If the directors of West Brom and Newcastle have any sense, they will be seeking to recruit new managers over the summer. As Martinez, Zola, Dowie, Laws and even Coyle show, the Premiership is no place for a wet behind the ears manager to ply his trade. Yes Di Matteo and Hughton have done brilliantly well this season, but it is one thing managing a winning team and quite another oragnising a bunch of yard dogs to battle for their lives over a whole season.
Watching the highlights of games in the Championship, I have been struck by the poor quality of the football. It really is ugly, rudimentary stuff for the most part. Carroll has looked England quality at times but I think I might score a goal or two against the yard dog defenders he has been playing against.
So, congratulations to West Brom and Newcastle for bouncing straight back but the likes of Davenport are not going to transform them into Premiership teams next season and big name players will present big challenges to inexperienced managers. Still perhaps Newcastle can pull a managerial rabbit out of the hat come next November when they are back in the bottom three. Alan Shearer anybody?
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What a shame it looks like Wet Spam will survive to fight another day. Tell me what experience did Gorgan Zola have of managing a Premiership side before he came to your club?
Er none, which is why we have been hopeless all season! Thick or what 15.20?
You should worry about ur own shit team and style of play before you start slating the baggies and geordies style i would love it if you got relegated and had a taste of how hard it is in that division
TASTE of how hard it in the championship? 1-0 Play-Off final against Preston anyone?
hammersfan tell me if managers don't get a chance then how will new ones break through? Di Matteo has done well for the baggies and has given them a more steely side than previous mowbarys spineless sides, Chris Hughton is hardly a novice in coaching terms haven worked under a host of managers of various quality at spurs and newcastle, and done fantastically well this season. If clubs don't take chances on inexperienced managers we're just going to end up with the same proven failures coming out of the woodwork again and again and again (for example ian dowie). After all when everton hired david moyes he had only championship experience to draw on but hes not done bad has he?
Joseph
Fair point Joseph but the Prem ius not the right place to be cutting your teeth. Even Clough learnt his trade at Hartlepool! You have to grow as a manager before you step into one of the top jobs. I thought Martinez was ready and was a big advocate of his whilst at Swansea but this season suggests the job came too early for him.
Look at the table. OK, ignore the big 4 because money talks. But Redknapp, O'Neill and Mcleish all suggest that experience counts. Sunderland have gained from Bruce's experience, Wolves look like staying up, Moyes gets Everton outperforming year on year...and look at the bottom and, Grant apart, you see the reverse. Martinez, Zola, Laws, Dowie (inexperienced and relatively young actually), Coyle - all lacking in experience!
And the abolute proof? Woy at Fulham. Would Fulham be in the semi final of the Europa League with a novice in charge? I don't think so!
Yes experience is worth a lot but sooner or later a manager must make the jump up otherwise there won't be someone like hodgson around in the future. Di matteo and hughton have earned a shot in the prem by getting promotion rather than get in on a big name like zola and ince with blackburn last season. They may fail next season but what is supposed to be done by the boards? sack them before they fail? oh and briefly on redknapp and o'neill thats a lot down to the money spent column imo the really impressive job is as you say roy hodgson and david moyes.
It seems you can't quite take the fact that either WBA or Newcastle have a manager that maybe capable of producing the goods next year. As 'Hammersfan' stated... WHU have had a crap season under young management. But as most of us know, Zola will be out next season leaving a gap for a young unproven manager to step in and FAIL! I'm sorry but WHU isn't going to attract the type of personnel they think they deserve... You are a debt ridden club, ready for a mass clear out. No decent manager will join you and let the duo of Gold and Sullivan make decisions for them!
Why does everything have to turn into a battle? Does anybody think Hughton will still be in charge of Newcastle by the end of next season? West Brom may not change managers but they expect to yoyo!
West Ham will have an experienced manager next season - a guy who has taken a team to a Champions League final, an FA Cup Final and has had experience of fighting relegation and managing on a shoe string. Watch this space!
I think you are an absolute moron.
Why exactly? Do enlighten us.
On behalf of all West Brom and Newacastle Fans I would like to say that I really do hope that we won't be playing your sory excuse for a club next season.
What? Are you going to pass up on prmotion to the Prem? What's the point? We will only go down anyway! Honest approach I suppose.
haha you clown! clueless twat! try watching a bit more football instead of writitng about it!!!!
Is that coming from somebody who has spent a season watching Championship "football"?
Which readily available, cheap and vastly experienced managers do you have in mind for the entirety of the bottom half?
What is this? What the hell is this supposed to be? I know that the internet has given all kind of pondscum the opportunity to open a blog and tell the world the content of their thinking (and dangle the bait so others may shoot back), but could someone tell me what the objective of the turd who created this column was, apart from pissing on specific supporters for little reason (apart, possibly, from acting like a brain-damaged four-year-old wallowing in his own faeces).
It's impossible to have a utopia where supporters of every club can link arms, sing songs, buy each other pints and make the world a lovelier place, but what the f*ck is the aim of the waste of sperm who devised this blog column who seems to want to create an instant and unlovely toxicity between fans that maybe wasn't there in the first place? What's the need? What's the point?
I've got no axe to grind with West Ham fans, and I remain without any animosity towards them, even though the malignant, cancerous scum who created this blog - a swine who surely provides the argument for abortion - seems to want to create such a divide single-handedly.
I can't get my head around this. Okay, you've got a host of clubs coming up into the Premiership to rub shoulders with you. They're not perfect - neither are West Ham, by the way - and they might drop at the first attempt, but they know the look of the land and they'll get on with it.
What they don't want is some mentally-ill prick with all the social graces of a maximum-security case sneering like a hyena with bad jokes and a chip on his oily shoulder that only weasel-minded dickheads with a personality only slightly more accommodating than a skidmark on a pair of grotty pants could nurture.
To the rest of the West Ham fans, all the best and hope you survive. To the wanker who owns this particular blog, kindly die of something slow and agonising. Very slow and agonising, so slow and unpleasant that you'll still be squirming in your coffin long after your rotten, ugly frame has beenivested of its last ember of life.
Yep. You could say I'm a bit aggrieved.
Welcome back Tony.
You loser!
I believe this post shows exactly why most other supporters are having a chuckle at the demise of the 'massive' club West Ham. Fact is that if they weren't in London they wouldn't get any exposure from the media and would be seen as the pointless club they are. How a fan who watches (probably on telly) West Ham games over the last 7 games and call other football poor is beyond belief and still think everything will be ok next year is hilarious. Coming from the Midlands let me assure them that the porn kings will slowly start to manage the club themselves and I'll piss myself when Brady employs her hubby Peschidildo to manage them in the CHamp the season after next. Fact remains that if this wasn't the worst Prem in history West Ham would have been relegated by now and people like Parker and Cole won't be there next year to help.
0941, I agree with a lot of that actually. Why the aggressive tone? Bad round on the golf course?
"Ian James", having trouble with that nine iron? My comments are based on experience of the last couple of seasons. Southgate, Shearer, Dowie, Zola, Laws, Coyle, Martinez anybody?
Where do young managers get their experience? Ask Woy. Or they do a John Lyall or Bob Paisley, they learn the trade at a club and are groomed by somebody else.
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