Scribble wrote:
I think you’ll find Liam Manning to be a very good coach, give him the right tools and he will be successful, as he was in his first season here.
It wasn’t his fault the club decided to rip apart that squad and sell the family silver, only to be replaced with dreadful quality Aldi bargain bin players, to then expect him to repeat the feat the following season, with a team a shadow of the previous one.
Manning was culled because of poor results, his replacement Jackson, also failed with the squad who were just not good enough, Pep Guardiola would not have prevented us being relegated.
Now here we are in league 2, struggling again with a tactical dinosaur that is Graham Alexander.
Stick with Manning, I’m sure he will get you to at least the play offs this season
Thanks for this. He’s certainly getting backed at the moment, so hopefully that coaching potential brings rewards too.
When he was down to the last three candidates for the job here, it was felt that although the two others had more promotional success on their CV, Manning had the greater potential. Seems very much in the mould of a more modern approach to management certainly - I also cannot see Eddie Howe when I see him in photos/videos, but that probably says more about my lack of imagination that any real likeness.
Good luck with getting out of League 2. It’s such an odd league - plenty of chances to go up but the range in sizes of clubs (and their footballing philosophies, or lack of them) makes it difficult to know how much actual football to play, or whether to just play in pragmatic, direct style. As ever, I guess it’s a bit of balance between the two which generally gets rewarded.