Steve Coppell

[cite]Posted By: dabos[/cite]You don't have to win shedloads of trophies to be a good manager - it depends how you manage under the circumstances you are in. By this reasoning, you'd probably argue Dario Gradi wasn't a good manager.

Dario Gradi is a good manager, if you're looking to keep a club ticking over, permanently in the lower reaches of the Football League.

[cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: TelinOz[/cite]...he has the right credentials...

I don't get it!What credentials? On average, he walks away from a managerial role with the club in a slightly worse position than when he took over.

Well, he is largely responsible for the most successful period in Reading's history. You cannot argue that they are in a worse position now than 6 years ago.

Although he has walked out of the jobs of his own accord, this is rather refreshing given the records of our current and previous manager.

[cite]Posted By: Cipollini[/cite]I'd be well chuffed if we landed Coppell. His teams always play attractive football and he has got a great track record in the Championship.

...but often with teams he's taken down from the Premiership.

[cite]Posted By: Cipollini[/cite]I don't think he can be blamed too harshly for Reading being relegated from the Premiership. He didn't get much financial backing from his Chairman.

Maybe you're right. He'd do really well with the almost-unlimited financial backing available at Charlton.

[cite]Posted By: dabos[/cite]Well, he is largely responsible for the most successful period in Reading's history.

That's damning witth faint praise, isn't it?

Posted By: Cipollini
I don't think he can be blamed too harshly for Reading being relegated from the Premiership. He didn't get much financial backing from his Chairman.

Maybe you're right. He'd do really well with the almost-unlimited financial backing available at Charlton.

Let's take one step at at time! He's got a great record of getting teams promoted from the lower leagues, which IMO is what we need at the moment.

I take your point about him failing to keep an underfunded team in the Premiership, but I would rather be struggling in the Premiership in a couple of years than rotiing in mid table League 1 obscurity for the next decade.

[cite]Posted By: Cipollini[/cite]Posted By: Cipollini
I don't think he can be blamed too harshly for Reading being relegated from the Premiership. He didn't get much financial backing from his Chairman.

Maybe you're right. He'd do really well with the almost-unlimited financial backing available at Charlton.

Let's take one step at at time! He's got a great record of getting teams promoted from the lower leagues, which IMO is what we need at the moment.

I take your point about him failing to keep an underfunded team in the Premiership, but I would rather be struggling in the Premiership in a couple of years than rotiing in mid table League 1 obscurity for the next decade.

But he didn't leave teams struggling in the Premiership. And, yet again, he's walked away from a team on the crest of a slump.

If Parkinsella were not retained and Coppell was to become the next manager at Charlton, he'd grab this club by the scruff of the neck and run it like Curbs did.

The side would be balanced, disciplined, organised, playing to an effective system, wingplay, goals.

Would people have a problem with that ..... ?

[cite]Posted By: Addick Addict[/cite]
Coppell built a Championship winning team spending next to nothing.

...and then rapidly dismantled it.

It seems to me that, in Reading's position (managerless, in urgent need of stability, no money to buy new players, desperately needing to get a quick promotion) there's one obvious candidate.

They need someone with plenty of Championship and Premiership experience someone who has won promotion via the Play Offs as well as by winning the Championship title and someone who has walked away from his last two managerial jobs and not been sacked. Step forward... Steve Coppell!

If all the hype / rumours / lies about our alleged takeover means PP is a dead man walking are true, then I suspect they (new owners) must have a man in mind. which can`t include Coppell can it.

[cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Addick Addict[/cite]
Coppell built a Championship winning team spending next to nothing.

...and then rapidly dismantled it.

It seems to me that, in Reading's position (managerless, in urgent need of stability, no money to buy new players, desperately needing to get a quick promotion) there's one obvious candidate.

They need someone with plenty of Championship and Premiership experience someone who has won promotion via the Play Offs as well as by winning the Championship title and someone who has walked away from his last two managerial jobs and not been sacked. Step forward... Steve Coppell!

Chizz you clearly don't see the point. He spent nothing on a team that finished 8th in their first season in the Premiership playing attractive attacking football. He did not dismantle it but certain players (the likes of Stephen Hunt) got delusions of grandeur and when their big move (in Hunt's case to Everton) didn't materialise they downed tools.

Perhaps you should look at some of the players we've signed in the last few years for decent money and vent your anger at those responsible for that rather than critising someone with a record for "success" on a nil budget.

Perhaps Pards or Dowie would suit you better and then we could re-sign the likes of Djimi Traore for £2M.

OMG..............Its Sanchez !

[cite]Posted By: Addick Addict[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Addick Addict[/cite]
Coppell built a Championship winning team spending next to nothing.

...and then rapidly dismantled it.

It seems to me that, in Reading's position (managerless, in urgent need of stability, no money to buy new players, desperately needing to get a quick promotion) there's one obvious candidate.

They need someone with plenty of Championship and Premiership experience someone who has won promotion via the Play Offs as well as by winning the Championship title and someone who has walked away from his last two managerial jobs and not been sacked. Step forward... Steve Coppell!

Chizz you clearly don't see the point. He spent nothing on a team that finished 8th in their first season in the Premiership playing attractive attacking football. He did not dismantle it but certain players (the likes of Stephen Hunt) got delusions of grandeur and when their big move (in Hunt's case to Everton) didn't materialise they downed tools.

Perhaps you should look at some of the players we've signed in the last few years for decent money and vent your anger at those responsible for that rather than critising someone with a record for "success" on a nil budget.

Perhaps Pards or Dowie would suit you better and then we could re-sign the likes of Djimi Traore for £2M.

Well there's one thing we agree on: and that is I don't get it!

Let me try and sum it up like this. If your manager walks away from your club, do you want him to leave them in Reading's position now (ie having failed to get promotion) or where Charlton were when Curbs walked away (ie in the Premiership)?

For me, Coppell's not fit to tie Curbs' bootlaces.

He wouldn't last long.

Ho ho ho

He He He

Stevie Coppell's got...

[cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]0-9 against Liverpool. 4-7 against Portsmouth. 4-6 against Spurs. And even 2-4 against the worst Charlton team in a generation.

If we're going to compare like against like and Coppell vs Curbs:

P HW HD HL HGF HGA AW AD AL AGF AGA Points GD
Man Utd 38 15 2 2 46 12 13 3 3 37 15 89 +56
Chelsea 38 12 7 0 37 11 12 4 3 27 13 83 +40
Liverpool 38 14 4 1 39 7 6 4 9 18 20 68 +30
Arsenal 38 12 6 1 43 16 7 5 7 20 19 68 +28
Tottenham 38 12 3 4 34 22 5 6 8 23 32 60 +3
Everton 38 11 4 4 33 17 4 9 6 19 19 58 +16
Bolton 38 9 5 5 26 20 7 3 9 21 32 56 -5
Reading 38 11 2 6 29 20 5 5 9 23 27 55 +5
Portsmouth 38 11 5 3 28 15 3 7 9 17 27 54 +3
Blackburn 38 9 3 7 31 25 6 4 9 21 29 52 -2
Aston Villa 38 7 8 4 20 14 4 9 6 23 27 50 +2
Middlesbro 38 10 3 6 31 24 2 7 10 13 25 46 -5
Newcastle 38 7 7 5 23 20 4 3 12 15 27 43 -9
Man City 38 5 6 8 10 16 6 3 10 19 28 42 -15
West Ham 38 8 2 9 24 26 4 3 12 11 33 41 -24
Fulham 38 7 7 5 18 18 1 8 10 20 42 39 -22
Wigan 38 5 4 10 18 30 5 4 10 19 29 38 -22
Sheff Utd 38 7 6 6 24 21 3 2 14 8 34 38 -23
Charlton 38 7 5 7 19 20 1 5 13 15 40 34 -26
Watford 38 3 9 7 19 25 2 4 13 10 34

And in case you forgot Reading are playing in the Championship and we're playing in League 1 next season.

Oh and on the subject of your hero Curbs am I wrong or did he not walk out on West Ham?