Malky Mackay?

[Big Ern]

Dear me the Adkins brigade are rattLOLed tonight. For days you've been saying to people "name someone else who could come in" and when someone does you get upset.

Wouldn't mind Mackay personally, seems a nice bloke, doubt we'd be first on his radar.

Theres a difference between 'could' and 'would.' If that wasn't the case then I would suggest we sack Adkins and replace with Sir Alex Ferguson.

[winchester_royal]

The guy that spent 8m quid on Andreas Cornelius? Nah y'a right.

As opposed to the guy who spent £12million on Gaston Ramirez?

Genuine col if you think Adkins had anything to do with that transfer.

I'm not saying Adkins is defo the right man, but if we were to replace him Mark Robins would be my choice, closely followed by Hoddle or Stevie Clarke. Dolan if all 3 told us to where to shove the job.

Think Adkins should be given a real chance to shake up the squad. He's seen all the limitations, one last chance to sort it out or I may even join your little crew.

[RoyalBlue]

Why the f*ck would Mackay (or any other manager) want to come to a club with an owner who has gone AWOL and a Chairman who just wants to get the rest of his dosh as soon as he is able too?

Madejski and Anton may have a common interest i.e. getting their money back but make no mistake at all, there is clearly no love lost between them. That's evidenced by the fact (from Madejski's own mouth) that the owner doesn't feel it is necessary to give his chairman any idea of when he might next be seen at the club.

Adkins is a decent manager whose job has been made extremely difficult by an absentee owner and a chairman who would prefer not to be in the position that he is in and has always been reluctant to invest the sort of money that most managers and clubs need to be successful.

[RoyalBlue]

Dear me the Adkins brigade are rattLOLed tonight. For days you've been saying to people "name someone else who could come in" and when someone does you get upset.

Wouldn't mind Mackay personally, seems a nice bloke, doubt we'd be first on his radar.

F8ck me and thank god you don't run Reading FC (and presumably any other business) if your prime selection criteria are 'seems a nice bloke'!

[Zana Badawi]

No, not yet, we need the financial mess behind the scenes sorted out first. Then we need to see if the board can/will actually back the manager in what he wants to do.

Pretty much this.

Sadly.

[Big Ern]

Why the f*ck would Mackay (or any other manager) want to come to a club with an owner who has gone AWOL and a Chairman who just wants to get the rest of his dosh as soon as he is able too?

The people with more than 1 brain cell are already fully in agreement of that. Sadly with he likes of Sandman and Woodcote, even if we drew it for them in crayons, they still wouldn't get it.

[sandman]

The guy that spent 8m quid on Andreas Cornelius? Nah y'a right.

As opposed to the guy who spent £12million on Gaston Ramirez?

Genuine col if you think Adkins had anything to do with that transfer.

I'm not saying Adkins is defo the right man, but if we were to replace him Mark Robins would be my choice, closely followed by Hoddle or Stevie Clarke. Dolan if all 3 told us to where to shove the job.

Think Adkins should be given a real chance to shake up the squad. He's seen all the limitations, one last chance to sort it out or I may even join your little crew.

Poor Adkins, he doesn't have much say in transfers does he? Poor fella had Ramirez forced upon him at Saints and Drenthe forced on him at Reading.

Reminds me of the bloke who claimed that Manuel Pellegrini failed at Madrid because Perez signed Ronaldo for him.

[winchester_royal]

Ermm...yeah.....

[sandman]

I said he wouldn't come here Ernie don't get your panties in a twist.

I know you're upset that Adkins is failing but there's no need to get so upset.

[Platypuss]

The guy that spent 8m quid on Andreas Cornelius? Nah y'a right.

As opposed to the guy who spent £12million on Gaston Ramirez?

Scored for Southampton in the Premiership today.

[AirRaidSiren]

Dear me the Adkins brigade are rattLOLed tonight. For days you've been saying to people "name someone else who could come in" and when someone does you get upset.

Wouldn't mind Mackay personally, seems a nice bloke, doubt we'd be first on his radar.

F8ck me and thank god you don't run Reading FC (and presumably any other business) if your prime selection criteria are 'seems a nice bloke'!

[Big Ern]

The guy that spent 8m quid on Andreas Cornelius? Nah y'a right.

As opposed to the guy who spent £12million on Gaston Ramirez?

Scored for Southampton in the Premiership today.

And rumoured interest from Inter Milan....must be shite

[Royal Dee]

Phil Parkinson. He would bring some organisation and backbone in to this team.

[Big Ern]

Phil Parkinson. He would bring some organisation and backbone in to this team.

Only a matter of time before someone brought up the Parky option.


Ok, please explain, what Parky has achieved in his management career, and then compare it to Adkins.

[3points]

List of alternatives - all without a club

Steve Clarke - great coach, probably work well with NH as DoF
Martin Jol - too high profile for us
Ian Holloway - great value, and gets his players playing for him
Di Matteo - wouldn't stoop this low
Glenn Hoddle - wanted Spurs, but probably not interested
Martin Allen - at leats we'd play with passion
Zola - wouldn't get this squad playing
Boothroyd - hasn't cut it recently
Sean O'Driscoll - thought he's usually done a decent job
Owen Coyle - plays quite a direct brand of football
Tony Mowbray - did a decent job at Boro post relegation
Paolo di Canio - come on, he'd knock some of our players into shape at least (HRK I'm thinking about you)

And then there's Parky!!

[sandman]

The guy that spent 8m quid on Andreas Cornelius? Nah y'a right.

As opposed to the guy who spent £12million on Gaston Ramirez?

Scored for Southampton in the Premiership today.

And rumoured interest from Inter Milan....must be shite

Has hardly played since April which is why he wants to move. He wants to go back to Serie A as it is his comfort zone and quite frankly Inter aren't exactly what they were a few years ago.

[RoyalBlue]

List of alternatives - all without a club

Steve Clarke - great coach, probably work well with NH as DoF
Martin Jol - too high profile for us
Ian Holloway - great value, and gets his players playing for him
Di Matteo - wouldn't stoop this low
Glenn Hoddle - wanted Spurs, but probably not interested
Martin Allen - at leats we'd play with passion
Zola - wouldn't get this squad playing
Boothroyd - hasn't cut it recently
Sean O'Driscoll - thought he's usually done a decent job
Owen Coyle - plays quite a direct brand of football
Tony Mowbray - did a decent job at Boro post relegation
Paolo di Canio - come on, he'd knock some of our players into shape at least (HRK I'm thinking about you)

And then there's Parky!!

Point remains, only a complete idiot or shyster would want to come to RFC the way it is currently being run by Anton and Madejski. Furthermore, few of that list have anywhere near as good a past record as Adkins.

[Royal Dee]

Phil Parkinson. He would bring some organisation and backbone in to this team.

Only a matter of time before someone brought up the Parky option.


Ok, please explain, what Parky has achieved in his management career, and then compare it to Adkins.

I don't think its always what you achieve in your past that only matters but what matters is if your the right person for the right job. At Reading we play the Reading way and without millions being spent this wont change, in short you cant teach an old dog new tricks. Bringing in Parkinson would get the fans back on side, bring the "feel good factor" back and most importantly Parkinson always gets 110% from his players and that's exactly what we need. Backbone and fight.

[MmmMonsterMunch]

List of alternatives - all without a club

Steve Clarke - great coach, probably work well with NH as DoF
Martin Jol - too high profile for us
Ian Holloway - great value, and gets his players playing for him
Di Matteo - wouldn't stoop this low
Glenn Hoddle - wanted Spurs, but probably not interested
Martin Allen - at leats we'd play with passion
Zola - wouldn't get this squad playing
Boothroyd - hasn't cut it recently
Sean O'Driscoll - thought he's usually done a decent job
Owen Coyle - plays quite a direct brand of football
Tony Mowbray - did a decent job at Boro post relegation
Paolo di Canio - come on, he'd knock some of our players into shape at least (HRK I'm thinking about you)

And then there's Parky!!

Boothroyd. Classic. I'm voting for him. Mind you the ball would be in the air all the time so it could work....

[3points]

Point remains, only a complete idiot or shyster would want to come to RFC the way it is currently being run by Anton and Madejski. Furthermore, few of that list have anywhere near as good a past record as Adkins.

Think managers are becoming as mercenary as players these days. Take a 2-3 year contract at Reading on decent money and then if it works out you get a new, improved contract. If it doesn't you get sacked and a decent pay-off. Bit of a merry-go-round nowadays. And, as I said, all the above are currently unemployed. If you're unemployed, don't you take a job to help pay the bills, even if the company you're going to work for doesn't have the best reputation?