Form when Clarke was sacked: WWWLL (1.8 PPG - equivalent of 83 points in a season) Form since Hourihane took over: LDDLL (0.4 ppg - equivalent of 18 points in a season) League position when Clarke was sacked: 10 League position now: 12 Distance from play offs when Clarke was sacked: 8 points Distance from play offs now: 12 points (and teams above us have a game in hand) Distance from relegation when Clarke was sacked: 19 points Distance from relegation now: 16 points (and teams in relegation places have a game in hand) Goal difference when Clarke was sacked: -1 Goal difference now: -7 On every metric we have gone backwards since he was sacked
Look at Devaney's stats during his 2 occasions as caretaker manager/coach. and he's still at the club.
They lined up the cheap option as a fail safe if Clarke didn't hit targets but didn't bank on the fan favourite being worse.
To be fair, nobody should have been expecting an upturn in performances, following losing one of the coaching staff and making someone who is still in his first season as a coach the head coach.
I hope season ticket sales are down massively given what these morons have tried to do again. To be fair it looks like it's backfiring big time. Neerav, JAQ and Mladen out.
Yes. Putting a novice in charge will likely do exactly that. If it didn't, what would it say about football coaching?
I know it's his first season as a full time coach but have you seen any improvements on the field or involving set pieces this season?
I also said last week that I didn't expect much if anything to change, after Clarke's sacking, in these final 10 games. But I did hope for that so called bounce, and maybe a few wins considering the opposition we were playing. Rather than it be just the little steps of improvement here and there, that we've shown. Which is admittedly not good enough, although todays game doesn't really matter as we were always onto the possibility of a hiding. And that's even if we'd had 15 men on the pitch!.