren't. But it does cut through the fat of some of the excuses being put out there that are letting Des off extremely lightly at times. If Clarke can do the job he's done at Cheltenham, it's not in any way unfair to expect a bit more than we're getting out of a manager that cost us the best part of a million quid.

Big believer that tables don’t lie then goes on to say we are 14th in a made up table.

Is Clarke going to be this years Steve Cotterill?

 

[billyturleyscurlywurly]

Big believer that tables don’t lie then goes on to say we are 14th in a made up table.

Is Clarke going to be this years Steve Cotterill?

Clarke is a decent bloke so wouldn’t compare him to that weapon.