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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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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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01-06-2026, 10:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-06-2026, 10:40 AM by CIM.)
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. �
AJ Bell +1
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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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.