A decade of Derby managers.

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Is it not catch 22? If a manager is successful, that is the performance of the team is largely in accordance with what the Board expects he will be given time and there will be stability? In all the examples provided, the managers ahve stayed in post I would argue, largely because they have achieved what was expected of them.

Now if Sheff Utd keep the faith with Wilder even if Sheff Utd go dwon then that would be a rare example of faith being shown in the manager. By the way i'm surprised you haven't put forward Dyche at burnley as an example.

As for Derby well in that last 13 years we ahve been in 4 sets of play offs including two finals and generally finished 10th or higher (there might be the odd blip in there) so given thats within what a club of Derby's stature would be expected to achieve, then the turnover of managers hasn't been that negative overall.

Yes Clough's reign was stable period and everyone knew where the club would finish up, mid table at best so it was a stable if rather dreary period for the club.

Yes, I agree it can be a Catch 22 situation.

You’re absolutely right, I should have included Dyche but by the same token, haven’t Norwich just shown that ‘rare example of faith’ you speak of?

Are four sets of playoffs in the last 13 years really the best we can hope for these days? We are surely a club of at least the same ‘stature’ and potential as Southampton, Palace, Burnley, Fulham, WBA, Leicester, Wolves and Sheffield United?

Clough stabilised the club and made some great signings. It was a bit ‘dreary’ but, again with the benefit of hindsight, one has to wonder - thinking of all the money spent since on players and compensation for sacked managers - what would the difference be now if he’d stayed?
Unanswerable I suppose, but I think I’d back a team of cast offs from the last nine or ten years against the current crop.