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Managerial merry go round

Scotimp said:
I loved this piece from an article on Stockdale on the BBC only yesterday:

Stockdale's side have also scored just one goal in four league games this term and are bottom of League Two, the only side without a point in the division.

"There are a lot of positives," Stockdale added.

Can you be sacked for being delusional?
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give Oxford a couple of weeks more and we will find out!
 
bonsonshead said:
Keeps turning up on Sky so won’t be lost for something to do!
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That might be part of the problem. He ain't even any good at that either! Everything he says is blatantly obvious to anyone with the slightest knowledge of football, and god he's boring.
 
Forgot JFH played for Atletico Madrid. Great goalscorer wasn't he, to be 1 in 2 after nearly 600 career games is incredible.

I always remember one goal of his in his Cardiff days where he fainted a shot on the edge of the box, let it run across his body and pinged it into the top bin.
 
bristolimp said:
perhaps sunlan want someone else and this helps them out avoids compo. They are a big club who can push on so perhaps they have someone premier league level lined up
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Definitely not this scenario. Alex Neil was on a 12 month rolling contract at his insistence, which is beginning to make a lot of sense to us now. Had he been unsuccessful last season it would have worked against him as we could have appointed someone else at little cost
 
Friendly Mackem said:
In the immediate term perhaps, as Stoke arguably have a better Championship squad than us currently, but in no way are Stoke anywhere near our size as a club. Our potential is massive compared to theirs
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You’ve had some cracking crowds and made a decent start
Having a decent manager unfortunately means your only ever really covered if they are on a decent contract which AN wasn’t
Who would be your choice for the next manager??
 
Between the lines, Neil may not be happy with the club's transfer policy - targeting players under 24 they can develop and sell on, similar to us - and made a cryptic comment last week about constantly knocking on the boardroom door for money to buy players. That kind of policy seems incongruous with a club capable of pulling in 40,000+ every week, and perhaps was not what he expected when he took the job and/or after promotion.

The Chronicle says Neil said goodbye to everyone before leaving to talk to Stoke, so it looks like a done deal.
 
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