Does Cotterill Still Deserve The Chop?

This is a results based business, SC and S O'D have kept us up. Sometimes success at football contains an element of luck; right club, right players and the right coaching staff.

I say give them a chance the loan signings have been astute and Billy I think lost twice on the trot at Elland Rd.

Look at De Matio at Chelsea what a Forest type performance!

Was the Reading guy a proven manager last year when they nearly went down?

Was the Reading guy a proven manager last year when they nearly went down?

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No

But he wasn't proven failure either

whether cotterill deserves the chop or not probably comes down to who buys the club and what their aims are.

if they want to play good football and challenge for promotion cotterill isn't realistically likely to do that but if money is going to be tight and we're going to be battling to survive again then it makes sense to keep him on, at least for the time being

But he wasn't proven failure either
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He's never gotten a team relegated though

And was a proven success early in his career

Never been a success at this level.

Neither had many other managers who went on to be. Do you believe that people don't learn and improve? Football has it wrong at many levels at the minute. Managers are bought in to do something and don't get goven time to do it. And then when one does do at least a large part of waht he was supposed to by keeping us up, many still want him sacked.

Football has it wrong at many levels at the minute.

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Very true, the reason that managers are sacked easily that clubs make to many daft appointments. Cotterill is a great example of this. Why was he given the job? The fans didn't want him, he's got no record of success at this level, in fact his record over a good length of time is poor. He has history of playing hoofball and is roundly disliked by the fans of clubs he's managed at this level.


But we still gave him a job and a 3.5 year contract. This why managers get sacked to often because so often managers are appointed for reasons that dodgy at best. A manager will have half a good season on the back of three very average ones. A bigger club will poach him, then when results go back to the managers average, they sack him.

If clubs tried harder to get appointments right there wouldn't be as many sackings.

At the time, Sutton, we didn't have too much of a choice, what, with the SM debacle and no money for the 'right' appointment. No money for anything, infact and after being burnt with BD's constant demands (rightly so in the Jan windows), SC could possibly be seen as the right appointment, as he had previous ability to keep teams up in similar positions - so he is proven.
Let's just see how he does when he has the funds available. He deserves a chance.

And by the way, many on this forum, probably, subconsciously think we are going to get mega owners, with pots of money, by rights. It could a dirtby type of owner - who knows, just don't presume anything.

At the time, Sutton, we didn't have too much of a choice
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Sorry I'm not having it. People forget we paid to get Cotterill when we could have had SoD or someone similar for nothing. He also sold £2.5 mil worth of players and spent most of that on loans. He wasn't cheap at all and he wasn't anything like are only chioce.

As for him deserving a chance, load of tosh. He's done the absolute minimum and broke all sorts of records for poor performance. He deserves nowt.