He led Colchester United to promotion to the Championship in 2006 despite having the lowest average attendance in the division but immediately left to take the reins at Hull City, which ended six months later with the second-tier club in the relegation zone.
Parkinson then joined Charlton as Alan Pardew’s No.2 in January 2007 and took over the manager’s job in November 2008, initially on a caretaker basis. Under his management, Charlton were relegated to the third tier for the first time in 30 years and he was sacked by the League One club in January following two months without a league victory.
Now I'm not exacty pro parky but to state he went two months without a league win is not really being fair, is it? Not like it was a normal two months....
Cant be arsed to argue, I liked him, certainly doesnt deserve a tenth of the abuse that Dowie and Pardew should get but funnily enough people cant stop slagging him, its pathetic to a hard working, likeable albeit limited manager who left us in shit street in the play offs.
In 3 years time we will probably have another 6 Charlton managers to talk about.
Don't think people would mention Parky if it wasn't for the fact that those who supported him keep bringing him up in every thread or compare CP to him when criticising CP. Nothing against Parky himself but thought he did a crap job despite having a decent budget to operate with. Wish him all the best at Arsenal if this rumour turns out to be true.
I wish Parky well, he did a great job for us in League 1 despite having to offload players both summers and being lumbered with some players on very expensive contracts. Sacking him was a terrible start for this board and thus far their decision to replace him with a rookie has spectacularly backfired, despite paying up for the division's top scorer.
Large said Don't think people would mention Parky if it wasn't for the fact that those who supported him keep bringing him up in every thread or compare CP to him when criticising CP.
Come off it. The Anti-Parky brigade couldn't stop mentioning PP when we won four in a row and they still start nearly every defence of Powell with a dig at Parky. Read the recent thread where Deadred (who is new to the site so can be forgiven) goes over the same ground that has been covered time and time again. He does it again on this thread but there are far worse culprits.
As I've said many times we have to move on. PP has gone and we have a new manager who has to be judged on results (as you heard him say yourself on Tuesday) not by comparison with PP, Pardew, Curbs or Alex MacFarlane.
If ever a team overplayed a game, by trying to pass the ball around then it is Arsenal.
Seems odd that Parky who seemed to develop the long ball game at Charlton, is favoured!
Perhaps he saw we did not have the talent /ability to pass out from defence and score, so felt route one was the answer!.
Phil seemed a very decent bloke, and had in my very limited meetings with him seemed to have a good understanding of the game and Charlton set up, but I always felt he was
'tarred' by the Pardew association!
Thought it strange when he was replaced when he was, but that is football!.
Wonder if Jenkinson knew of this!, he has been 'scouting' for them!.....
Thank you Henry for your foregiveness, That'll save me a trip to church this week (only joking). I know you will correct me if I am wrong but this thread is about PP's possible appointment to the Aresanl coaching staff. My tongue in cheek remarks about his style of football and CV taken from an extract from on Goal.com are relevent here rent they? Or do expect you posters just to thannk PP for his efforts slap him on the back and say good luck? Point taken though as it is obviously old ground that keeps being raked over and must be very tiresome for the established Lifers to read. I'll resist in future from referring our former manager, whom I'm sure was a sincere, decent, hard working bloke but found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. IMO however he was one of the main contributors along with Pardew, Dowie before him and the board to our fall from grace and most importantly lost the backing of the majority of fans. Onwards and upwards COYR
Seems odd that Parky who seemed to develop the long ball game at Charlton, is favoured!
Perhaps he saw we did not have the talent /ability to pass out from defence and score, so felt route one was the answer!.
Definitely, our style of play changed as the quality of the players we had got worse. We played some decent football under Parky, mainly early on in our first season in League 1.
Later on teams found ways to stop our 4-4-1-1, making sure Burton and Sam in particular didn't space and time on the ball . Youga got injured in November so we lost the pace we had down the left side which didn't help, especially with no natural left winger to come in until we signed Reid in late January.
He then switched to 4-4-2 and with that we went more direct, we now had two strikers to look for and didn't have Shelvey supporting the central midfield, which obviously helps you keep the ball.
It's interesting how opinions of Parky and the players soon changed once Powell struggled. While Parky was here he was seen as a terrible motivator and clueless tactician that couldn't get the best out the good players we kept and the good players he signed. Now he's gone he's seen as someone who signed poor players and would only play boring long ball football, and Powell can't be expected to, as was often said, make a silk purse from a sows ear.
Parky has a style somewhere in between long ball and attractive football. Parky adapted to the players he had available to him, and with promotion being vital before the takeover, he concentrated on getting results over making a team that was exciting to watch. I don't see the problem with that, even Curbs was similar. He could grind out results with a defensive 4-5-1, he could go direct when needed.
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See Large is getting the excuses in already.
Pathetic digging him out, good luck Phil.
Not the Best CV in the world Southend
Extract from Goal.com
He led Colchester United to promotion to the Championship in 2006 despite having the lowest average attendance in the division but immediately left to take the reins at Hull City, which ended six months later with the second-tier club in the relegation zone.
Parkinson then joined Charlton as Alan Pardew’s No.2 in January 2007 and took over the manager’s job in November 2008, initially on a caretaker basis. Under his management, Charlton were relegated to the third tier for the first time in 30 years and he was sacked by the League One club in January following two months without a league victory.
That two months was about 4 matches wasnt it?
Cant be arsed to argue, I liked him, certainly doesnt deserve a tenth of the abuse that Dowie and Pardew should get but funnily enough people cant stop slagging him, its pathetic to a hard working, likeable albeit limited manager who left us in shit street in the play offs.
In 3 years time we will probably have another 6 Charlton managers to talk about.
Sacking him was a terrible start for this board and thus far their decision to replace him with a rookie has spectacularly backfired, despite paying up for the division's top scorer.
those who supported him keep bringing him up in every thread or compare
CP to him when criticising CP.
Come off it. The Anti-Parky brigade couldn't stop mentioning PP when we won four in a row and they still start nearly every defence of Powell with a dig at Parky. Read the recent thread where Deadred (who is new to the site so can be forgiven) goes over the same ground that has been covered time and time again. He does it again on this thread but there are far worse culprits.
As I've said many times we have to move on. PP has gone and we have a new manager who has to be judged on results (as you heard him say yourself on Tuesday) not by comparison with PP, Pardew, Curbs or Alex MacFarlane.
From Goal.com
Parkinson .........................................is highly regarded within the game as a coach and motivator.
Did we notice his coaching ability - what players improved their game under his tutelage? Wasn't he responsible for caoching the defence under Pardew?
Maybe it's the players that regard him highly and if you're going to be a coach or assistant manager then I'd imagine it helps.
when did parkinson go no one told me
ffs i am always last know, he was shite though wernt he i am glad he is gone ;-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13402460.stm