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007 I believe.

How is there not a thread on here solely for discussion on agents??

Is it similar to Ask Jeeves or Lycos?

Oh ffs

It's no coincidence that the degradation of the club's structure - from the boardroom to everything surrounding it - coincided with our plummet from the PL to our current position. Managers have come and gone but very few of them have been able to successfully work with the skeleton structure we have in place. Bowyer nearly made it work but once the funding stopped it was game over. Mowbray is doing an OK job at present, but when you're able to buy the best players in the division your team is going to be competitive. We won't be able to do the same if we get promoted unless Venky's pump in significantly more money. I remember how dismissive certain people on here were when the likes of Williams and Finn left. Losing those kinds of people was just as if not more damaging than sacking Sam Allardyce. Once we had Agnew, Babu, Shaw, etc running the show it was curtains for us as a club with any serious ambitions. We're not really any better off in that department now, so once funds dry up I imagine we will begin to struggle again.

You have to hand it to Watford - the people running that club must have so many contacts around Europe with their fingers on the pulses of the best up and coming coaches. How they managed to get out of the Championship with 4 coaches in one season defies belief really. Southampton were in League One about 5 years ago so it shows what can be achieved with good people running the club. Swansea are another well run club. For those who remember the 1960s and 70s the likes of Watford, Brighton, Swansea, Bournemouth were all 3rd or 4th division clubs - the idea that that they would ever be in the equivalent of the old first division would have been inconceivable. .

Swansea and Southampton are slightly less extreme variations on Watford. All 3 have the ability to change 'head coach' frequently and yet manage to survive on it. Its not a model I'd like us to follow with a revolving door of foreigners but can't really criticise them too much as it pays off. I don't think its good for the game in the long term but it has and done the job for them. Chelsea another lot who manage to carry on being successful under frequent managerial changes. Leeds and Forest have been two of the worst in the Championship at working their way through a range of managers in succession, seemingly confusing themselves with it all, yet the reality is that they've managed to stay in the Championship through it whereas our chopping and changing and then sticking with a wrong un in Coyle for too long ultimately consigned us to the 3rd division. If we'd have been a bit more trigger happy last season and given Coyle the boot when it was obviously not working then we might have survived, instead we left it until late February when any manager would struggle against such limited time to keep any club up.

The flip side of that is Watford who changed their manager 4 (yes 4) times in their promotion season to the Premier League and have continued to change managers ever since while cementing their place in the top league.