As I've said on another thread what surprises me is the timing. It seemed to be common knowledge that Blackwell was on borrowed time but 1 week ? I've just listened to last nights P & G and have to agree 100% with Seth (and that's not something that sits comfortably !). If the board had serious enough concerns why give him the Summer to re-build the squad with his players only to get rid after 7 days of the season ? What has drastically changed from the end of last season to now ? With this in mind, the same people, presumably, will now decide who is going to take us to promotion, still the taregt apparently.
There's something not quite right with all this, it's just not McCabe's way IMO. It's as if Birch has arranged this finance and one of the provisos is that the investors want their man in place and yesterday was just the opportunity they needed to get rid of Blackwell.
No problems with Blackwell going but people need to put their champagne on ice and see what the next few days hold. It's arguably a bigger decision than taking Robson on as the new man is working under much harder circumstances and we have to get this one right. Part of me wants to give Speed a chance but given our finances, given where we are and where we want to be, I can't see McCabe (if indeed he's going to make the choice) going for inexperience. I think we'll go for O'Driscoll, the compo will be relatively small, we know what he can do with players, we know the style of football he wants his teams playing and despite the League position, it'll be a step up for him. My only concern is that O'Driscoll doesn't like the limelight and he would certainly be uncomfortable in the spotlight he'd be under with us.
As others have said, the fear is Brown, Dowie and the rest of the merry-go-round managers who lurch from one failure to another.
no problem now i'm going to get my st next weekend 
