When is the best time to sack a manager?

[3gulls]

It strikes me that whenever you call for a manager's head someone will always pipe up "It will be worse if we sack him now".

Well when is the best time to sack a manager?

As soon as possible? But this is not always feasible as any manager will need a chance to 'gel' with his players and the players need time to get used to the new ways.

Late in the season when it seems that all hope is lost? Is it better to get someone new in to work with the team in a competative atmosphere in preparation for the next season. Pre-season is really waste of time.

Or should managers NEVER be sacked?

Today would be good in Magoo's case!

 

[Goring Gull]

I hopefully will be on saturday as heading down to Crewe i expect a full 3 points for the Albion against the Worst team in the division.

 

[Scoffers]

McGhee is not a miracle worker, I'm convinced that if we stay with him long term, we'll do well.

I say again, stick with McGhee, even when we get relegated

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Didnt do watford any harm with about 5 games to go.

And in the summer they spent £1.5 million WISELY from the sale of Helgusson or whatever his name was to Fulham.

I know wages, stadium, facilities

 

[rool]

After the 6 March please, I'd like to see Ernest discussing his Ars with McGhee

 

[Finchley Seagull]

Didnt do watford any harm with about 5 games to go.

And in the summer they spent £1.5 million WISELY from the sale of Helgusson or whatever his name was to Fulham.

I know wages, stadium, facilities

Where are we going to get £1.5 million from? We sold £2 million of players in the summer but that has to go towards Falmer (you know so the club has a future). You really do live on a different planet.

 

[Goring Gull]

Everyone forgets though that we are playing Crewe the WORST team in the divison by 6 points, 6 points!!!!!

3 points easy.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Everyone forgets though that we are playing Crewe the WORST team in the divison by 6 points, 6 points!!!!!

3 points easy.

Last away win was october

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Where are we going to get £1.5 million from? We sold £2 million of players in the summer but that has to go towards Falmer (you know so the club has a future). You really do live on a different planet.

Wages, stadium, facilities

 

[Yorkie]

After the 6 March please, I'd like to see Ernest discussing his Ars with McGhee

I'd like to see him do on the 6th March at the dinner.

 

[Finchley Seagull]

Wages, stadium, facilities

I am sorry to bore you but these are inescapable facts which mean we struggle to compete in the Championship.

Anyway you are always on about Turienzo.

 

[British Bulldog]

When you lose 1-0 to Watford!!!


Well it was good enough for Hinshelwood

 

[Deleted member 2719]

He must go now.

Can we get a new manager " one for the future".

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I am sorry to bore you but these are inescapable facts which mean we struggle to compete in the Championship.

Anyway you are always on about Turienzo.

No Im not. But I bet MM would be the first to admit he made a mistake signing him.

And I do believe that he is allowed to make mistakes as all managers do.

With hindsight he wouldnt have signed him im sure...

 

[Finchley Seagull]

No Im not. But I bet MM would be the first to admit he made a mistake signing him.

And I do believe that he is allowed to make mistakes as all managers do.

With hindsight he wouldnt have signed him im sure...

I am sure he would admit it was a mistake. However, my point is that people go on about Turienzo but when I say about the financial problems we are facing I am accused of going on.

When criticising McGhee all I am asking is that people are realistic about the financial situation we find ourselves in compared to even relatively low spenders like Watford.

 

[O Lads]

For us, now, anybody else, weeks ago

 

[Gerbil]

Hard to say as most of our decent managers walk

Which would explain why Magoo is still here

 

[RexCathedra]

There have actually been half-a-dozen studies done on the topic, by school-of-business administration and management types. (They're using the relatively small, and comprehensively documented, world of football as a test case for some general theorizing.)

Universal conclusion -- sacking your manager mid-season does not correlate with improvement in team performance. Data comes from twenty-year time slices of top dvision Dutch and English football.

 

[NMH]

When Shearer agrees to finish his career with Brighton, we should look at Magoo and ask him to McGo