He is far from incompetent. Actually amazed people think that. Like all managers he has a level. His is getting a team to be an average Championship team. That was fine when we were League 1 and last season, with the help of 3 outstanding attacking players, he got more from the team. We should be shaking KJ's hand thanking him for his work and wishing him all the best. We should already know who we want to make the step up.
Agree with this - for all that I've wanted him out for six months now and his football has been horrific to watch all season, I don't bear him any particular malice, I don't think he is an intrinsically terrible manager, it's just time up and has been for some time. He's had ample time to sort out this mess and there's no progress at all.
I'll always be grateful for the job he did when he came in, for all that people say League One should have been a cakewalk (and there is some merit to that) there are plenty of big clubs who've gone down to that level and not come straight back up, Sheffield United are going to start their sixth straight season in the third tier next time up. Then we did play a lot of good stuff last season and it was Ken who signed Dicko and Afobe, you can't give him no credit because we had good players when he was the one who snapped them up. To compare him to Saunders is just ludicrous; yeah, the snapshot of our final 20 games will probably be marginally worse than the 20 games he managed (I use the term loosely), but in every other respect it's night and day. I wouldn't have Saunders managing a pub team, unless it was a pub earmarked for imminent demolition and we sent him in to do his team talk just at the right time.
Same applies with the "this is the most bored I've ever been with Wolves" stuff, oh really? It's pretty much exactly the same as the Hoddle days from where I'm sitting, dull football with tepid mid-table results, just Ken for all his faults doesn't come across as if he's doing us a massive favour for deigning to grant his precious time to our club. I also doubt Ken will spend May and June doing nothing, signing and scouting no-one and then leave us just as pre-season's about to start with hardly any players (after everyone else in the division's been busy signing players we could have had and would have improved us) and no manager. You think our squad's rubbish now, look at what was left here on 1 July 2006. Someone please tell me how that was a better situation than what we have now and how anyone could possibly have felt more engaged then than they do now.
He has to go, I don't really want to watch his teams play any more (I still do though...mug) and I think there are plenty of managers who could do a much better job even with limited resources, but there's got to be some perspective. He's also not the only one to blame for how things have unravelled in the space of nine months, as I outlined on the previous transfer thread Jez's leadership (or lack of) is seriously poor.
