first managerial sacking!!

I went to Rochdale last season. Proper community based football Club struggling with the 2 Manchester giants just down the tramline. Oldham were relegated to non-league last season and things don't look good for Dale. I hope they stay up...

JFHasslebank is considering his future at winless Burton Albion, following their latest defeat he will "seriously" look at wether he is the right person for the club at the moment

Bournemouth manager, Scott Parker, following the clubs record PL defeat at the weekend is the latest casualty

FWIW re AFC Bournemouth.

I am surprised and I bet that most of the press will be critical of the AFCB board but to those who are real fans I’m not sure they will be too unhappy. Since Christmas, or even earlier, the style of play was fairly mundane. They scraped draws when they weren’t the better team and teams that I saw at Dean Court had worked out how to play AFCB and come away with a point or more. Parker kept saying they need to be patient which I can sort of understand but he was set in his ways tactically and rarely changed tactics or formation and kept doing the same thing and then wondered why it wasn’t always working.
Whereas you always knew that if they were behind or struggling at half time Eddie H would have changed things and made tactical or player changes. Parker rarely did, just carried on doing what he did.

In the days ahead it will be portrayed as a panic/ knee jerk reaction but I think it’s more of a “let’s give ourselves a chance” and make the change now. I’m not sure it will work, and as it stands, I’ll be surprised if they avoid going down. But with Parker gone I think they have a better chance to stay up which makes me sound pretty heartless given the decent job he did. Of course it will depend upon who they bring in. I was talking to my youngest this morning about it and I said I hope they have someone lined up and he just said it didn’t matter if they didn’t Parker had to go after criticising everyone else about the results. He then said if that had been Eddie H he would have taken responsibility, kept all criticism in-house and tried to sort it out.

And I’m afraid that is the real dilemma for any manager of AFCB...they will not be Eddie Howe. He was a god and he remains a god to all AFCB fans (or al least 90%) and any in-coming manager had better realise that. Whilst they won’t be EH they had better realise that they survived 5 years in the PL by building a strong unit with decent players who all got better under EH and who would never criticise or moan about AFCB basically being what they are, a small club with a small budget in the world’s biggest league. Players loved EH and would do anything for him, he would have called them out as all those who watched knew, but he would never do it on MOTD or publicly and would never infer that they weren’t good enough as Parker did and does. Max Denim is a good guy but he’s never going to spend his way to safety and when the manager turns round and criticises him and the board I don’t think many fans will side with the manager, they will agree with Denim, imo. Parker may have been honest but he knew full well the situation AFCB worked within.

I’m sure the new manager will try to sort it out and I can’t imagine they haven’t got anyone ready given there are 3 days left of the window and they really do need some replacements. I’m going tomorrow night v Wolves which should be interesting at least, my first match since they beat Villa. ( I was at Pompey when they played Arsenal) Come on Bournemouth!! 😉 Tin hat on.

UTG!

Scunthorpe United have sacked manager Keith Hill with the club second from bottom of the National League.

The Iron were relegated from League Two last season after 72 years in the English Football League.

They won their first game of the season but have lost their subsequent five, with Hill's last game in charge being Monday's 2-0 home defeat by Halifax.

The club said a statement regarding an interim management team would be made "in due course".

In total the Iron won just three, and lost 27, of Hill's 39 matches in charge.

The former Rochdale and Barnsley boss replaced Neil Cox at Glanford Park in November 2021 but could do nothing to halt their slide out of the Football League.

They ended the campaign with a humbling 7-0 defeat by Bristol Rovers, after which Hill acknowledged that the "dynamics of the club have been terrible".

He told BBC Radio Humberside at the time: "The club need to show bravery. They can throw me under the bus if they want, like most clubs do - I got thrown under the bus [at Tranmere] last season and I got thrown under the bus at Bolton. You clean a club up and then you get thrown out.

"But it needs cleansing. It needs somebody like me to make sure there's a successful future."

Scunthorpe host sixth-placed Boreham Wood on Saturday.

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Or he could just walk. He sounds pretty p***** off. Either way I think you could be right.

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Thomas Tuchel: Chelsea sack manager following Champions League defeat.

Chelsea have sacked manager Thomas Tuchel following Tuesday's night's Champions League defeat by Dinamo Zagreb.

The 49-year-old former Borussia Dortmund and Paris St-Germain boss leaves Stamford Bridge after 20 months.

Owner Todd Boehly has placed Tuchel's coaching staff in temporary charge until a replacement is found.

A club statement said the owners believe it is "the right time" to bring in a new head coach.

"As the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over the Club, and as it continues its hard work to take the club forward, the new owners believe it is the right time to make this transition," the statement read.

"On behalf of everyone at Chelsea FC, the club would like to place on record its gratitude to Thomas and his staff for all their efforts during their time with the club. Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea's history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here."

Tuchel was appointed on 26 January, 2021, replacing Frank Lampard, and guided the club to their second Champions League title just four months later.

He went on to add the Uefa Super Cup and Fifa Club World Cup later that year.

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Tuchel's frustrations boiled over once again as he was booked by the referee in Croatia for complaining about time-wasting by the opponent.

Chelsea record under Tuchel - P100, W60, D24, L16 = Win % 60.0

Honours 

UEFA Champions League: 2020–21

UEFA Super Cup: 2021

FIFA Club World Cup: 2021

FA Cup runner-up: 2020–21, 2021–22

EFL Cup runner-up: 2021–22

Premier League: 4th & 3rd (Currently in 6th place)

Graham Potter: Chelsea set to hold talks with Brighton manager about replacing sacked Thomas Tuchel.

Chelsea are set to hold talks with Brighton boss Graham Potter about replacing the sacked Thomas Tuchel.

Tuchel, who won three trophies in 20 months at Stamford Bridge, was sacked by the Blues on Wednesday.

Ex-Swansea and Ostersunds FK coach Potter, 47, has been given permission by the Seagulls to talk with Chelsea.

Potter, who has been tipped as a future England boss, has led Brighton to fourth in the table this season after winning four and drawing one of their six Premier League games.

He was appointed in May 2019 and has led the club to 15th, 16th and ninth-place finishes in his three seasons in charge.

But his brand of attacking and tactically flexible football has brought him many admirers in the game.

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Potter led Brighton to a ninth-place finish in the Premier League last season, the club's highest ever top flight finish

Danny Schofield: Huddersfield Town sack head coach after nine games.

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Huddersfield Town have sacked head coach Danny Schofield after one win from nine games in charge.

Schofield was promoted from the coaching staff after Carlos Corberan resigned in July.

The Terriers finished third in the Championship last season and were beaten in the play-off final by Nottingham Forest.

However, they lost seven of Schofield's nine matches and are 23rd in the table, five points adrift of safety.

"Everyone at the club would like to thank Danny for his hard work and dedication and wishes him the very best for the future," read a club statement.

Coaches Narcis Pelach and Paul Harsley will lead the team in Saturday's home game against Cardiff.

Schofield made 253 appearances for Town as a player before returning in a coaching capacity in February 2020.