Lincoln Sack Manager !!

Maybe they should be looking at Hurst as their next manager.

Did wonders in League One at Shrewsbury, avoiding relegation and then getting them in the play-offs.

Of course we would want compensation.

Football is data driven, and if you get it right, you see results and positive outcomes, that’s a fact.

Lincoln fans are an odd bunch; they gained so many new fans under Cowley that some simply don’t know success without them and have struggled ever since they left. Then you have those that have been there all along that saw it was time for them to go and were happy with Appleton.

There’s definitely more to this and talking to a Lincoln STH, he’s of the opinion that a fallout and what not is likely to have happened. Kennedy opey called out a player the other week (justified by all accounts) and it’s gone down like a cold cup of sick, poor precious players I guess.

It’s hard to see what their ambition is given they’ve gradually just descended into a mediocre bottom half club since their failed playoff attempt. In truth, I don’t think they’d have the cash or perhaps even desire to be a championship club but, if their data is telling them they’re on a slippery slope into League 2 you can see why they’ve pulled the trigger…

With all the recent sackings they’re also probably nursing a semi on regarding the return of Cowley and have done it to get in their first before someone no doubt tempts them back into work…

Remember’Sir’ Alan Buckley?

He was lambasted for leaving for West Brom, then lauded as a returning hero.

The time is right for a return of the brothers, who I’m sure would’ve learned from their spells at Huddersfield & Pompey. Imps have a competitive squad in a league with no real stand out teams. 3 strikers due back from injury in Walker, House & Vale (on loan from Blackburn) an exciting period awaits.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Remember’Sir’ Alan Buckley?

He was lambasted for leaving for West Brom, then lauded as a returning hero.

The time is right for a return of the brothers, who I’m sure would’ve learned from their spells at Huddersfield & Pompey. Imps have a competitive squad in a league with no real stand out teams. 3 strikers due back from injury in Walker, House & Vale (on loan from Blackburn) an exciting period awaits.

I know they were successful for you but their style of play is so anti football, its a huge change from what you've had these last few years surely?

Quoted from mariner91

I’m actually not. A friend of mine co-hosts the Stacey West podcast and I saw some of the stats he posted yesterday. They rank 22nd for possession and expected goals, had the fewest corners and crosses in to the box in the league as well as a host of other stats where they’ve performed very poorly. All of it adds up to indicate that perhaps they’re in a slightly false league position currently and are likely to continue their descent down the league unless something changed.

On its own it’s not enough to fire someone but I believe they’ve also had a very boring and uninspiring style which has been difficult to watch (sounds familiar) and it’s obviously led them to decide that change is needed.

Outperforming based on stats then . Signs of a together unit. Isn’t that a plus.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Maybe they should be looking at Hurst as their next manager.

Did wonders in League One at Shrewsbury, avoiding relegation and then getting them in the play-offs.

Of course we would want compensation.

We or they?

I don't think it has come as a huge surprise, when MK probably had the biggest player budget in our history and we have struggled of late. A caveat to that is that we are missing nearly our entire forward line - Which has not helped, but they will be back shortly over the coming weeks.

However, with very ambitious investors I can understand why he has been sacked as they do think we should be performing better than we are, and MK's style was very conservative and was potentially having an effect on the crowds. Everything off the pitch is geared towards high end league 1/Lower end championship so in that respect he is failing, and that has cost him I think.

I think it was the right thing to do, but I wouldn't want Danny and Nicky, and I don't think we will go down that route - I personally think we may go for Nathan Jones.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Outperforming based on stats then . Signs of a together unit. Isn’t that a plus.

Lies, damn lies and statistics. They can be framed any way you choose really but Lincoln's board obviously decided it was a negative.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

They seem to have got a bit becalmed in mid table (lower mid table) but that hardly seems a reason to fire them.

The only thing with League 1 it has 4 places down, which is a big trapdoor, compared to League 2 smaller trapdoor of 2 places. Indeed League 2 is unique where it has 4 up and only 2 down.

I wonder if in the US Soccer system, where there is no UP or DOWN, Managers/Coaches are sacked as often as in England /UK?

Quoted from ginnywings

The Cowley's, who some Lincoln fans would like back, are completely stats and numbers driven, and Danny Cowley once said that football should be seen as science. They demand a minimum amount of crosses per game for instance.

Doesn't matter how many times you diss stats Lew, the use of them is widespread.

Ah the future, as our grandkids sit around a nuclear log look-alike brazer in the Ye Olde Hurst Bar, drinking No Alcohol "Beer" as per ICI Chemical Works, they discuss Grimsby Metropolitan and Urban Community FC V Boston Vegan Socialist Combine FC match.
Did you see our Right Wing Flyer, he put in 2.735 crosses in per Quark. That's nothing our Front Person tracked back 33.8794 meters per MHz, and thats the best in the Combined NSEW Grouping ever since Stats took over. Must have been boring for our Grandparents to shout at people called Slade, Bignot and Holloway, now we push a button, it takes 3 days for a committee of Sensitivity and Specificity software to make sure nobody is upset. Mind you I can't understand why, we don't have a manager as a programme run by 21st Group Data Analysis does that, as it does all the football in the world.

Here's to the future.