Chris Hughton nth Longest Serving Manager in the English League

[Big Bill]

Kit Symonds gone from Fulham

Yes. I recall Muller's once said 'if that's entertainment, I don't want it'. Think I'd feel the same as a Fulham fan after the third or so time we'd been thumped.

 

[severnside gull]

Is he up to 50th yet?

49tth or 50h I think?
It changes so fast I've lost track!

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Is he up to 50th yet?

49th with the sacking of Kit Symons.

 

[NooBHA]

Another club that went with the previous player sentiments in appointing a manager instead of going for the applicant with the best credentials last year. That's what you get when you have a chairman who spends hardly any time at the club

 

[Peter Grummit]

48th now Bowyer has gone at Blackburn.

PG

 

[severnside gull]

48th now Bowyer has gone at Blackburn.

PG

Madness

 

[Gwylan]

48th now Bowyer has gone at Blackburn.

PG

What's that: eight gone from the Championship already? Crazy, a third of all managers dismissed with the season just a third of the way through. Lennon must be on thin ice too (Freedman has probably been saved by the win over Derby ... for a while, at least)

 

[Thunder Bolt]

48th now Bowyer has gone at Blackburn.

PG

And all the backroom staff which includes John Keeley.

 

[BensGrandad]

Freedman has probably been saved by the win over Derby ... for a while, at least)

It was suggested in the weekend press that he will leave and claim constructive dismissal and they have lined up Nigel Clough to take over.

 

[pacman]

About to move up with Clarke on the verge of leaving Reading to take over at Fulham

 

[severnside gull]

About to move up with Clarke on the verge of leaving Reading to take over at Fulham

That'll go down well.
Must be difficult though, deciding whether or not to swop one set of decidedly dodgy owners for another

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

About to move up with Clarke on the verge of leaving Reading to take over at Fulham

Seriously? Wow. They must be bunging him some serious wedge to convince him to make that move.

 

[Bozza]

Tony Humes sacked by Colchester. He's been there for 14 months, so Hughton up another place. What's the current score?

 

[severnside gull]

47th with Colchester sacking their manager

 

[JOLovegrove]

Almost into the top half!

 

[lawros left foot]

Dean Saunders gone from Chesterfield , but no change

 

[SeagullCrow]

Chris is up to 46th now that Dean Smith has left Walsall for Brentford.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Paul Sturrock has been sacked at Yeovil, but no change.

 

[Ernest]

Paul Sturrock has been sacked at Yeovil, but no change.

I doubt that will save them

 

[Pavilionaire]

So the median for a manager in his job is now 11 months.

Why do clubs and managers go through this charade of fixed term contract of employment? Managers are ten a penny, most seem to get a contract for the season of appointment plus two on top of that, but are sacked in a year. Martin O'Neill had the right idea - a rolling contract on a season by season basis.