Positives
* Experienced – Has managed for 19 years and has an air of authority
Has 10 years Championship / League One experience – knows these divisions well
* Provides stability - Peterborough was his only short-term appointment in past 10 years
* His Bristol City side in Championship were known for playing attractive, passing and attacking football
* Took Yeovil from Conference to League One, took Bristol City from League One to Championship
* Win ratios as follows: Yeovil 52%, Bristol City 40%, Peterborough 45%
Negatives
* Has had a poor 18 months – Left Bristol in Mar 10 with them 16th in Championship and on a run of 2 wins in 13 games. Including a 0-6 and 2-5 home defeat
* After taking Bristol City to play-offs in 2008, was unable to maintain that standard / build upon
* Mixed at Peterborough – Highest scorers in division, but also conceded the most goals
* Manager of the only team Charlton have smashed this season
Tried to hopefully provide a balanced assessment there. For me i think the positives outweigh the negatives, though i've a nagging concern that someone who was very highly regarded a couple of seasons ago has seemingly lost his way a little in the last 18 months.
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Personally I'd take him, think he's got the experience we need, I believe he'd see it as a great move for him, biggest club he'd have been at. Can't realistically see anyone better out there that would come to us, unless there is stupid money behind us which I really doubt.
His recent form is a little concerning though!
Someone previously stated that he had an eye for talent and quoted Nicky Maynard - I note he also paid £2.5m for him which seems rather steep. decent player but currently surrounded by bad players
Yep, and Pardews Charlton Bt Curbs West Ham 4-0.
The rest is history
I was at the 5 - 1 game and we looked like we'd score every time we attacked. But as I said at the time they were not a poor side. They also had chances, kept working and got a draw in the second half, admittedly when the game, effectively, was over.
I have a nagging doubt that he is of the old school, lads together down the pub style. Now that could be a good thing but would our players respond to it?
He is 55 which can be viewed two ways. Old, past it, tired journey man who does the rounds living off past success or wiley old sod who knows every trick in the book. Managers like Pullis and Holloway (both younger than him BTW) have done the rounds of clubs but are currently Premiership managers perhaps having found the right Club and learnt from their past experiences.
Would be happy if he came. Outsiders might laugh that we sacked a manager who thrashed Johnson's team and were below us at the time of the sacking but don't really care what non-Charlton fans or the media think.
Interesting comparison ... and could well be the case with us. He's got an interesting track record and I am not sure here is much better out there at the moment that we can attract.
Can't blame the Peteborough chairman for the number of goals they conceded, but then they seemed to have expectations as big as ours when maybe they shouldn't. Realistically us, Southampton, Sheff Wed at least would expect to be above them in the league.
Proven track record at this level and higher
Cons
Just been sacked by the team in 7th with similar resources to ourselves. Logic therefore dictates that it would not make sense for him to replace a man who got us to 5th and wasn't deemed good enough.
Am finding most of the potential candidates fairly underwhelming.[/u]
Can't argue with that but we are division 3 and as I said above I'm not sure we can actually attract much better to be honest.
Indeed. Unless the board pull something special out of the bag, i.e. Curbishley or a Billy Davies (both unrealistic I think), I suspect I'll be left wondering what the point of getting rid of Parkinson was. Certainly wouldn't class myself as a Parky-lover but everytime we've had a bad result this season and people have called for his head on here, I've not seen anyone on the list of realistic potential replacements who strikes me as a guaranteed improvement.
I am willing to gloss over the Peterborough appointment, from what I understand the Chairman is a very unreasonable man, and was picking the team or buying the players. Curbs and Keegan left ther respective positions for similar interference.
Never been overly impressed with his style when i've seen his sides play.
His teams do seem to score goals.
But we do need someone to grab the squad by the scruff of the neck and get some consistancy.
Whether that man is Johnson, I don't know - jury's out for me.
If he was appointed, however, I would back him.
I notice that all of the positive comments in this link are direct quotes from him.
At London Road, I thought Peterborough's players were far better than their tactics
And for all his good points, tactics did appear to be Parky's weaker point.
So there IS someone else on here that is thinking like me.
There are so many people making contradictions on these threads at the moment that I'm in disbelief. On this thread for example:
1. Could this not be said for Parkinson?
2. How do we know who's going to 'fit?' Surely Parkinson already fitted well enough.
3. Are we now not on the slide? I have very strong doubts because we've turned into a dumb sacking club.
Bit like Les Reed then.
Odds on favourite now - mind you, so were Wise and Howe.
Not a comparison imo. Uncle Les was known by the players and for some reason appeared to command little or no respect - who can forget the Matt Holland interview.
Bowen is an unknown quantity but a respected coach. He's a non starter but I'd take a punt if he was available.
1. I agree with you that a lot of that could be said regarding Parkinson, but I wrote it on the basis that Parky has gone.
2. We don't.
3. I think we've been on the slide, with new investment I'd suggest we can't go any lower (can't beleive I said that)
My post wasn't an opinion on Parky and whether he should have gone, in fact I think he should have stayed till the end of the season. But this thread was about Johnson and I just stated that he had a decent record till Peterbro and I wasn't comparing the two directly but I take your point, is it a step up?