Deckard2049
Player Valuation: £15m
I agree about his reputation, but I think it is over exaggerated. Football has moved on from these types of Dinosaurs. His premiership win percentage is 35%. That is lower than any current premiership manager (apart from the inept Unsie of course).
So all this "Will get the defence sorted" nonsense and "Will get the team organised" crud is a fallacy reputation based on a distorted facts.
It's like saying Donald Trump is a great businessman. But the fact that he was given $100 Million by his dad, was made bankrupt 5 times and if he had just left his money in a standard investment account at the beginning he would be vastly richer than his is now makes a joke of that statement.
The point is there are not many worse managers than this Slime Ball that could do a reasonable job.
As you mentioned the Crystal Palace performance let's look at his record there.
Played 24. Won 9. Drawn 3. Lost 12. So a total of 30 points from 24 games. We have 12 points from 13 games. Combine the two and you have 42 points from 37 games.
Do you still think he will guarantee safety?
Like I said, he has his limitations. I specifically used Unsworth as the marker as he is who is currently in charge and if people don’t want Fat Sam for footballing reasons that’s a totally reasonable position. If it’s based on some romantic, idealistic notion that we’re too good for such a charlatan, I ask the same question, would people rather have Sam and a BETTER chance of safety or would they rather enjoy a moral victory and see our club POTENTIALLY relegated? I know which one is far more damaging in the long term. Managers come and go but the club remains. It would be nice if it remained in the premier league. He’s no-ones first choice. But for the clubs sake we need to commit to something for this season.
Also you’re argument using his points tally from Palace and combining it with Unsworth‘s for us so far is completely flawed. It’s impossible to determine what results Allardyce would have gotten in the same games Unsworth has played. Also if you estimated how his record at palace would look over the course of a full season with 14 more games to play he’s easily keeping them safely mid table. And furthermore and as you stated if you combine Unsworth and Sam’s points totals you get 42 points and that probably would guarantee safety- it would have got you 14th place last year. As horrible as I feel saying that I’d take that all day. That’s what this shambles of a board has reduced me to.
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