Russell Slade

I'm far happier now and believe he will come in and make do with the players he has inherited, with an ability to do so, I just wish he had been available when PH departed, it may have saved us a few quid on certain players.

Quoted from oldun

Never go back, things never the same second time round.

Alan Buckley and Matt Tees might have said that sometimes they are even better.

Going back to Buckley was different though as he had actually been successful and built promotion teams.

How can you on the one hand say we are sacking a guy because we are ambitious and then on the other hand employ someone who has never achieved a promotion at any level. He has a track record as a steady eddie, ok if we want to bump along in league 1 for a while, but we're not in league 1.

For MBs faults I cant say that being unambitious appeared to be one of them. This club needs bringing into the 21st century, finally, otherwise I can't see us ever getting on a sustainable footing to compete back at Championship level. Is Slade really the guy to stick around 5 years  and do that alongside moving us up a tier. I just can't see it his career just doesn't show that he is capable.

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

Going back to Buckley was different though as he had actually been successful and built promotion teams.

How can you on the one hand say we are sacking a guy because we are ambitious and then on the other hand employ someone who has never achieved a promotion at any level. He has a track record as a steady eddie, ok if we want to bump along in league 1 for a while, but we're not in league 1.

For MBs faults I cant say that being unambitious appeared to be one of them. This club needs bringing into the 21st century, finally, otherwise I can't see us ever getting on a sustainable footing to compete back at Championship level. Is Slade really the guy to stick around 5 years  and do that alongside moving us up a tier. I just can't see it his career just doesn't show that he is capable.

Maybe he's the 'old head' to impart wisdom to his assistant?

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

Going back to Buckley was different though as he had actually been successful and built promotion teams.

How can you on the one hand say we are sacking a guy because we are ambitious and then on the other hand employ someone who has never achieved a promotion at any level. He has a track record as a steady eddie, ok if we want to bump along in league 1 for a while, but we're not in league 1.

For MBs faults I cant say that being unambitious appeared to be one of them. This club needs bringing into the 21st century, finally, otherwise I can't see us ever getting on a sustainable footing to compete back at Championship level. Is Slade really the guy to stick around 5 years  and do that alongside moving us up a tier. I just can't see it his career just doesn't show that he is capable.

I dont see why appointing a proven Football league manager, who had a good spell here last time and did wonders at Yeovil, Brighton and Leyton Orient and indeed Cardiff for a while, would stop us being dragged into the 21st century?

I think Bignot was for the 22nd century with some of his madcap ideas. What is the point of ambition if you haven't got the strategy to carry it out? I would be amazed if Slade stuck around for five years, but what is the need for that? Football is short term and at this point he seems to be the perfect fit for me. Pragmatic and capable, I am sure he will be able to stabilize us and make us a force next season. He is still in his mid fifties isn't he, so plenty of mileage in the tank yet to prove what he can do.

Lets see what tomorrow brings, but I hope most will welcome him back once the dust has settled. I hope so anyway.

SLADE OUT

I'm a bit confused by all the negativity.

We finished 4th in League Two when he left us, never been anywhere near that since. In fact we've not even been top half.

He's never managed below League One since he left us.

We regard Hurst as a hero for getting us to 4th place and winning the play-offs in the league below.

Slade has a proven track record. His win% isn't great but look at the situations of the teams he's managed. Normally brought in to stop teams from going down or tasked with slashing the wage bill and staying competitive.

He left us to go to a league above, just like Hurst did. At the time it was a good decision for him, as proven by his manager of the year award that he received.

His win percentage at Yeovil was very impressive for a club that size in L1. He's very highly regarded by Orient fans and again, did well in a league where they weren't exactly a huge club. He didn't do badly at Cardiff under difficult circumstances and at Brighton and Coventry he came in with both sides doing terribly but he managed to keep Brighton up. The only blot on his record really is this season but we weren't going to get in someone experienced who doesn't have any bad tenures, they wouldn't come here. He's a safe pair of hands, knows the league, has plenty more contacts and experience since he was last with us and is supposedly great at motivating players. If it wasn't for the fact that he'd been here before, we'd probably all be quite pleased at the thought of appointing a manager who was 8th in the Championship 11 months ago.

Quoted from Jaws

I'm a bit confused by all the negativity.

We finished 4th in League Two when he left us, never been anywhere near that since. In fact we've not even been top half.

He's never managed below League One since he left us.

We regard Hurst as a hero for getting us to 4th place and winning the play-offs in the league below.

Slade has a proven track record. His win% isn't great but look at the situations of the teams he's managed. Normally brought in to stop teams from going down or tasked with slashing the wage bill and staying competitive.

He left us to go to a league above, just like Hurst did. At the time it was a good decision for him, as proven by his manager of the year award that he received.

Slade
excrement football
Never won a thing with 10 different clubs.
The bloke is as boring as his football and would drive fans away.
The only thing about him is I don't think he would ever get you relegated but then again he would never get you promotion.

Quoted from TAGG

Slade
excrement football
Never won a thing with 10 different clubs.
The bloke is as boring as his football and would drive fans away.
The only thing about him is I don't think he would ever get you relegated but then again he would never get you promotion.

Which aspect of the Reddy video clips was excrement football? Certainly not how I remember hi time and visits to BP were far more enjoyable under Slade then they have ever been under PH & MB. The main ingredient for dictating crowd size is results if we are winning we get 5 to 6 thousand and if losing we get 3 to 4 thousand.

We have great away support at present & decent home crowds but look back when we were last in the Championship & look at the average crowd size, despite playing some big clubs we were losing more than we won so not great home crowds. Lets face it the bloody Chimps attract a higher home gate than us at present & this seasons average will probably be higher than ours last season so for all our wish to see great football its winning football that attracts the numbers. Think Arsenal play decent football but not sure their crowd are too happy with this alone!!!