Unfortunately he will forever be tainted by this abysmal season. I'm sure he's a nice bloke but he is a hopeless manager. we are going out with a whimper - we have had oneor two good performances, but many many displays of total, unacceptable garbage.
If we get off to a bad start next season, or even go through a barren spell - the ghosts of this season will haunt him & us & could further destroy us. we need a new manager with no baggage, experience at this (3rd Div) level & someone whom the fans are 100% behind - who will also get a bit of a break as we undoubtedly make adjustments to the new tier we are playing in.
Bottom line is Parky must go in May - we needed & called for, a break from the ineptitude of the Pardew/Parkinson management team back in December.
If ever there is a need for it, it's now.
Please Parky go for the sake of our club.
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I think this is the killer comment.
My gut instinct is to see the bloke down the road as just not good enough, but my head says maybe we need to try to stabilise the club first.
Personally, I would go for a successful young conference manager - no baggage, used to working with young players and a limited budget, researches signings well.
The only one I can see is that we cannot afford to get rid of him, or replace him.
The "stability" one is a bit nonsensical - if stability brings success then no manager ever would get the tin-tack. I agree with the stability claim if things are going well, but at the moment we are about as stable as Gazza after a night on the tiles with Jimmy "Five Bellies". Getting rid of Parky & bringing in someone new is about as likely to further upset this stability as getting Gazza another pint, after his 12th of the night.
Planning for next season.
My choice would be Paul Trollope with Lennie above him.
If there is one thing i think we've learned from this sorry state of affairs is that whoever takes this club forward will need to have the run of the club from top to bottom and should be allowed to do it their way Just as Mr A Curbishley did all them years ago.
If we can't get Curbs back try his no 2. Big Merv's record as manager at Carlisle was pretty good and he knows the club inside out.
Who could possibly do any worse. Pardew did better !!
season, I will be sitting at his table at the Sponsors Evening in late
April. I'm thinking of offering another fan the chance of being my guest for
the evening, with the chance to ask Phil some polite questions about what
has happened to the team and their 'performance' in recent months.
Maybe I could put this place up for auction and give the proceeds to Valley Gold :-)
But it has to be said that Parky's record is truly, horribly, shockingly bad - 11pts from 18 games, for heaven's sake!
That's worse than the record that got Pardew sacked this season (16pts from 18 games) - and just as significantly, worse than his own record at Hull, which earned him the sack up there.
And despite an apparently improved spirit in the side, since he was appointed as permanent manager when the board told us he was "overwhelmingly'' the best man for the job, the results haven't really got any better.We've just got zero points from the two home games against fellow strugglers which the so-called 'rose-tinted brigade' told us were going to throw us right back into the mix.
It's very much Parky's team, too, so he can't really lay too much blame the toxicity of the Pardew inheritance.
He's brought in seven players - Burton, Murty, Butterfield, Ward, Spring , Soares and Kandol. And he's promoted Elliot, Shelvey and Dickson, all of whom Pardew ignored. That's almost an entire new team. From the XI Pardew played in his last match, only Youga, Bailey and Hudson remain as first choices.
However, I 'm not sure I want him to go . Although he has shown at both Hull and Charlton that he's out of his depth in the championship, he's cheap and he might well be OK when we drop down a league.
As a player he was a highly committed journeyman who gave his all, without ever reaching the heights. He's cast in exactly the same mould as a manager - but paradoxically, that could well be exactly what we need come next August in division three...
I didn't agree with him being made caretaker manager after Pardew went, and certainly not being appointed permanently, but it's not his fault that he was given the job.
Richard Murray said at the AGM that his reputation as a manager would stand or fall on his ability to keep us up, but from the outside looking in, surely the most damning thing at the moment is that it seems that we'll be going down with a whimper rather than a fight.
One interesting factor is that his current contract runs until the end of next season, so if the Board want him to stay - and in the interests of stability and longer term planning - could he end being 'rewarded' with the offer of a new deal in the summer?!
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Didnt PArdew say that last year.
And then when he brings us back - what do we do? Go down again because he can't manage at this level?! And we become a yo-yo club between division 2 and 3
DO BEHAVE!
Comes from all angles these days! management have there say to a degree
Once we're relegated mathematically we'll see some good performances, the players will relax, the fans won't be getting so frustrated, a few youngsters will probably come in and liven things up.
He's tried to build a team, but that's very hard to do in the middle of the season. In the summer, everyone will know what league we'll be playing in, what sort of players we need etc.
Fair enough replace him if we can get someone who will definitely be better, but I doubt anyone knows who that would be, and knows they'd love the chance to manage Charlton.
Paolo Di Canio, anyone?????