Powels a nice man,but do we think he is rearly what we need?. Its now a case of do we stay with him and make a fresh start next season,or do we feel that even with a new season and a fresh team,it will be no better.
Its strange that Parky was sent packing after one home game,even tho he was keeping us up in the chase and here we are slowly slipping away,a few more bad results and we could be fighting to stay in this league,pity Peacock wasn't taken on as No2..........and to think we thought Wise was a bad choice.
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Play-offs are a distant dream, unless by some miracle we find some form, but let's not forget the Swindon horror show - I doubt if anyone really believed we'd be anywhere near promotion after that performance despite the position.
Powell needs to bring his own players in and a pre-season to stamp his own mark on the way we play. He's been trying to play football but, seriously, how many of our players are capable? Parky knew this, which is no doubt why his football this year was so horrible. Judge Powell when he's had some money to spend and has set up his team the way he wants it, not the way Parky had to put it together with string and mostly shit.
A good manager should be able to get results with this team. I remember people saying Powell was a lucky manager in his 4 wins and it's better to be that than a good manager. A good manager would work with what he's got and not surrender or go down without a fight and 1 point between Exeter/Carlisle/Hartlepool/Notts and MK does absolutely nothing to make me think we're going to do any better next season.
He's out of his depth unfortunately. Hope I'm proved wrong and he turns it around but we've already seen the same mistakes come through game after game
Good managers can turn a team around even when things are not going well and it is not their team. God, even Pardew nearly kept us up when he inherited Dowies / Reeds mess.
But I got tired of reading rubbish about Parky win lose or draw for 18 months and that didnt achieve anything either.
As I said on January 4th - Be Careful What You Wish For
Last season our worst run in the league was 5 games without a win around Jan/Feb time.
So true. And plenty of those that baited Parky all through his time were quick to point out how everything had changed under Powell after his winning start and Insufferable Addick even went as far as to say that the first two wins "justified his appointment".
Now the mantra is "next season". The double standards being displayed regarding the two managers is amazing.
Regardless we need to move on. Parky has left. He will get another job and I really hope he does well. Ditto Kins and Breaker.
New managers have to have time but they also have to work with the players and situation they find their new Clubs in. More often than not that is a bad situation as managers usually get sacked when they are facing relegation. Powell took over a very small and inconsistent squad but one that was 5th, had very recently been 2nd and had won their boss the manager of the month award.
Powell's job was, and still is, to improve that side with signings and better coaching and tactics. So far he has not done so. Time will tell if he can.
For the very little it is worth I still want to give him the time to show he can do that.
These threads are not only repetitive they're magnets for nonsense.
Agree with both these posts. I want CP to succeed, but I think he may need help in the current situation. I always believed that he needed an experienced right hand man who had knowledge of this league. Keithy was not that man, Lennie, was. Lennie is no longer available (Dead to some on here). The board need to fiond someone to work alongside him and help guide him and they need to do it quickly.
Powell's got no chance with this lot...
First 11s maybe, squads no. Very little strength in depth anywhere, and even the first 11 is much weaker than it was last year. Richardson was much better than Francis, Bailey was better than Racon, Sodje better than Docherty, Burton has been badly missed, as has Lloyd Sam. Bit part players like Matt Spring would walk into this season's side ahead of the likes of McCormack. If we had gone back up at the end of last season, the bulk of that side would have been capable of competing in the Championship, which would certainly not be the case if we went up this season.
Parkinson put together a side with zero resources which had the potential to get us promoted, albeit playing uninspiring football in the process. Powell clearly wants to play a more attractive brand of football and, amidst the gloom of recent weeks, I have seen the odd impressive passage of play and evidence of what they've been working on in training. Unfortunately, I don't think this side has the talent required to play that way. However, I would like to think that when the summer comes, sufficient investment will be forthcoming to put together a side that can do that. That will be the time to judge Powell, and the board for that matter. Just hope that he gets a chance to put his own side together, and that people don't turn on him too much between now and the end of the season.
I thought he did a good job turning it round to take a team devoid of confidence and getting us into the playoffs... that team was screwed to the core in the champs... imho..
All depends what spin you put on it? It could be that it shows what a good Manager he is as he got us in an automatic promotion position and then left us in a play off position. We all have agendas and we can manipulate things to suit those agendas.Just ask Nick Clegg and David Cameron.
Worth remembering the words of an old song.." You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone " ?
Could be applied to Curbs & Parky ....Let's not clamour for the same mistake to be made again.
Appointing Chris Powell was a gamble, but would anyone else have got more out of these players? I doubt it.
The owners tried to move it on sooner rather than later, because they didn't believe Parky would do it. That looks to have backfired for now, but in my opinion he was always going to be sacked because he was always going to fail.
More to do with the fact that he wasn't trusted to spend money wisely, IMO.
Great post Mr Largo, sums things up for me.
Possibly - but that wasn’t exactly backed up with Powell being given bucketloads to spend in January/big loan signings since ? He’s brought in Bessone (loan) BWP (I think even Parkinson could have managed that one) and the lad from Fulham (loan). If the reason was that Parkinson wasn’t trusted financially it would have made more sense to give him to the summer to prove himself and then get rid when managers are typically given their budget for the year. Either way we can argue until the cows come home about why Parkinson was sacked, but I guess the fact is that he has been, for better or worse.