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Because there’s no continuity and it seems that they’re putting a young manager/coach on an extended trial - if they trust him enough for what will be a period in charge of nearly seven months, I don’t see why they can’t go further than that. Just appointing managers for a period of months is just an extension of the short termism which has cost us dearly under Vincent Tan - the two years given to McCarthy was a mistake, but that shouldn’t put them into the frame of mind that they don’t offer longer contracts.
They're also giving him the opportunity of his career after a very small sample size of games which is reward enough for him on his current performance. I'd say this is mutually beneficial, and if we were to just appoint him on a 2 year contract and it goes tits up then we're paying off potentially 3 managers at once whilst being cash strapped - I'm unsure when Harris' ends.
For once, this in my opinion is a reasonable decision from City and hopefully Morison is rewarded with a big contract and pay increase come next May, along with the young players who I presume will assist the effort to keep us up.
But Gerrard has done 3 years as a first team manager. Whatever your views on the strength of Scottish football, he is far more experienced than Morison.
And he is going from a club where he still had 2 1/2 years on what was undoubtedly a lucrative contract. He would obviously not move for a contract that ran just until the end of the season.
Morison on the other hand is completely untried at first team level. And I would guess (or hope!) that he has been told he will still get his old job back if things do not work out
It was said that we were appointing a manager after just three games in charge, I used Gerrard as an example to show that other clubs do not appoint managers on the sort of short term, counter productive (in terms of club development) ways as we have for our last two managers. If he has anything about him, Morison would have a long term medium to long term vision for the club, but he can’t do anything about that because, as they do so often, Tan, Dalman and Choo are just thinking one season at a time. If they think Morison is going to keep us up they should back that up by giving him a longer contract, but, in typical Cardiff style we veer from one extreme to the other - if we continue to offer managerial jobs a few months at a time, we’ll only attract a certain quality of outside applicant.
I'm 100% behind you on this. Haven't they just set him up though? No money. No long-term backing. I now think the risk assessment is based on other clubs being worse and not us being much better. This is treading water...again. I dread to think what's really been going on over the last few weeks. They sacked MM with no-one lined up. They're making it up as they go along.
You're right. Brilliant if they have and are planning. I want Steve Morison to be successful. If (and it's a big if but highly likely) his main role between now and season end is to make sure we stay in the division then it's still a risky appointment. If, they have a plan for us to stay in the division and play a more entertaining brand of footie, then that gets even more risky. The last scenario is they are factoring for relegation. We do seem to have our own 'special' way of doing things at CCFC.