The last decade
#1
We've had eleven permanent (or semi permanent) managers. Shows how much of a basket case we've become.

Pulis
Pardew
Moore
Shan
Bilic
Allardyce
Ismael
Bruce
Corberan
Mowbray
Mason
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#2
There's one man missing from that list.

Please welcome Mr Warnock...  Tongue
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#3
Pulis and Corberan the longest serving of those.

Bilic did get a promotion to be fair to him, which he then lost complete interest in

Moore stopped us collapsing like Stoke did after relegation.

Otherwise, what abject failure.
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#4
Average lifespan of a manager is 12-18 months so imagine many clubs will have similar records

From Chat GPT...

According to Utilita Football Yearbook data, Championship managers on average have been in their jobs for around ~0.9 to 1.0 years (≈ 10–12 months) — significantly shorter than in the Premier League and well below the overall average in English football. �
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Older League Managers Association figures (for a past season) put the Championship’s average managerial spell even lower — roughly about 0.86 years (just under 10½ months).
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#5
Replacing the manager isn’t going to address the massive blue and white elephant in the room and that is we cannot financially compete with the clubs with parachute payments and those like Blues looking at completely changing their way of operating as a club financially. We can hope those coming down face financial meltdown but that’s not within our control.

In 12-18mths time we will be having the same conversation about who next… whilst languishing in midtable Championship obscurity if we are lucky. This is all very reminiscent of the 1990’s with the added problems that PSR causes.
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(01-06-2026, 10:43 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Replacing the manager isn’t going to address the massive blue and white elephant in the room and that is we cannot financially compete with the clubs with parachute payments and those like Blues looking at completely changing their way of operating as a club financially. We can hope those coming down face financial meltdown but that’s not within our control.

In 12-18mths time we will be having the same conversation about who next… whilst languishing in midtable Championship obscurity if we are lucky. This is all very reminiscent of the 1990’s with the added problems that PSR causes.
Yes you've banged that drum so long and loud they can hear it in Moscow. It would be nice to just give us all a couple of hours of relative relief before pissing on our chips straight away.
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(01-06-2026, 10:43 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Replacing the manager isn’t going to address the massive blue and white elephant in the room and that is we cannot financially compete with the clubs with parachute payments and those like Blues looking at completely changing their way of operating as a club financially. We can hope those coming down face financial meltdown but that’s not within our control.

In 12-18mths time we will be having the same conversation about who next… whilst languishing in midtable Championship obscurity if we are lucky. This is all very reminiscent of the 1990’s with the added problems that PSR cause

Why do you keep posting the same thing incessantly?

1) The club have said they need to expand income streams, especially off the pitch. They have employed someone to do exactly that.


2)They have explained why we cannot spend currently, but have indicated that they are willing to spend in the future; they have even said exactly which season this will be.

What more do you want? They cannot put any more money into the club than they are currently doing, and they have to cut expenditure, or we will get a points deduction and/or a transfer embargo. Unless you are happy for that to happen, you are going to need to have a bit of patience.
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#8
(01-06-2026, 10:43 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Replacing the manager isn’t going to address the massive blue and white elephant in the room and that is we cannot financially compete with the clubs with parachute payments and those like Blues looking at completely changing their way of operating as a club financially. We can hope those coming down face financial meltdown but that’s not within our control.

In 12-18mths time we will be having the same conversation about who next… whilst languishing in midtable Championship obscurity if we are lucky. This is all very reminiscent of the 1990’s with the added problems that PSR causes.

I agree to a degree Dekka but sometimes stars do align. If we land on a really good manager with drive and ambition and find some gem players you just never know. 

Meggo did it for us all those years back when we had one of the smallest budgets in the league. More recently Rob Edwards got Luton up. It can be done.

We have to believe that can happen.
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#9
(01-06-2026, 11:25 AM)Squid Wrote:
(01-06-2026, 10:43 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Replacing the manager isn’t going to address the massive blue and white elephant in the room and that is we cannot financially compete with the clubs with parachute payments and those like Blues looking at completely changing their way of operating as a club financially. We can hope those coming down face financial meltdown but that’s not within our control.

In 12-18mths time we will be having the same conversation about who next… whilst languishing in midtable Championship obscurity if we are lucky. This is all very reminiscent of the 1990’s with the added problems that PSR cause

Why do you keep posting the same thing incessantly?

1) The club have said they need to expand income streams, especially off the pitch. They have employed someone to do exactly that.


2)They have explained why we cannot spend currently, but have indicated that they are willing to spend in the future; they have even said exactly which season this will be.

What more do you want? They cannot put any more money into the club than they are currently doing, and they have to cut expenditure, or we will get a points deduction and/or a transfer embargo. Unless you are happy for that to happen, you are going to need to have a bit of patience.

Glad someone else said it, makes a change from he ay gewin anywhere.
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(01-06-2026, 11:25 AM)Squid Wrote:
(01-06-2026, 10:43 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Replacing the manager isn’t going to address the massive blue and white elephant in the room and that is we cannot financially compete with the clubs with parachute payments and those like Blues looking at completely changing their way of operating as a club financially. We can hope those coming down face financial meltdown but that’s not within our control.

In 12-18mths time we will be having the same conversation about who next… whilst languishing in midtable Championship obscurity if we are lucky. This is all very reminiscent of the 1990’s with the added problems that PSR cause

Why do you keep posting the same thing incessantly?

1) The club have said they need to expand income streams, especially off the pitch. They have employed someone to do exactly that.

2)They have explained why we cannot spend currently, but have indicated that they are willing to spend in the future; they have even said exactly which season this will be.

What more do you want? They cannot put any more money into the club than they are currently doing, and they have to cut expenditure, or we will get a points deduction and/or a transfer embargo. Unless you are happy for that to happen, you are going to need to have a bit of patience.

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