If anybody reads AH update the words first impressions sort of tells you (well it tells me) that nolan isn't one of them
Playing devils advocate, what were the chances of him hitting the ground running with the squad he inherited the first time around? We were looking just as hopeless!
It’s a no from me but I’ll never subscribe to the fact he was a useless manager. He saved us from relegation and got us into the playoffs against the odds!
If anybody reads AH update the words first impressions sort of tells you (well it tells me) that nolan isn't one of them
I think we are that lowly thought of in the Manager stakes,we will end up with Ricketts.No disrespect to him,but that is how low the club has fallen,when you look at the possible candidates.We are scraping the barrel.
I think people are jumping to conclusions on things that are nothing to do with the club. You have moronic trolls making up lies on Twitter for a reaction, you have moronic bets being placed on people (Moniz on there for a start!) Let's just wait and see as to who is appointed, I can't see it being Nolan, Hardy isn't Trew, both sackings have been justified so let's see what happens next
Understand we have also now spoke to Phil Brown. Flip a coin lads.
Wouldn't be totally against Phil Brown to be honest but I suspect I'd be in the minority with that opinion.
I agree. He worked wonders for about 18 months, but blew it all up in the space of a few weeks. Overall, he did a great job for us. I remember saying on several occasions last season that regardless of what you think about his style of play, he knows what it takes to win games at this level - which made the summer and start to this season even stranger.
It's hard to know which version is the real Nolan - the one who turned a bunch of losers into a coherent and effective team, or the one that blew the budget this summer on a bunch of gutless losers.
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Although we may not have a lot of choice having sacked 2 managers this season. Who'd be daft enough to take the job?
That was because AH asked him to play pretty football so we can excuse him that I think. What would worry me is that the players seemed to be unfit which I didn't expect at all from a Nolan team.
To be honest I wouldn't have employed Nolan and I wouldn't have sacked him, I wouldn't have employed Kewell and I wouldn't have sacked him either. So while I wouldn't take Nolan back (for the valid reasons already mentioned) I'd keep an open mind if it did happen.
I suppose having a DoF would help him, but having assembled this squad he wouldn't benefit from 'third manager in a season syndrome' ie if performances are crap the fans normally take it out on the players first, then chairman, rather than the manager.