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THE SACK RACE

• THE SACK RACE

• THE SACK RACE

  StrumSolo > 12/09/2013, 20:01

  Earlier this week Carlisle’s Greg Abbot became the first Football League manager this season to lose his job. With three Premier League games gone already, the first top-flight departure can’t be too far behind, can it? Let’s have a look at the bookies’ favourites…
  
  Paolo Di Canio (7/4)
  The winnable games passed by un-won and with a nasty looking run of fixtures on the horizon, Sunderland seem most likely to be cast adrift after the 8 or 9 game mark, the period where chairmen are generally at their twitchiest. Having said that, expectations won’t be too high against the big teams and as long as morale-sapping thrashings can be avoided, this might be the ideal time for Di Canio to gel his summer signings in to a cohesive unit. With the sheer volume of new faces at the Stadium of Light, any managerial replacement would be faced with the same set of problems as the incumbent. He’s by no means secure, but I’d be surprised if he was gone before Christmas.
  
  Alan Pardew (11/2)
  The win against Fulham would have settled a few nerves and for all the problems at St James’, you’d imagine Newcastle will have enough about them to steer clear of the bottom three. They won’t be bothering the Champions League places of course, but after a summer of inactivity in the transfer market, mid-table is the realistic and likely ambition. Off-field matters are less straightforward though, and these odds have more to do with the relationship between Pardew, Joe Kinnear and Mike Ashley than anything the Magpies will or won’t do on the pitch. Personally, I think Pardew will be the first to go.
  
  Steve Clarke (7/1)
  Surprised he's so short. Granted, they’ve not had the best of starts, but with the budget West Brom operate on, 4th bottom should be viewed a success. On the other hand, Clarke may be the victim of his own success after guiding them to 8th place last season. Though on the other other hand, their form since the turn of the year has been pretty awful…
  
  Still think they’ve got enough to move away from trouble though, and maybe even score a goal at some point. Not sure Victor Anichebe is the man to do it, mind.
  
  Martin Jol (10/1)
  New-owner-odds, these. Is Shahid Khan expecting the impossible? His moustache is pretty eccentric. If he were clean-shaven, Jol would be at least 12/1…
  
  Fulham will probably have another season of mid-table anonymity, and Jol is probably safe.
  
  Ian Holloway (14/1)
  Behave. He performed a miracle in getting them up in the first place. They’ll take the parachute payments and run.
  
  Who do you think will be first to go?

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  dl > 12/09/2013, 21:17

  Well my crystal ball has predicted a bust up at Stamford Bridge .... Abramovich gets the hump with Jose ... Fires him then takes over as manager .... He thinks his is playing Fifa 2014 .... Chelsea win the Quadruple ....

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  rustee1 > 20/09/2013, 22:34

  on form you would think di canio would be first to go, but he hasnt been there long and they have nearly a whole new team. id probably go for pardew if they keep struggling

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  StrumSolo > 02/12/2013, 11:03

  Martin Jol finally got the axe yesterday with René Meulensteen taking over first team duties at Fulham. The former Man Utd coach was only appointed a few weeks ago but it always looked as though he might have been brought in with one eye on taking the top job.
  
  Busy old day for Championship sackings too. Wigan's Owen Coyle, Sheff Wed's Dave Jones and Barnsley's David Flitcroft all lost their jobs yesterday.
  
  Decent decisions?
  
  And who's next?
  
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  RussyRover > 02/12/2013, 11:32

  The clock was certainly ticking for Jol wasn't it, I don't think it was a matter of if but when... and now Meulensteen says Fulham need new players to stay up!!! well Jol could have done that? so what's going to be new then? Still think Fulham will be a championship side next season..
  
  and Coyle leaves by 'mutual agreement' - lol - in other words a sacking with a heavy dose of face saving and make-up applied, and letting it slip in the Europa League probably didn't help either...
  
  as for Dave Jones, well 2nd from bottom and no signs of having ideas to get them out sealed his fate didn't it, in fact the only worse team was Barnsley!!!
  
  
  No real upsets here for me... AVB still on the cards next if they don't buck up their ideas....

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  willis52 > 02/12/2013, 20:28

  No surprises with any of those sackings. I think Malky Mackay will be next out of the door. Not so much based on how Cardiff are performing, but more because of the way the club is run.
  
  Saying that, Southampton got a lot of stick for getting rid of Nigel Adkins around this time last year, but that is looking like a fairly shrewd move right now.
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