Reply With QuoteHow many football fans give rave reviews for any former manager of theirs who eventually got the sack? I'd say the percentage is tiny.Originally Posted by WJ99mobile
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Not exactly rave reviews from Bolton Fans
How many football fans give rave reviews for any former manager of theirs who eventually got the sack? I'd say the percentage is tiny.
Issue seems to be he was very stubborn with how his teams set up (cant be worse than Bulut tho).
Most seem to think he did well but should have been replaced much earlier.
2-1 fav out of work
Buckingham 4-1 out of work.
Of course the bookies could be totally wrong but if the short list includes these 2 did we really need to hire from outside to get these sort of candidates.
Hopefully there is someone else outside the bookies radar and they will come up with a good appointment.
Michael Beale has drifted to 16-1 thankfully.
They weren’t giving him rave reviews when he was at Bolton, or they weren’t at least last season at least.
https://themanc.com/sport/ian-evatt-...ckport-defeat/
I have very good friends who are Bolton fans, they say the football under him was terrible, very dull , defensive based - fit right in with what weve had to put up with under Bulut!
He also fell out with the fans big time
All rumours anyway, it will be somebody we havent heard of before!
Evatt is...OK I guess? I don't hate it, but I feel we could do a little better, I'm more inclined towards a few other choices. He seems more like a good choice for a Stevenage, a side who want to be stable in League One rather than gunning for promotion.
As long as it's not Beale, Gerrard or Rooney that's the first hurdle to clear. But Selles or Buckingham would be fine.
You would hope he would learn from how it ended at Bolton. It seems he did well there initially.
To find someone with no negative reviews we would need to get someone in at the very beginning of their career, that hasn't worked well for us so far.
During his time there he got a promotion from league 2, play off semi defeat in league 1, play off final defeat in league 1, winners of the pizza trophy. Still only 43, I'm not saying we should be going for him but even at that age he's ridiculously more experienced than some of our recent managers.
I love doing that on FIFA where goalkeepers never get injured, but that's gimmicky as hell in a real game.
Yeah, probably someone not mentioned anywhere.
Don't think Bulut's name had been mentioned at all had it? Vitor Campelos was favourite at that point I think.
(I remembered if was someone Portuguese but had to Google it. According to Google's AI overview "Erol Bulut was the most recent Portuguese manager of Cardiff City." 🤦*♂️)
they scored 86 league goals in a season, can it really have been that bad?
they didn't get any better unter Stephen Schumacher either from the look of things.
Buckingham probably suits the profile as a young Warnock the best (team rebuilder that sees promotion), and Evatt does to a lesser extent. But Selles performed wonders at Reading, and that's indication he can work well under immense difficulty. For all of Tan's faults, he's not Dai Yongge bad, so I think it would be an easier job for Selles.
Remember Hull put themselves in the position they were in by massively overspending in the previous season that had a strong Leicester, Leeds and Southampton relegated from the Prem prior, whereas Fulham, Bournemouth and Forest stayed up. It's not Selles fault they barely stayed up, hell, I'd argue he was a big part in why they did, so I rate Selles highly and think he'd be the best choice.
I'm on the Selles train personally, feel he fits the profile of what we need. Buckingham would be better if we had more competent ownership, but we don't.
Ian Evatt being linked now
was heavily linked when Bulut got the boot too
It's Ian, will be announced soon to boost season ticket sales
will it really boost season tickets if he's appointed ?
https://www.bettingodds.com/thesackr...gers/ian-evatt
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Evatt into evens. Hopefully it's a flutter of bets due to in the know rumours.🤣
Think he has a decent record, realistically probably one of the better ones on the list. Two promotions, two failed play offs, a Wembley win the fl trophy. Far more of a record than a few of our recent managers.
It won't excite the fans particularly but with this club, just getting in a semi competent manager might convince the odd person to renew.
Probably.
I'd be genuinely very shocked if we hired someone already.
Its ianevattable that he'll be a flop here.
Nearly a 50% win rate in over 250 games mostly at the L1 level, plus a promotion on his record. Think we could do a lot worse.
We could absolutely do a lot worse, but I think we could do a little better. I'll settle for him though and I'd back him if we made that decision.
They were actually worse under Schumacher.
I wonder if the negative reviews from Bolton fans is a case of familiarity breeding contempt, because the stats suggest scoring goals has never been a problem with his sides - even last year (when they scored 39 goals in his 26 games).
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