IMHO experience is vital. Our board have publicly stated it is the key criterion in their selection process. No guarantees, of course, but an experienced manager should be able to quickly assess what he has, what he needs, develop a plan, implement it, improve results, and survive the drop...
So why, after his very poor start admittedly, did Steve Coppell steadily improve our results once appointed?
Actually, I'll answer that, because he was an experienced manager who knew what was required and implemented his plan that so very nearly kept us up, despite Tinselhead's ridiculously...
Not really, all I'm saying is that a previous inexperienced manager started well, then things got progressively worse, and his sacking was then inevitable. May not be the case with Jones but, then again, it may... too much risk IMHO.