Parkinson

[Barney]

With sky bet
Some info must of leaked or somebody must know what's happening?

 

[Barney]

FFS don't want parkinson

 

[Blade56]

It's a done deal. Will be announced on radio Pig tonight.

It's cause I put a sneaky 50p on him in one go

The board will be impressed cause he had a good cup run

 

[gavtheblade]

Please no

 

[DanOundogg]

Oh No

 

[AnonymousBlade1995]

i will need every color crayon they is if we replace clough with a man who finished below us and whose last automatic promotion was the year we got promoted to the premier league

 

[Barney]

Can't believe this. He is worse than clough ffs

 

[Blade56]

Can't believe this. He is worse than clough ffs

Main criteria for us to sign him, it's the a Bladey-Blade way

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

Let's see. Given the speed things are happening then obviously it must have been set up. Very strange choice if it is and it was.

Don't bet and know next to nothing about it. How much would have to be staked to bring the odds in like that? Just wondering if people are following the money rather than being in the know.

 

[WF10BLADE]

You're wrong he got promoted at Wembley other year.

 

[Bookers Mullet]

Would be an awful choice, no better than Clough in anyway. If its him we'd have been far better sticking with Clough

 

[Barney]

Somebody somewhere must know something for the odds to change that much that quick
i've never seen anything like it
I will be very angry if they appoint him
He is not our man IMO

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

Good at cup runs.

 

[alcoblade]

Our board would not be this Stupid.........

 

[Barney]

Our board would not be this Stupid.........

wouldn't count on that alco

 

[YES Blade]

Can't believe this. He is worse than clough ffs

I'm not sure about that, he's got a League One and League Two promotion on his CV.

If you judge a manager on promotions alone, you'll struggle to find any worse than Clough.

But gotta say I hope we'll get someone better than Parkinson.

 

[jt64]

Somebody somewhere must know something for the odds to change that much that quick

I put a couple of quid on him, it's really all it needs to make that much of a shift

 

[Dkc]

Won't cost us much, lives locally, ticks all the right boxes for the cheap option.

I'd rather see Keith Hill or Redfearn in charge

 

[Blade56]

Well I think he's a cracking choice, I'll get me coat

 

[Blade58]

@tannerman774: Hearing reports from South Yorks that Phil Parkinson is one of the favourites for Sheff Unt job. #Bcafc

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Would be an awful choice, no better than Clough in anyway. If its him we'd have been far better sticking with Clough

Clough deserved to lose his job for screwing up the season as he did.

 

[Blade56]

All other candidates odds drifting rapidly out

Warburton 14/1. Most others between 33-50/1

 

[Dkc]

Clough deserved to lose his job for screwing up the season as he did.

Did he really screw up the season so badly? We were a whisker away from a double Wembley season - League Cup Final and Play Off Final. Just the odd goal in both semis saw us go out, the odd goal in 13 v Swindon. It's a fine line between success and failure.

 

[Ashtonsmashton]

Sam allardyce shot up aswell with mark warburton, they are the 3 favourites, must be something going on

 

[Ashtonsmashton]

He has won a playoff aswell so...
And knows how to get out of this league.

 

[S5Blade]

Careful what you wish for....

 

[Grappler]

Yep, all other candidates odds are drifting out rapidly, Big Sam at 25/1, Mark Warburton at 14/1 and Phil Parkinson at 1/10 on!!

http://www.skybet.com/football/specials/manager-specials


If this is correct then I assume the talks have been taking place for a few weeks

 

[Barney]

He is the one man out of all potential candidates i just cannot see being the manager of the blades
Completely the wrong sort of guy we need to be going for.
Would be a disastrous decision to appoint parkinson.

 

[Living In a Fantasy World]

Parkinson being favorite doesn't excite me...

 

[itsinyerblood]

Talk of cheap options misses the point surely? Don't we want the right man for the job, rather than someone who comes in a bargain bag?

I'll bite my tongue until whoever's appointed has their feet under the desk and offers an idea of what they can offer. I know Clough's sacking pleased some on here, but I think that joy they feel hasn't been balanced by the thought of who might take NC's place. All the talk of managerial stability upon NC's appointment is now meaningless, unless of course there was a profound schism at the boardroom meeting.

It also crossed my mind, with McCabe's admitted poor record at appointing managers, and with the Prince overseeing his interest in the club from afar, do we have our own version of a Mike Ashley situation at work? Ashley, although massively successful in sports retail, considered that the same skills he's perfected in retail could be applied to the running of a football club. How wrong and ego-driven was that assumption. Could the Prince and his minions be a poorer version of Newcastle's owner?