Topic: Next Manager

[Wbahunty]

can you provide a link to the Official announcement....

or authentic statement from the club as I'm in Australia it is easy to miss them.

Do You Live Under A Stone!

[Wbahunty]

I've been asking the same thing


seem to be the only source is CL

Nothing Offical...but everywhere says that he will be annouced as in the next 24 hours!

Sky sports outside wba today said that it will be annouced aswell!

Its Clarke!

[standaman]

Clarke is not officially announced but it is all over the UK media with a degree of certainty that was never associated with Rangnick I would be very surprised if Clarke is not our new Head Coach.

I still cannot understand why people are so negative about this appointment. Clarke is a first rate coach he has no less experience than Hughton had when he took over at Newcastle in far worse circumstances than  Clarke will inherit here. Why should he not be successful?

For whatever reason Rangnick turned us down and if he goes onto manage a big team elsewhere well he will be proved right if he is still trying to find his way back into the game in three years time like Curbishley well maybe we will not look like such a terrible option either way good luck to the man.

With regard to Hughton. I would be amazed if there was not some sort of informal dialogue with his agent. Frankly if his agent did not speak to us he would not be doing his job properly. If the message came back that Hughton might be interested but only if he could bring his posse of assistants with him then at that point our interest quickly cooled. We would have to sack our current staff (thereby paying them off) or bloat the backroom staff to accommodate everyone. Chris Hughton was certainly not worth that level of dislocation.

I am not in the least bit disappointed in the appointment it is not without risk but there is never a risk free appointment.

[Aixelsyd]

Do You Live Under A Stone!

No.... we have things called "Houses" here....




unlike you we have progressed from caves 

[Baggie Artist]

Clarke is not officially announced but it is all over the UK media with a degree of certainty that was never associated with Rangnick I would be very surprised if Clarke is not our new Head Coach.

I still cannot understand why people are so negative about this appointment. Clarke is a first rate coach he has no less experience than Hughton had when he took over at Newcastle in far worse circumstances than  Clarke will inherit here. Why should he not be successful?

For whatever reason Rangnick turned us down and if he goes onto manage a big team elsewhere well he will be proved right if he is still trying to find his way back into the game in three years time like Curbishley well maybe we will not look like such a terrible option either way good luck to the man.

With regard to Hughton. I would be amazed if there was not some sort of informal dialogue with his agent. Frankly if his agent did not speak to us he would not be doing his job properly. If the message came back that Hughton might be interested but only if he could bring his posse of assistants with him then at that point our interest quickly cooled. We would have to sack our current staff (thereby paying them off) or bloat the backroom staff to accommodate everyone. Chris Hughton was certainly not worth that level of dislocation.

I am not in the least bit disappointed in the appointment it is not without risk but there is never a risk free appointment.

We're a man down in the coaching department anyway since Burton left, so we only would have had one extra coach.

[standaman]

http://blogs.birminghammail.net/westbromwichalbion/2012/06/steve-clarke-albion-boss.html

Latest blog from Chris Lepkowski. Not sitting on the fence says it will be Clarke with none of the usual hedging of bets where the outcome is in doubt.

[Aixelsyd]

Do You Live Under A Stone!

but on a more serious note....

I only get to see what is online for News as we obviously don't get the amout of Media you do reporting on this (TV, radio)

and most of the Online News feeds are giving multiple versions of basically the same story BUT all seemingly sourced from only one place and that isn't the Club.

Also with the time difference I will now probably have to go through the day here with nothing new (while you are all asleep) and all the action will happen (if any) when I'm asleep.

and you question why I need to confirm details...................

[standaman]

We're a man down in the coaching department anyway since Burton left, so we only would have had one extra coach.

And a head scout we have no need for and why should we pay for a spare coach in any event?

[TheJacko2000]

I've warmed to Steve Clarke after some initial disappointment on Rangnick's withdrawal. Looks like he has been waiting a long time for this chance, and it's very forward thinking that we're the ones to give him the opportunity.

Onward and Upward. BOING BOING!

[liam-zuiverloon]

First thoughts... bit of a drab appointment, reminded me of steve keane, tony adams, paul hart, TC and these guys just stepping into management in the prem. Hope he fits in well and does a good job of course.

Good do with looking less miserable all the time  looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp!

[TheJacko2000]

First thoughts... bit of a drab appointment, reminded me of steve keane, tony adams, paul hart, TC and these guys just stepping into management in the prem. Hope he fits in well and does a good job of course.

Good do with looking less miserable all the time  looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp!

Has ten years more experience than all of those.

[tuamigos]

Clarke's first real test will be to fight off the opposition from QPR to sign Ben Foster. Hopefully, that deal is already tied up apart from a few loose ends, but if Foster did opt for QPR then Clarke would surely have failed his first major test in the eyes of the fans.

you forgot to add it will also be his fault if Olsson, Pete and Mulumbu leave and if we dont sign a 20 goal a season striker as replacement 

Good luck SC if you sign, looks like you might need a bit

[Mister AT]

Im expecting the announcement today that hes our new boss.

If not announced today then maybe were not as advanced with him as some of the press might say.

Only time will tell. I expect it to be SC now and hes gets my full backing.

[WorcsWBA]

can you provide a link to the Official announcement....

or authentic statement from the club as I'm in Australia it is easy to miss them.

Liam Ridgewell tweeted yesterday that the players have been told it's Clarke.

[mini gaardsoe]

Liam Ridgewell tweeted yesterday that the players have been told it's Clarke.

Didn't he say he had heard? Nothing about the players being told 

[WorcsWBA]

I'd like to add I do like the ethos of the club of promotion from within the football club and a continuity of coaches.

Slightly off-topic for this thread, although it does affect who is and isn't a candidate for the role, but who evaluates the performance of these coaches? Is Ashworth stood on the training ground watching what they do day-in, day-out? If not, does the head coach have to feed back on them? If the latter, it's an odd kind of set-up where the head coach evaluates the performance but isn't allowed to decide whether they stay or go.

Additionally, the chances are that any coaches we keep on in these circumstances (excluding the GK coach) are likely to leave before they ever get a shot at being head coach anyway (c.f. Appleton).

Ultimately, in my view, you should always be looking to get the best coaches you can, regardless of whether it's a head coach or lower level coach and, if the head coach is expected to work with these other coaches and be responsible for how well the players are coached overall, the team of coaches (possibly excluding positional coaches) should be for him to choose.

The arrangement we have smacks of penny-pinching more than anything else to me.

[WorcsWBA]

Didn't he say he had heard? Nothing about the players being told 

It depends who he heard it from doesn't it really?! But you're right - I was incorrect to say that the players had been told. What Ridgewell said was ambiguous: "Just heard Steve Clarke to get the job".

[Mister AT]

Ridgewell was simply just relaying rumours hes heard, he could have said the same last week about Ragnick or the same the week before about Hughton.

Id be massively suprised now if it werent SC.

[mini gaardsoe]

It depends who he heard it from doesn't it really?! But you're right - I was incorrect to say that the players had been told. What Ridgewell said was ambiguous: "Just heard Steve Clarke to get the job".

I assume he has just heard from reports, if the players had officially been told I would expect more of them would have been spreading the news on Twitter as well, not just Ridgewell.

[bedfordbaggie]

Jonas on radio 5 this morning saying it was a good appointment

[hardtobeat]

I just cannot fathom Jp's thinking having appointed several fairly inexperienced managers/coaches and watched us yo yo he then appoints a safe pair of hands that steady the good ship Baggies and steer her into calmer waters only to then go back to the untried?
Now i happen to think SC may just be a good appointment,it may also go very very wrong but one thing is certain is that Jp has taken one helluva gamble at a time when it was probably unnecessary to do so

[Dale]

Looks a done deal then. Got to say not impressed, but I will give him a chance like I do with every new player or coach 

And the more I read and hear it does sound an interesting appointment.

[standaman]

I just cannot fathom Jp's thinking having appointed several fairly inexperienced managers/coaches and watched us yo yo he then appoints a safe pair of hands that steady the good ship Baggies and steer her into calmer waters only to then go back to the untried?
Now i happen to think SC may just be a good appointment,it may also go very very wrong but one thing is certain is that Jp has taken one helluva gamble at a time when it was probably unnecessary to do so

Does this seem likely? JP is anything other than a reckless gambler. The worst thing that could happen to WBA and therefore JP' s investment is that we lose our hard won Premier League status, JP would need to be convinced that any new coach would be capable of keeping us in the League.

[JDWest_Brom]

Does this seem likely? JP is anything other than a reckless gambler. The worst thing that could happen to WBA and therefore JP' s investment is that we lose our hard won Premier League status, JP would need to be convinced that any new coach would be capable of keeping us in the League.

Which is where JP is aiming. To just keep us in the premiership because it would cost too much money to push on to the next level. Money we haven't got. So, it's a shrewd appointment on his behalf. Squashing everbodies expectation in one foul sweep.

[Chipperfan]

After the some of the names mentioned, Rangnick, Ranieri et al, SC does seem a little underwhelming.

However having read more about him, including Mourinho's positive endorsement of his talent, I would defer to those who have actually worked with the bloke, know something of the running of top level football clubs on a day to day basis and actually rate him quite highly.

JP has obviously taken his time and kudos to the club for signalling the measure of our ambition by being associated with some top class coaches. It may be that the main target moved away from us and Clarke is plan B, but if RR did turn us down it doesn't seem to have been an easy decision.

Personally I'm feeling more optimistic than I was when i first heard, so, by the time the first day of the season comes round I'll be sure to boinging away as usual.