After yesterday, I completely stand by what I've said in the past few weeks: he is a good manager because he can bring the best out in the players, and given the close season to shape the squad and build fitness, I do believe he can do a job for us. He is also a sensible, intelligent guy - loved the programme notes. If it were my decision, I would stick by him. He knows the players, he know the set-up, and he knows and accepts the financial situation.
He cares and has something to prove to all of us and to himself.
Roll on Div Three...
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However, he has mannaged just 4 wins of which two were against clubs joining us in div 3. If we judge him on results, which arguably are a little more important on subjective oppinions about his personailty, he surely should move on?
give him a chance to dig us out.....
can't believe I am saying it...but...er.... yeah....
unless the investment brings in something better
Sums up my view too, SA.
I don't think he's a motivational type of manager, he showed he couldn't take over from Pardew and get results from a struggling team with no confidence, sort of the defence and get us scoring goals straight away.
I do have that feeling he can build a team if he's given time. At the time we needed a new manager to come in and shake everything up, but it's obviously far too late for that now. He knows the sort of players we need in League One better than someone like Di Canio would.
I don't think we can get someone significantly better, only a takeover will give us a chance of that. Even then, a new manager will need time to assess the squad. Parkinson already has a clear idea of who he wants to bring in, who to keep and who to sell.
With Jonjo's contract situation, Zheng and Racon's injuries, we couldn't play that team we've been using recently. Players like Youga and Sam had no confidence before, but Youga's starting to get back to where he was a year ago, playing with a bit of confidence. Sam's setting up more chances now as well. We're actually getting more out of Bailey by using him on the left, when he was playing in the middle he couldn't get away with his mistakes as much.
On the other hand his record is poor despite the recent slight improvement.
We shall see.
What we need is to get the kids together and add some experienced players and please none of those ungrateful 'I m here for the cash' 1 - 6 months loans.
Might need to look outside of the UK as players are often cheaper. Obviously not too many.
And that was meant and taken as a compliment.
Why? He's not proven anything. In fact the reserves are even playing better under Damien Matthew than they did under Kinsella.
Roll on next season Seth and we can have both ;-)
4 wins- Palace, then Norwich/Plymouth and Southampton who are all just above us. Not good enough.
What is Parky's record on player aquisitions? Not great, he mannaged to bring in 10 players to very little effect. Yes, we are financially depleted, we will be losing a number of playerson bosmans and are best players under contract are being strongly linked with other clubs. Next season we will be no better off financially, arguably worse off, and I dread to think what quality parky will be able to identify and afford.
If I really thought there was somebody decent out there we could get, I wouldn't lose sleep over ditching Parky.
But I don't, and despite results I think there is something about us now that convinces me we should give him another shot with a summer to do his thing.
The fly in the ointment for me is the possibility of losing too many of the better players in the summer as this may put any "progress" back to square one.
Doubt it, surely it'll be confirmed either way very soon. Maybe a weeks time, but they can't leave it 3 or 4 weeks, by then we'd all assume Parkinson is the manager anyway.
At least that's the impression I got from various programme articles, post match interviews.
I don't buy that Parky had much influence over Pardew's misdemeanors SE. He has already publicly stated that he would not have ditched Iwelumo and there have been a number of other hints.
Assistant's are just there to back up and reinforce the managers decisions IMO.
It's like when people over the years have tried to attribute Alex Ferguson's success to Brian Kidd, Steve McClaren, the portugese guy or whover was assistant at the given time.
Never truer word, champange always leaves a bitter after taste, much rather a pint.
Parkinson's last 18 games this season 20 points.
The 10 game hiatus in between......3 points
Parkinson's 28 games in charge 23 points.
Which ever way you look at it we were relegation material throughout. We drew too many games from a winning position and we lacked belief to turn 0-0 into a victory
Our only asset in recent weeks has been our midfield, Sam, Shelvey, Zhi Zhi, Racon and Bailey sadly not a great deal behind them or a lot up front. They are our saleable assets and I wouldn't be surprised if they had all moved on by the start of next season. So that leaves a huge hole for starters for any manager whether that be Parky or anyone else to fill.
Defence well Youga could move to Scunnie if they get promoted perhaps, Ward will probably get another championship offer eg something like Blackpool, Butterfield goes back to Reading and Hudson (aka Carl Tiler both pony IMHO) can try and get some other club to take him on. So a defensive hole.
Tuna, McLeod, Burton some hope there I guess in attack but hardly mouthwatering
So we have a major rebuilding to undertake bigger than when we dropped from the Premiership, at least we then had parachute Luke Young and Darren Bent money for Pardew to fritter. A sad decline not for the feint hearted. We need a manager who knows players who can truly operate at this level. Despite what I have written Parkinsella is the ticket. We need stability, the team have gelled in recent weeks despite pending relegation a playing system stability will not be on the pitch so for me it has to be Parkinsella.