Gotta respect the guys ability, thought Huddersfield were dead in the water 2 months ago, one of his best achievements keeping them up surely.
He's a damn good manager is Warnock. Style of play might not be to everyone's taste but he nearly always gets extra out of his squads. We should have had him last season as many have already said - he would have come too I think
I think it was about early Feb last season when Poya still hadn’t won a game. Remember the rumours we’re circulating about Warnock coming in. Then we beat QPR 1-0 and the replacement PE teacher kept his job. Weird how winning a game can send a club down.
If he’d been appointed last year he’d have kept us up. We’d probably still have Helik, Morris and Styles and had Colin stayed on, or even if we’d have appointed Duff last summer whilst in the Championship, we’d probably be doing quite well. But had we stayed up and been doing quite well, we’d probably still have Conway, so, every cloud!
Such a shame as I really wanted Huddersfield to go down but there's always next season! As soon as they brought Warnock in I thought he'd keep them up.
Said he was never approached. On whether he'd have answered the call at Oakwell, Warnock said: "I thought about that a few weeks ago, if I am honest. But they never asked me. I think they go for foreign managers, don't they.
sounds about right, our powers that be have a natural ability to shoot themselves ( and us) in the foot! And even if they didn’t they should have, most of us thought Colin was the answer.
I knew he’d keep them up as soon as they set him on. My youngest has a little mate who’s mam and dad we are friendly with, not quite proper friends ourselves but you get what I mean. They are town fans, think the dad is from that way on. I said to him that he’d shithouse them to survival - he said he loved my optimism but that they weren’t good enough. Dropped him a message earlier; told me he never doubted colin for a second!!!
I actually think we'd have Helik. Styles I'm not sure about because I think he thinks he's better than his performances for us. Morris I would have said no, but with him 'only' being at Luton, I'm not sure. How Luton got him I'll never know!
Chuffed to bits for Warnock always liked him and his glowing reviews on his time at Barnsley. I think he genuinely wanted to give something back last season. One thing's for sure if we don't go up this board will wish they got him when they had the chance.
When Boro sacked Warnock shortly after we sacked Schopp, it was blindingly obvious that we should've approached him. The only justifiable reason for not giving him the job was if his wage demands were so high it would be a risk to the club's future. He was the only option that would give us even half a chance of staying up, such was the dire state the club had got itself into. Appointing another coach that favoured the same tactics as Schopp was a major brainfart by Khaled and/or Conway.
Styles said he wanted to leave at the end of the season (according to Khaled). Whether that would have been different had we stayed up, I'm not sure. I think Huddersfield would still have been interested in Helik, and considering they'd just missed out on promotion, I think he'd have still gone. I guess it's all ifs and buts, but with the model which the club operates, and our budget in relation to the rest of the championship, I honestly don't think staying in the Championship last season would have meant us deviating from that.
I don’t think he said that he said if asked he would have come but wasn’t asked , he said that in an interview in the close season with slight smirk on his face , Colin being Colin
Given Styles' departure ended up being an 11th hour loan move, I suspect he would still be here if we'd stayed up. Not because he wanted to be, or because the club were desperate to keep him, I just don't think there would've been an offer come in that worked for the club.
Maybe, but even though it was a late loan move, I still think it would have happened even if we'd stayed up. We'd have still planned for his departure.
As I’ve said I don’t doubt for a second he’d have kept us up. He would have. We had more in the squad than Huddersfield this year have I’d say. I do doubt, though, that we’d have been better off long term had he come and done that. Had we stayed up, would the board level coup have happened in summer? Doubtful. Would we still be stuck with Chien and Conway? I’d suggest there would have been a good chance - and we would likely have been in the position we were last year now as if Warnock had saved us and left, we’d have probably appointed someone like Asbaghi in the summer, and replaced him before Christmas with someone else just as bizarre and crap. We might not get promoted this season in the lottery that is the playoffs, hopefully we will, but regardless we have a team and manager we can be hugely proud of and get behind; and in my opinion a board that do care, and that are acting in the interests of the ongoing existence and future success of the football club. Last season’s disaster might actually do us good long term.
