Which clubs do you think regret sacking their manager?

[Pretty pink fairy]

peppermint rhino ??

 

[Captain Haddock]

Don't get me wrong, they were never really ever gonna win the title, but they were, as stated, closer....not that much closer but closer Think 96-97 was the year I was thinking of too.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Brighton and Mike Bailey

Sacked him when Brighton held their highest position in their history

Wasn't he sacked because we (the fans) wanted 'champagne' football and his teams were put out just to accumulate the points with the tactics/performances often seen as dour, uninspiring etc?
Hmmmmm....... nothing to learn from the long term outcome of that short term decision then?

Yes you are correct there, that is exactly why he was sacked.
Amazing really, we were establishing ourselves in the top division and he was doing well and as you say he were accumulating points. Now if he had been in the third tier and playing this way and still only getting 5 wins in the last 17 matches you could have perhaps understood the sacking.

My implied suggestion was that there are points of similarity between 1982 and 2008:
1) Expectation in the club and amongst the fans was unrealistic in 1982 and seems so in some sections of the latter in 2008.
2) Regular short term decision taking doesn't contribute to the development of a successful business and it is a debatable point that the sacking of Bailey started us on the road to Edgar Street.
Despite what the media circus that surrounds football and the Sky Sports antichrist would have us believe, football is just like any other business and to be successful you either need a near bottomless pit of cash or you must plan for the long haul as Arsenal and Man Utd have done. Clearly most clubs do not have the resources to behave like the Chelsea of their particular division, certainly not BHA, and I do not want them to try and then go the way of Swindon, Bournemouth, Luton, Rotherham etc.
In my view, the flak currently being directed at Wilkins, Knight, Bloom, Perry, Brown etc is an example of short termism clamour and must be resisted by the board/management if the club is to progress.

 

[fosters headband]

Again I understand and agree with everything you have said.
But the fans did not ultimately sack Bailey, the Chairman and the board did.
They reacted to the only things that fans will do when they are not happy with what they are seeing and they stay away. Just exactly the same way that they did under McGhee, so our Chairman acted the same as in 1982 demonstrating that he felt exactly the same. The problem as I see it now, is that DK by mentioning that he could not stand by and see the fans leave in great numbers when sacking McGhee has placed pressure on himself. If he is to be viewed as being consistent, then these thoughts must now be going through his mind again. The fans are again voting with their feet and no name-calling or rallying call from a few on NSC will change this, because the majority of fans may never read NSC. Their own evaluation of what is good or bad value for money will be the criteria for their decision. And the fact is gates are falling.

 

[andybaha]

It's got to be Newcastle. How can anyone believe that Keegan after years of not even going to a football match be a better bet as manager than Big Sam.

Redknapp and West Ham was a strange one as well. He had half of the current England squad, if he had kept them together and brought them on he would have had one hell of a team.