Ian Holloway

Quoted from Bradford Mariner

Really hope this doesn't happen, if we needed a clown for a manager I'd interview someone from Russell's Circus.

UTM

Totally agreed better to save money and chug along scoring 1 goals in 7 , celebrating the occasional 0-0 draw, and having fun calculating how long ago it was when we last won a football match. It's the 3, yes, three, month anniversary tomorrow by the way.
Be stupid to appoint an experienced manager with a proven record of success

Ian Holloway would be a real signal of intent and ambition. For those reasons, I do not expect him to be appointed.

We have to appoint him now as I've already decided in my head that it would mean instant turnaround and guaranteed promotion

He is on Quest Sunday night! Will he get from BP in time?

Ian Holloway getting interviewd by RH would be worth his salary alone.

I just get the feeling he would rejuvenate the whole club and what we need.

When IH took the Palace job, he indicated his desire to be near his family (in London) was part of his decision. He's since managed Millwall and QPR.
Seems unlikely he'd move here.

Which is a shame, because he's just the type this club needs.

From JF's video interview it seems obvious our non-chairman wants to appoint AL, and that's what I expect to happen.

I'm pretty relaxed either way (unusually): I think Holloway would be good...if he and JF can see eye-to-eye on what needs to be done. So maybe.
I also think AL may turn out to be good too, given more time. He's got JF onside already to judge from the video, even to the extent that he's saying
he'll be putting his hand in his pocket come January.
I might not be so relaxed if there were two relegation spots...  

I'd certainly pick Holloway over AL if I could choose either to be manager, but I very much doubt he'll be uprooting to come here.

To be honest, Holloway as a manager wouldn't really be the choice I'd go for on a purely footballing basis.

Can interpret records however you want, Slade's record was decent if you looked it at coming here.  Oh Coventry and Charlton were both basket case clubs, look what he did at Orient... Holloway did a great job at Blackpool, that can't be overlooked and whilst incredibly naive I admired his approach when they were in the Premier League.  It was a suicidal approach but it was refreshing all the same.

At Palace he did get them up via the play-offs, you can't argue with the facts.  But when he took over they were top.  Dougie Freedman built that side. A side that had Wilf Zaha and Victor Moses on the wings, both absolutely unplayable at that level.  They ended up picking just 8 points from the final ten games of the normal season and literally fell over the line.

He was wildly unpopular at Millwall, whilst no doubt an element of that was his Palace connection but he failed to inspire by all accounts and his football was a bit drab.  Far from the free-flowing style he's renowned for.

At QPR I think he did an ok job, I think I'm right in saying he blooded a lot of younger lads and laid some good foundations for the future.  At Championship level you'll do well to get the time to do that over two years so either the owners had faith (which they lost when they went for Steve McLaren) or he was doing as expected under financial constraints, either way it's the best job of his more recent ones.

The point is though that his last success was with Palace, in 2013.  As above that's a bit fall over the line type of success, propped up by two guys who were head and shoulders above the rest of the division.   Is he really still in touch with the game?  I know a lot of people like his little soundbites but every time I think he comes across like an idiot.  Almost a bit Mike Bassett like in his approach to the game.  

That all said. this club needs something to inject a bit of enthusiasm into it.  For the record, I don't think Limbrick is doing a bad job.  He inherited a sack of excrement that was devoid of confidence, he's done his best to rebuild that back up try to install something of a footballing philosophy.  Slowly but surely we're starting to see that coming through, albeit with a real lack of quality and cutting edge in the side.  But Limbrick isn't going to put another 2,000 on the gate and get the Town buzzing, Holloway probably would....

The guy's a tosser in the Lennie Lawrence mould and he'd splash the money everywhere with little return.

Cant see it myself. but you never know .would be a hell of a drop for him, and he is used to working with  a lot better players.

Personally I think it's not a job the suits IH.  He is use to having big budgets and cash to squander.  I think he would struggle at town.

I'm quite happy with AL (who I wanted before we appointed RS).