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Ince is really quite underwhelming. There is little in his L1+ history to get your teeth into, and he has left all five of his managerial jobs before serving one year's work. Blackwell's football could be an issue for a fanbase in need of galvanising. But as Grendel said, both would likely...

Nothing wrong with what he wrote there. Encouraging.

Somebody had better inform them.

Just reported on BBC C&W that Wise and Blackwell have applied for the job.

Alright. You have omitted draws. By including the points gained from draws, Ince averages 1.5 points per game, or 15 points for every 10 games across his managerial career. Wildly inaccurate. The average win rate for the sixth-placed team in L1 over the past decade has been 44.6%. FWIW, I...

I think it is so random. Maybe the changing room leader likes and respects the manager, which positively affects the rest of the team. But that same manager can go to another club and have the ire of the changing room leader. Who knows? I just don't think that there is too much of an art to...

I have a completely unsubstantiated theory that most clubs have a similar success rate when it comes to managers. If we start with Big Ron to the present day, we've had 11 full-time managers. Out of those, we could probably classify three as being successes - Strachan (initially!), Nilsson and...

Not really sold on his personality - the whole "call me the Guv'nor" thing rubbed some people up the wrong way. But if he gets the job we'll see how he does. It also puts to rest that eternal question of "who would want to manage us?"...

CCFC's performance last year was 100% down to Thorn. That is completely distinct from expectations. We might expect a school team to get thrashed in 46 games, but how they perform in each of those games is attributable to the management.

Yeah, Fergie's first few seasons were before my time too. But he took them from 21st to 11th after taking over mid-season in '86, and the next year they were runners-up to Liverpool. That's not bad going. Fergie is used by the Linnells of this world to justify keeping a manager in place for a...

It's a very poor article with many contentious points that he passes off as facts. But perhaps the most damning aspect of the article is that he doesn't actually address its very title, i.e. explain "why (he) was right" about Andy Thorn.

http://noiceinmine.blogspot.co.uk

To be fair, Fergie's first two seasons at Man Utd were pretty successful!

You'd better brace yourself for it. 84% of teams in the English football leagues have managers who have served under three years. The nature of the game.

Boateng, Hedman, Roussel, Soltvedt off the top of my head; think he also pitched Van Nistelrooy to the club.

I'm just thinking that he was scouting for 3-4 years while we were a Championship club, but not too many of the signings in that period have gone on to have Premier League careers. I remember our old European scout, Ray Clarke, had a positive genius for singling out cheap players on the...

How did you get that from what I wrote?

Sure does. It doesn't seem that long ago that we were having the likes of Daish and Breen off them!

Football's house of cards has been trembling for some time now. Where once teams could go into administration and get a clean slate, we're now seeing the likes of Rangers being pushed to the brink. It won't be long before a 'big' club is wound up. It is really not something to be flippant about.

Better effort from the players, more attacking football (Shaw & Carsley will be eager to lay down their marker for a permanent job by distinguishing themselves from AT), but ultimately a loss (BCFC being superior 'n' all).