THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

So much this.

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

I guess it's a question of when does a bad start just become being bad at the job?

It's always worrying when I find myself agreeing with donmentor

Yes, absolutely.

I really get why everyone is pissed of and why they want him out. But if he goes now, his head coach (Mr Anonymous) will be caretaker. That will likely be worse.

So... leave him in place. Give him a decent chance turn it around. In parallel, PW needs to look at other options. If RN performs a miracle, good for him, good for us. If he doesn't, he goes, at a time of Pete's choosing, with someone better lined up.

Today is NOT the time. Calm the fuck down.

(It won't be long though!)

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

2 assumptions there:
1) Pete isn't already looking at options. I'm hoping he's learnt from the Robbo scenario and could be looking at options already (possibly looking at other options since day 1, just in case Neilson decided to pack it in etc.)
2) The caretaker will likely be worse. Why would it be his head coach? A lot of people want Rubio for the next manager (I don't know enough about him to make an informed decision), but why not give him the caretaker job to try him out? Or maybe bring in an interim manager (which might be easier to find than a new long term one) while we search for a new proper manager. Why would either of these be worse than Neilson?

Perhaps I haven't been clear, in no way would I want Pete to wield the axe without having thought about succession planning. But I'd like to think a clever business man would learn from experience and have options available to him. And if he doesn't, then he really does need to start finding some.

Good points actually. But bottom line, Pete took AGES finding RN and then made a big song and dance about what a coupe it was to get this 'highly rated manager' (TBF he WAS highly rated - football, like business and economics, suffers from pretty shallow analysis). I don't think his ego will allow him to say "I was wrong; he's gone baby, solid gone".

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

You're right. No self-respecting business man would use the Carter family quotes in a public press conference

I was quoting Baloo...

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

Touche

Am in full agreement with this. One thing though; no Chairman is going to allow PW to speak to their manager on-spec during the playing season and I can't imagine PW is doing the unethical thing by approaching other managers behind their Chairman's (or Neilson's) back. So how would he know if a targeted manager would want to join us? Of course the other alternative is employ some unemployed failure no one else wants!
Neilson has signed some good players but they are not yet playing as a team. Too many are making simple errors as with the usually reliable Upson today, so it is not all the manager's fault.
So many on here are bleating as much as Man U fans did before Ferguson came good.