Am I the only one who does not want SOD?

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I kind of agree with you, although I wouldn't necessarily say I dont want him. I'd be fairly happy and open minded if we did bring SOD in but I'm not as carried away by the romantic idea of playing like Arsenal. That is what some of our supporters seem to think will happen, but in fact it would probably take him a long time to get us right and playing in his image.

I do think he is a good manager and has admirable achievements at Donny but the work was started for him in all fairness. As well as he has done, I think his abilities are a little over exaggerated and overrated at times. He got Bournemouth and Donny playing pretty football and has had ONE promotion through the playoffs. I'm not knocking it but I do think he has a lot to prove yet.....
 
I'm sure you're not the only one. Mickey Adams is probably with you, but not many others.
 
I think SOD will need time and money to turn things round and get a side playing attractive winning football. United have neither.

It's all well and good wanting to play like Arsenal, but at the minute we are at the arse end of the Championship needing results, and need to dig in to win point and can't see a manager of the style of SOD achieving this. Pretty football is all well and good when you are looking towards the right end of the table, but when you are fighting for your lives and need to turn things round then passing football looks awful when you are losing results at the wrong end of the table.
 
No, Cooper said to me last night he'd prefer Blackie back than SOD.

I think it is impossible for me to underestimate what a fantastic job he has done at Donny in terms of the promotion and more to the point in terms of them scoring a few goals, playing decent football and staying up in the second tier. He may well have taken them as far as they can go but that is no reflection on SODs abilities for me - although Holloway showed there is a next step for clubs that size.

He aint the be all and end all but - and it is irrelevant now by all accounts - I'd love to see him at BDTBL.
 
I also think that we need someone with a more forceful personality to get us out of this relegation battle. Not sure if SOD would be the right man to save us to be honest. Long term and with some money to spend, I think he could be great but we all know there's no money available at the moment, therefore, it is with regret that I shall be plumping for the likes of Brown P or Adams M.
 
>but I'm not as carried away by the romantic idea of playing like Arsenal.
i am.. and i'm prepared to wait.
 
brownie said:
I think SOD will need time and money to turn things round and get a side playing attractive winning football. United have neither.

It's all well and good wanting to play like Arsenal, but at the minute we are at the arse end of the Championship needing results, and need to dig in to win point and can't see a manager of the style of SOD achieving this. Pretty football is all well and good when you are looking towards the right end of the table, but when you are fighting for your lives and need to turn things round then passing football looks awful when you are losing results at the wrong end of the table.
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Agree 100%. Priority has to be avoiding relegation and I'm not sure SOD is the best man for the job.
 
SOD has got Donny playing good football....scoring some goals and in a comfortable position in the league(compared to us anyway) using fairly meagre resources. From what I have read on here in recent weeks this would satisfy a good many on here ( me included). It remains to be seen whether or not he could kick on from there given extra resources. He does seem capable of spotting a player though. If we accept that we are never going to be a big spending club isn't he the perfect choice...I thnk so!
 
I think I'm in this camp too. SOD would be my close second choice.

I'm not sure he'd keep us up this season.
 
I'm one of those who is wondering/worrying if this is one of those one-off, unique situations where a manager just hits it all right at one club and, despite trying very hard, can never replicate the same thing anywhere else. Joe Royle at Oldham springs to mind!
 
I don't think all fans believe we will play football like Barca. But from the names widely touted I would take SOD over Adams every day of the week he is the only one who will do what Birch said he wanted.

I have faith in that plan and wouldn't like to see it derailed by the wrong appointment.
 
travellingblade said:
I'm not sure he'd keep us up this season.
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Without the right backing in January, I wouldn't be sure of Jesus Christ keeping us up.

If whoever comes in is told:

"OK, in January, Reid goes back to Sunderland, Williamson is still shy of being fit, there's no money for new players but if you can offload Ched and Monty you can spend what you get in/save on wages."

Show me the man who can guarantee survival under those parameters and I'll go and fetch him myself.
 
It's easy to spot that SOD has done a good job at Donny but without real expectations and demands from fans (which has been said over and over again). What is "championship experience" btw? SOD is in his third season now and Donny has done well but is that really experience? Does Hughton have Championship experience for winning the leauge? Does Gary Speed have championship experience? Where do you draw the line? I honestly feel he (SOD) doesn't have enough championship experience to manage a team like Sheffield United.

We need someone experienced (with a capital E) and in my opinon that is Steve Coppel (whom I voted for in the poll yesterday).

I hope he gets it! :)
 
Lund-Blade said:
It's easy to spot that SOD has done a good job at Donny but without real expectations and demands from fans (which has been said over and over again). What is "championship experience" btw? SOD is in his third season now and Donny has done well but is that really experience? Does Hughton have Championship experience for winning the leauge? Does Gary Speed have championship experience? Where do you draw the line? I honestly feel he (SOD) doesn't have enough championship experience to manage a team like Sheffield United.

We need someone experienced (with a capital E) and in my opinon that is Steve Coppel (whom I voted for in the poll yesterday).

I hope he gets it! :)
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Coppell is an interesting call, but who would you want to replace him after Christmas?
 

people forget that donny got beat 4-0 by cardiff, 3-0 by qpr and 5-1 by leicester! he isnt the great messiah people make him out to be! he inherited a good side and added a few players that complimented it! He will need a season at least to implement his style properly at the lane and that still doesnt mean a week in week out 3 points and barcelona performance and plus we could possibly be down by then anyway!
 
SoccerCynic said:
SOD has got Donny playing good football....scoring some goals!
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I've had a look at the stats and it seems to be a bit of a myth that Doncaster score a lot of goals under Sean O'Driscoll. They've been mid-table in the goalscoring charts for the last couple of seasons. In 2008/2009 they only scored 42 goals (2nd lowest) despite finishing 14th.
 
I don't want him ,boring bloke ,boring football ,never been impressed with Donny at all and believe they will be bottom third if he stays there. Not keen on Adams either ,but I will be right behind whoever we appoint. I just wish it would be Brown.
 
I am underwhelmed by O'Driscoll but to be honest the fact that we could still attract a manager from the same division as ourselves makes me feel quite good!
 
Bassett took us down before we shot up again. Relegation isn't the be all and end all. SOD is one of a band of managers who I would welcome at BDTBL. Good football isn't guaranteed, but an up and at em Manager isn't guaranteed results either.

Has anyone considered that it may be too late already? Theres no money in January, lets take that as read. McCabe hasn't dug into his pockets in recent seasons so don't expect anything this. That means we are left with loans and trades/freebies. I think our biggest hope is that other teams will be worse than us by the end of the season rather than us picking up the points ourselves. Its a shit league and it might just be we aren't quite as shit as three other teams around us.

In short, we could well be screwed no matter who comes in.
 
kop_blade9 said:
Everybody is raving about him but I just cannot see what all the fuss is about
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I certainly have some doubts about him.

I don't watch Docaster very often - usually only when they play us at Bramall Lane. And last season they were very poor indeed. Yes they drew with us, but it was just one of those days where their luck was in and the team that should have won by a mile didn't.

And the season before when they won 1-0 they were worth the win, but I certainly didn't think they were anything special. And we were very very very poor that evening.

But whoever we get is bound to have some question marks against him. Noone who is likely to be interested in us is going to be perfect. And as others have said, I will be supportive of whoever comes in - until we lose of course.:)

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sitwell said:
I don't want him ,boring bloke ,boring football ,never been impressed with Donny at all and believe they will be bottom third if he stays there. Not keen on Adams either ,but I will be right behind whoever we appoint. I just wish it would be Brown.
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I'm very torn in my view of Brown. He could be just the type of upbeat and forceful character that we need. But, he can sometimes be like Warnock on steroids and really rub people up the wrong way. Which is fine, so long as it's not all of his players because we need them to be on his side!
 
My concern would be whether SOD would have the same, matey relationship he seems to have with John Ryan. I think the fact that Ryan is a big Donny fan and still committed to progression contributes in a major way to the way SOD's teams perform and the environment they operate in.

Can't see the same thing happening at BDTBL somehow
 
Was going to start a thread with much the same sentiments. O'Driscoll may have done a v good job with Doncaster but I'd much prefer Hughton. I'd prefer to compare the size of our club with Newcastle rather than Doncaster. Hughton's experience with Spurs and the Irish National team along with the excellent job he did resurrecting the Geordies and the fact that he's a free agent gets my vote
 
I think Hughton would be a big risk. Newcastle had a very strong squad which was quite obviously better than anyone else in the division and should have won promotion even if I'd been their manager! I feel that any position outside of the top two would have been a failure.

There's no doubt that Hughton did a good job of motivating them, but he was motivating a very strong footballing squad. In my view our squad is mediocre to poor and will needmore than motivation to get up the league.
 
Dont care who it is really.Just not Megson.With our current crop of players,Sir Alex as manager,and Wenger assissting would struggle to beat the drop.
 

SOD has got dreadful PR. A mogadon brummie accent, quiet, doesn't say funny things about players or clubs, doesn't seem to shout much, in fact you hardly seem to notice him much at all.
But if we want to try and create long-term success based on a style of football that fans enjoy watching, he might be the man. If we want this throughout the club, from the academy up, he might be the man.
It's a risk because he might not.
The alternative is sticking with what we know, an archetypal Blades Way boss, who might keep us up this season and then might stabilise us and have us scrapping to find a way into the top six. That would be ok but we've had that for 15 years now and in that time can anyone really say that many of those years have involved attractive, really worth watching football?
For me, on balance, SOD is worth the risk. If it doesn't work, the likes of Adams, Scott and some of the other usual suspects will still be out there.
 
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