Benitez Gone

[Optimistic Nick]

It doesn't have to be an open secret. But would it not make sense? It would have saved us from Mick McCarthy. It may have saved us from being relegated from the EPL if we had a competent manager at that level lined up.

Couldn't agree more. Sometimes when managers are sacked and a replacement arrives the following day, people criticise the club for going behind the incumbent's back. I just don't understand that. Surely performance evaluation is ongoing. Where performance is going well, someone should have a shortlist of replacements in the event the current guy is poached. If it's going badly, you'd hope a club would, as a minimum, start talking to people on that list before getting rid of the incumbent.

Our club isn't very well run any more so this sort of basic contingency planning is a pipe dream. But surely other clubs must think this way.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Couldn't agree more. Sometimes when managers are sacked and a replacement arrives the following day, people criticise the club for going behind the incumbent's back. I just don't understand that. Surely performance evaluation is ongoing. Where performance is going well, someone should have a shortlist of replacements in the event the current guy is poached. If it's going badly, you'd hope a club would, as a minimum, start talking to people on that list before getting rid of the incumbent.

Our club isn't very well run any more so this sort of basic contingency planning is a pipe dream. But surely other clubs must think this way.

Watford surely do!