Complete madness, if you sack a bloke when you are fourth then what chance does anyone have?
I bet Jordan Rhodes is furious, he was loyal to Huddersfield in the transfer window and then the club pull a stunt like this. There are 16 games to go and everything to play for - and the window is closed so the new boss can't bring in new players anyway.
Huddersfield are four points off second FFS and have only lost three games all season - one more than us - and are competing against equally well resourced clubs in the two Sheffield clubs and us.
Total nonsense, the bloke is obviously a very good manager and they are replacing him with either an unknown quantity or one of the merry-go-round managers on the circuit.
Stupid beyond belief and, before anyone raises it, you can't compare this to WBA sacking Matteo and installing Hodgson, WBA were near relegation not four points from promotion.
It is not our club and I very much doubt anyone on here has had their ear to the ground about what's going on up there, from the outside it seems strange but things must've been going on in the background, I get the feeling when watching and listening to him that Clarke belived huddersfield were lucky to have him as a manager , I get the feeling he seriously touted himself for the leicester job and I reckon he has proberly been touting and enquiring about Leeds
On a results basis it looks odd , at this stage of the season the 4 points gap with Sheffield u is not massive but I think they have got a game in hand on huddersfield as well and that 4 could be 7 which is a huge mountain to over come
Who knows what's gone on , from the outside getting rid of Parkinson was roundly criticised from all around football and many fans
It turned out to be the right thing to do at the right time
The huddersfield chairman is a huge huddersfield fan and is really well supported by the fans , Clarke must've done something that is not in the public domain yet
It is not our club and I very much doubt anyone on here has had their ear to the ground about what's going on up there, from the outside it seems strange but things must've been going on in the background, I get the feeling when watching and listening to him that Clarke belived huddersfield were lucky to have him as a manager , I get the feeling he seriously touted himself for the leicester job and I reckon he has proberly been touting and enquiring about Leeds
On a results basis it looks odd , at this stage of the season the 4 points gap with Sheffield u is not massive but I think they have got a game in hand on huddersfield as well and that 4 could be 7 which is a huge mountain to over come
Who knows what's gone on , from the outside getting rid of Parkinson was roundly criticised from all around football and many fans
It turned out to be the right thing to do at the right time
The huddersfield chairman is a huge huddersfield fan and is really well supported by the fans , Clarke must've done something that is not in the public domain yet
I don't think so NLA, it seems to be a knee-jerker from the Chairman, that's why Clark is talking about going for unfair dismissal.
I don't know about the Leicester job but I have not seen Clark linked properly with Leeds, no top manager is interested in the Leeds job at the moment because Bates has made it clear that he is not spending any money - which you can see they are in dire need of.
This is different to Parkinson too, we were 5th (somehow) but the squad was a shambles and we did not have a pot to piss in money wise, we were nowhere near where Huddersfield are.
Don't forget that at Charlton things initially got much worse under Powell before they got better after his major clear out.
This is different to Parkinson too, we were 5th (somehow) but the squad was a shambles .
Not what you said at the time, OA. You were Parkinson's most vociferous defender and called the new owners all kinds of names, without ever acknowledging ''the squad was a shambles''. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
''Complete madness''. ''Total nonsense.'' Stupid beyond belief'', you say. But you said all of that and more about the replacement of Parkinson with Powell.
Conceivably you are right. But equally you could be wrong again. I honestly don't know and wouldn't presume to judge. Their chairman has watched Huddersfield week in and week out.Therefore he has an insight into why change is needed that I do not have. What I can see, though, is that he expected automatic promotion and on current form they will not achieve that.
Let's just wait and see if the change was ''stupid beyond belief'', or whether it turns out out to be an inspired decision, as Powell for Parkinson and Hodgson for Di Matteo were...
A month or so ago the huddersfield chairman was in love with Clarke, something must have happend , can't believe this is based on results , I know he definitely was interested in the leicester job and refused to rule himself out of it for far to long , and I think the chairman afnd fans did not appreciate that
The story will die out as huddersfield are not important to anyone that is not a town fan but theft truth will out ,
Too many draws in that calendar year , 4 wins in 10 not a great return but not too poor ,
What was their results against the top 6 so far this season
He's a dour little chavvy twonk who has built a team that isn't quite good enough - sometimes you just know when it's not going to happen despite league position. Like the Parky years.
This is different to Parkinson too, we were 5th (somehow) but the squad was a shambles .
Not what you said at the time, OA. You were Parkinson's most vociferous defender and called the new owners all kinds of names, without ever acknowledging ''the squad was a shambles''. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
''Complete madness''. ''Total nonsense.'' Stupid beyond belief'', you say. But you said all of that and more about the replacement of Parkinson with Powell.
Conceivably you are right. But equally you could be wrong again. I honestly don't know and wouldn't presume to judge. Their chairman has watched Huddersfield week in and week out.Therefore he has an insight into why change is needed that I do not have. What I can see, though, is that he expected automatic promotion and on current form they will not achieve that.
Let's just wait and see if the change was ''stupid beyond belief'', or whether it turns out out to be an inspired decision, as Powell for Parkinson and Hodgson for Di Matteo were...
True enough, I was a staunch defender of Parkinson, and still am, because I think he did as good a job as anyone could have done with the resources he had and was treated disgustingly by many fans and did not deserve the sack when he got it.
This is pretty much proven given Powell's dire record in the second half of the season with the same squad - he had us in relegation form which shows how well Parkinson did with the crap he had to put out there to have us in the top six, albeit unconvincingly.
The point is that we were "somehow" 5th despite the fact we had no money whatsoever and had to cobble together a squad filled with old stiffs (Dailly, Docherty), loanees (take your pick), journeymen (Sodje) and youngsters who were not ready.
The squad was a shambles because we were operating on a low-end L1 budget and bringing in players like Abbott to replace Burton, Francis to replace Richardson and McCormack to replace Bailey - replacing quality L1/CCC players with low-end L1 players because that's all we could afford.
Our fortunes only turned around when new investment came in - somewhat belatedly in the close season rather than in January - and we brought in a new squad of high-class L1 players which had previously been out of our price range completely.
As I recall my negative comments regarding the board were directed solely at the prospect of a certain Dennis Wise becoming our new manager - something widely reported at the time - and something which turned my stomach completely.
I am pleased as punch that Powell has done what he has done this season but still remain puzzled at why we sacked Parkinson and then did not give Powell any money to freshen the squad (apart from BWP) when we could conceivably still pushed for promotion last year - and saved ourselves the 5 million quid loss that we knew we would get in L1 this season.
We put ourselves in a dangerous position of having a squad full of soon to be out of contract players who knew Powell was going to release them in the close season and so basically stopped playing from about February onwards and produced some of the worst results in the history of the club.
It's all worked out very well now but the decision did not look quite so clever when we were getting well beaten 2-1 at Dagenham & Redbridge - currently bottom of League Two and looking like we could even get sucked into a relegation battle.
Regarding Huddersfield, how can anyone say they are not in a great chance of still getting automatic promotion? They lost 1-0 at home to Sheffield United - it was not a 5-1 embarrassment.
Look at our great years under Curbs, even in the triumphant promotion season of 99/00 we lost a couple of crucial home games against promotion rivals like Blackburn and Manchester City and yet we held our nerve and prospered.
Above all Huddersfield have the best player in the League in Rhodes and still have 16 games left and all to play for in terms of automatic promotion, sacking your manager now does not make a lot of sense and merely shows a lack of patience and logic.
Thing is, with League 1 clubs only people who are regularly attending a specific clubs game are in a position to pass judgement on how well they are or aren't playing. There is noweher near enough TV coverage to for anyone who doesn't to have an informed opinion. To an outside Parky's sacking would have seemed very harsh because they will have based their opinion almost entirely on the fact we were 5th. As insiders I think most of us could at least see what the reason for the sacking might be, even if we didn't agree with it.
Hudds are near the top, but having screwed the play-offs up 2 years running their form vs top six sides does not suggest they are going to get through them this time and last night's result means that is the route they are most likely going to have to take. They were the 3rd best team by a margin last year, but still lost to Posh in the play-offs.
If he didn't get them up this year he'd definitely have been sacked in the summer anyway. The board obviously feel that there is sufficient doubt about his ability to finish the job that they want to give another man an early crack at promotion using Clarke's players. If that doesn't work the new man will be able to sell Rhodes and spend the money on his own players, just like sold Jenkinson and bought the current team.
The timing is a bit off and it is a bit harsh on Clarke but he's been well backed and spent plenty but still failed to make them look like a convincing promotion outfit. If you think back to the game at The Valley he had no answers to the way Powell set us up.
Thing is, with League 1 clubs only people who are regularly attending a specific clubs game are in a position to pass judgement on how well they are or aren't playing. There is noweher near enough TV coverage to for anyone who doesn't to have an informed opinion. To an outside Parky's sacking would have seemed very harsh because they will have based their opinion almost entirely on the fact we were 5th. As insiders I think most of us could at least see what the reason for the sacking might be, even if we didn't agree with it.
Hudds are near the top, but having screwed the play-offs up 2 years running their form vs top six sides does not suggest they are going to get through them this time and last night's result means that is the route they are most likely going to have to take. They were the 3rd best team by a margin last year, but still lost to Posh in the play-offs.
If he didn't get them up this year he'd definitely have been sacked in the summer anyway. The board obviously feel that there is sufficient doubt about his ability to finish the job that they want to give another man an early crack at promotion using Clarke's players. If that doesn't work the new man will be able to sell Rhodes and spend the money on his own players, just like sold Jenkinson and bought the current team.
The timing is a bit off and it is a bit harsh on Clarke but he's been well backed and spent plenty but still failed to make them look like a convincing promotion outfit. If you think back to the game at The Valley he had no answers to the way Powell set us up.
That's all well and good EA, but if you don't have faith in your manager then you should replace him when there is a chance for the incoming manager to bring in new players, not when the window is closed.
Unless they have a "banker" like Warnock lined up - which I doubt as he would not come to L1 these days - then who could improve on Clark that would be willing to come to Huddersfield?
I think they probably weren't considering sacking him 2 or 3 weeks ago, but since the transfer window closed they've taken 1 point from 6 in two home games against promotion rivals. Like I say, if you look at that in the context of their failures in the last 2 seasons in the big matches vs the other top sides in the division, you can imagine the board thinking 'Oh no, here we go again'.
Likwise I don't think Parky's sacking was on the agenda 2 or 3 weeks before but then we had some poor results and performaces around Christmas topped off with the utter shambles that was Charlton 2 - Swindon 4. The board decided they had to act and they did. I didn't agree with it at the time, but I understood it.
I don't have a strong opinion either way on Clarke, I'm just trying to understand why the decision was taken because it's a too simplistic to just peer in from the outside and say it's madness. They've been drawing too many games for over a year now and keep dropping important points, it's much easier to stay patient with that if it ain't your money tied up in the club.
As for who replaces him, I don't know but I don't think it has to be a 'banker' - they'll be looking to find their version or Poyet or Powell imo, they'll just be hoping that their's starts getting results quicker than those two did. To be fair the'll be inheriting better players than Poyet and Powell did.
Just posted on the Mirror site .Looks like they want Colin.
Huddersfield owner Dean Hoyle wants Neil Warnock to make an emotional return after shocking football by sacking Lee Clark.
Multi-millionaire Hoyle has had his eyes on former Terriers chief Warnock in recent weeks and hopes to install him immediately, despite rival interest in the experienced boss.
Clark was stunned when he was fired - over the phone, in a conversation lasting just two minutes - by Hoyle hours after Tuesday’s defeat by promotion rivals Sheffield United.
It was just the club’s third loss in 55 games, which included a record-breaking 43 match unbeaten run.
“I am very perplexed as to why I was dismissed as the manager of Huddersfield Town," admitted Clark. "Needless to say, I am extremely disappointed and shocked considering that, with just 16 games left, we are in a such great position to compete for automatic promotion.
“We built on last season’s momentum following the play-off final by creating history in the Football League record books for consecutive unbeaten games. This was an immense achievement by everybody connected with the club.”
Warnock has been out of work since QPR sacked him a week into the year, and could be in charge within a day or two.
Although he's been thinking about taking a break from management, the chance to take one of his old clubs - he held th Terriers' lead from July 1993 to June 1995 - to promotion may be a strong lure.
Hoyle will also make money available for some loan captures - with a bid for Crystal Palace forward Sean Scannell, who played for Warnock when he was in charge at the south London club from 2007 to 2010, in the pipeline.
Sources at Huddersfield have revealed that Hoyle has been unhappy with Clark for the past month, and critical of the team’s form despite his heavy investment.
Meanwhile, Clark has called in the League Managers Association and is taking legal advice about the sacking.
He is believed to be considering suing for unfair dismissal.
Clark’s availability could alert Town's Yorkshire neighbours Leeds, who had short-listed him for their vacancy, although that had nothing to do with his dismissal.
The loss to the Blades dented Huddersfield’s bid for automatic promotion - Hoyle’s target for the season - and they are currently fourth, four points outside the top two.
Hoyle has heavily backed Clark and was worried they would miss out on promotion to the Championship for a third time after losing in the play-offs in the last two seasons.
Despite losing just three league games this season, Hoyle was alarmed by their run of just four wins from 12 matches.
He said: “This was a very difficult decision. One not taken lightly or in response to one result. Concerns have been raised over recent weeks.
“Lee and his coaching staff have put their all into the job over the past three seasons and he has made a huge contribution to the club.
“However, with 16 matches to go, we still have an opportunity to achieve promotion and we have made this change with this in mind.”
Despite losing just three league games this season, Hoyle was alarmed by their run of just four wins from 12 matches.
He said: “This was a very difficult decision. One not taken lightly or in response to one result. Concerns have been raised over recent weeks.
“Lee and his coaching staff have put their all into the job over the past three seasons and he has made a huge contribution to the club.
“However, with 16 matches to go, we still have an opportunity to achieve promotion and we have made this change with this in mind.”
Draws too many games, thats what i thought the reason would be and you can bet your arse Lee Clarke got all Mardy with the owner whenever it was mentioned,
He will go to Leeds, Hudds will go up under Warnock nd no one will remember this in 12 months time
Also takes warnock away from th Radar of Milan Manderic, and i reckon Megson could be the next one to go if he loses 1 of his next 2 games
seems that the fans are in agreement on there that he had to go , the odd poster sticking up for him but most saying stuff like this
How can anyone really stick up for Clark either on football matters or anything else is completely beyond me.
Good riddance. The club can move forward again now. Well done Deano. I would've sacked him for any of the following reasons:
Poor football Poor results Poorly motivated or unsettled players Tactical ineptitude players paid £££££'s that we never see. Continual rubbish loan players
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His attitude surrounding Leicester job- wholly disrespectful and unacceptable His constant childish overreaction to Oggy & recent failure to speak at all after notts county His slagging off 'people connected with the club' on sky after Wycombe game His recent response to a question about Leeds vacancy-- " Whoever I am employed by I will give 100%.
If I was Deano I'd have thought- "You're ****in* employed by me you little shit." You were assistant under roeder at Norwich before I made you famous and you pissed millions of my hard earned up the wall and let all the fans down.
Incidentally, I think the Leeds thing was the straw that broke the camel's
Sorry, but I cannot see Warnock going down to League One, certainly not to Huddersfield anyway.
If Powell left CAFC right now then I reckon Warnock would take the Charlton job, he likes London and would see us as a great challenge (and we are 99% nailed on for promotion), but I can't see him going back up north for the Huddersfield job (where he has already been manager).
Sorry, but I cannot see Warnock going down to League One, certainly not to Huddersfield anyway.
If Powell left CAFC right now then I reckon Warnock would take the Charlton job, he likes London and would see us as a great challenge (and we are 99% nailed on for promotion), but I can't see him going back up north for the Huddersfield job (where he has already been manager).
Also, he's getting towards retirement age and wants to settle in The West Country so it doesn't make sense to uproot his family again and move up North for a couple of years.
Don't agree with the sacking based on league position. However information gained in this thread suggestions the relationship had fallen into disrepair. Clarke isn't a bad manager and this will be proven if he gets the leeds job in a higher division. I can see warnock going to huddersfield until the end of the season as he will have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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I bet Jordan Rhodes is furious, he was loyal to Huddersfield in the transfer window and then the club pull a stunt like this. There are 16 games to go and everything to play for - and the window is closed so the new boss can't bring in new players anyway.
Huddersfield are four points off second FFS and have only lost three games all season - one more than us - and are competing against equally well resourced clubs in the two Sheffield clubs and us.
Total nonsense, the bloke is obviously a very good manager and they are replacing him with either an unknown quantity or one of the merry-go-round managers on the circuit.
Stupid beyond belief and, before anyone raises it, you can't compare this to WBA sacking Matteo and installing Hodgson, WBA were near relegation not four points from promotion.
On a results basis it looks odd , at this stage of the season the 4 points gap with Sheffield u is not massive but I think they have got a game in hand on huddersfield as well and that 4 could be 7 which is a huge mountain to over come
Who knows what's gone on , from the outside getting rid of Parkinson was roundly criticised from all around football and many fans
It turned out to be the right thing to do at the right time
The huddersfield chairman is a huge huddersfield fan and is really well supported by the fans , Clarke must've done something that is not in the public domain yet
I don't know about the Leicester job but I have not seen Clark linked properly with Leeds, no top manager is interested in the Leeds job at the moment because Bates has made it clear that he is not spending any money - which you can see they are in dire need of.
This is different to Parkinson too, we were 5th (somehow) but the squad was a shambles and we did not have a pot to piss in money wise, we were nowhere near where Huddersfield are.
Don't forget that at Charlton things initially got much worse under Powell before they got better after his major clear out.
''Complete madness''. ''Total nonsense.'' Stupid beyond belief'', you say. But you said all of that and more about the replacement of Parkinson with Powell.
Conceivably you are right. But equally you could be wrong again. I honestly don't know and wouldn't presume to judge. Their chairman has watched Huddersfield week in and week out.Therefore he has an insight into why change is needed that I do not have. What I can see, though, is that he expected automatic promotion and on current form they will not achieve that.
Let's just wait and see if the change was ''stupid beyond belief'', or whether it turns out out to be an inspired decision, as Powell for Parkinson and Hodgson for Di Matteo were...
The story will die out as huddersfield are not important to anyone that is not a town fan but theft truth will out ,
Too many draws in that calendar year , 4 wins in 10 not a great return but not too poor ,
What was their results against the top 6 so far this season
A 0-2 Charlton
A 4-4 Wendy
H 1-1 MKD
A 1-1 MKD
H 2-1 Steve
H 0-1 Sheff U
A 3-0 Sheff U
They've still got Charlton H, Stevenage H, and the Deluded H
So all their 3 remaining top 6 games at home, NLA.
This is pretty much proven given Powell's dire record in the second half of the season with the same squad - he had us in relegation form which shows how well Parkinson did with the crap he had to put out there to have us in the top six, albeit unconvincingly.
The point is that we were "somehow" 5th despite the fact we had no money whatsoever and had to cobble together a squad filled with old stiffs (Dailly, Docherty), loanees (take your pick), journeymen (Sodje) and youngsters who were not ready.
The squad was a shambles because we were operating on a low-end L1 budget and bringing in players like Abbott to replace Burton, Francis to replace Richardson and McCormack to replace Bailey - replacing quality L1/CCC players with low-end L1 players because that's all we could afford.
Our fortunes only turned around when new investment came in - somewhat belatedly in the close season rather than in January - and we brought in a new squad of high-class L1 players which had previously been out of our price range completely.
As I recall my negative comments regarding the board were directed solely at the prospect of a certain Dennis Wise becoming our new manager - something widely reported at the time - and something which turned my stomach completely.
I am pleased as punch that Powell has done what he has done this season but still remain puzzled at why we sacked Parkinson and then did not give Powell any money to freshen the squad (apart from BWP) when we could conceivably still pushed for promotion last year - and saved ourselves the 5 million quid loss that we knew we would get in L1 this season.
We put ourselves in a dangerous position of having a squad full of soon to be out of contract players who knew Powell was going to release them in the close season and so basically stopped playing from about February onwards and produced some of the worst results in the history of the club.
It's all worked out very well now but the decision did not look quite so clever when we were getting well beaten 2-1 at Dagenham & Redbridge - currently bottom of League Two and looking like we could even get sucked into a relegation battle.
Regarding Huddersfield, how can anyone say they are not in a great chance of still getting automatic promotion? They lost 1-0 at home to Sheffield United - it was not a 5-1 embarrassment.
Look at our great years under Curbs, even in the triumphant promotion season of 99/00 we lost a couple of crucial home games against promotion rivals like Blackburn and Manchester City and yet we held our nerve and prospered.
Above all Huddersfield have the best player in the League in Rhodes and still have 16 games left and all to play for in terms of automatic promotion, sacking your manager now does not make a lot of sense and merely shows a lack of patience and logic.
Hudds are near the top, but having screwed the play-offs up 2 years running their form vs top six sides does not suggest they are going to get through them this time and last night's result means that is the route they are most likely going to have to take. They were the 3rd best team by a margin last year, but still lost to Posh in the play-offs.
If he didn't get them up this year he'd definitely have been sacked in the summer anyway. The board obviously feel that there is sufficient doubt about his ability to finish the job that they want to give another man an early crack at promotion using Clarke's players. If that doesn't work the new man will be able to sell Rhodes and spend the money on his own players, just like sold Jenkinson and bought the current team.
The timing is a bit off and it is a bit harsh on Clarke but he's been well backed and spent plenty but still failed to make them look like a convincing promotion outfit. If you think back to the game at The Valley he had no answers to the way Powell set us up.
Unless they have a "banker" like Warnock lined up - which I doubt as he would not come to L1 these days - then who could improve on Clark that would be willing to come to Huddersfield?
Likwise I don't think Parky's sacking was on the agenda 2 or 3 weeks before but then we had some poor results and performaces around Christmas topped off with the utter shambles that was Charlton 2 - Swindon 4. The board decided they had to act and they did. I didn't agree with it at the time, but I understood it.
I don't have a strong opinion either way on Clarke, I'm just trying to understand why the decision was taken because it's a too simplistic to just peer in from the outside and say it's madness. They've been drawing too many games for over a year now and keep dropping important points, it's much easier to stay patient with that if it ain't your money tied up in the club.
As for who replaces him, I don't know but I don't think it has to be a 'banker' - they'll be looking to find their version or Poyet or Powell imo, they'll just be hoping that their's starts getting results quicker than those two did. To be fair the'll be inheriting better players than Poyet and Powell did.
Huddersfield owner Dean Hoyle wants Neil Warnock to make an emotional return after shocking football by sacking Lee Clark.
Multi-millionaire Hoyle has had his eyes on former Terriers chief Warnock in recent weeks and hopes to install him immediately, despite rival interest in the experienced boss.
Clark was stunned when he was fired - over the phone, in a conversation lasting just two minutes - by Hoyle hours after Tuesday’s defeat by promotion rivals Sheffield United.
It was just the club’s third loss in 55 games, which included a record-breaking 43 match unbeaten run.
“I am very perplexed as to why I was dismissed as the manager of Huddersfield Town," admitted Clark. "Needless to say, I am extremely disappointed and shocked considering that, with just 16 games left, we are in a such great position to compete for automatic promotion.
“We built on last season’s momentum following the play-off final by creating history in the Football League record books for consecutive unbeaten games. This was an immense achievement by everybody connected with the club.”
Warnock has been out of work since QPR sacked him a week into the year, and could be in charge within a day or two.
Although he's been thinking about taking a break from management, the chance to take one of his old clubs - he held th Terriers' lead from July 1993 to June 1995 - to promotion may be a strong lure.
Hoyle will also make money available for some loan captures - with a bid for Crystal Palace forward Sean Scannell, who played for Warnock when he was in charge at the south London club from 2007 to 2010, in the pipeline.
Sources at Huddersfield have revealed that Hoyle has been unhappy with Clark for the past month, and critical of the team’s form despite his heavy investment.
Meanwhile, Clark has called in the League Managers Association and is taking legal advice about the sacking.
He is believed to be considering suing for unfair dismissal.
Clark’s availability could alert Town's Yorkshire neighbours Leeds, who had short-listed him for their vacancy, although that had nothing to do with his dismissal.
The loss to the Blades dented Huddersfield’s bid for automatic promotion - Hoyle’s target for the season - and they are currently fourth, four points outside the top two.
Hoyle has heavily backed Clark and was worried they would miss out on promotion to the Championship for a third time after losing in the play-offs in the last two seasons.
Despite losing just three league games this season, Hoyle was alarmed by their run of just four wins from 12 matches.
He said: “This was a very difficult decision. One not taken lightly or in response to one result. Concerns have been raised over recent weeks.
“Lee and his coaching staff have put their all into the job over the past three seasons and he has made a huge contribution to the club.
“However, with 16 matches to go, we still have an opportunity to achieve promotion and we have made this change with this in mind.”
He said: “This was a very difficult decision. One not taken lightly or in response to one result. Concerns have been raised over recent weeks.
“Lee and his coaching staff have put their all into the job over the past three seasons and he has made a huge contribution to the club.
“However, with 16 matches to go, we still have an opportunity to achieve promotion and we have made this change with this in mind.”
Draws too many games, thats what i thought the reason would be and you can bet your arse Lee Clarke got all Mardy with the owner whenever it was mentioned,
He will go to Leeds, Hudds will go up under Warnock nd no one will remember this in 12 months time
Also takes warnock away from th Radar of Milan Manderic, and i reckon Megson could be the next one to go if he loses 1 of his next 2 games
seems that the fans are in agreement on there that he had to go , the odd poster sticking up for him but most saying stuff like this
How can anyone really stick up for Clark either on football matters or anything else is completely beyond me.
Good riddance. The club can move forward again now. Well done Deano. I would've sacked him for any of the following reasons:
Poor football
Poor results
Poorly motivated or unsettled players
Tactical ineptitude
players paid £££££'s that we never see.
Continual rubbish loan players
&
His attitude surrounding Leicester job- wholly disrespectful and unacceptable
His constant childish overreaction to Oggy & recent failure to speak at all after notts county
His slagging off 'people connected with the club' on sky after Wycombe game
His recent response to a question about Leeds vacancy-- " Whoever I am employed by I will give 100%.
If I was Deano I'd have thought- "You're ****in* employed by me you little shit." You were assistant under roeder at Norwich before I made you famous and you pissed millions of my hard earned up the wall and let all the fans down.
Incidentally, I think the Leeds thing was the straw that broke the camel's
If Powell left CAFC right now then I reckon Warnock would take the Charlton job, he likes London and would see us as a great challenge (and we are 99% nailed on for promotion), but I can't see him going back up north for the Huddersfield job (where he has already been manager).
Chance to go out on a high
in my day it was a puka night out