New Colchester Manager/s

If chrisblor has got his facts right, I would question why we would want him here.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Danny Cowley is on his way back down the leagues. His pioneering 'data & stick loads of crosses and corners' into the box method which worked at Lincoln is now a busted flush. He failed at Huddersfield and he failed at billionaire backed Portsmouth. What makes people think he's gonna turn around the fortunes of a floundering Colchester side? The guy has never been in this position before (joining a financially screwed club with no fans in a dead out of town stadium losing millions every season currently sat one place above the relegation places in the middle of the January transfer window), no idea why anyone is so confident he'll save them or is sat around proclaiming going "TOWN SHOULD HAVE GOT HIM".

He didn’t fail at Huddersfield, he kept them up - the issue was the relationship with the owner. And at Portsmouth they arguably built the foundations that have allowed allowed the current team to flourish having inherited a mess.

Quoted from 123614

If chrisblor has got his facts right, I would question why we would want him here.

He/she hasn’t.

Not close at all to the finances at Colchester but it was this time last year when Matt Bloomfield was significantly backed in the January transfer window, bringing in quite a few high earning players and most thought they would cruise out of danger (final position 20th, 6 points above the drop).  The owner was bankrolling them a bit the last time I saw or heard anything, not sure if he's still there.

They had a good run initially post-investment but dropped off mid-Feb onwards, in fact they needed a bit of a late rally to avoid the drop altogether.  The day the window opened they were also in 20th and 5 points above the drop, a pretty excrement return on decent investment.

Ok appointment on paper, nothing to get excited about.  I share the views of others that they are a spent force and I'm not sure Colchester is the type of environment where they'll get time to implement anything.  Colchester's managerial record from 2020 is staggering.  2016-20 they had a period of stability under John McGreal but in the 3-and-a-half years since he was sacked they've appointed and dismissed Steve Ball, Hayden Mullins, Wayne Brown, Bloomfield, Ben Garden and now Matthew Etherington.  Brown and Ball are the longest serving managers with 34 games a piece,  the equivalent of three-quarters of a season!

Quoted from Chrisblor

Danny Cowley is on his way back down the leagues. His pioneering 'data & stick loads of crosses and corners' into the box method which worked at Lincoln is now a busted flush. He failed at Huddersfield and he failed at billionaire backed Portsmouth. What makes people think he's gonna turn around the fortunes of a floundering Colchester side? The guy has never been in this position before (joining a financially screwed club with no fans in a dead out of town stadium losing millions every season currently sat one place above the relegation places in the middle of the January transfer window), no idea why anyone is so confident he'll save them or is sat around proclaiming going "TOWN SHOULD HAVE GOT HIM".

Didn't fail at Huddersfield - they were brought in to save them from relegation out the championship which they succeeded at.

Portsmouth wasn't really a failure although it wasn't a success either, they finished 10th and we're 12th I think when sacked, just meh.

Annoyingly I think they could do well with Colchester's squad which seemed to be big and mobile when we played them, exactly what they like to work with.

Quoted from davmariner

He didn’t fail at Huddersfield, he kept them up - the issue was the relationship with the owner. And at Portsmouth they arguably built the foundations that have allowed allowed the current team to flourish having inherited a mess.

Finishing 18th in the Championship when Huddersfield had only been relegated from the Premier League the previous season (and benefitted from approximately £30 in parachute payments as a result) is not success. It's not like he took over a team that was a dead cert to be relegated with a few months left of the season, he took over in September after 6 league games and managed a total of 13 wins in his 40 games in charge. Scraping Championship survival in those circumstances is pretty poor going.

His time at Portsmouth was rubbish too, he managed 1 win in his last 16 league games in charge there which is pitiful for a large club in League One, owned and heavily bankrolled by one of the richest man on the planet (currently estimated to be worth $1.1bn by Forbes). Sorry, really not seeing why anyone is getting so excited about this (other than his success with a team 40 miles down the A46 over half a decade ago now).

Quoted from Chrisblor

Finishing 18th in the Championship when Huddersfield had only been relegated from the Premier League the previous season (and benefitted from approximately £30 in parachute payments as a result) is not success. It's not like he took over a team that was a dead cert to be relegated with a few months left of the season, he took over in September after 6 league games and managed a total of 13 wins in his 40 games in charge. Scraping Championship survival in those circumstances is pretty poor going.

His time at Portsmouth was rubbish too, he managed 1 win in his last 16 league games in charge there which is pitiful for a large club in League One, owned and heavily bankrolled by one of the richest man on the planet (currently estimated to be worth $1.1bn by Forbes). Sorry, really not seeing why anyone is getting so excited about this (other than his success with a team 40 miles down the A46 over half a decade ago now).

Could probably have got a round in at Wetherspoons for that!  

Didn’t they turn down Bradford? In which case why would they consider us? I think it’s great for Colchester but they’ve ended up at a bigger, but still small club 17 miles from where they started. That says it all about their priorities, and you have to respect them for putting family first.

We currently sit 20th. Of the four teams below us two have very wealthy owners who could easily but their way out of trouble, and now one have a manager who has won the L2 championship previously.

I think our task was just made a little harder.