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If you had to choose one as manager, which would it be?

  • Robert Page

    Votes: 39 79.6%

  • Chris Morgan

    Votes: 10 20.4%
  • Total voters
    49
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Just to get an idea of people's views, if it came down to a one or the other choice between our two former centre halves and captains, which would you rather have?

I'll go with Page. I thought he looked a more intelligent a player than Morgs, has played international football and we've had a glimpse of what Morgan can do as a manager and it didn't impress me at all. I'd rather go with unknown than known rubbish!

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't choose either, in fact I haven't a clue who I want now looking at the lists of likely candidates, but I just wondered who people would prefer of the two.
 



I'd rather have a man with no experience as a manager who's worked at the club than one with no experience who hasn't.

We're in such a mess, we'd have to be mental to take on an unproven manager.
 
Morgan, for the sole reason that Ill win £60. Cant see many positives with either
 
Sheff de party said:
I'd rather have a man with no experience as a manager who's worked at the club than one with no experience who hasn't.

We're in such a mess, we'd have to be mental to take on an unproven manager.
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What about when you look at it a different way though. Would you rather have somebody who has worked for the club unsuccessfully, or an unknown?

"Congratulations, you've won a prize. You can have this dog chewed, rotten log with mites nesting in it, or take the mystery box, which may contain £5,000, or it might just be dog excrement. What'll it be?"

"I'll take the box please."
 
KenMcnaughtsNuts said:
i hardly ever use apostrophes or capital letters on the internet, due to the fact that anybody who can speak english and isnt an imbescile can understand words without them. waste of effort.
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Then you run the risk of others thinking that you are illiterate.

(were and we're have two totally different meanings, by the way)
 
broomhillblade said:
Then you run the risk of others thinking that you are illiterate.

(were and we're have two totally different meanings, by the way)
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i do. but i dont care. im old enough, ugly enough, smart enough and earn enough money not to care how i look. rock n roll dont need no stinkin apostrophes!
 
This poll seems to be missing a third option: a plane ticket and booking to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, because if either of those two got the job, it might suddenly be the preferred option.
 



Anyone who has stuck that wage thief Doyle on his arse is fine by me. I'd hope the first thing he does would be to pack the useless feckers bags and sling him out of the door. It would be the first breath of fresh air at this club since Adams brought him in.
 
Bergen Blade said:
It's well documented that those two are bad. Morgan was unconvincing in his short spell. Page may be brilliant, though we don't know yet.
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I, for one, did not find Morgan's spell unconvincing at all. I am entirely convinced that he is not (nor ever will be, in my view) a suitable candidate to manage our club.
 
Page easily.

1. Morgan's interviews were just full of cliches and always featured the line "It's not going to be easy, teams aren't going to give us anything, we know that"

2. He never ever wanted to criticise anyone- the Portsmouth and Crewe matches for example, summed the performance up as "that just wasn't us today" and chose to focus on the that that we "battled hard but didn't get the rub of the green in the right areas" and carried on with the team that was struggling to create chances.

3. Didn't bring his own stamp on the team at all, just continued with Wilson's team and tactics. Admittedly, there wasn't much he could change it to but what about Murphy upfront? (seeing as he is a STRIKER). Doyle was a liability at times (rash challenges, breaking moves down but backwards passing) so what about giving Whitehouse or Robson in the middle? or using Forte's pace on the wing like he was when he first broke into the Utd squad? especially seeing as we had nothing to loose after the Brentford game.
 
Coily said:
Anyone who has stuck that wage thief Doyle on his arse is fine by me. I'd hope the first thing he does would be to pack the useless feckers bags and sling him out of the door. It would be the first breath of fresh air at this club since Adams brought him in.
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I regard Montgomery as every bit as bad as Doyle, if not worse. It matters not whether anyone else agrees with me about that for these purposes - that's a different argument. Would it be OK for me to suggest I would like another player to knock his teeth out? If not, this is pure hypocrisy.

* I do not, for the avoidance of doubt, approve of assault in any way. I would, however, be delighted for Doyle, complete with dentures, to join The Maestro (teeth intact) as far away from BDTBL as possible.
 
JSelle89 said:
Page easily.

1. Morgan's interviews were just full of cliches and always featured the line "It's not going to be easy, teams aren't going to give us anything, we know that"

2. He never ever wanted to criticise anyone- the Portsmouth and Crewe matches for example, summed the performance up as "that just wasn't us today" and chose to focus on the that that we "battled hard but didn't get the rub of the green in the right areas" and carried on with the team that was struggling to create chances.

3. Didn't bring his own stamp on the team at all, just continued with Wilson's team and tactics. Admittedly, there wasn't much he could change it to but what about Murphy upfront? (seeing as he is a STRIKER). Doyle was a liability at times (rash challenges, breaking moves down but backwards passing) so what about giving Whitehouse or Robson in the middle? or using Forte's pace on the wing like he was when he first broke into the Utd squad? especially seeing as we had nothing to loose after the Brentford game.
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Yes, it did get a bit tight, didn't it?
 
KenMcnaughtsNuts said:
i do. but i dont care. im old enough, ugly enough, smart enough and earn enough money not to care how i look. rock n roll dont need no stinkin apostrophes!
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No it doesn't, but your readership deserves at least an attempt to communicate in our common language. Failing that, they may choose, as a matter of principle, to ignore what you say. That would be a shame, because what you say is often worth reading.
 
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Bergen Blade said:
It's well documented that those two are bad. Morgan was unconvincing in his short spell. Page may be brilliant, though we don't know yet.
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We don't know yet but we certainly shouldn't be the club gambling on him being brilliant.
Let him cut his teeth in management somewhere else and we'll include him as an option when he's got 100+ successful games under his belt.
It's totally beyond me that he's even under serious consideration.
What the hell did he say at his interview? I'm guessing the word "Yes" figured quite a lot.
 
Sothall_Blade said:
We don't know yet but we certainly shouldn't be the club gambling on him being brilliant.
Let him cut his teeth in management somewhere else and we'll include him as an option when he's got 100+ successful games under his belt.
It's totally beyond me that he's even under serious consideration.
What the hell did he say at his interview? I'm guessing the word "Yes" figured quite a lot.
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It's either the devil we know or the devil we don't. Or the possible Messiah! ;)

If he gets the job I look forward to hearing him speak.
 



A good piece by Alan Biggs on United's pitiable state.

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk...biggs-stu-gets-his-coat-and-says-no-1-5722359
Sheffield United are an easy target right now.
As I write, Kenny Jackett is the one known candidate in a narrower field likely to be hailed as a coup by fans.
But one accusation nobody can level is a lack of honesty, considering that being up front cost the club their favoured choice of new boss.
Presumably Stuart McCall heard two alarm bells jangling as he deliberated on moving from Motherwell.
One, a much reduced budget. Two, an undiluted demand for promotion next season.
If those don’t appear to add up to a winning formula then that is a true indication of the size of the task.
Maybe McCall also noted the Blades’ “Axe Factor.”
Seven men, including vacancy candidate Chris Morgan, have variously taken charge since then coach McCall exited Bramall Lane along with Neil Warnock in 2007 - of whom Bryan Robson, Kevin Blackwell, Micky Adams and Danny Wilson were sacked.
That’s a very poor job advertisement, especially as the sudden timing of the last dismissal meant that Wilson (ideal for current demands in other circumstances) did not actually fail to win promotion and might still have done so.
So McCall’s decision, while surprising, was understandable.
But you detect a starting point for United’s recovery in that they are completely out of what might be called denial.
Many a football manager has been enticed by a falsely glossy brochure that turns into a rag.
Yet there is no pretence from United about what will be a very tough, if not hazardous, undertaking.
The new man will be paid less for starters.
Does that call for a further biting of the bullet? Setting a course and sticking to it, minimum three years?
Among runners as per yesterday: Morgan, Gareth Southgate, Glyn Hodges, Graham Arnold... and Jackett, whose promotions at Swansea and Millwall make him the stand-out man by a mile.
But could he be lured?
Whatever, United remain a club with good values at heart, not least the commitment to affordable admission prices for their fans.
And, as ever, it will be a great job for the man who gets it right.
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