Phil parkinson

blackpool72 said:

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

blackpool72 said:

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Low key personality and loves a v-neck jumper - I think Bowyer is copying him a bit....

Maybe copy him in his dress sense.

As for managerial sense. It's a no from me.
Bowyer will prove to be a far better manager imo

Parkinson's career record:

Promotions with Colchester Utd, Bradford and Bolton.

Took Bradford to League Cup Final when in League two.

Took Charlton into L1 playoffs with pitiful squad.


I'm not really clear how Bowyer's ten games ìn charge compares? He may do better but it seems a little premature to draw this conclusion.

He got treated harshly at Charlton after taking over from the legend Alan Pardew. I think some on here have forgotten how garbage our squad was - CP got nothing out of them either and we finished 13th after he took over. It's only when the squad was rebuilt that we improved and that required cash.

Fair enough.
I cannot answer you for at least five years as I have no idea how Bowyer will compare until then
But my gut feeling is that he will be a better manager than Parkinson.

Depends if Bowyer wants to be a Manager

Going by comments he made when he became caretaker boss, I didnt think he was sure if he wanted it full time?

Oakster said:

I think there is some rose tinted revisionism going on here - nothing against him personally & delighted for him at Bolton but...........

He was part of the awful Pardew relegation season - he should never have been kept on as caretaker let alone manger aftet that pitiful capitulation that sent us down. 5 points (all draws) from 12 matches after Pardew got the boot - why the hell was he kept on then & also at the end of that appalling season.

It was nice we reached the playoffs the following season but at the time it was our 3rd season after relegation from the Premiership - we were still, relatively speaking a big fish even by Championship standards let alone L1.

So Parky - nice, honest guy & rather him than the gobshite Scouse chancer any day of the week, but decidedly mediocre for us.

Parky isn't a firefighter. He's not the Neil Warnock type who can turn around a dead team mid-season and then produce a miracle to keep them up.

But what he is good at doing is building from the ground up - and he needs a pre-season and to find players who will play for him.
He's done that at Colchester, Bradford and Bolton. He may have perhaps done it at Charlton - but then he had to go shopping (as Chris Powell once put it) at Lidls, or even rummage in the skip for their throw away stuff.


He's a good man (didn't he pay out Gary Borrowdale's wages from his own pocket?) and a man with integrity.
Also, he's a good man-manager, with an eye for a decent player at bargain prices. Hey, he even signed Johnny Jackson for Charlton.

Really pleased for Parky for what he's achieved at Bolton in 2 seasons, with virtually no money.
That's the sign of a very decent manager.

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Parky to Sunderland anyone?

16/1 with BetVictor

What's Karel Fraeye up to these days?

Coleman being re-interviewed by new mob apparently

cafcnick1992 said:

blackpool72 said:

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

blackpool72 said:

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Low key personality and loves a v-neck jumper - I think Bowyer is copying him a bit....

Maybe copy him in his dress sense.

As for managerial sense. It's a no from me.
Bowyer will prove to be a far better manager imo

Parkinson's career record:

Promotions with Colchester Utd, Bradford and Bolton.

Took Bradford to League Cup Final when in League two.

Took Charlton into L1 playoffs with pitiful squad.


I'm not really clear how Bowyer's ten games ìn charge compares? He may do better but it seems a little premature to draw this conclusion.

He got treated harshly at Charlton after taking over from the legend Alan Pardew. I think some on here have forgotten how garbage our squad was - CP got nothing out of them either and we finished 13th after he took over. It's only when the squad was rebuilt that we improved and that required cash.

Fair enough.
I cannot answer you for at least five years as I have no idea how Bowyer will compare until then
But my gut feeling is that he will be a better manager than Parkinson.

Ridiculous thing to post really. The chances are that Bowyer will not come close to how well Parky has done.

I would not say ridiculous, it is all opinion.

Perhaps Blackpool was talking as seeing his potential from the two months he was in charge.

After all, many people would like Bowyer to be our manager next season and then hopefully Blackpool may be seen as justified in his post.

lancashire lad said:

on local bbc south news apparently Phil Parkinson is the favourite for the managerial vacancy at Reading, didn't he use to play for them?

Maybe he is fed up with Ken Anderson and Bolton's retraints, maybe there is more to prosper and room to improve at Reading. But yes he was there over ten years as a player and is there gratest team as voted for by fans. He was part of the Reading squad that became the only 2nd flight side to finish 2nd and not go up as they were restructuring the league in 1995. They lost an epic final to Bolton ironicly. He must have been injureed or banned that day as he was on the bench in suit from vintage footage I have seen.

I hope he gets the job. Honest and committed manager who deserves success.

lancashire lad said:

on local bbc south news apparently Phil Parkinson is the favourite for the managerial vacancy at Reading, didn't he use to play for them?

They absolutely bloody love him over there. Glad it's got to the stage where he's considered for the manager's job as they've always been a bit above the level where they could consider him in the past

Yes, revered at Reading. Was their captain I believe.