So how would you appoint a new manager?

[Wedgie_pie]

Line final three candidates in a row....

eenie, meenie miney mo...

[navypie]

What's your favourite colour?
Star Wars or Jurassic Park?
Beatles or Rolling Stones?
Corrie or Eastenders?
Skeggy or Mablethorpe?
Brown bread or white?

Blue
Star Wars
Beatles
Neither
Neither
White

[roweyp]

Someone with experience of promotion, in the interview they can also identify players they will bring in to improve the defence (ie they've taken the time to research our problems and find a solution) If they were serious applicants they'll have watched all our games over the last 48 hours to prepare

[since41]

It would save a lot of time in having to sack him and pay him off...I ought to have been a football manager consultant having never been wrong..

Long may it continue Durham.

[Pieeyedandlegless]

The best managers, have the ability to manage the players, they knows their strengths and weaknesses (not just on the pitch) and use that knowledge to get the best from them. The best managers are in fact 'people-managers' and this applies in all walks of life, good teachers interact well with their pupils - good bosses work well with employees etc. Too many times has Nolan 'punished' the players after a poor result by cancelling days off etc, this is not the way to manage people and if you don't manage them you lose them!. Bullying does not work in the workplace neither does it work with footballers. How often have we heard players say "I'd have run through a brick wall for him" often referring to the likes of Shankly, Clough and Warnock etc.

[McCullochisGod]

If he's a mate of the Chairman's, fancies the club psychologist, loves a bevvy with Enerver, has Fletcher clutching his shirt tails he should fit the bill nicely.

[McCullochisGod]

Forget strategy, we have NONE.

[McCullochisGod]

So your saying Cloughie didn't rule by fear? He did and players still ran through brick walls for him because they were players who had some bollox.

[irish_pie]

Show them a couple of videos of the game and ask for an analysis of the play and the squad.
Ask them who they can bring to the table. the
Ask them what points target they resign at if they fail to achieve.
Ask them how come they are currently available.

Edit: Run all the answers past Durham.

Show him videos of the past 4 league games.... ask them to rate the defense on a scale of 1 to 10.... if he says 1... give him the job! He can obviously see more than KN did.

[for*sttown63]

Show him videos of the past 4 league games.... ask them to rate the defense on a scale of 1 to 10.... if he says 1... give him the job! He can obviously see more than KN did.

If any of them manage to stay the course for all 4 videos without running away get 'em in!!!