Interim manager thread 2.0

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

I think I’m probably on the same page in terms of the line of thinking here, but I can just see the players taking one look at him and thinking ‘who the fudge are you?’ I could go in and crack a few jokes if that’s what they need. @thfcsteff put it well on pod this week in broadly the same terms re Redknapp and how the players probably need to be sounded out now in terms of what they need. The players just won’t know who he - Sherwood - is - I guess Porro might - and therefore won’t respect him…

While we do need someone to lift the players, we need to have a certainly degree of credibility with the players - be that how they engage with them emotionally which is obviously absolutely critical atm, as much as tactically / who they are and what they’ve achieved.

I just feel Sherwood and Redknapp are too far removed from the modern game to be able to give us what we need. Plus, I can’t stand either of them. Shameless, self-promoting preservationists!

Totally fair. I will find it quite ironic if they decide to sound out the players on what they need for the final 7 games. I feel like all Levy did for nigh on 20 years was sound out the players, then clearly at some point they wanted to put a stop to that, and now we’re in the worst position we’ve been in for many of our lifetimes.

My concern with a Harry or Tim is less will the players know and respect them and more like…has modern football gotten too complex in terms of pressing structures? Will we just get sliced open if we try and attack but don’t have an intelligent plan without the ball when we lose it and the team is pushed up the field? I think it would need to be Harry + a modern coach. Like him crack the jokes, take the pressure off, give the players confidence to express themselves. And get some modern coach to give us some semblance of off ball structure. Can be simple, just needs to work for 7 games, but it can’t be so basic as to not be effective in this day and age.

I’m also not totally against Tudor staying if he felt up to it. For all the positive momentum going into the Forest game, I’m not sure that result was his fault. But I do think if the idea is we need someone who takes the pressure off, it probably isn’t someone who has such a serious persona.