Russell Slade

Don't particularly want Slade, Rob but would you consider a manager who had managed the same amount of games if he'd won the FL Trophy once? Not many managers in our sights with Guardiola standard trophy cabinets.

No No No!

Not a good choice.

He's won nothing.

Me made the mistake of hiring has beens before we were relegated, except slade Kant even a has been because he had little to no success, ever...

Whoever manages GTFC will get my support, that applies to Slade if he comes back too. Whoever is in charge will not prevent me from buying a season ticket

Unless it's woods

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Unless it's woods

I will get a season ticket if Mickey Mouse is in charge even an incompetent manager like Zola but if Neil Woods were suggested.... I would not

If this is true, shockingly bad appointment never got a club promoted in his entire career, plays excrement football too.

I'm not rooting' for Slade but he ain't as bad as some people say, possibly these are folks who don't remember the really, really bad managers?

What gets forgotten is that our Russell started off with very attacking ambitions. We even had a French playmaker in midfield ffs. Things changed when teams sussed out that 3-5-2 is hard to play well and we got stuffed a time or two. Then things changed around and we played more or less 5-3-2 for the rest of the season to make the most of Reddy's pace on breakaways. We were great away but struggled at BP. A common story.

Nevertheless, we were very successful and but for a last gasp goal we would have had automatic promotion. People blame Slade for what happened at Cardiff but it does take two to tango. Any fair minded person would have to say Mr F was not blameless in what happened.

So would I want him back? Not really, but the field is a bit limited isn't it? It's full of has beens on the way down and apart from the Cowleys not many wannabes on the way up.

Not sure how 10 midfielders are going to fit into a Slade team. Saying that they're all used to being played out of position now.

I can understand the concern over re-appointing Russell Slade.

But if you were also concerned over the direction we were going in under Marcus Bignot, and feared a little for next season, then Slade would be a decent choice.

Not advocating it, just adding a bit of context to proceedings. Obviously we all want to aim a bit higher.

But let's also not forget that Slade brought many decent players to our club, built a strong spine (Mildenhall, Jones/Whittle, Bolland, Reddy/Jones) and got a team playing to a specific style in roles they each understood.

I also wouldn't say his tactics were aimless hoofball. There's been a thread that's re-appeared on here a few times about how detailed his plans actually were.

This is purely devil's advocate stuff. Just think it's worth considering before anyone realistically commits to never coming to BP again if Slade's re-appointed.

We had some good times under his management. We beat Spurs, we set a new club record of six consecutive away wins.

And I'm aware we had some bad times, too! Lincoln away, etc.

Quoted from LH

Don't particularly want Slade, Rob but would you consider a manager who had managed the same amount of games if he'd won the FL Trophy once? Not many managers in our sights with Guardiola standard trophy cabinets.

I liked Slade, thought the early Slade team was great with Reddy et al. My only concern is shelf life and appointing someone who is out of touch with the latest coaching methods, as we did with AB. I think players look up to a manager who is a few years older, but still one of the lads, not someone from their dad's generation.