More manager rumours

[AdrianAlston]

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Yet compare that to us - when has any manager we have ever had go on to better things ? I cant think of anyone


Other than Ole Phil Neale is the only other one that springs to mind.

Len Ashurst went to Sunderland. Took them to a League Cup final, but relegation as well!

[WJ99mobile]

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I really hope, with the situation we’re in, it’s not a foreign coach.

They don’t know the league
They don’t know the players
They will struggle to work within Vinny’s restraints

It’ll be a bigger disaster than the last two seasons

Does any manager know the players until they get here

Can any manager work with ‘Vinnys constraints’

I personally think you’re wrong and many foreign managers have come over and been a success and many British managers have failed

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Yep ole is a unique exception but apart from that who was last manager cardiff had to go on to better things after leaving us?

I'm going back to early 90s and can't think of one? Is cardiff always the peak of a managers career and Swansea is the stepping stone?

We have discussed this recently.

It was Len Ashurst back in 1983 (or 85, I can’t remember now)

Embarrassing.

[the other bob wilson]

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We have discussed this recently.

It was Len Ashurst back in 1983 (or 85, I can’t remember now)

Embarrassing.

I go all of the way back to 1963 and I can only think of Ashurst who definitely moved “upwards”. Frank O’Farrell left to become manager of Iran in the mid 70s which is probably a step up, but I don’t think Frank Burrows and Phil Neal leaving to become a number two is.

Going back before my time, I’m not aware of any of our managers being”poached” by bigger clubs either.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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I go all of the way back to 1963 and I can only think of Ashurst who definitely moved “upwards”. Frank O’Farrell left to become manager of Iran in the mid 70s which is probably a step up, but I don’t think Frank Burrows and Phil Neal leaving to become a number is.

Going back before my time, I’m not aware of any of our managers being”poached” by bigger clubs either.

Frank O’Farrell’s move to Iran was a strange one and similar to Revie going to the UAE a few years later, especially as he had only been at Cardiff City for 5 months which is just pathetic.

I presume that it was financially motivated as Iran was a footballing backwater at the time and his managerial career after that was certainly not at Championship level.

[alan_corneli]

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We should wait until the Jacks appoint a new manager and then offer to double his money if he comes to us.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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We should wait until the Jacks appoint a new manager and then offer to double his money if he comes to us.

Bang on

[RichardM]

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We should wait until the Jacks appoint a new manager and then offer to double his money if he comes to us.

Bang on

We can't afford to

[Rjk]

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We should wait until the Jacks appoint a new manager and then offer to double his money if he comes to us.

that could backfire if the jacks know what our plan is

[Alan Lung]

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We are getting Mark Hughes. No need to bitch about it, that's just how it will be.

[the other bob wilson]

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Frank O’Farrell’s move to Iran was a strange one and similar to Revie going to the UAE a few years later, especially as he had only been at Cardiff City for 5 months which is just pathetic.

I presume that it was financially motivated as Iran was a footballing backwater at the time and his managerial career after that was certainly not at Championship level.

Agreed, a move to manage an international team for the man in charge of a struggling Second Division team is career advancement I suppose, but you've set out why I still think it's arguable as to whether it was really an upward step for O'Farrell in this instance - a sideways one maybe, but, as you say, money must have been the main motive for the move,

[Father Dougal]

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We are getting Mark Hughes. No need to bitch about it, that's just how it will be.

I'd take that.

[John Buchanan]

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I'd take that.

Me too, with Bamba and Purse continuing to learn the ropes.

[Rjk]

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Listened to the Elis James podcast last night where Danny Gabbidon gave his opinion that the priority should be getting someone who is a good coach because he says our squad underperformed in 22/23 and so we need someone who can get more out of what we’ve got - made sense to me.

yes this makes a lot of sense

[WJ99mobile]

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A little birdie told me that forest will be sacking Cooper in the next few weeks and he will be coming here upon that sacking

Announcement can’t be made until July 1st