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Winning mentality? Perhaps. He just seems more like a browbeater to me, the type to get the dressing room resentfully whispering behind his back rather than being inspired to give their best. I know he wouldn't be popular in all quarters, but I'd bet on Dion Dublin being a likelier candidate to...

...after leaving us without a home and £60m of debt. Not an easy situation to turn around.

I remember support growing for CCFC at school back in the mid-90s. Kids were trading in their Leeds, Man Utd, Arsenal shirts for City ones. It'd be easy to link this to the big signings of the time, but it was really a social thing - meeting up with your mates on a Saturday to take in the game...

You can add another 100k+ if you factor in the broader catchment area. Our support is poor, period. It's a shame the club hasn't made a big marketing push to fill the ground since Jimmy Hill's time - nothing could make a bigger positive difference to its fortunes.

A don't care/doesn't matter option would be useful.

Top trolling.

It is really good to see a greater engagement with stats, but I would question how useful they are when it comes to a new manager. There is just no telling of how they will get on with the current playing staff, boardroom, coaches. There's all sorts of snap, crackle and pop chemistry that goes...

You have to let Curbishley go, old man. Of course there are better options available. There is no guarantee that they will be hired, though. Really, nobody knows how an Ince, Wilder, Wise or Shaw would do. If I had to pick one, I'd probably go for Wise, just because he might galvanise the...

Might have prevented the Black/Nilsson sackings, mind.

The club really should consult Jim Brown before they consider firing a manager.

To be fair Ince, Wise, Shaw and Blackwell have come in that short when a rumour has been floated. There was Wilder talk from OUFC fans last night which may have produced some bets at 8/1.

Don't know what a comment about modern customer service has to do with SISU, but thanks for trying.

TBF it's the other way around these days!

No doubt Strachan had lost towards the end of his regime, but a rookie manager kept Coventry City in the Premier League for a few seasons. Equally, Nilsson and Black, both fairly inexperienced, did very well. Yet Thorn and McAllister (rookies), Boothroyd, Reid, Coleman and Adams (experienced)...

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Strachan had no experience. Nilsson had no experience. Black had very little experience. Adams, Reid and Boothroyd had plenty of experience. I just don't understand the basis of the 'experience' argument.

If you look at the managers we've had over the past 15 years, you'll see that there is no consistency to the theory.

I merely answered your question.

Mainly because people such as yourself bump threads that are a day old - like this one - with an untimely, passionate defence of Thorn. That then brings counter-arguments which you cannot handle.

He looks delighted to be here!