Should Mladen Sormaz be sacked?

Has there been another refusal? Genuine question as I don't listen regularly to Radio Sheffield from where I live. Was this on yesterday's show?

 

it was mentioned in the red all over show they posted last night on YouTube but that’s my only source for that info.

 

Just about sums it up. Except, sadly it's worse than that isn't it. Fans disappointment wasn't necessarily in the players he did get in, good luck to em, it was the positions he didn't fill.

For me he'll struggle to come back from sacking a coach with one match left when already qualified for the play offs. Wrong on so many levels, whatever people thought of Collins.

 

How did sacking Collins save himself? He’d only been in the job 5 minutes.

 

Mladen is so bad that if I was the owner I'd sack him then re-hire him just so I could sack him again. He's like the opposite of King Midas - everything he touches turns to kak.
Sacking the coach is a smokescreen for the problems caused by terrible recruitment.
Be interesting if Neerav would come out and explain why it's ok to sack the coach but not ok to sack the guy who provided the tools for the coach.

 

'$HIT KING MIDAS
YER JUST A $HIT KING MIDAS
$HIT KI-ING MIIIIIIIDAS
YER JUST A $HIT KING MIIIIIDAS'

 

Good point but he was in his position when we sacked the coach who had made the playoffs. He has to take responsibility for being part of the process that agreed that..

 

Agreed

 

Who the hell said No??????

 

It's a perpetual refusal isn't it? Radio Sheffield have invited him to be interviewed and that invertation remains open.

 

What?

 

Must be his 'mates'

 

Me. The blokes had one summer window, I believe there was a strategic decision in January that there were too many wrongs to right. In January you either over pay or buy somebody's problem. He inherited a unbalanced too bigger squad it's unrealistic to expect anyone to sort in the time span he's had. The summer is massive probably biggest in many a year we are a crossroads and progress needs to be made. Is he the right man to do this only time will tell but I think we are probably better with a man who's been at the club a while than some new bloke starting again. Opinions eh but it's just that not facts only time will tell.

 

Haha. Tom’s dad is the club doctor but he’s also a doctor at Lundwood Medical Centre (or at least was).

He’s snipped 3 of my mates up to now.

 

(A) strategic = Sat in the playoff places after a superb run over Christmas ?

(B) January too many wrongs to right = The upcoming summer window would have sorted out the situation Ref Cosgrove, Killip out of contract, Goalkeeper wasn't a priority.

(C) buy someone else's problem= as above didn't need unsettle the goalkeeping situation, brought in Lewis unfit, Lembikisa far worse than Lofthouse, Rodrigues isn't what we needed.

As for last summer still didn't address the centre forward issue, didn't address it over January despite repeated interviews from the head coach alluding to "we know where we need to strengthen"
Failed loan signings of Craig and Slonina, tell me why we found the need to bring in Craig when we had Nwakali, Connell, Russell, Phillips, Benson, Yoganathan.

61% home win record from 26 games prior to his appointment
26% home win record from his 26 games with 2 different head coaches, this a man who on record sacked a head coach in Collins for not being able to implement his playing style 1 game shy of the EOS.
We've now sacked another head coach, presumably for failing with the playing style and results, who's now decided we're changing the playing style again with this squad !!

We haven't just come out and said let's go back to playing high press, high energy football and kept Darrell Clarke to implement it and supported him, we've conveniently changed the playing style with sacking Clarke to shift blame onto Clarke for Mladen implementing his philosophy.

The guy is hiding behind head coaches, letting them take the bullets.
It's a results business otherwise we wouldn't be sacking head coaches and I'm sorry but the guy isn't the right fit for this club.

 

Completely agree. The recruitment has been utterly negligent, incompetent and has further added to a bloated squad and put further financial pressure on a board who are already pumping in far too much money into a weak club. The only possible upside of Sormaz staying at the club is that he may have learned from his mistakes but what happens to the team and club after September when its clear that he hasn't learned anything ay all? Unless the new manager's skills are miraculous and turds become polished into diamonds by divinely inspired coaching then its a distinct possibility that the club will be weaker still this time next year.

 

This might seem blindingly obvious but if you wish to play a front foot high pressing style I’d suggest recruiting players capable of doing that.

 

BBS are pretty united in their thinking. Far more than a Darrell Clarke poll was and he was got shut of.

 

I've not voted on this, mainly because the overall decision making structure concerns me.

The club are clearly wedded to the path they are on and it's pretty long established that we take punts on people with no experience to keep salaries down. As such, you're rolling the dice again and you've no idea who you're getting, how long to get to speed, and fundamentally... The same decision making structures and personnel are around you... Or not, if Sormaz is being completely left to it, which I really hope he isn't. Either way, you're hoping a genius with no experience comes in, on modest salary who has the confidence to challenge business owners and be charismatic enough to influence them to change how they do things.

I'm not hopeful fundamental change comes just from putting a new DoF in place, though like with getting rid of Clarke, we might get a slight uplift in quality.

 

Yes