When do we give up on clough??

[adamD]

so far nigel has been unspectacular, but has not had barely any money and have to ruduce the wage bill, but if we have another average season (such as finishing 14th and below) like the last 2 will it be time to give up on him and move on? and who should take over??

[dcfcgodd]

I think that this is Nigels most important season. I think if we finish in the bottom half this year the fans will turn and it may result in him leaving

[dcfcdavecov]

http://www.celebrityan.com/var/albums/Gemma-Atkinson-Gallery/gemma-atkinson-lingerie

[uttoxram75]

so far nigel has been unspectacular, but has not had barely any money and have to ruduce the wage bill, but if we have another average season (such as finishing 14th and below) like the last 2 will it be time to give up on him and move on? and who should take over??

Can't you make yer own mind up?

Just saying.

[Cisse]

http://www.celebrityan.com/var/albums/Gemma-Atkinson-Gallery/gemma-atkinson-lingerie

Is she our new director of football ?

[trekkie_ram]

WUM successfully de-fused by dave, although one of her breasts look half as tall as the other one.

[Boz_DCFC]

He's got the money for this season coming and we should be up there, another crap season must end up in him going.

[dcfcdavecov]

http://www.celebrityan.com/var/albums/Gemma-Atkinson-Gallery/gemma-atkinson-lingerie

This may have come across as a defuser, or a stupid post, but i was merely bringing my views to the masses with a picture to demonstrate my views on next season.

Top half finish:whistle:

Clough stays.

[GeneralRam]

We don't give up on Clough. For the first time since Jim Smith we have stability. If we see the same amoutn of ivestment next season also we will be on the way to promotion.

[davenportram]

This is the last year of his contract.

So far he's done what the club has asked. Slashed the wage bill and kept us in this division

Herr Flick obviously wants to be pushing top 6 - if Clough doesn't manage it I would think his contract will not be renewed.

[rams71]

if we're in the bottom 6 after christmas he'll be gone i reckon

[Srg]

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[tomsdubs]

Not sure when i would give up on Clough but i tell ya somethin, i've given up on sections of our 'support'.

[UTR.93]

spot on ^^^ i always thought i knew what the phrase "Support" ment, and then i signed myself up on here

[p.shilton]

I don't think we will give up on Clough unless we are relegated. As long as we are in champ (or Prem!) he will get a renewal and most of the fans will be behind him.

[Duracell]

I think that:

If Clough good manager he stay.

If Clough does rubbish he might go.

Oooooh. I went there.

[CornwallRam]

I think Nigel has done an OK job in very difficult circumstances. He has kept us in the division, butchered the squad and halved the wage bill. This would have been beyond the scope of many mangers, who would have either walked away or got us relegated.

Yet even the most blinkeredly pro-Clough fan cannot have missed the fact that Nigel appears to have made quite a few mistakes along the way. Negative tactics, strange team selections and publically berating players don't seem to me to be ideal ways to do the job. However, I feel that most of them were the result of him being asked to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The players didn't do what he demanded and so he lost faith in them. To an extent this is excusable as they were either not his chosen players or players brought in that were cheap gambles.

This season those excuses won't wash. These are Nigel's players. He has had time to filter out the unwanted and (finally) the resources to replace them with his own choices.

We know that Nigel can cut costs, but we don't know if he can produce a successful team - which I always considered was the manger's main job. If he can't do that, then he should go. A review of the position in November to allow for dealing in January. I would suggest if we are in the bottom eight in mid Novemeber Nigel should be sacked. Then another review at the end of the season. Bottom half then Nigel is replaced by someone who can produce a winning team. I don't expect promotion but I feel Nigel has now been given the tools to produce a competitive Championship side. Falure (or even success) now is down to only one man - Nigel Clough.

[WorksopRam]

I fink the same as him.

[StaffsRam]

When will we give up on Clough?

Surely as soon as the first pass goes astray against Birmingham.......

The sad part of this is that for some people it will probably be true.

[smiffy]

So its Clough all the way then for some of you, so if we don't win a game in the first ten, you will not waver, we are in the zone at Christmas, still no wavering, after a disastrous window in Jan no improvement, still you say Clough is the man, when would you pull the plug?, never ?.

My personal opinion is , ( and I have no proof ), that the Yanks have given an ultimatum, and will pull the plug as soon as the playoffs start to look iffy, and before they become unlikely, we will have to wait and see .