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Safc88 said:
The owners will be just thinking short term imo

Get us up then bail
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In that case is Parkinson the best man to do that? Never averaged above 42% win rate and that was back in 2003-06 we need well above that to get promoted. His style of football is also as negative if not more so than Ross'
 
Cack Stottie said:
Parkinson has been promoted out of this league a few times before and was managing at this level as recently as a few months ago, so knows the players and what it takes (you’d hope). He had no money and a paper-thin squad at Bolton and did a good job with limited resources, got Colchester promoted to the Championship, and is a legend at Bradford for the way he turned there club around - good read today in the Chronicle from Mark Douglas about what he did with them that is worth a look.

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I agree that there are some good options out there, but Parkinson certainly isn’t a bad one and I think some of the stuff being said is a bit unfair.
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Stendel would be my choice but knowing Sunderland he’d be unable to implement his preferred style of football and we’d spiral down the league as he stubbornly stuck to Plan A.

We’re at a critical time in our season so whoever gets the job, and whoever it is won’t get universal support, needs to be given our backing 100%
 
Gillythedilf said:
Ross wasn’t negative as such for me ,he just never had a clue what he was doing .


BSA was the anti-Christ of football and what he served us up was good to watch .Time will tell .
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Agree to disagree mate, I thought he was negative as hell. Case in point being the play off final, gifted a goal and instead of trying to capitalise on it and on any nerves/ uncertainty at the back we looked happy to sit on it. Very, very rarely did we press forward unless we were chasing the game. Then there was the comments, we felt we weren't taking games to the opposition enough and all he's doing is sitting there banging on about clean sheets (which he never managed to get. Maybe he was just shite like, but I certainly don't remember him as an attacking manager!
 
If they say that they are proper football fans etc etc how the hell do they work out Parkinson is the best option ( basically because there hands are tied and they haven’t got a pot to piss in )
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
Agree to disagree mate, I thought he was negative as hell. Case in point being the play off final, gifted a goal and instead of trying to capitalise on it and on any nerves/ uncertainty at the back we looked happy to sit on it. Very, very rarely did we press forward unless we were chasing the game. Then there was the comments, we felt we weren't taking games to the opposition enough and all he's doing is sitting there banging on about clean sheets (which he never managed to get. Maybe he was just shite like, but I certainly don't remember him as an attacking manager!
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I know what your saying ,he wasn’t tactically negative is what I should have said .It wasn’t in his tactics or gameplan .

He was just f***ing useless and shit himself in games .
 
Alfa said:
Stendel would be my choice but knowing Sunderland he’d be unable to implement his preferred style of football and we’d spiral down the league as he stubbornly stuck to Plan A.

We’re at a critical time in our season so whoever gets the job, and whoever it is won’t get universal support, needs to be given our backing 100%
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There are other concerns with Stendel too. If anyone has ever lost their job before they know it hurts - I think that when managers have been in the pressure cooker they need some time away to reflect and refresh. Stendel only left Barnsley last week - is he ready to go in to an even bigger club with a far greater amount of pressure to succeed? Who knows, but he’s a risky appointment.

My mind changes daily, but of all the apparent top targets I think I’d be happy with any of them. They’re all very good managers for this level.
 
Tin Soldier said:
Like SD said we had the biggest budget in L1 he also hinted at a takeover and was seen showing the yanks around the SOL. Everything points one way then all of a sudden we 'misinterpreted' what was said and it's the fan's fault ?! These words and actions are misleading hopeful fans purely to keep them onside that things will happen, so stick with them
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We do have the biggest budget in League 1. It's three times the size of the league average. Just because some folks heard the words "transfer budget" rather than "budget" doesn't mean that's what it meant.

SD never hinted at a takeover at all. He never suggested that he was looking for anything other than investment. Just because he brought some potential investors to the stadium to show them around doesn't mean they're definitely taking over. Would you spend millions investing in a company without seeing that company for yourself first hand?

Your "fans fault" comment is laughable. I'm a fan and I didn't take it that way, so it's certainly not my fault. Please don't lump me in with the folks that don't have enough of a grasp of the English language to be able to understand the things SD has said.

There has always been a range of possibilities. Nothing's ever been set in stone and SD has never suggested it was. It's not SD's fault that some folks have run off the deep end with their assumptions.
 
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Zak's Dad said:
The first bit is fine, speculation about our new manager is what the board is for.

The second bit is exactly why this board is such a joke at times.

You've called it speculation - but then by the second sentence you've accepted its true and then used this *truth* to attack the club and its owners without a shred of verifiable evidence.

This is the stuff of playgrounds, not grown adults discussing their team.
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Spot on.

I'VE MADE UP A SCENARIO THAT MAKES ME ANGRY! WHAT A JOKE THIS CLUB IS!!!

Er, what?
 
Terrible decisions, awful recruitment. Only thing they got right is the red seats. Cant believe Mr Hills decisions what is his vision? We needed strength, creativity and pace in the summer it was so obvious. Could of done with some much needed motivation with the new manager but looks like its going to be Parkinson.
 
cowan86 said:
Terrible decisions, awful recruitment. Only thing they got right is the red seats. Cant believe Mr Hills decisions what is his vision? We needed strength, creativity and pace in the summer it was so obvious. Could of done with some much needed motivation with the new manager but looks like its going to be Parkinson.
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Based on what ?

A manager who they Havnt and probs won’t appoint .??
 
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