Seems like Warnock has taken the Huddersfield job

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

You're loving this, aren't you? I bet you can't wait until we go down and you can then bang on for the next 6 months, every day, that you were right and everyone else was wrong. Do you really think that this shit show is balanced by the appointment of Warnock? Because if you do, then you're beyond help. I was posting on here during our promotion season saying that the football Warnock employed (From October onwards) would be detrimental to our development, i said that it was short termism, i called it Anti Football, i said that no team will prosper in the long term playing the way we did, and i was right, Warnock ball and his poor recruitment was the catalyst to what we are witnessing now. You like him because he spoils, just like you do, a strange fascination with debunking craft, creativity, thought, enjoyment etc.

Get off the Potty

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I don't really get this 'anti football ' idea, we were direct under him but not stoke levels of hoofball.

As for what he left us with, he left us a squad that Neil Harris was able to gently evolve into a play off side. I'd say that a lot more of the blame should go to harris and onwards for being unable to build. We were left with a team of solid but unspectacular players (cloggers if you're less kind) that could have done with some creativity being added. It's not Warnock's fault that the managers that followed didn't add in better players. We've signed over 30 players on permanent contracts since he left.

Some great excitement and goals for the kids when warnock was here

But the modern football types want it passed into the next

We will see

[The Lone Gunman]

Agreed because it's his area of expertise, but he is inheriting the worst but one team in the league based on the table that would have almost certainly gone down without him.]

Of the four teams at the bottom, Huddersfield have the best record over the last ten games and the last fifteen games. Both of those form tables make horrible reading for City fans.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Of the four teams at the bottom, Huddersfield have the best record over the last ten games and the last fifteen games. Both of those form tables make horrible reading for City fans.

True we are in real trouble, a win this week is vital!

I've just had a look at Huddersfield fixtures, I think they have a tougher run-in although haven't studied it in detail, it's another post see what you think.

[The Lone Gunman]

What a £15million goal-scoring striker with the 2nd best goals scored in France that season so far wouldn't have got us three more points?.

Who knows? Maybe he’d have been brilliant. Maybe he’d have been hopeless. Maybe he’d have got injured.

[the other bob wilson]

Who knows? Maybe he’d have been brilliant. Maybe he’d have been hopeless. Maybe he’d have got injured.

It was reported that Sala did not want to leave Nantes - I didn’t know his game well enough to say whether he would have settled in a strange environment after leaving a city he clearly liked. Also, “one season wonder” is a harsh way to describe Sala’s career, but he was having the season of that career in 18/19.

That said, I agree - no one can say with any certainty how good or bad Sala would have been for us.

[splott parker]

What a £ 15million goal-scoring striker with the 2nd best goals scored in France that season so far wouldn't have got us three more points?

The fact that he died had a massive impact on our season, so we didn't only lose his goals we also had Warnock and the fans distracted, we would have stayed up for sure, but that's life and it has led to our current lowly position.

We haven’t got a clue how Sala would have fared with us. But you also said that the managers since Warnock are the main problem. I’m more of the opinion that the expensive deadwood he left us with who we had to give a costly heave-ho to are a massive part of the problem. Also his involvement and, no doubt, ‘finger in the pie’ re. The whole Sala affair is another massive problem that’s rearing it’s ugly head in our current predicament. The repercussions that the club are suffering due to his involvement with the McKay’s and their ‘cut to the bone, in order to maximise their cut’ are reverberating loud and clear today. Warnock’s legacy has destabilised the club considerably.

[SuperBluebirds91]

Personally I was gutted Warnock didn’t come back here. I thought he worked miracles for us last time but sadly after what happened with Sala I just think he never really got over it and it was a downward spiral for him and the team after that. Obviously I’m hoping he does badly for them but he certainly has the experience of dragging a team out of the bottom 3.

[Bobby Dandruff]

Must have been a good budget to land Moore and borrow Wilson then following Warnocks great achievement of getting a relegation-threatened team promoted in 18 months. We would have stayed up too if it wasn't for that flight arranged by Henderson.

The Managers since Warnock is the main problem three coaches and a useless old Manager, they've been a disaster.

You aren’t going to win this argue with some people.

We all know that Warnock has/had plenty of faults but people still blaming him for the plight of the club and yet not wanting to recognise his other achievements, that you outline above (we’ll never know about Sala so I can’t comment on your reference to that flight) is just delusional.

[North Cardiff Blue]

You aren’t going to win this argue with some people.

We all know that Warnock has/had plenty of faults but people still blaming him for the plight of the club and yet not wanting to recognise his other achievements, that you outline above (we’ll never know about Sala so I can’t comment on your reference to that flight) is just delusional.

We can agree to disagree on the last bit, I think anyone with half a brain would know that if a team struggling for goals signed the striker with the 2nd best record in France (at that time) it would increase their goal tally and give an additional three points.

Yes people can say that if he got injured he may not have played so well etc, but barring an injury in the first game he would have given a massive lift, instead, he gave a massive shock and sent us down. Of course we can't prove it but it's obvious.

Agree with the rest, he made some mistakes but without his promotion, we wouldn't have had the money to make the mistakes. If we had employed any of the others instead of him, we wouldn't have had the promotion in the first place.

[blue lewj]

Think this is another area where Tan shows a lack of understanding of football. You get good managers, bad managers, good managers who don't work out and bad managers who surpass expectations.
Just because you install a manager and give him money doesn't mean he will be successful.
Just because one manager built a squad partially on freebies it doesn't mean that giving another licence to build a whole squad from freebies is the way to go.

It just shows a large lack of knowledge of football and how these things sometimes pan out.

You can't just make sweeping changes like 'let's play attacking football' or 'let's cut the wage bill' without having some sort of plan. Football doesn't work that way.

As has been pointed out Warnock got us promoted so put a fair bit of money into the club. Yes, he bought what Tan feels are dud footballers, prime example being Murphy, bit it is part and parcel of football.
You reassess and try to get it right the next time. You don't just throw the rule book out and try to do it your own way. In this case - inexperienced managers playing kids, freebies and loan signings with next to no support above them.
Warnock would have galvanised the squad and the club and I'm almost sure he will do it with Huddersfield.

Noticed a few hedging their bets on here too. Slagging him off then saying they wouldn't be surprised if he kept them up. Cover all those bases.

[Bobby Dandruff]

We can agree to disagree on the last bit, I think anyone with half a brain would know that if a team struggling for goals signed the striker with the 2nd best record in France (at that time) it would increase their goal tally and give an additional three points.

Yes people can say that if he got injured he may not have played so well etc, but barring an injury in the first game he would have given a massive lift, instead, he gave a massive shock and sent us down. Of course we can't prove it but it's obvious.

Agree with the rest, he made some mistakes but without his promotion, we wouldn't have had the money to make the mistakes. If we had employed any of the others instead of him, we wouldn't have had the promotion in the first place.

Agreed.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Warnock starts Saturday, very tough job, a weak squad and no confidence, lost the last game 3 nil to Stoke who have been poor. Huddersfield have not one once in their last six games prior to Warnck with just 2 draws.

Pre Warnock
QPR 39
Birmingham 38
Stoke 37
Rotherham 33
Cardiff 32
.........................
Wigan 30
Huddersfield 28
Blackpool 28

Lets see how he does with 15 games, less than a third of the season to go, interesting to see where we finish too.

Watch out for QPR they are in freefall, unless something happns quick they could be in trouble.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Warnock starts Saturday, very tough job, a weak squad and no confidence, lost the last game 3 nil to Stoke who have been poor. Huddersfield have not one once in their last six games prior to Warnck with just 2 draws.

Pre Warnock
QPR 39
Birmingham 38
Stoke 37
Rotherham 33
Cardiff 32
.........................
Wigan 30
Huddersfield 28
Blackpool 28

Lets see how he does with 15 games, less than a third of the season to go, interesting to see where we finish too.

Watch out for QPR they are in freefall, unless something happns quick they could be in trouble.

QPR probably have enough points but they've scored less goals than us since they beat us at Loftus Road, and that was before we scored two on Tuesday!

[the other bob wilson]

QPR probably have enough points but they've scored less goals than us since they beat us at Loftus Road, and that was before we scored two on Tuesday!

Thought they were dreadful and there for the taking on Boxing Day - strange, they’ve got a lot of talented players, but the highly rated Critchley has done nothing to improve them yet. Think they only need two or three wins to be safe mind.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Thought they were dreadful and there for the taking on Boxing Day - strange, they’ve got a lot of talented players, but the highly rated Critchley has done nothing to improve them yet. Think they only need two or three wins to be safe mind.

Same, they made us look half decent . We should have scored more than once.

They've scored 8 goals in their last 15 and have 9 points in that time. That is remarkable. Critchley has 1 win in 11 games, I wonder if he's in trouble? I think they'll be OK with 48 points ish, so if they repeat the last 15, they'll just about be OK.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Same, they made us look half decent . We should have scored more than once.

They've scored 8 goals in their last 15 and have 9 points in that time. That is remarkable. Critchley has 1 win in 11 games, I wonder if he's in trouble? I think they'll be OK with 48 points ish, so if they repeat the last 15, they'll just about be OK.

My mate is a QPR fan, and he is worried, he can't see where a win is coming from, (we know how that feels) he was laughing about us, but not anymore.

They should have enough points, but they need to break the losing streak which gets harder the longer it goes on.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Typical Warnock, he would have come here if we had asked, but I'm very happy with Lamouchi now.


Neil Warnock revealed it was only going to be the Terriers or Cardiff City would have got him out of retirement.
WalesOnline

Warnock, 74, was this week appointed manager of the Championship strugglers, who will be fighting tooth and nail with the Bluebirds to remain in the second tier between now and the end of the season.

He was heavily linked with a return to Cardiff City Stadium following the sacking of Mark Hudson, and remained favourite for the job for some time, despite the veteran retiring from management after his spell with Middlesbrough came to an end.

Cardiff, however, decided to go down a different route and appointed Sabri Lamouchi on a deal until the end of the season.

Lamouchi and Warnock will now go head to head in a bid to keep their respective sides up. At his press conference unveiling, Warnock said he would have only returned to a club he loved, like Huddersfield or Cardiff.

He told our sister site YorkshireLive: "It's a great challenge really. I always thought if I came back in at some change it'd be end of Feb. I only want to work 10 weeks a year if I'm honest, and it was always going to be a club I love like Huddersfield or Cardiff. She's (wife Sharon) always said to me, 'why don't you do that?'

"I have to say though, it's asking a lot for us to get in the play-offs."

It's clear he didn't need too much persuading to get back in the dugout, although he added he's yet to sign an official contract with his old/new club.

"It's a very special time," he said. "Ronnie Jepson rollicks me every time we go back in time, because he was convinced we could have gone into the Premier League if I stayed here. But the chairman lied to me and I fell out with him and that's me really.

"Incidentally I've not even signed anything here yet, but that's by the by isn't it.

"But I was really taken aback when I came here for the Stoke game earlier this season. I said to Sharon, 'wow, I didn't expect that'. We had two Wembley appearances and a lot of people of that age group, it meant a lot to them.

"I've got goose pimples talking to you now and I want the fans to be excited. Listen, I can't tell you if we can do anything like that. We're odds on favourites to get relegated. But we've got to try, give the fans something to shout about and win games."

Asked if he'll be able to keep them up, Warnock replied: "I don't really think about things like that. If they get relegated I won't be blamed, will I? It's a piece of cake really. All my career, other managers don't like to play my teams I don't think."

[splott parker]

Typical Warnock, he would have come here if we had asked, but I'm very happy with Lamouchi now.


Neil Warnock revealed it was only going to be the Terriers or Cardiff City would have got him out of retirement.
WalesOnline

Warnock, 74, was this week appointed manager of the Championship strugglers, who will be fighting tooth and nail with the Bluebirds to remain in the second tier between now and the end of the season.

He was heavily linked with a return to Cardiff City Stadium following the sacking of Mark Hudson, and remained favourite for the job for some time, despite the veteran retiring from management after his spell with Middlesbrough came to an end.

Cardiff, however, decided to go down a different route and appointed Sabri Lamouchi on a deal until the end of the season.

Lamouchi and Warnock will now go head to head in a bid to keep their respective sides up. At his press conference unveiling, Warnock said he would have only returned to a club he loved, like Huddersfield or Cardiff.

He told our sister site YorkshireLive: "It's a great challenge really. I always thought if I came back in at some change it'd be end of Feb. I only want to work 10 weeks a year if I'm honest, and it was always going to be a club I love like Huddersfield or Cardiff. She's (wife Sharon) always said to me, 'why don't you do that?'

"I have to say though, it's asking a lot for us to get in the play-offs."

It's clear he didn't need too much persuading to get back in the dugout, although he added he's yet to sign an official contract with his old/new club.

"It's a very special time," he said. "Ronnie Jepson rollicks me every time we go back in time, because he was convinced we could have gone into the Premier League if I stayed here. But the chairman lied to me and I fell out with him and that's me really.

"Incidentally I've not even signed anything here yet, but that's by the by isn't it.

"But I was really taken aback when I came here for the Stoke game earlier this season. I said to Sharon, 'wow, I didn't expect that'. We had two Wembley appearances and a lot of people of that age group, it meant a lot to them.

"I've got goose pimples talking to you now and I want the fans to be excited. Listen, I can't tell you if we can do anything like that. We're odds on favourites to get relegated. But we've got to try, give the fans something to shout about and win games."

Asked if he'll be able to keep them up, Warnock replied: "I don't really think about things like that. If they get relegated I won't be blamed, will I? It's a piece of cake really. All my career, other managers don't like to play my teams I don't think."

I caught a bit of him on the radio, he said every club that he’s left, he’s left them in a better place

[The Lone Gunman]

Typical Warnock, he would have come here if we had asked, but I'm very happy with Lamouchi now.

Neil Warnock revealed it was only going to be the Terriers or Cardiff City would have got him out of retirement.

He’s being misquoted. He actually said it was only going to be a club he loved like Huddersfield, or Cardiff, or QPR. He then went on to say Sharon has always loved Huddersfield.

Let’s be honest, if he’d taken over at Rotherham it would be the same stuff.

[the other bob wilson]

He’s being misquoted. He actually said it was only going to be a club he loved like Huddersfield, or Cardiff, or QPR. He then went on to say Sharon has always loved Huddersfield.

Let’s be honest, if he’d taken over at Rotherham it would be the same stuff.

Was it St. Mirren he was talking to just before he came here? Needless to say, they were his kind of club.

[the other bob wilson]

I caught a bit of him on the radio, he said every club that he’s left, he’s left them in a better place

I suppose we were about six places higher in the table when he left compared to when he arrived, but I think it’s stretching things to say he left us better off.

[Jordi Culé]

https://www.theguardian.com/football...ddersfield-job

The usual guff from Neil. He's a character as some say.

[stan butler]

So glad the dinosaur wasn't asked to come here.

[the other bob wilson]

Danny Gabbidon’s not bothered by Neil Warnock’s appointment at Huddersfield.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...towns-26263958