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IF Kevin Blackwell is only a few games from the sack (depending on who you believe) or on the verge of quitting (depending on who you believe) who realistically could come in and do a better job?

Off the top of my head, here are a few contenders (in no order of preference) that spring to mind but few of the below fill me with any confidence.

David O'Leary
Bruce Rioch
Kevin Keegan
John Gregory
Peter Reid
Paul Jewell
Steve Cotterill
Russell Slade
Darren Ferguson
Ian Holloway
Gary Johnson
Gareth Southgate
Nigel Adkins
Sean O'Driscoll
Paul Ince
Lee Clark
Dennis Wise
Stuart McCall
Gary Speed

Thoughts on any of the below?
 

Sean O'Driscoll - see what he can do with a bit more resource available to him.

If nothing else we'll get 'proper' football to watch!
 
Still missing the point here folks....

Any speculation on a new manager (which is not a topic that should be considered 'out of bounds') needs to be split into 2 distinct lists :-

1. Big Name, which comes with cost of wages, heightened expectation and the need for funds to push for promotion.

2. Consolidation/Rebuild, which is a lower-profile, lower-cost option, who will be brought in to stabilise, unite and be given 2 or 3 years to try and change things round.

It's not until you decide which of these categories you expect SUFC to be looking at, that you can have a sensible discussion on the future custodian of the Blades 1st team (UK-only)......and if you seriously expect we're looking at Big Name, then you haven't been paying to attention to whats been happening at BDTBL recently.....
 
You also forget:

Mickey Adams - the likely choice. Will apply, plays long ball and is a Blade. Fits the mould.
Graham Souness - outside chance. High profile, looking for work, and brings investors with him.
 
i would be offended if any of the below became our manager:

David O'Leary
Graham Souness
Paul Jewell
Dennis Wise
Darren Ferguson

I wouldn't be happy with a number of others.

Some I'd be ok with us considering:

Paul Ince
Gary Speed
Gareth Southgate
Ian Holloway

Kevin Keegan - just for the total contrast in tactics/style it would give us each weekend until keegan quits within a few years

Someone I'd be happy with from that list:

Sean O'Driscoll
 

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My god.............what a load of rubbish this thread is. We battle for a good point in a local Derby with some of the old spirit and never say die attitude, at least half of the team wouldn't get in the first choice 11 and some balloon starts a thread about a new manager.

Wake up and smell the coffee everyone, we are making the best of a bad situation at the moment and haven't played 20 games yet. Nobody ever got Promotion in November
 
Wilder learning the trade but pretty much unproven. Clough ahd 10 years at that level and got an unfashionable club promoted and look how he's doing at Derby.
 
Sothall_Blade said:
John Hughes. Ex-Falkirk, current Hibernian manager.
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Guesty said:
Would be leave a top three SPL team for a struggling Championship side?
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Possibly not but I don't think it's as unrealistic a suggestion as say Kevin Keegan for example. There are many reasons why Hughes would want to move to us. He'd probably get a big wage increase for a start. Our crowds are double those of Hibs and The Championship is the 5th biggest league in the World in terms of support. Certainly miles bigger than the SPL.

He'd be working in a competitive league where the same two clubs don't finish first and second every year. If he did well, there's the chance of working in the biggest and best league in the World, either with us or without us.

I'd agree that we could never persuade a current Premiership manager to drop down a division. Which leaves us looking at only out of work managers or those from smaller Championship or lower league clubs. Tony Mowbray and Owen Coyle both successfully made the jump (up?) from SPL to The Championship, so why couldn't someone like Hughes be persuaded to do likewise?

I'd certainly like to think that United would cast the net far and wide to get the best man available next time, even if it means taking a few rejections. Better that than snapping up either the first big name failure who applies or the cheap and easy option.
 
Spire Blade said:
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My god.............what a load of rubbish this thread is. We battle for a good point in a local Derby with some of the old spirit and never say die attitude, at least half of the team wouldn't get in the first choice 11 and some balloon starts a thread about a new manager.

Wake up and smell the coffee everyone, we are making the best of a bad situation at the moment and haven't played 20 games yet. Nobody ever got Promotion in November
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Calm down, sheriff. This is a FORUM and personally I thought this thread was worthy of DEBATE. I wasn't insuating that Blackwell SHOULD be sacked but, depending on who and what you believe, he may not be too far from the bullet.

The irony of your post is that the point of my list highlighted that there are very few attractive and feasible replacements out there IF Blackwell should go. As you alude, sometimes you are better sticking with what you have than making a trigger happy decision.

I'm sure Barnsley fans would disagree, however.
 
I think this thread just emphasises what a disaster it was to have appointed Robson. Had McCabe made a decent appointment at that time we could have been established in the Prem by now.

Hindsight, perhaps, but the trouble is, we'll never know.
 
Lightsoot said:
IF Kevin Blackwell is only a few games from the sack (depending on who you believe) or on the verge of quitting (depending on who you believe) who realistically could come in and do a better job?

Off the top of my head, here are a few contenders (in no order of preference) that spring to mind but few of the below fill me with any confidence.

David O'Leary
Bruce Rioch
Kevin Keegan
John Gregory
Peter Reid
Paul Jewell
Steve Cotterill
Russell Slade
Darren Ferguson
Ian Holloway
Gary Johnson
Gareth Southgate
Nigel Adkins
Sean O'Driscoll
Paul Ince
Lee Clark
Dennis Wise
Stuart McCall
Gary Speed

Thoughts on any of the below?
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Well that didn't take too long to go through that shortlist.
 
Lightsoot said:
IF Kevin Blackwell is only a few games from the sack (depending on who you believe) or on the verge of quitting (depending on who you believe) who realistically could come in and do a better job?

Off the top of my head, here are a few contenders (in no order of preference) that spring to mind but few of the below fill me with any confidence.

David O'Leary
Bruce Rioch
Kevin Keegan
John Gregory
Peter Reid
Paul Jewell
Steve Cotterill
Russell Slade
Darren Ferguson
Ian Holloway
Gary Johnson
Gareth Southgate
Nigel Adkins
Sean O'Driscoll
Paul Ince
Lee Clark
Dennis Wise
Stuart McCall
Gary Speed

Thoughts on any of the below?
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I'm sorry have i missed something or don't we already have a very capable manager?

And sorry, are you taking the piss with some of your suggestions?

IF and i say IF! Blackwell goes. Do you really think that we will pay a team compensation to take their manager? NO! so the list gets even smaller mate
 
Can't believe no one's mentioned Steve Coppell.
Looking for a return to football, ideally with a Championship club, according to a Reading mate of mine.
 
mattbianco1 said:
I'm sorry have i missed something or don't we already have a very capable manager?

And sorry, are you taking the piss with some of your suggestions?

IF and i say IF! Blackwell goes. Do you really think that we will pay a team compensation to take their manager? NO! so the list gets even smaller mate
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He was 8 minutes away from having you running up and down Fargate and the Moor starkers with his tactics! 'very capable' are not two words i'd be using to describe him if I were you ! ;)
 
Newbury Blade said:
Can't believe no one's mentioned Steve Coppell.
Looking for a return to football, ideally with a Championship club, according to a Reading mate of mine.
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If that's true we should send a limo down their straight away.

Mind you, always liked John Gregory myself.Big Springsteen fan like me. The football may still be crap but the music would be good.:thumbup:
 

All this concensus and it's clear the next manager will be torn apart before arriving. So, thinking about it I guess all this noise is normal so Blackwell is doing his job and if the team do theirs we can make the playoffs again. Now there's a thought. UTB!
 
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