Get Holloway in... he wants a job and willing to travel...

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  1. mrd

    mrdetox New Member

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    'I'm back and ready to go,' said Holloway. 'Sometimes, you have to go and make some decisions in your life.'


    Asked where his next destination might be, Holloway added: "I don't really have to take those decisions. As a manager you just have a briefcase and you are willing to travel."

    Would be a great appointment.
     
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    It would be fantastic but it ain't going to happen unfortunately
     
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    Ask my Brother in law who is a Palace fan what he thinks of Holloway. Let's say he wasn't too enamoured with him. 'Hollowhead' I think he refers to him as.

    Personally I think Holloway is a media darling always an entertaining interview. But to me he got very lucky with having Charlie Adam at Blackpool and almost didn't make the playoffs with Palace in spite of the good foundations laid by Freedman.

    On another matter my brother in law's text to me after the Palace v West Ham game was -

    'What a **** game, staying up with Pulis is like surviving WW1 and getting Spanish Flu'

    It's going to be a looooooong season for both of us !
     
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    Watcher_Of_The_Skies Well-Known Member

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    He'd be off elsewhere given a chance at a better job. Not a good choice for that reason alone imo.
     
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    You could look at it differently though.

    Freedman was massively over achieving with that Palace squad (hence the approach from Bolton, and hence him taking it as he probably thought long term the opportunity was stronger). Holloway managed to keep that going and got them up through the playoffs. I know a handful of Palace fans and promotion was the last thing on their minds that season.

    Also, as good as Charlie Adam was, Holloway signed some good players on a limited budget and had Blackpool playing some really entertaining, attacking football. He then almost kept them up despite having a pretty much non existent budget. They then got in the playoffs again the following season.

    Not a bad CV really.
     
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    Don't think he'd commit to furthering the youth system and Academy which the majority of fans seem to want. Also I think he'd be off as soon as a slightly bigger club came calling.

    My choices would be Warnock (short term only, probably to the end of the season - I wouldn't want him long term), Wilson or Mellon (warming to him).
     
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    I think that Holloway is a good 'quick-fix' man. I think he would be a good bet to get us playing well and would stand a good chance of keeping us up, mainly because he would use his contacts to recruit good players, mostly on loans, but some permanents - he has a good eye for emerging talent such as Philips, who he took from Wycombe to Blackpool and Thomas Ince, who should now be worth a lot, unless he has a get-out clause. I am not sure that he would be the best long-term answer, though. He tends to stay and usually succeed and then move on whilst his cv is looking good. I can only think of one failure and that was at Leicester under Mandaric. This might work either against, or for his going to Wednesday. If it works against, we have a good chance of landing him imho.
     
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    Had Patrick took the gamble Holloway would never have had sight of Adam.
     
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    Or had Simon Davey not said 'he's never worth £500k'?

    I wasn't aware that Patrick pulled the plug on that one?
     
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