Games like today are the reason Sherwood will be managing another Premier League club next season.
Dreadful performance, overwhelmed tactically in the second half and lucky to get anything from the game. But another 3 points, and from a ground where Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd have all lost this season, where City and Everton drew, and where Liverpool needed a dodgy penalty to win.
If you'd spoke to anyone at the end of AVB's reign, told them that we wouldn't strengthen in January, would have a huge number of injuries to deal with including Walker which meant Naughton would have to start every game, Vertonghen will stop caring, Kaboul will come back from injury with no pace at all, our big money summer signings will completely fail to adapt to the Premier League, we'll get screwed over by some awful refereeing decisions, and the fans and media will completely turn on the manager. Imagine if you asked that person how many points they'd pick up over the next 20 games. I seriously doubt anyone would say 39. That's 74 points averaged over a season, which we've never amassed before. And if you asked them how many goals we'd score over the next 20 games? Doubt many would say 37 with the same squad after we only scored 15 in our first 16 games. 37 from 20 games is 70 goals averaged over a season, which we've never managed in the Premier League.
The stats are good. So someone will give him a job. The performances and his conduct have been poor though. And I don't think our players think much of him. Which is why it won't be us.
Games like today are the reason Sherwood will be managing another Premier League club next season.
Dreadful performance, overwhelmed tactically in the second half and lucky to get anything from the game. But another 3 points, and from a ground where Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd have all lost this season, where City and Everton drew, and where Liverpool needed a dodgy penalty to win.
If you'd spoke to anyone at the end of AVB's reign, told them that we wouldn't strengthen in January, would have a huge number of injuries to deal with including Walker which meant Naughton would have to start every game, Vertonghen will stop caring, Kaboul will come back from injury with no pace at all, our big money summer signings will completely fail to adapt to the Premier League, we'll get screwed over by some awful refereeing decisions, and the fans and media will completely turn on the manager. Imagine if you asked that person how many points they'd pick up over the next 20 games. I seriously doubt anyone would say 39. That's 74 points averaged over a season, which we've never amassed before. And if you asked them how many goals we'd score over the next 20 games? Doubt many would say 37 with the same squad after we only scored 15 in our first 16 games. 37 from 20 games is 70 goals averaged over a season, which we've never managed in the Premier League.
The stats are good. So someone will give him a job. The performances and his conduct have been poor though. And I don't think our players think much of him. Which is why it won't be us.
Games like today are the reason Sherwood will be managing another Premier League club next season.
Dreadful performance, overwhelmed tactically in the second half and lucky to get anything from the game. But another 3 points, and from a ground where Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd have all lost this season, where City and Everton drew, and where Liverpool needed a dodgy penalty to win.
If you'd spoke to anyone at the end of AVB's reign, told them that we wouldn't strengthen in January, would have a huge number of injuries to deal with including Walker which meant Naughton would have to start every game, Vertonghen will stop caring, Kaboul will come back from injury with no pace at all, our big money summer signings will completely fail to adapt to the Premier League, we'll get screwed over by some awful refereeing decisions, and the fans and media will completely turn on the manager. Imagine if you asked that person how many points they'd pick up over the next 20 games. I seriously doubt anyone would say 39. That's 74 points averaged over a season, which we've never amassed before. And if you asked them how many goals we'd score over the next 20 games? Doubt many would say 37 with the same squad after we only scored 15 in our first 16 games. 37 from 20 games is 70 goals averaged over a season, which we've never managed in the Premier League.
The stats are good. So someone will give him a job. The performances and his conduct have been poor though. And I don't think our players think much of him. Which is why it won't be us.
Yeah a pre-season is massive for any coach...
At this point I think its too soon to fully judge Tim.....10 games after a pre-season would be long enough.
and now comes all the posts how we cant let a trainee manage our prestigious club....about how we would be the new crazy gang of the noughties....I really wish we could remove all the pre-conceived Bull***t about Sherwood and have a proper discussion about him....but never mind....yes he has a potty mouth and upsets alot of people but so did Clough & Fergie...didnt stop them being decent managers.
I remember I once asked in a thread for people to list what makes a good manager and prioritise the points......basically results was top, peformances second and handling the press was bottom of the list!
With that in mind I find it remarkable that he should be caned just because he doesnt conform to the Martinez standard of speaking....who cares....every human being is different....those who said results are the be all and end all shouldnt just poo poo Timbo's record over 18 epl games......it aint bad at all for a ROOKIE!
Of course he should stay.
Anyone who says otherwise is basing their answer on unsubstantiated and irrelevant rumours.
I don't think the circumstances he faced were that difficult. We had a good quality squad that was 6 months further in to their adaptation period and that had previously been learning to play a more controlled style of football. We've been playing more 'up and at em' and goals will always come that way.
I think because the players know he's off that they are playing for him. I don't think his achievements are that great either though. We've beaten who we should beat and comprehensively lost to the ones that require a bit more thought to get the win over.
I also don't get 'terrible performance, but the guy knows how to win'.
He could literally have done nothing different today and the team could have lost if Stoke took their chances. I think it's a completely meaningless point to make on a manager because they don't have THAT much control over everything.
I don't think the circumstances he faced were that difficult. We had a good quality squad that was 6 months further in to their adaptation period and that had previously been learning to play a more controlled style of football. We've been playing more 'up and at em' and goals will always come that way.
I think because the players know he's off that they are playing for him. I don't think his achievements are that great either though. We've beaten who we should beat and comprehensively lost to the ones that require a bit more thought to get the win over.
No such thing anymore mate. Chelscum lost against Sunderland last week. Didnt they also lose against Stoke away? Man ****ty drew against Sunderland 2-2 yet we beat them the week before 5-1. Yet of course TS gets discredited because well.. he cant speak properly.
I think this season was all about accumulating points and getting as high as we can. Next stage to get rid of the ****e we have and yep we have some ****e, and get in key players in key positions have a full pre season (hindered by the world cup for sure) and 'start again'
Opponent | 2013/14 | 2012/13 |
Southampton (A) | 3-2 | 2-1 |
West Brom (H) | 1-1 | 1-1 |
Stoke (H) | 3-0 | 0-0 |
Man Utd (A) | 2-1 | 3-2 |
Crystal Palace (H) | 2-0 | 2-1 (QPR) |
Swansea (A) | 3-1 | 2-1 |
Emirates Marketing Project (H) | 1-5 | 3-1 |
Hull (A) | 1-1 | 3-1 (Reading) |
Everton (H) | 1-0 | 2-2 |
Saudi Sportswashing Machine (A) | 4-0 | 1-2 |
Norwich (A) | 0-1 | 1-1 |
Cardiff (H) | 1-0 | 0-1 (Wigan) |
Chelsea (A) | 0-4 | 2-2 |
Arsenal (H) | 0-1 | 2-1 |
Southampton (H) | 3-2 | 1-0 |
Liverpool (A) | 0-4 | 2-3 |
Sunderland (H) | 5-1 | 1-0 |
West Brom (A) | 3-3 | 1-0 |
Fulham (H) | 3-1 | 0-1 |
Stoke (A) | 1-0 | 2-1 |
West Ham (A) | 3-2 | |
Aston Villa (H) | 2-0 | |
Points so far | 39 | 38 (44 in total) |
that's a fair assessment, IMV.
on paper Sherwood has done pretty well, but when you look a little deeper i don't think he's really forced his way in to being considered a realistic long term choice. which in fairness would have been a pretty tall order in such a short period of time and ideally id like to have seen how he fared over a full season, but for me it presents too much of a risk at this point for us to be putting faith in a manager so new to the game. (in terms of being a top flight manager)
Billy, could you explain the risk to me?
> Maximum time wasted if it goes wrong: 1 season
> Amount of money we'd need to give him/he'd expect: Zero
> Difficulty/cost of sacking him: Zero
> Risk he doesn't get on with and/or can't work with DL/FB: Negligible, since they apparently get on now
> Risk of us getting relegated: Zero
> Risk of us not getting CL: Whatever it is, we've only ever done that once, so the risk is no greater than any other year
> Risk of losing out on a top tier manager: Zero - Poccetino is currently top man in the running, and since he's not elite level like LvG or CA, there's nobody from the top tier that a Sherwood appointment would be blocking. FdB free next summer? Cheerio Tim.
> Long term damage if he sucks: Negligible. 1 season of failure after 52 years in a row of failure makes no difference.
And the flipside: Look at each of those points above and answer them for Poccetinho:
> Maximum time wasted if it goes wrong: 3/4 season contract
> Amount of money we'd need to give him/he'd expect: A new manager would expect significant funds to rebuild squad in his own image
> Difficulty/cost of sacking him: The cost of his contract + the emotional trauma of going through another sacking + the risk of his signings being Felleini'd after he leaves + the bad will of tapping up SCBC again + risk of losing Sherwood who might be good and we'll never know + squad upheaval
> Risk he doesn't get on with and/or can't work with DL/FB: Who knows, but the risk is certainly there.
> Risk of us getting relegated: Zero
> Risk of us not getting CL: Who knows? It's rolling the dice. Again.
> Risk of losing out on a top tier manager: Significant - if FdB, Ancelotti or FSW becomes available, we can't appoint him because we've just got our new guy in on 4 year contract. FdB free next summer? Ashburton Grove is just up the road there Frank.
> Long term damage if he sucks: Who knows, but AVB did quite a bit of damage with the mess he left behind, as did several of our failed appointments.
So I do need this risk thing explained to me by someone.
Risk of medium term damage if Sherwood is left to his own devices is quite high though. He seems intent on breaking up the nucleus of a successful squad.
Risk of medium term damage if Sherwood is left to his own devices is quite high though. He seems intent on breaking up the nucleus of a successful squad.