Harris sacked

[Cockneyswan]

Crapdiff, the gift that just keeps giving

 

[LeonWasTheDog's]

Hard to know how it will go with McCarthy. He'll toughen them up and make them harder to beat. He'll also bore the pants off them. If they can put up with the dull football, he may get them knocking on the door of the playoffs IF he has a decent natural goalscorer or two to play with. I think he'll be an improvement on Harris though unfortunately.

 

[J_B]

Hard to know how it will go with McCarthy. He'll toughen them up and make them harder to beat. He'll also bore the pants off them. If they can put up with the dull football, he may get them knocking on the door of the playoffs IF he has a decent natural goalscorer or two to play with. I think he'll be an improvement on Harris though unfortunately.

Aye, it’s not what they need though. They need a complete rethink and to appoint a young, progressive manager (and probably a director of football) who will change their whole philosophy on style of play and recruitment. They need to give them at least two and a half years to show progress and accept that it will get bumpy along the way.

They won’t do it of course. Their deluded fans wouldn’t accept it so they’ll continue to appoint names who have repeatedly failed elsewhere and the vicious circle continues...

 

[Jinxy]

Hard to know how it will go with McCarthy. He'll toughen them up and make them harder to beat. He'll also bore the pants off them. If they can put up with the dull football, he may get them knocking on the door of the playoffs IF he has a decent natural goalscorer or two to play with. I think he'll be an improvement on Harris though unfortunately.

It's a shame they're not playing any sides in the top 6 for quite some time. The inevitable bounce could have benefitted us slightly. Ah well.

 

[Darran]

:lol:

 

[JackSomething]

Hard to know how it will go with McCarthy. He'll toughen them up and make them harder to beat. He'll also bore the pants off them. If they can put up with the dull football, he may get them knocking on the door of the playoffs IF he has a decent natural goalscorer or two to play with. I think he'll be an improvement on Harris though unfortunately.

Aye, it’s not what they need though. They need a complete rethink and to appoint a young, progressive manager (and probably a director of football) who will change their whole philosophy on style of play and recruitment. They need to give them at least two and a half years to show progress and accept that it will get bumpy along the way.

They won’t do it of course. Their deluded fans wouldn’t accept it so they’ll continue to appoint names who have repeatedly failed elsewhere and the vicious circle continues...

Not just digging them out because they're our rivals, but the difference in philosophies when it comes to managerial appointments has been stark. We've obviously made mistakes too, but they've usually been when we've gone for a more experienced manager or have been panicking.

We've appointed the likes of Jackett, Martinez, Sousa, Rodgers, Monk, Clement, Potter and Cooper. Almost all of those had little management experience or in the case of Potter, had only managed in a league seen as inferior. Even when we've gone for someone with more experience, like Laudrup, he was a manager with a clearly defined philosophy that fit what was already here.

That's an awful lot of success stories to set against the failures of Carvalhal and Bradley. I realise Monk's appointment is now clearly seen to have been a mistake, but he did well if you look purely at results.

While Cardiff over the same timeframe have appointed the likes of Dave Jones (over 400 games as manager before Cardiff), Russell Slade, Paul Trollope (almost 300 games as manager before Cardiff), Neil Warnock and Neil Harris. Two of their more inexperienced managers were Mackay, who led them to promotion, and Solskjaer who is proving now that he's a better manager than Cardiff fans thought he was.

Instead of looking at young and ambitious managers who are trying to bring something new to the table, they keep going for the same old faces. As J_B has said, they need a total reform of the club, decide on an approach for the whole club to follow and appoint a manager who can try and make it happen. They won't though. Thankfully.

 

[Mad_Mike]

Welcome Mick McCarthy.

 

[Ferryjack]

Will agent Terry Connor be in the dugout with Mick, that should have the scum dancing around with joy , to see a exswan there.

 

[Lifelong]

:lol:

Bloody hell....

 

[monmouth]

I thought this was just a joke and a spoof. It’s real? Mick McCarthy. Seriously?

 

[sainthelens]

I thought this was just a joke and a spoof. It’s real? Mick McCarthy. Seriously?

My thoughts too.
Almost crashed the car laughing earlier when that spat outa the radio.
Total spunk ball of a club.

 

[Bridgendjack]

Turned down by Paul Cook as well.........doesn’t want another relegation on his CV apparently!!

 

[Darran]

:lol:

https://twitter.com/philblanche/status/1352647389899870208?s=21

 

[monmouth]

Turned down by Paul Cook as well.........doesn’t want another relegation on his CV apparently!!

Presumably Eddie Howe said it was too big a 'sleeping giant' for him to cope with and prefers a small club like Celtic?

 

[Sherpa]

the timing suits us perfectly i reckon.

Mcarthy really does seem a lazy choice by Cardiff, a nothing special old school manager who managed to get 2 big clubs out of the championship.

They will more than likely get some sort of "bounce" that usually accompanies new managers, but that will have faded by the time they play us again in March.