Quote Originally Posted by Notts_fan_Ken View Post
If it's LW, that's great. If not, that's OK too.
Nobody would be surprised and I would guess upwards of 9/10 would happily go with that decision.

I haven't got the stats but I would imagine managers who go back are rarely able to equal or better what they achieved previously. Closer to home however it very much worked out for us. The difference though is that Sirrel came back to pull the club away from an early season relegation scrap (No wins from the opening 9 games including 1-4 and 1-5 defeats). LW would return under more pressure to hit the ground running and to sustain it. He most likely would be able to do that, but start average-badly and the same gripes that began to be expressed towards the end of his tenure would no doubt soon re-surface. There would be some risk involved with that appointment, probably not a big one, but the potential for egg on faces in returning to an ex is definitely there.

There are a few other examples of Notts managers having 2nd spells, though Tim Coleman, Gary Brazil and David Kevan were all cases of stepping up from an existing role and then returning to a lesser role, only to be thrust back into the hot seat again. Steve Thompson was a bizarre case of being sacked and then being brought back many years later.