Pellegrini apparently wants to manage in the prem again, currently managing a side in China. Could be worth a punt?
Many managers would struggle if they are subject to too much "direction" from the Pozzos. I don't know how much freedon they give their managers.
Janmaat, Holebas, Niang, Success and Amrabat available to Mazzarri. Plenty of scope there for some exciting attacking play down the wings yet the same turgid hoofball persists. I defended Mazzarri during the injuries which I still feel was right at the time. Yet he's been given all the tools to create one of his quick countering attacking teams he apparently likes and it's just awful what he's serving up. Can't remember a Watford team that is so ugly to watch, it's embarrassing.
Agreed. Obviously I've been characteristically quicker to call for his head than you, but yesterday, he had a potentially exciting line up at his disposal and we mustered nothing. Either the players are on strike or he's clueless. If the former, I hope the transfer window sees the trouble makers dispatched, but either way, I can't see Walter surviving. His comments after the game, however, suggest that our turgidity is by design, which makes him an utter **** and I hope he dies.
I dislike the man being at our club as much as you, moog but the last bit of your statement was a tad strong
Be easy on him, hes a child in a grown mans body. Its difficult for him to behave properly when hes having a "tanty".
Maybe we're not switching our managers enough. We seem to do well for the first half season or so, as everyone played for the new coach. Let's just bring one in for the summer, and one on New Year's Day.
Wasn't the biggest Jok fan, but he obviously knew how to win games and get the best from the players.
Reckon we'll come across some forty-something from Italy who's reasonably handsome but otherwise mediocre. Rinse and repeat in Summer 2018.
I'd swap WM for any other manager in the premiership perhaps with the exception of the interim Boro manager and Big Fat Sam!
To be honest Nath, that's not what the vast majority of us want. Guessing we would all rather a stable management team, coaching players that looked like they gave a sh@t, playing half decent football with clear tactics and showing signs of improvement each season, with a clear recruitment strategy and playing in front of a passionate fan base, using the vast riches that this insane football deal offers us to secure our future and never have to go back to being a selling club Not sure how many of that wish list we currently have
The current malaise reminds me of Sannino's last knockings ... too many players with a can't be bothered attitude, not helped by the Pozzo's who have built a rod for their own backs by sacking the coach rather than dumping the bad apples. That's got to be sending the wrong message to the players. I feel sorry for Mazzarri, his pedigree is very good. I just feel he's a bit in awe of the Premiership and needs a kick up the arse rather than be sacked. If he's still here by August he could do worse than to take a leaf out of Joka's book and stamp his authority by weeding out the bad 'uns. Capoue is a good example. He does his usual 5 minute cameo in every game - chasing the ball down while flailing his arms like John Inman on Lucozade. Then he settles into his 65 minute jog followed by a 20 minute warm down. He's just a lazy player who doesn't influence the game as much as he can and should. The fact he gets picked every game never ceases to amaze me.
I wonder if Walter has done enough now to encourage the Pozzos to give him a chance to start next season. I do not like him and do not rate him highly but dislike changing managers every year even more. If we finish in or around 12th place then it is not a bad season. Maybe we would have liked more but go back a few years and we would have been totally happy to survive two Premiership seasons with relative ease. Also if we change managers there is every danger we will have a third season like these last two. If Mazzarri stays there is a chance we will push forward from where we are.
I think the Pozzos will wait until we are definitely safe, or maybe see the season out to avoid too much disruption and then He will quietly go in June time when the press are not really concentrating of football stories so coverage will be minimal.
I doubt it....if the brief for WM was survival at all costs then I fully expect to see him here for another season where he will be judged on performances with a fully fit squad with a few key additions. If the players don't like him which, unless you work for the club you and I will never know, then he will go
He's saying all the right things at the moment to be fair, and even some of them are in English. I did not think I'd be saying this a few months ago, but now I do think he needs to be given a chance for next season. A few signings, a fully fit squad and a whole summer to get his philosophy through to the players and we might have a very very good season. Just hope this season doesn't fade out now though, would like us to get as many points as we possibly can, starting on Saturday.
I don't remember the thread it was on but I was encouraged by some statistics posted recently. The showed our performance against the top, the middle and the bottom teams last year and this. What seems to have happened is that last year we won just about every game against the bottom teams and lost nearly all against the top ones. This year we have done much better against the top teams (obviously we have still not a great record against them) but have not been as dominant against the bottom sides. To me this is a far more stable set up.
Tony Adams is the new Grenada boss: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39557191 Not that it is related to this thread, except tenuously, but seemed reasonable to state it here
