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Board Meeting On Monday

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Jimsmithswig

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Snooze says meeting with AA on monday, assume to ask him if he will walk rather than get the bullet.

Can I start the speculation, Waddock as temporary until Russell Slade gets the sack at Cardiff, he then drops down to us in a league he knows well.
 
waddock has had zero influence since he's been here, I don't rate slade in the slightest he would demand far too much reorganisation in such short a time and would not come here anyway. we would need a much older vastly experienced old style manager possibly with two player coaches in tandem to get us out of this one,another must would be the reinstatement of alan knight as keeper coach,we must never worry about age or baldness in our managerial quest for survival.
 
I think the way things are going (in my head at least!), Holloway loses his job at Millwall, then comes to God's green acre and all is rosy and shiny and the press conferences the best we have ever had! Not interested in Waddock, Mad Dog maybe or the fella at Yeovil perhaps or even Slade...
 
none you mention would do any good at pompey,we need a specialist in the managers chair and two on the pitch appointed by tonight.
 
I have been looking at Newsnow every now & again all morning, but no news so far.

I think the board had no option to appoint Andy. I wasn't impressed with his experience at the time, but agreed that it was the correct decision. Given the end to last season, it would have been harsh to look elsewhere. He even continued where he left off at the beginning of this season.

I think Andy has tied himself up in knots & lost the clarity that he had when he first took over.

I think he has the capacity to be a decent manager, but he has almost imploded on himself.

We need the manager to decide what he thinks is best. He can't take direction from the crowd or lots of other voices. That isn't leadership. I think this is what he is doing now. The crowd doesn't like wing backs, so he gets rid of wing backs. The crowd doesn't like the constant changes, so he picks the same team.

We need to trust a man to have a vision & call the shots. If he loses confidence in what he is doing then we are just drifting, and that is what I think we're doing now. He is knee-jerking from one idea to another.

I just hope that we keep him in the Academy. He certainly had a lot to offer in that role & it would be awful to lose that because this role didn't work out for him.
 
Gentleman Jim - fair enough that you dont like my suggestions (Holloway, really?!) Any chance you might offer up some alternatives to fit the 'specialist' role? Warnock?
 
I think time has come for someone with some genuine experience.

We waste so much money on hiring & firing, and bringing in loads of players & having to ship out loads of players.

If we have to spend some money on a decent, experienced man, then it is money well spent in my view.

The trouble is that we have wasted ages on "Club men". Forget that.

I have heard Mad Dog Allen. Why? Because he played for the club. Guys, look beyond this narrow view.

Let's have the best man for the job, not just someone who has played for us at some point in the distant past. Why is that even relevant?

Warnock is an interesting one, but I'm not sure he has proven anything at L2 level in recent years, if ever.

Who would I suggest? Not really sure to be honest. Would need to see a list of who is available & interested & see if they have done anything with a club in L2.
 
Since the fans takeover Pompey have suffered from favouritism and cronyism in it's managerial appointments.

The board need to take a dispassionate assessment of available managers.

If the price was right I wouldn't say 'no' to Warnock, although he can 'get up your nose' at times.

He's a no-nonsense manager with a good track record for promotions:

1986–87: Conference winners – Scarborough
1989–90: Division 3 Playoff winners – Notts County
1990–91: Division 2 Playoff winners – Notts County
1994–95: Division 2 Playoff winners – Huddersfield Town
1995–96: Division 3 Playoff winners – Plymouth Argyle
2005–06: Championship runners-up – Sheffield United
2010–11: Championship winners – Queens Park Rangers
 
no animosity weller I assure you,we really have to get this right and madmen like Holloway and Warnock don't fit the bill,as I said earlier it's a three man job one in the office with vast experience and two player coaches on the field with alan knight as keeper coach......as for my preferences I will voice those a little later today when we know if he goes or if he stays..............we are Portsmouth football club after all and it matters not who put us where we are but most important who gets us out,we are but a whisper away from relegation and it's not a job for fools,whether the board knows this is open to question,somehow I doubt they do.
 
Nice one Blue. Does suggest he would have something to offer. Albeit it has been almost 20 years since he did anything in the lower divisions.

I disagree on Alan Knight I'm afraid Jim. Just because he was a good player for the club, doesn't mean he'll be a decent coach. In fact, wasn't he kicked out a couple of times as a coach for not really being up to it?

I think we all get too sentimental about former players.

The guy on the Express FM phone in made the comment that Andy Awford "got Pompey". That does my head in. He may "get Pompey" (whatever that means) but does he get transfers, tactics, motivation? Those are a million times more important than "getting Pompey".

Time for a clean sweep. Let an experienced man select some coaching staff he knows have the skills, rather than picking from a matchday programme from 1981.
 
I think there is much too much of the must be ex Pompey man now, recent experiences have shown that sentiment must be disregarded now and a proper experienced lower league manager brought in. :2:
 
Hard to see how AA will stay in the job... if he does he will get sacked at the weekend if we do not beat Wycombe, which lets face it we WILL NOT be expected to do/will not do anyway...

Warnock seems a fair shout, experience at working lower as well as higher but just cannot see him coming here - perhaps he has been too used to 'higher league' football too.

Not overly keen on Mad Dog, to be fair though he knows L2, and L1 so not the worst idea - still amazed at how much Tisdale gets paid but still believe we missed a trick in not appointing him last time when we went for Barker! No way he would even contemplate us unless he was assured the job...

You can almost 100% be sure that Waddock will be in charge next - seemed to have had some sort of impact but NOWHERE near enough to suggest he is the answer, not just from his time with us but his previous.

What swayed it for sure, that we should not appoint him, was the fact that he DID NOT stop AA from taking off Barcham at the weekend... surely he had to have a word in his ear and say he was making the wrong call!
 
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