Alex Neil - New head coach confirmed

[thecloughywobble]

Keef's just jumped on the Dennis Moore groovy train, so it must be utter tosh....

 

[ajryan86]

Has the table at the Academy of Light got a scarf on it?

 

[DonaldDownTheWing]

2 weeks to appoint a manager isn’t a long time. If they took 2 weeks in the close season, I’d applaud them for being thorough.

Doing it mid-season, is a massive problem and should see Speakman out of a job. Not having a shortlist who they could interview the day after sacking Johnson, with an appointment a couple of days later, is rank incompetency, at the very least.

No problem with them not announcing it immediately today though. They can do the photos once the players have set off for the capital. Important that the manager is organising the players. 3 points is vital.

FWIW, the more I read about Neil, the happier I am about this appointment. Having someone with play-off winning experience is vital if we manage to get in them.

 

[Vauxie]

Is he down the AOL taking training this morn?

 

[The Shepherd]

2 days afore Morecambe away to allow sufficient preparation time for the play offs.

 

[theboybev]

Someone called Michael Walker has put on his Twitter that Neil is taking training this morning and the official announcement will be made while the team is in transit to London. Presumably to head off the journos and allow him to focus on the team .....

 

[thecloughywobble]

Anyone heard seen Stewart Donalds around Sunderland ?

Yes, their pods unfurled prematurely in Backhouse Park, adjacent to a stand of ancient beech....

 

[Dave_39]

Is he down the AOL taking training this morn?

yes

 

[OnienRoll]

“There’s only one Alex Neil, one Alex Neil… “, oh wait.

 

[North Yorks Mackem]

2 days afore Morecambe away to allow sufficient preparation time for the play offs that we ended up missing out on by 10 points.

Tidied that for you mate.

 

[The Shepherd]

Someone called Michael Walker has put on his Twitter that Neil is taking training this morning and the official announcement will be made while the team is in transit to London. Presumably to head off the journos and allow him to focus on the team .....

Makes sense I suppose

 

[thecloughywobble]

The best thing about this thread is that everyone is posting their own crud, paying no attention to the crud posted by their fellow crud posters. It's the future & I like it...

 

[Sam Handwich]

Alex Kneels

 

[andysafc24]

What's more important? Doing training or having a photo shoot. Not a hard question really. Suggests he's got his priorities right.

Doesn’t have to be a photo shoot, an announcement would be a start.

 

[Coeus]

One Alex Neils, there's only one Alex Neils.

 

[John J Rambo]

1 training session, so assume Dodds picking team tomorrow still. Has to have Roberts, Pritchard and Clarke in for me. Hopefully Wright is fit.

 

[Sidewinder2]

He is at the AOL has taken training an is travelling on the train this afternoon.

 

[Sweeper]

He is at the AOL has taken training an is travelling on the train this afternoon.

Yeah, the media reported that some time ago.

 

[matt228]

Neils isn’t bald. He’s an upgrade

Oi! I'm follicly challenged myself.

 

[thecloughywobble]

Ozzy Chamberlain must be having bother hadden his cine camera steady on the train. About time that rolling stock was upgraded....