Are we too laid back about this SC business???

[The Lizard King]

...I think of a few clubs, Burnley springs to mind, where SC wouldn't have been able to leave it in limbo.

We are very laid back at BHAFC, do people sometimes exploit our good nature...?

 

[berkshire seagull]

Yes they do in which we need to improve fast and very fast as im sick of us being to bloody soft.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If MadStad bloke with all his millions and wizzkid lawyers can't enforce Pardew having to do 'gardening leave' for the duration of his supposedly legally-binding contract, then contracts ain't worth the paper they're written on. Coppell will do what he wants do do, and if he'd not been offered an insulting wage package by Reading at his first interview then he probably would not have been still here on Saturday.

 

[The Lizard King]

Well, let's put it this way - I can't think of a club that's got thru so many quality managers.

Wimbledon, are surely our best example here.....You can't tell me their future, or past is/has been secure. But they haven't had a managerial merry-go-round like we have.

We risk becoming a national football supporters joke here.........WHO'S YER MANAGER THIS WEEK

 

[berkshire seagull]

 

[bigc]

as long as its not Hinsh, we wont be a joke

 

[Locky]

We risk becoming a national football supporters joke here.........WHO'S YER MANAGER THIS WEEK [/B]

Yep totally agree.......which is why our next manager must be Brighton through and through.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yep totally agree.......which is why our next manager must be Brighton through and through.

We're appointing a stick of rock then...

 

[The Lizard King]

If we must lose SC, then what about IAN DOWIE?.....not the best looking bloke in the world, but a loyal & committed player at West Ham I seem to remember....& competent manager?

 

[Locky]

We're appointing a stick of rock then...

LOL................. Well at least it would stick around for a while
5 managers in 3 years is just a joke.

 

[fosters headband]

The problem is who is Brighton through and through.
We all thought that Brian Horton fell into that category but along comes the Vale and off he goes.
Many are saying Bob Booker is Brighton through and through, can you imagine him being succesfull here and then the Sheff Utd job becomes available?
There hasn't been to many local lads who played for the Albion and been that succesfull and are managers today.
Infact I cant think of one, can anyone else?

 

[Locky]

Actually......thinking about it........The next Manager is going to seriously fall on his feet, He will aquire a team Top of the League and in 2 months time planning permission for a brand new stadium..........................Where do I go to apply

Trust me they are going to be lining up for the job this time.

 

[chip]

I think that part of the problem is that we actually appoint decent managers (well, most of the time recentley) who are "between jobs". They get on well at Brighton and then move on to a better setup having re-established themselves. An article in the Telegraph this week pointed out that most sacked managers don't actually get other jobs - about 75% of those sacked over the past five years are not back in management. So people like Lawrie Sanchez come and go perhaps while the ones who achieve, like MA, SC and PT, stay on the managerial merry-go ride.

If Hinshlewood had managed to keep us in Div 1, most of us would have been quite happy and we may well have hung on to him for years. Think Dario Gradi (sp?). Then, it wouldn't have been so much fun though. I guess I'm saying that I'd be happy with another unexperienced manager who might actually last the whole season next year - unless it all goes tits up.

 

[Icy Gull]

We all know these facts but I am struggling to believe that it keeps happening -

Adams left - we were 3rd in Div 2 having just won Div 3 Championship
Taylor left - we'd just won the 2nd division Championship
SC leaves - we're top of Div 2

They wouldn't be able to use that in a football comic , it's so fu**king unbelievable


Most clubs would kill for those statistics

Moral - we're actually having a great time and we don't appreciate it

 

[Curious Orange]

Moral - The managers are having a good time, and THEY don't appreciate it.

 

[Icy Gull]

Moral - The managers are having a good time, and THEY don't appreciate it.

 

[albiongirl]

exactly

 

[Another Berkshire Seagull]

To be fair in DK's era we've had some good managers and some bad ones...the good ones want to say the bad ones wait until we say (or are called Taylor)

I reckon the next appontment must be external...but not Hoddle, Robson or Palmer!!!!

 

[SiNZ]

Thing is, the contract is really only a mechanism by which compensation is guaranteed in the event of termination. We have seen many times that in football it does not mean the contracted manager will necessarily see it through. Whilst we all believe that Brighton is different, it must operate within a market that dictates that managers get poached and compensation is paid. It happens at all levels of professional football.

Given our situation too, I believe that DK tells managers that they can talk to other clubs if opportunities come up knowing that we would not get these managers otherwise...... in which case we'd still be in Division 3 being guided by Jeff Wood. Until we get to Falmer, thus exorcising the final ghosts of the A r regime, other clubs are going to be able to table more attractive offers to our managers. It's not nice, but something we will have to endure for a couple more years yet.

Having said all of that, Coppell should not in my opinion look at the Reading job as a "once in a lifetime, never to be repeated" opportunity. If he sees out the season with us, he will hopefully have a Division 2 title to his name, and will regardless of other opportunities as attractive (if not more so) than Reading. He is a good enough manager with a strong enough reputation to be in constant demand. By doing this, he would have a chance to see that Falmer is moving along and won't have "slit his own throat" should the unthinkable happen and the enquiry result be negative.

 

[Kent Seagull]

So if we get say 100k compensation fo Coppell, that will give us the cash to pay the new manager for a season. When the new manager walks in 6 months we will get another 100k and so on.

Has Dick discovered a way of having other clubs pay our managers wages!