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Well one of them would....... and did!

I always really rated him as a player and thought he was very under-appreciated by Souness. From what I can gather he's a fairly shy unassuming character so that probably didnt particularly endear him to the boss.

You've missed each other admit it.

Wow - welcome back. Splitting your time between here and the other site in future? 🙂

I have never ever said announce him permanently until the end of the season. That would indeed be lunacy. All Im saying is IF Johnson is doing well in the meantime, Id rather bide my time on a game by game basis than appoint someone crap purely for the sake of making someone permanent. So are we more attractive with Championship status assured in summer? Maybe not so much, I dont know.

Was just exaggerating to illustrate a point but it still stands. I know you're very much not in favour of it but IF Johnson happened to stay until the end of the season and kept us up do you think we'd then be more attractive to potential candidates?

It depends how good the candidate is. If Bilic says he's willing to come Im snapping his arm off at the elbow regardless of what Johnson's done to that point. If the only candidate whose said he's willing to come at that point is say Coleman (apologies MB) Im fobbing him off and giving Johnson another week at least until I can find someone decent.

Which were the other 2 apart from Fulham?

No worries. I agree with your suggestions above Bilic and Rowett. Probably the best of those mentioned.

Yeah, if it relates to historical breaches it was a deliberate attempt to flout the rules and overspend to try and get into the PL (which at the time they did) It wasn't an inadvertent breach or overspending by a small amount. Ridiculous.

I dont know if they were panicked into it or not by the result in Lowe's 3rd game but they then appointed Ismael. That went well didnt it Edit: If necessary Id rather wait a bit longer to try and get the right person than rush into it and be stuck long term with the wrong one (as long as Johnson is doing ok in the meantime of course)

I think you can argue his only decent spell at meaningful Club level was for a period at Fulham but he eventually got sacked from there as well as long ago as 2007. Also seems to have had a decent 6 month spell at Real Sociedad before leaving in January 2008 citing "differences of opinion". That's essentially it Club wise. Everywhere else he's been he seems to have either absolutely bombed and/or left after a very short period of time. The Clubs he's been at since being sacked by Sunderland in 2017 are so obscure there's not much info on them. Im not sure how to gauge his time with Wales nor am I sure how relevant it is to Club football. He reached the 2016 Euros with prime Gareth Bale and some other very good players in the side but either side of that he became the first Welsh manager ever to start off with 5 successive defeats and failed to qualify for the 2018vWorld Cup and resigned. Just me being a knob and everyone else is wrong though.

Ive given a few names Id be happy with The only name I can recall you endorsing is the one no - one else wants. You got a reaction though. Fair play.

Even if it were say Owen Coyle?

Yeah just checked. Would have taken a punt on him when he was at Wycombe, maybe not now, but I would never under-estimate the capacity of this mob to find someone worse.

Mowbray "finished" the moment he got us promoted from League 1. He could at an extreme stretch be the proverbial "safe pair of hands" to steer us to safety for the rest of the season if Johnson suddenly bombed and we were absolutely desperate but a "Hell no" beyond that.

At the risk of sounding like an anti boycotting "happy clapper" why would he leave Bradford at this point to move here? Without checking I seem to think he's been abysmal in some of his previous jobs. So it'd be a no from me on that one.

Forgot about him. Like him, would have had him at one point but his star has fallen somewhat I'd say. Smacks of preparing for life in League 1/2 long term. Could be better, could be worse.

If we want someone who's been round the block 29 times, been sacked from more Clubs than you can shake a stick at, and done absolutely nothing worthwhile in forever then surely Steve Bruce must also be on that shortlist. Surprised you haven't endorsed him as well.

Not knocking Hughes but it took him the best part of a season to turn us round after he took over from Souness. It was a slow process. At the time he said the players weren't even fit.

Makes it a bit more interesting anyway. Have to say, think 6 points instead of 9 is exceptionally lenient. Be some very disgruntled Clubs if they go down by 3 points or less. Let's hope we're not one of them.

Please stop trolling.

Offered the job? Do you not know we have a tried and trusted process of - Drawing up an initial shortlist - Whittling it down to the final shortlist - Holding an initial round of interviews - Holding a 2nd round of interviews -Calling the last two standing into a final interview - And if we havent pissed them both off by that point, offering one of them the job! 😉

But he's a greedy barsteward who only left for the extra 10 -12 k p.w. Have you not heard?

It depends how many games in charge you need to be classed "permanent" I suppose. I wouldn't be totally against him keeping it until the end of the season IF it's clear he's doing more than enough to keep us out of trouble. I think that list just goes to show how unreliable early odds are. A rumour here and there, a mention on a website or social media and all of a sudden you shoot into favouritism. FWIW Savage - yes- would be fine with that. Coleman - God no Bilic - definitely but can't see it happening if he thinks he has any chance whatsoever of being parachuted into West Ham Wagner - meh Challinor - warming to the idea of that - yes Mowbray - God no Rowett- definitely Karanka - God no Duff - Definitely Rooney - God no, been a disaster everywhere he's been, but like the idea of the Club being in the public spotlight so for that reason would like Gerrard ( not that he'd come).