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I keep having to double check that he hasn't got a new job that I've missed...
...but Steve Cooper both got a team promoted and then kept them in the Premier League, and even if he was ultimately sacked, that team is now 3rd in the PL.
All managers are a gamble and all managers have bad patches but I'd rather go for someone who has actually done the thing that we want to do, rather than the latest interesting idea that turns sour.
Of course, Cooper probably won't suit Solak because he wins too many games. 42 out of 108 at Forest, and 47 out of 105 at Swansea before that.
Who needs a win percentage north of 38% when you've got Juric struggling to beat 15% ?
Seriously, who gives a flying f*ck through a rolling doughnut what Juric wants or how he is positioning himself.
And if our new Technical Director hasn't already worked out that this guy is completely incompetent and an absolute chancer - which I'm sure he has, because a child of 6 has worked that out - then we are doomed to life in League 1.
Eleven defeats in twelve games, so it's really impossible to be any worse.
And absolutely no signs of progress.
But Saints stick with him. Just like they stuck with Ralph, Jones and Martin too long.
For me, this now smacks of something completely broken in the Club's decisions making progress. I am now wondering whether the issue is with Solak. He's already publically backed Juric. Maybe, he a hard man to get to change his mind. Maybe his business success has come from tenacity, not reactivity.
It smell of Ankersen because (a) he was front and centre in appointing and then not sacking soon enough Nathan Jones and (b) he just seems like a someone who is a bit of tit and too clever by half and this is what our managerial appointments feel like too.
When you sack a manager who has failed like Martin did, the obvious thing, to most fans, to do is to get in someone who at least has a bit of premier league experience. But again we go for a bizarre choice and fall flat on our faces (just like we did with Jones).
I'm sure that there are others on here with far more knowledge of seamanship than I have, but even from my limited experience of RYA courses, making sure you don't hit other ships is a a pretty fundamental requirement of any voyage, and it's not as if avoiding such things is left to a wing and prayer.
Maybe the marketing department could make a feature out of his gravelly voice. Give him some sort of jovial nickname or get him reading horror stories on the website.
I would agree that the Brexit crowd tried to argue that it made economic sense to forego a free trade arrangement on our doorstep with massive economies in favour of free trade agreements with smaller economic units thousands of miles away, but that was just his attempted rebuttal to those who pointed out that the economic madness is severing links with the EU.
The core of his message was a nationalistic, patriotic, dare I say jingoistic one. There was a clue in all those stupid mini union jacks that they stole off children's sandcastles that they were so fond of waving at the European Parliament.
It was Putin that brought war. War isn't patriotic. But defending the democratic ideals of the UK and our allies in western Europe against despotism is.
And you are completely deluded if you think Farage won many votes because of either internationalism or free trade ideals. He won on the basis that the UK didn't need anyone else and that it could and should close its borders. And in the process he took us out of a free market near and prosperous neighbours, who by and large share our democratic ideals.
I'm sure patriotism is easily manipulated and maybe that's my point.
Farage's brand of isolationist politics presented as extraordinarily nationalistic and patriotic, pitching us all against the great enemy - the EU - and making a huge play about democracy and how e.g. judges and EU-sceptics were trying to undermine it.
He's rather less concerned that his mate Trump has no commitment to democracy, nor to any of us in Europe, and has no qualms at all about rewarding the autocrat Putin.
It was remarkably easy for Starmer to grab those patriotic credential away from him.
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