Hourihane

Unfortunately for Conor he’s effectively ended his time with Barnsley football club this week. He may keep the role until the end of the season but ultimately he has to leave.

I was his biggest fan as a player, I loved him & argued with others on here that he could play in a middle four but you can’t do what he’s done this week & keep your job. He’s played a game of Russian Roulette & lost badly. You can’t call out the second best player at the club publicly & then lose like his side has. We had to win tonight. No if’s, no but’s.

He’s lost all credibility.

Two points from twelve against the opposition he’s faced is nothing short of appalling. It’s a far worse run than anything we’ve seen under Clarke.

The Conor Hourihane experiment has been a complete & utter disaster & for me he should leave as soon as possible whilst he still has some credibility with the fan base.

Darrell Clarke should have come to the club with two of his own staff in the summer. There’s a reason why Klopp didn’t want Gerrard as his assistant & why Amorim didn’t want Van Nistelrooy as his. Successful managers are generally part of a successful team. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Let Hourihane learn his trade further down the pyramid or with a manager that wants him on his staff.

If it was me I’d move Hourihane & Stead on.
I don’t know what happens with Devaney, maybe there’s a role with the under 23’s again for him but it’s time to get a manager into the club with his own staff who he’s worked with before & go from there.

And just in case anyone thinks my views are rash. I very rarely call for a manager to be sacked. I called for Asbaghi & Morais to leave, before that I think the last one I felt had to go was David Flitcroft.

 

I think there’ll be a decent coach and manager in Hourihane one day, but it’s an impossible job he’s being asked to do at the moment. The team and club are broken. It doesn’t matter who is notionally managing them.

That said, if he’s on silly wages as a player and not playing, we need to see much better to justify the investment.

 

He lost all credibility whe he signed as a player coach to get bums on seats only! We were hoodwinked and no my season ticket purchase wasn’t reliant on this but lots were

 

He’s just inexperienced. Say we brought Warne in and he brings his own assistant with him, theirs a role for Connor there to understudy them, that could work.

 

I don’t know how anybody could do own with our squad TBF.
We are short in so many positions, powderpuff attack, practically immobile midfield , defenders constantly caught out of position , it just goes on and on!

 

Best post I’ve seen for a while and I agree with every word. Slightly surprised those words came from your mouth in particular, but I think your assessment is spot on.

 

Well it wasn’t doing too badly a little earlier in the season. Someone who could organise and Instill confidence would make a great improvement.

 

I really want it to work for CH.

But as we all know, our issues are much worse than the head coach.

Players who aren't good enough.

Players who are believing they are worth more than they are.

A hierarchy who thinks they know how to run a club.

A hierarchy who doesn't give a **** about the fans.

A recruitment team who says they've signed players for certain positions who then speak in the media and say they are a different player.


I mean, who could thrive as a head coach under that?

 

If Warne actually wants that then yes. If Warne gets told you can come in but you’ve got to have Hourihane as one of your assistants then it’s a no for me.

 

Thanks I think haha

 

He's not got any positive result from the four games. It's arguably the worst four-game run of the season. So I understand the ire. And particularly so if paired with the Phillips stuff. However, I'd still give him the job if I was in charge. The club is financially knackered, somehow. People ask if you'd trust them to sign the right players, but what about the next coach? And his staff. Which means even more money to pay.

At least by giving it Conor it's costing the club nothing extra. Because surely that's where the club is at, no? Cost-cutting?

If they appoint a Rob Edwards for example, and he brings a coach or two, and the team are 11th at Christmas, then what?

There's my reasoning.

Plus I like the bloke. I genuinely think he could build something given time and more freedom. I don't like him publicly shaming Phillips. But I know Conor is up front and legit. Whereas Adam is probably only bothered about getting a move. Which I don't blame him for either.

I appreciate I'm - once again - probably in a minority on this. But yeah. I'd give it Conor.

 

I’d like the gloves to be taken off, and let Hourihane play the team, formation and style he would wish to the end of the season.

If the performances and results improve then there’s many want him to succeed.

We need to differentiate the man from the status quo.

 

Absolute lunacy to switch Humphrys from the left to the right when he'd absolutely toasted their right back for 70 minutes. He barely got a kick then after that.

 

Over a full season of work Conor has done absolutely nothing to justify being head coach next season, fell flat as a player, assistant coach and early days as an head coach.
It would be a huge gamble to hope for improvement from him next season in my opinion.

 

I'd give it to Conor also. Use next season as a transition season and give him time to rebuild.
Clear out the dead wood and those who don't want to be here and let CH create a squad with his identity stamped all over it.
He's played at a level none of our other recent appointments have played at. His standards are high, he knows the club and the fans.
Appointment him now.

 

We need an experienced manager who can get the best out of hard working league one players, plus some loans, because that’s where we are at.

The whole team needs an overhaul .

we are in deep **** and that needs a manager with experience.

 

I tend to agree. My legs have gone was a deception to sell season tickets and on the results under Connor so far he is not yet up to the Headcoach role either. We are as weak as water in defence and have been for a couple of seasons now, our best player being Marc Roberts. Pines, Mccarthy, Giverney and Earl are not up the task. Flavell is still learning and we have not had a goalkeeper of note since Brad Collins. Our habit of gifting goals at home particularly has not been addressed in the last couple of years.

 

I don't think Connor is yet up to the task yet. We need an experienced manager who brings in his own coaching staff not have the previous managers hand me ons. Some existing coaches need to go including Devanney and Stead.

 

Had we got an appointment in, the new head coach could have assessed the players ahead of the retained list and we'd have had a proper plan in place in terms of comings and goings, but as usual the people upstairs know best and decide to save money to look at other ways, but will think nothing of collecting poor inadequate players and building a squad of 30 players with little resale opportunity.
Constant cycle of shortsightedness.

 

Darrell Clarke was a shocking appointment.