Who's out there though Matty?
Your injuries have to be playing some part in it, and Coppell left a disaster for whoever took over? Similar to Benitez actually, though he spent many years bringing in dross
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Super Cell wrote:
I don't have a favourite or even a potential, just someone with experience of managing at this level is all I ask.
Millen is the produce of the days of Gary Johnson. He was his assistant and assistant to Coppout during his brief tenure. He has no experience of single-handedly managing any team, let alone one in the Championship. There's a big difference between being assistant - which involves a lot of time away from the squad - to being the main man.
Injuries have played and are continuing to play their part, but that excuse is getting thinner by the week as players return. Look at the team we had out on Saturday. I challenge anyone to deny that that is a team capable of challenging at the very top of this league, so something's amiss.
For me the last straw on Saturday was the substitution. We are 0-2 at home well into the second half. We have two up front. He substitutes Stead and brings on a defender. We go from 4 at the back to five and only 1 up front. Who can tell me the thinking behind this? We are two down, not two up. Why attempt to shore up the defense once the damage has been done? We might as well lose 0-4 attempting to get something from the game as try and stem the flow and just hit with long balls on the break. It was the tactics of a team 0-1 up away from home with 10 minutes to go. Baffling 
Millen was immediately shoe-horned into the managers job after Coppout for one reason, and it's one I fully accept: We had several relatively high profile deals in the balance. Millen, as assistant had been the representative at managerial level and the window was two weeks from closing. If the club had gone on the lookout there and then we would have been cut adrift from these deals and left with no time and no manager to negotiate new ones with the time left. As I say, I accept this. What I don't accept or understand was the three year deal he was given. A manager who has never managed before. Why not offer him a rolling contract so the seperation isnt so financially painful if it all goes breasts skywards? Let's assume that Millen wasn't happy with this and held the club somewhat over a barrel for the longer contract, if that were the case - and I'm not saying it was - then more fool the club.
Plus points - we're not even a quarter of the way through the season, we DO have a talented and experienced squad that could click if played to it's strengths. Reading had less points than us at this stage last season.
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