Alviro Patterson wrote:Poor Nigel Clough out of a job after being sacked at Sheffield United. If a 5th place finish in a fiercely competitive league and reaching the League Cup semi-finals is deemed as a sackable offence, then professional football might as well go into extinction.
Alviro Patterson wrote:Poor Nigel Clough out of a job after being sacked at Sheffield United. If a 5th place finish in a fiercely competitive league and reaching the League Cup semi-finals is deemed as a sackable offence, then professional football might as well go into extinction.
st_brendy wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Poor Nigel Clough out of a job after being sacked at Sheffield United. If a 5th place finish in a fiercely competitive league and reaching the League Cup semi-finals is deemed as a sackable offence, then professional football might as well go into extinction.
A club as big as Sheff Utd should not be in L1. He's been given a reasonable amount of time to get them out of the league, and has failed. Someone else's turn.
Makes perfect sense to me.
For similar reasons, I would not be surprised if Derby let McClaren go. "You've had your chance. Now it's someone else's turn to achieve our goal".
st_brendy wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Poor Nigel Clough out of a job after being sacked at Sheffield United. If a 5th place finish in a fiercely competitive league and reaching the League Cup semi-finals is deemed as a sackable offence, then professional football might as well go into extinction.
A club as big as Sheff Utd should not be in L1. He's been given a reasonable amount of time to get them out of the league, and has failed. Someone else's turn.
Makes perfect sense to me.
For similar reasons, I would not be surprised if Derby let McClaren go. "You've had your chance. Now it's someone else's turn to achieve our goal".
Alviro Patterson wrote:st_brendy wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Poor Nigel Clough out of a job after being sacked at Sheffield United. If a 5th place finish in a fiercely competitive league and reaching the League Cup semi-finals is deemed as a sackable offence, then professional football might as well go into extinction.
A club as big as Sheff Utd should not be in L1. He's been given a reasonable amount of time to get them out of the league, and has failed. Someone else's turn.
Makes perfect sense to me.
For similar reasons, I would not be surprised if Derby let McClaren go. "You've had your chance. Now it's someone else's turn to achieve our goal".
19 months at the job, half of which was spent avoiding relegation to League 2 is not a reasonable amount of time to win promotion to the Championship. If promotion was ever going to be a requirement it would be next season, where Nigel has already laid out a platform. No doubt the next manager will want to implement his own squad and ideas, which is likely to take time to come into fruititon.
Time will tell who will be the next Sheffield United manager. Unless if it is a manager who has a track record of winning promotion in a short time frame (Nigel Adkins or Steve Evans), Sheffield United being involved in another relegation battle can not be ruled out due to the competitive nature of League 1.
st_brendy wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:st_brendy wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Poor Nigel Clough out of a job after being sacked at Sheffield United. If a 5th place finish in a fiercely competitive league and reaching the League Cup semi-finals is deemed as a sackable offence, then professional football might as well go into extinction.
A club as big as Sheff Utd should not be in L1. He's been given a reasonable amount of time to get them out of the league, and has failed. Someone else's turn.
Makes perfect sense to me.
For similar reasons, I would not be surprised if Derby let McClaren go. "You've had your chance. Now it's someone else's turn to achieve our goal".
19 months at the job, half of which was spent avoiding relegation to League 2 is not a reasonable amount of time to win promotion to the Championship. If promotion was ever going to be a requirement it would be next season, where Nigel has already laid out a platform. No doubt the next manager will want to implement his own squad and ideas, which is likely to take time to come into fruititon.
Time will tell who will be the next Sheffield United manager. Unless if it is a manager who has a track record of winning promotion in a short time frame (Nigel Adkins or Steve Evans), Sheffield United being involved in another relegation battle can not be ruled out due to the competitive nature of League 1.
7 months to look at your squad and start to get your ideas across. A summer transfer window. A full season to have a go at promotion. Yep, when you're a big fish in a small pond, that is reasonable enough time in my book.
We kicked Pardew out after just one L1 season, and he even had the excuse of us starting on -10 and having had no prior time managing the team. And what a fantastic decision it turned out to be.
Alviro Patterson wrote:st_brendy wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:st_brendy wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:Poor Nigel Clough out of a job after being sacked at Sheffield United. If a 5th place finish in a fiercely competitive league and reaching the League Cup semi-finals is deemed as a sackable offence, then professional football might as well go into extinction.
A club as big as Sheff Utd should not be in L1. He's been given a reasonable amount of time to get them out of the league, and has failed. Someone else's turn.
Makes perfect sense to me.
For similar reasons, I would not be surprised if Derby let McClaren go. "You've had your chance. Now it's someone else's turn to achieve our goal".
19 months at the job, half of which was spent avoiding relegation to League 2 is not a reasonable amount of time to win promotion to the Championship. If promotion was ever going to be a requirement it would be next season, where Nigel has already laid out a platform. No doubt the next manager will want to implement his own squad and ideas, which is likely to take time to come into fruititon.
Time will tell who will be the next Sheffield United manager. Unless if it is a manager who has a track record of winning promotion in a short time frame (Nigel Adkins or Steve Evans), Sheffield United being involved in another relegation battle can not be ruled out due to the competitive nature of League 1.
7 months to look at your squad and start to get your ideas across. A summer transfer window. A full season to have a go at promotion. Yep, when you're a big fish in a small pond, that is reasonable enough time in my book.
We kicked Pardew out after just one L1 season, and he even had the excuse of us starting on -10 and having had no prior time managing the team. And what a fantastic decision it turned out to be.
Not when Clough's remit at the time was avoid relegation and Sheffield United spent much of 2013-14 in and around the relegation zone.
By November only Bristol City, Swindon, Preston and MK Dons had any chance of automatic promotion. Sheffield United at best could finish 5th and did just that on the back of three cup runs, a hectic fixture list towards the business end of the season and against 8 or so clubs who were firmly in playoff contention by Easter Weekend.
What Southampton have done in the last five years should be used to aspire other similar sized clubs, not set an example. There are a dozen or so clubs in League One who are capable of promotion in their own rights.
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