Liam Manning starting to be linked strongly.
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Liam Manning starting to be linked strongly.
The Ipswich manager seems to have had a good first year in management. Young and progressive by all accounts, retired early through injury and coached through the spurs and man utd academies. Give me him over Warnock any day of the week.
Agree that he sounds promising, but do we really need someone who's still learning the ropes? Staying up is the most important thing right now.
Dean Smith apparently spoken to.
Should Wikipedia stats be accurate Liam Manning's win ratio as manager is excellent. It was better in both his two appointments than Neil Warnock achieved anywhere save for a four game stint at QPR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Manning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Warnock
Sean Dyche would sogn tommorow if it wasn't for is political incorrectly surname , suppose we could call him Sean Ditch as that's where he will probaly end up .
If Manning's signature is secured I foresee his torso and head appearing from a limousine's open sunroof along Cowbridge Road to acknowledge cheering crowds. Canton will erupt with joy.
"Let's go, Liam, let's go," they will chant as they hurl flowers and confetti at the club's saviour.
Manning typically plays 3-4-3 or 3-4-1-2
Its the de facto line of thought for many on here, presumably developed during the halcyon days of Mick McCarthy.
We could do a lot worse than Manning, and the fact he's had a stinker this season probably works in our favour. Let's face it: we're not going to be attracting anyone who's on an upward trajectory.
Either way, I'd like to think we could look further than a current club employee or Neil Warnock, but then again I'm not holding my breath.
Anyone know the last time we appointed a manager who was managing at another club when we appointed them??
They were so excited on the dark side, they thought it was Bernard Manning being touted.
The operative word being "got". Football has moved on since then.
Mick McCarthy played percentage football last season and it most certainly didn't get results.
Good players don't want to play in those systems.
People seem to think that if you try and play football and you don't win games, the obvious solution is to revert straight back to hoofball.
The reality is far more nuanced than that. We're in trouble not because of our style of play, but because we lack individual quality in the key areas. Ability-wise, our squad just isn't good enough.
We have made poor decision after poor decision with appointments.
It needs a complete overhaul in the way we approach things,
I doubt that will ever happen with the current board, but you would think after the continued failure of selecting the right candidate, they might just might think maybe we should be approaching this in a different way.🤷*♂️
My preferred choice would be Sean Dyche but because of his Malky connection VT ain't got the humility to get him, so I would then go for an up and coming manager like Darrell Clarke. and after that anyone bar Warnock.
Agree with this, other than the quality of the squad reference. We've been unlucky with injuries and suspensions; Robinson/Etete/Davies/Colwill. Watters is better than he showed when selected and the performances of Ojo/Sawyers/Philogene have been sub their obvious ability. With the squad we have, we could/should have been mid table.
I hope we get Dean Smith, but failing that, a punt on someone like Manning would surely be preferable to a Warnock/McCarthy type appointment
Manning is an interesting one - his stock was so high in the summer that I'm sure he would have thought he could have done better than us if we'd been interested in him then.
MK Dons came really close to automatic promotion last season and so, to an outsider like me, their problems this season have come as a complete surprise and I defy anyone to say they really thought he'd be sacked before this season was halfway over.
What went wrong for Manning in just four months of this season? This thread makes an interesting read and I think suggests that Manning could be a very good appointment for someone - there's a lot of sympathy for him among MK Dons fan.
https://www.sitdownorwellstealyourcl...t=liam+manning
However,, it seems to me that quite a bit of that thread could also apply to Mark Hudson at Cardiff, so would Manning be able to cope here?
My view, based on limited knowledge of the man and his work is that Liam Manning could turn out to be an inspired choice as manager if he was left alone and allowed to get on with the job himself with, perhaps. a senior figure (something like Lennie Lawrence with Mike Flynn at Newport) on hand to offer support and advice when he needed it - but would that ever happen at Vincent Tan's Cardiff City?
Bob, he got 15 points from 20 matches which is ultimately relegation form for sure, that would be a huge concern.
An experienced backup who isn't angling for the top job would be a good shout. Morison and Hudson lacked an experienced figure to call upon.
We also need a clear out of outfield first team coaches. It's not just on the manager to drill a style a play into our squad and I can't recall the last player who we signed and improved. We've made profits on players like Kieffer Moore but did he actually improve whilst with us. I think our coaching has been substandard for years.
I don’t disagree with you - hiring someone like Manning could go very wrong, but, if we’re going to hold what was an awful record this season against him, shouldn’t we also note last season’s very good one? I think it was Organ Morgan who pointed out earlier that, despite his struggles this season, his win record as a manager is still above forty seven per cent.