Steve Coppell - He's a coming, he's a coming!!!

[bhaexpress]

What gets me is that people seem to think changing the manager is the answer. With the benefit of hindsight we shouldn't have got ride of Wilkins. However MA was supposed to be the saviour, he wasn't. next Slade save us from relegation but is struggling now. Why would Steve Coppell make a difference ? A lot of expectation will quite probably be followed by sustained 'Coppell Out' poles.

 

[The Wizard]

What gets me is that people seem to think changing the manager is the answer. With the benefit of hindsight we shouldn't have got ride of Wilkins. However MA was supposed to be the saviour, he wasn't. next Slade save us from relegation but is struggling now. Why would Steve Coppell make a difference ? A lot of expectation will quite probably be followed by sustained 'Coppell Out' poles.

 

[DIFFBROOK]

Slades record shows at other clubs that he does get it right. It takes him time, but then again time is what is needed. He is not stupid, he probably knows what needs to be done. He keeps pointing the blame for leaking goals at the centre halfs, so he knows its this area that needs improving.

Its a question of what can he do at this momemnt to sort it out. Well until January he cant go out and buy somebody and perhaps the right player on loan is simply not available at this moment.

In hindsight, he should have made buying a solid stopper in the summer a priority, but then again no one really suspected that Elphick/Virgo would perform so badly (after finishing last season strongly together).

If Coppell is to come then great (as he is a top manager), but I dont believe in sacking Slade for the sake of it. Apart from Coppell and Curbs (who wont come), there isn't anyone else that could do a better job.

I think we should hold our nerve. Bloom will.

 

[clippedgull]

What gets me is that people seem to think changing the manager is the answer. With the benefit of hindsight we shouldn't have got ride of Wilkins. However MA was supposed to be the saviour, he wasn't. next Slade save us from relegation but is struggling now. Why would Steve Coppell make a difference ? A lot of expectation will quite probably be followed by sustained 'Coppell Out' poles.

Polls

But yes, you are right. I think as Falmer gets ever nearer we all want a quick fix, like a junkie, but when that wears off we are back to square one.

I'd like to go into hibernation until July 2011

 

[coventrygull]

What would NSC be without a manager out poll

 

[Forster's Armband]

What would NSC be without a manager out poll

It's a very dull place! I would like to see that day though cause it would mean we are at least doing OK!

 

[bhaexpress]

I wonder if the club have an NSC Out poll ?

 

[El Presidente]

Reading's last 9 results at HOME under Coppell

DLLDLLDLL

He is just right for Withdean!

 

[Mackenzie]

What gets me is that people seem to think changing the manager is the answer. With the benefit of hindsight we shouldn't have got ride of Wilkins. However MA was supposed to be the saviour, he wasn't. next Slade save us from relegation but is struggling now. Why would Steve Coppell make a difference ? A lot of expectation will quite probably be followed by sustained 'Coppell Out' poles.

At last a reasonable grown up response to our situation.

 

[pork pie]

What gets me is that people seem to think changing the manager is the answer. With the benefit of hindsight we shouldn't have got ride of Wilkins. However MA was supposed to be the saviour, he wasn't. next Slade save us from relegation but is struggling now. Why would Steve Coppell make a difference ? A lot of expectation will quite probably be followed by sustained 'Coppell Out' poles.

With the benefit of hindsight, you are right, Knight should never have sacked Wilkins. In fact, knowing of Adam's failures since he left us last time, he should never have been appointed anyway.

Also, with the benefit of hindsight, do you not think, that the "rose tinted glassed brigade" who were so vocal in their support for Adams and pleading for him to be given more time, were completely wrong, and Adams should have been sacked a lot earlier. That way, we would have probably been able to atract a better class of manager, without them being on a hiding to nothing, and Russell Slade would not have needed to perform a minor mirical in keeping us up?

IF Adams had been replaced with a good manager early enough, they would have had an easy task in keeping us up, and building for a real challenge this year. The list of candidates would probably have been a lot different, as the job would have been much more desirable than being asked to perform a mirical in keeping us up, of face managing in the bottom division.

 

[pork pie]

At last a reasonable grown up response to our situation.

Oh hear we go! Anyone who does not agree with you is childish? Tosser!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

I take it he hasn't turned up yet then? Maybe the traffic's bad. Or something.

 

[Questions]

I wonder if the club have an NSC Out poll ?

I`ve heard you are on their ignore list though...........

 

[Titanic]

With the benefit of hindsight, you are right, Knight should never have sacked Wilkins...

Wrong, very wrong.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

" Why would Steve Coppell make a difference" ?

- a proven track record of getting " small" clubs promoted.
- a good record of signing quality players who've thern gone onto command
very big fees when sold
- plays attacking football
- Superb man manager, gets the best out of the players and improves them technically.
- Tactical and organisational nouse.
- One of THE most intelligent figures in the game.

If we got Coppell, he would take us into Falmer and provide stability, potentially for years to come. If Slade goes, he is the best man for the job by a mile.

 

[Father Jack]

if hindsight is what we're adopting its not the sacking of Wilkins that shouldn't have happened, it was the sacking of McGhee which was invariably wrong.

 

[El Presidente]

" Why would Steve Coppell make a difference" ?

- a proven track record of getting " small" clubs promoted.
- a good record of signing quality players who've thern gone onto command
very big fees when sold
- plays attacking football
- Superb man manager, gets the best out of the players and improves them technically.
- Tactical and organisational nouse.
- One of THE most intelligent figures in the game.

If we got Coppell, he would take us into Falmer and provide stability, potentially for years to come. If Slade goes, he is the best man for the job by a mile.

As much as I like Steve Coppell, most of what you have said is opinion rather than fact.

 

[glasfryn]

Bollocks

exactly ..............and if he comes back will he be another Adams,Mullery who on the second time of asking were absolute rubbish

if he does HAVE to go then someone totally different please

 

[El Presidente]

Perhaps when Mr Burns started this thread, he was watching Steve Coppell through a pair of binoculars in the Ladyboy Bar in Bangkok, and some people misinterpreted the content.

 

[pork pie]

Perhaps when Mr Burns started this thread, he was watching Steve Coppell through a pair of binoculars in the Ladyboy Bar in Bangkok, and some people misinterpreted the content.