Is Rob Edwards A Good Manager Or Should He Go?

[prawnking]

I still think the pool we'd have been picking from given how bunched the Championship was at the time (20th was 10 points off 6th at Xmas) was so shallow and our position so obvious that there wasn't much we could do outside of loans and that would have just been spending money for the sake of it as Gomes has proved.

Ironically the one player we did sign would probably have been promoted if he'd stayed put.

I agree, but it's two different points in a way.

The club could have tried but they didn't, they actively got a manager and striker for the league below, the former after only three months of the season!

99% of this forum had us pegged as down already due to Pereira's start, but for the club to also give up so visibly and so early is pretty criminal in retrospect, and I doubt added much to an already rancid dressing room

 

[Kenny]

Rob wasnt the answer in the first place. Fucking Jeff and his football knowledge.

The very very very best you are getting from him is a Scott Parker scenario. Could well somehow get us up but 100% coming back down.
What little tower of positivity he had built though has been destroyed since the West Ham game. 1 poor half into next season and the half filled stadium will be on his back and we will crawl towards his sacking.
If Matt Jackson is still advising our interim chairman, expect Gary Rowett to replace him.

 

[divorcedwolf]

He has to go, but as others have said it will probably drag on until November and get nasty when we’re in the lower half of the championship. At this point I don’t trust this club to do anything remotely sensible though so on we go unfortunately.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

We should never have appointed him in the first place. It’s mind boggling that we actually paid compensation to get him in.

 

[jd1981]

The problem next season is the play offs being extended means we can come 8th lose on penalties in a QF and numpties will feel he’s done very well when in reality it’s just mediocre.
Also means if he has us about 12th-13th he’ll bang on about a good run getting us in the play offs.
This summer is a tough job for a good manager let alone this average lot.

 

[Kenny]

If a high % of our fans accept 8th as being ok, then we might as well fuck off back down to L1

 

[jd1981]

If a high % of our fans accept 8th as being ok, then we might as well fuck off back down to L1

They will though we have an odd fanbase. If the system stayed the same and we came 6th and didn’t go up it shouldn’t be classed as a good season.
The way this pans out is so fucking obvious, we meander between 8th-14th next season and end up coming between 9th-11th just missing out. But RE is kept in place because we are always in touching distance. All this whilst we dish out football painful to the eyes.

 

[basher]

73 points was enough for 6th this season, Derby finished eighth on 69, 84 got you second! All of those are bang average returns really, in a poor quality division of football.

Given the financial advantage we have then that should be a breeze... but...I just have zero trust in the people in post to deliver!

 

[C.L.D]

I don't hate Rob, and he was very much set up for failure, but he's not a good manager. A competent team (which we're not) would have found a better replacement than Rob as their plan b after failing to convince GON to come back ( ) and would find a better manager now for the summer (whomever that is).

 

[Dire Wolf]

If a high % of our fans accept 8th as being ok, then we might as well fuck off back down to L1

Is there anyone who doesn't believe that is more likely than promotion? If I was forced into a binary choice of "one of these 2 things will happen" I'd choose another relegation. It might be neither of those things, but if I was a betting man I'd put money on us starting August 2027 in League One.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I cannot overstate how bad you have to be to go down to League One. We had to appoint Saunders to do it and even he managed a points total that normally would keep you up. Blues managed to stay up for years while appointing the likes of Lee Clark and Steve Cotterill. Leicester have been a toxic mix of chaos and drivel this season but would have stayed up on GD without their points deduction.

Can very easily see us having a Hoddle-esque nothing season and even one where we go through more than one change of manager, but going down would take multiple catastrophes all going on simultaneously and I doubt that there won't be three worse teams (or three worse run clubs).

 

[jlo]

They will though we have an odd fanbase. If the system stayed the same and we came 6th and didn’t go up it shouldn’t be classed as a good season.
The way this pans out is so fucking obvious, we meander between 8th-14th next season and end up coming between 9th-11th just missing out. But RE is kept in place because we are always in touching distance. All this whilst we dish out football painful to the eyes.

The fans might, but I genuinely don't think Fosun will. The Prem money matters too much to them, however they won't act quickly on Edwards I fear so a season might still be lost by the time they do. I think next season will feel a lot like 2016/17 where we started with Zenga, and Fosun only learn when it's too late.

 

[Lupo]

I don't hate Rob, and he was very much set up for failure, but he's not a good manager. A competent team (which we're not) would have found a better replacement than Rob as their plan b after failing to convince GON to come back ( ) and would find a better manager now for the summer (whomever that is).

Unfortunately the thorough and robust recruitment process consisted of approaching the guy we sacked 11 months previously then approaching the bloke sacked by Luton 10 months previously

 

[C.L.D]

Unfortunately the thorough and robust recruitment process consisted of approaching the guy we sacked 11 months previously then approaching the bloke sacked by Luton 10 months previously

That's kinda the point, we need someone better than Rob, but the people making that decision would be the same ones that hired him.

Can't really trust the higher ups to sack Edwards quickly and appoint someone new, with a DoF hiring as well so they start the summer proactively given all the incomings and outgoings needed.

 

[Bigbadwulf07]

I don't hate Rob, and he was very much set up for failure, but he's not a good manager. A competent team (which we're not) would have found a better replacement than Rob as their plan b after failing to convince GON to come back ( ) and would find a better manager now for the summer (whomever that is).

I'm yet to hear who we could've got instead of RE. who would have come and with any CV

 

[Tony Towner]

I'm yet to hear who we could've got instead of RE. who would have come and with any CV

Robbie Keane wanted the job and has done well in both Israel and Hungary. Now supposedly being lined up for Celtic.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

The fans might, but I genuinely don't think Fosun will. The Prem money matters too much to them, however they won't act quickly on Edwards I fear so a season might still be lost by the time they do. I think next season will feel a lot like 2016/17 where we started with Zenga, and Fosun only learn when it's too late.

We'll know within 24 hour of the final whistle at Burnley what Fosun think. If Edwards is still in post they are sleepwalking to mediocrity, if they really want to get back to the PL at the first attempt he'll be gone.

 

[Sniffer]

I'm yet to hear who we could've got instead of RE. who would have come and with any CV

Carrick was available, without the £2-4m price tag.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Robbie Keane wanted the job and has done well in both Israel and Hungary. Now supposedly being lined up for Celtic.

And approximately 10,000,000% more goodwill from fans due to his playing days at Molineux than Rob Edwards has

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

That's kinda the point, we need someone better than Rob, but the people making that decision would be the same ones that hired him.

Can't really trust the higher ups to sack Edwards quickly and appoint someone new, with a DoF hiring as well so they start the summer proactively given all the incomings and outgoings needed.

Agreed, which is why given my expectations of what we might end up with (like Lage again or GON again) I'd be satisfied with Parker.