Quntib Hollox
Jack Armstrong
The problem SC has is the teams under pressure at the bottom of the Prem will probably want experienced heads to keep them up and the decent championship options are more than likely doing ok!!
The Demise of Birmingham City
- Thread starter PynchonForest
- Start date
Bryn Gunn
Cash is King!
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
The two months line tickled me.
HBB
Jack Burkitt
Looks like they're going for Mowbray
Quntib Hollox
Jack Armstrong
Not a bad option to steady the ship
Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
Good little article on this debacle...
He didn't get the position on merit but because he's a name in world football, with a major following on social media - 63million across all platforms, apparently.
When social media commands such power that it can get you a job at a perfectly well-functioning football club - as Birmingham was when Wayne was hired - there will obviously be a lowering of standards. When X and Instagram are deemed a measure of your ability, then I'm afraid it's a race to the bottom.
He didn't get the position on merit but because he's a name in world football, with a major following on social media - 63million across all platforms, apparently.
When social media commands such power that it can get you a job at a perfectly well-functioning football club - as Birmingham was when Wayne was hired - there will obviously be a lowering of standards. When X and Instagram are deemed a measure of your ability, then I'm afraid it's a race to the bottom.
mysteryduck
First Team Squad
Mowbray is a sensible appointment but it's quite funny seeing the new owners obviously realise at last that having someone who's at least competent at managing is better than getting a big name. Well done lads, you're learning.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Confirmed it's Mowbray.
No surprise it isn't Cooper.
No surprise it isn't Cooper.
PynchonForest
John Robertson
Birmingham unbeaten in three since Rooney was sacked.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
I'm starting to wonder if Wayne wasn't responsible for some of their recent issues...
There might be something in this!
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I blame the players.
Rooney was a great player and therefore has to be a great manager.
Strongly tipped to be the next manager of Jim Radcliffe’s Man Ure
Rooney was a great player and therefore has to be a great manager.
Strongly tipped to be the next manager of Jim Radcliffe’s Man Ure
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I'm Red Till Dead
Stuart Pearce
Can they make sure there is a no sack/no cancel clause in the contract and say a 10 year contract length.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
Was I the first person to use "Jim Radcliffe's Man Ure"?
Because at 25% it isn't.
It is still the Glaser's Man Ure.
Because at 25% it isn't.
It is still the Glaser's Man Ure.
DanR
Steve Chettle
At the end of the day (or financial year), the Glazers will still be taking their dividend, while Jim Radcliffe (or his poorly paid lackeys) will be doing all of the work. But I would happily write Mr Rooney a reference, should he choose to apply for a management position at Man Ure.
Back to Birmynum, it's a shame they have appointed Mowbray, he is a decent bloke who knows the league, and is likely to considerably reduce any interest I have in the club.
Grenville 1898
Nicolás Domínguez - King of the Press
Apparently Rooney reckons that the Birmingham fans didn't accept him from day one.
"John Eustace had done a good job, to be fair to him, but they made the change and asked me to go in. I went in, but I knew straight away that I wasn't accepted by the fans. I think it was more because John Eustace had done well. They were in sixth place when he got sacked."
Yeah, and look what you did to try and bring the fans over to accepting you, won 2 of 15 and lost 9.
"John Eustace had done a good job, to be fair to him, but they made the change and asked me to go in. I went in, but I knew straight away that I wasn't accepted by the fans. I think it was more because John Eustace had done well. They were in sixth place when he got sacked."
Yeah, and look what you did to try and bring the fans over to accepting you, won 2 of 15 and lost 9.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
He's got to try and hang on to his idea that he can manage a football club somehow. Nothing to do with how shit you are Wayne, of course it was the fans fault.
I doubt Wayne could manage a wank, let alone a football club.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Fans generally don't accept managers who are proven to be shite, Wayne.
Any club moronic enough to give him another job deserves what they get.
Any club moronic enough to give him another job deserves what they get.