Alan Sheehan-Manager for Next Season

[ABSwan]

Cardiff kept Riza after a good start over 5 or 6 games and it went pear shaped to say the least.

The big difference, we went way beyond 5 or 6 games and Riza tried to succeed with the people he had, under staffed using coaches from the u-21's, Sheehan on the other hand recognized he could not be successful short handed and made sure he recruited the staff to be a success.

 

[welshswan]

Cardiff kept Riza after a good start over 5 or 6 games and it went pear shaped to say the least.

The big difference, we went way beyond 5 or 6 games and Riza tried to succeed with the people he had, under staffed using coaches from the u-21's, Sheehan on the other hand recognized he could not be successful short handed and made sure he recruited the staff to be a success.

When the talk that Sheehan was going after the first few games he demanded he was allowed to appoint coaches to help him. Fotheringham is the big one that’s helped too I feel

 

[Swansea93]

When the talk that Sheehan was going after the first few games he demanded he was allowed to appoint coaches to help him. Fotheringham is the big one that’s helped too I feel

As much as people take the piss out of Fotheringham he has a lot of experience around the world in football.

 

[Cooperman]

I wasn’t a fan of this appointment as I thought that we needed a more experienced head, and I certainly didn’t warm to Sheehan over recent weeks as quickly as others. Put all that aside, it’s refreshing to see that we are making an early move and not waiting until July. Now to give him the right tools with which to do his job and get behind him on the terraces.

 

[monmouth]

I don’t see him as any more than a steady the ship type of appointment, but who knows, he might have more than we’ve seen, might grow into the job and increase his ceiling. More importantly, we need better players in key positions, and whatever else he does, stop the insane suicide of Fulton and Cullen as he’s been playing them.

Can’t really quibble with giving him the chance. Just hope we’ve built in some contractual protections for once.

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

I think he's earned the chance. To not give him a chance to build on the past couple of months would show an extreme confidence/arrogance in their ability to find someone better that this ownership group has not earned yet.

I don't quite buy into the 'this is the most important decision in years' talk about this appointment. Meh. I think there needs to be less hysteria in general about the singular importance of the Head Coach. In 90% of clubs it's a revolving door position. If Sheehan doesn't work out, we'll bin him off and find someone else. If he does work out, he'll get poached and we'll be looking for someone else anyway. Let's focus on stability in the areas we have more long-term control over like recruitment and youth development and be a club that is well-run enough to not think the world is collapsing if we have to go through a few Head Coaches along the way.

In many ways, Montague and his ability to assemble a squad that 'overperforms the budget' is more important to our future success than Alan Sheehan. Sheehan showed that just casting off the 'swansea way' ideological horsesh*t and ramping up the energy levels was enough to get us performing well enough in this league. It's Monty's task to get a matchday squad together that can build on that and sustain that over a full season.

In a recent interview Sheehan mentioned he believes the style of play he wants to use is one that will allow us to overperform in this league and that he'd discussed that with Monty. Now, that could just be Sheehan pandering to his bosses favourite term, but the mindset aligns - rather than how do we get these players to play the 'swansea way', it's how to we play that makes them more than the sum of their parts? It's a much healthier place to be in my opinion, but of course, it could all just be unsustainable and we'll flounder, but I'd much rather be in this pragmatic post-process manager phase than still stuck where we were, and it's worked a treat so far.

 

[monmouth]

The overarching, enormous, whacking benefit of appointing Sheehan is we get rid of the recent interpretation of 'Swansea Way' arseholery, and are not at risk of trying to regurgitate or reanimate the whole sorry shambles of Martin and Williams.

 

[bakajack]

The overarching, enormous, whacking benefit of appointing Sheehan is we get rid of the recent interpretation of 'Swansea Way' arseholery, and are not at risk of trying to regurgitate or reanimate the whole sorry shambles of Martin and Williams.

Agreed.

Sheehan seems to offer a compromise between the "Swansea Way Possession Obsession" that characterised the Martin and Williams eras and the more pragmatic Duff era that put so many people's noses out of joint.

Its more like adaptive football rather than paint by numbers football

 

[Deleted member 1454]

The overarching, enormous, whacking benefit of appointing Sheehan is we get rid of the recent interpretation of 'Swansea Way' arseholery, and are not at risk of trying to regurgitate or reanimate the whole sorry shambles of Martin and Williams.

Yup. I'm still not 100% convinced about his long term vision (although he deserves this crack at it, no question) but if worst came to the worst I would much rather see him make a pig's ear of it doing it the way he does it.

The thought of having to suffer another snake oil salesman, trying to gaslight us into believing playing losing football is fine as long as we retain our "purity", is just completely exhausting.

I am pleased the club has finally decided to depart from 4 years of mostly utter nonsense.

 

[bakajack]

Yup. I'm still not 100% convinced about his long term vision (although he deserves this crack at it, no question) but if worst came to the worst I would much rather see him make a pig's ear of it doing it the way he does it.

The thought of having to suffer another snake oil salesman, trying to gaslight us into believing playing losing football is fine as long as we retain our "purity", is just completely exhausting.

I am pleased the club has finally decided to depart from 4 years of mostly utter nonsense.

The only concession I will make to the former owners is that they did try to move away from that after Martin left when they appointed Duff. However it is unfortunate that he was their choice, the man had seemingly no social skills or charisma or ability to read the desires and priorities of the fans.

It was the equivalent of giving up alcohol to instead take up chain smoking

 

[Swanjaxs]

As much as people take the piss out of Fotheringham he has a lot of experience around the world in football.

Very well thought of north of the boarder and will get a in the SPL soon enough if we don't tie him down.

 

[Deleted member 1454]

The only concession I will make to the former owners is that they did try to move away from that after Martin left when they appointed Duff. However it is unfortunate that he was their choice, the man had seemingly no social skills or charisma or ability to read the desires and priorities of the fans.

It was the equivalent of giving up alcohol to instead take up chain smoking

Great analogy.

The outgoing Andy Coleman headhunted Duff. I don't think we need to say any more than that!

 

[Dr. Winston]

I don't think we're likely to be anything less than organised & competent under Sheehan.

Some may still have questions about whether he's capable of more, whether he's got the certain extra something to go beyond that, but after 4 years of almost total shit since Martin was first appointed I'll happily take organised & competent for a bit.

 

[Longlostjack]

I don't think we're likely to be anything less than organised & competent under Sheehan.

Some may still have questions about whether he's capable of more, whether he's got the certain extra something to go beyond that, but after 4 years of almost total shit since Martin was first appointed I'll happily take organised & competent for a bit.

This in spades!

 

[gadget1974]

Confirmed