Sacked Managers 2017/18

[Sean of the Shed]

Sunderland are appointing a Jack. Jack Ross from St Mirren.

[Kevin S]

Ooh, now he was strongly being linked with Ipswich, so that's a little bit surprising.

[Arturo]

I think the Ipswich fans were getting a little bit excited about Ross, so that will be a disappointment for them. That puts to bed any chance of Coleman going back to Sunderland.

[Hot Orange]

Strong rumours that St Mirren's Jack Ross will be the new man at Ipswich. He seems to be the anti-McCarthy in pretty much every way and as such we've all got ourselves tremendously excited about his potential appointment. There's going to be a lot of disappointment if it's anyone else now.

Balls.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Villa had a year bobbing inconsequentially around in mid-table before their revival this season - but even so Stoke look in much better shape on relegation. They've got a decent squad that won't lead to an enormous firesale, a competent managerial appointment who knows his way around the division, a sensible owner and pots of cash. They should be play-offs as bare minimum expectation and realistically aiming to go straight back up.

Swansea appointing Potter is a risk from the club that can least afford to gamble. He's never managed anywhere other than Ostersunds so there has to be a question as to whether his methods will travel. You also wonder if the board there will panic and sack him if they're 11th in December. They look for all the world like a club who have a season to get back and if not they'll end up occupying that Wigan / Charlton role of bouncing between the Championship and League One. (Sorry Antepli)

I agree so no apologies here. I'd like Coleman and a mass culling of players even if it means short term pain. We've had over four years of shite already.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Ancelotti to Napoli meaning Sarri is probably on his way to Chelsea, so where does that leave Conte?

[Kevin S]

Looks like it's going to be Paul Hurst from Shrewsbury to Ipswich.

[Patrick Thistle]

Shrewsbury fans have been saying this for weeks. The fanzine Twitter basically asked people to guess how many days he will stay.

[Hot Orange]

Looks like it's going to be Paul Hurst from Shrewsbury to Ipswich.

I feel bad about that because my best friend is a Shrews fan and he speaks very highly of Hurst. Not too bad, though, because he says Hurst works well on a low budget because he's great at improving players and knows where the bargains are in the lower leagues, so he sounds ideal for Ipswich. Also, he's not Mick McCarthy.

[Hot Orange]

Shrewsbury fans have been saying this for weeks. The fanzine Twitter basically asked people to guess how many days he will stay.

Yes, it is believed Hurst was always Marcus Evans' first choice until he was dazzled by Jack Ross in the interview process. Hurst was certainly the early favourite.

[Patrick Thistle]

Just had a text from my brother saying compensation has been agreed if Ipswich want to speak to Hurst.

[NickSTFU]

Shrewsbury's CEO just on Radio Shropshire hinting at an illegal approach from Ipswich and less than happy with Hurst's conduct. Despite it being the worst kept secret in Shropshire for a month.

Doig is part of the package and the other staff found out via the Club twitter, they are by all accounts a little peeved. As am I.

So, Paul, thanks for nothing (apart from a nice training ground) now fuck off quickly so we can sort ourselves out.

[Patrick Thistle]

Apparently Paul Tisdale is leaving Exeter to join the Franchise. <horrified face emoji>

[tee rex]

With all the managerial appointments and announcements over the last couple of weeks, the silence from MK has been unnerving. Not the best preparation for a play-off final, knowing another club is twiddling their thumbs, with the photographer ready and waiting for Tisdale to hold up the new scarf.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Potter to Swansea seems like a done deal, but again we are fucking about when decisive action is needed. I'm not convinced by this appointment and can see it ending in tears around Christmas.

The only positive is that the new manager gets to decide which players leave, seeing as we've only got 3 or 4 decent players that's not going to take long.

There is also a move to appoint a director of football to oversee things, meaning Huw Jenkins doesn't do this any more. That's another positive.

[elguapo4]

Lampard close to joining Derby according to Sky sports, he may be the new Cloughie but it's amazing how the likes of him,Stevie G and Giggs can walk into (relatively) big jobs with fuck all experience

[The-Reverend]

To be fair Derby have at least tried an older experienced manager, young up and coming number two, son of a club legend and an ex-player.

That's all just this season mind.

General view is "well, we've tried everything else so why the fuck not"

[Arturo]

To be fair Derby have at least tried an older experienced manager, young up and coming number two, son of a club legend and an ex-player.

That's all just this season mind.

General view is "well, we've tried everything else so why the fuck not"

Confirmed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44283426

[ooh aah]

Lampard close to joining Derby according to Sky sports, he may be the new Cloughie but it's amazing how the likes of him,Stevie G and Giggs can walk into (relatively) big jobs with fuck all experience

It's not that surprising really. Derby are in the Championship, plenty of big name players made their managerial debut in the second tier (Robson, Bruce, Hoddle) and Roy Keane and Chris Coleman started at PL clubs iirc. Mark Hughes got his first job with Wales, so Giggs is hardly an outlier. Admittedly Stevie G/Rangers is out of the ordinary, but Rangers current position can hardly be deemed ordinary for them, they're fucking desperate.

[Ray de Galles]

Zidane has resigned, apparently.

[Third rate Leszno]

David Hopkin has announced that he's leaving Livingston, and having reportedly been very close to agreeing a deal to join Carlisle until our Board managed to piss him off by changing the 'agreed' terms, he's now likely to join a bigger club such as Shrewsbury or Bradford.

Meanwhile Carlisle's recruitment process ploughs waywardly on like a burning clown car, with one of the directors openly admitting that part of their review of candidate applications is to read the applicants wikipedia page.

[RobW]

Damn, Real Madrid after the Cowleys too.

[Sean of the Shed]

Marco Silva confirmed as Everton manager.

[Satchmo Distel]

Sunderland are appointing a Jack. Jack Ross from St Mirren.

He'll soon be Jack Shit

[beak]

Just call him Wearside Jack.