Timing of sacking your manager - Roger Munby speaks (nothing to do with snow)

Timing of sacking your Manager - Roger Munby speaks
It's towards the end of the season. Norwich are 16th in the table. They have ended their relegation fears (by recording 5-0 victories in their last two home games), but before that they had gone 14 games without a win.

Now that relegation is no longer an issue, the Board acts swiftly and ruthlessly. The manager is sacked in early April so as to give maximum time and opportunity to his successor to build the team for next season. The departing manager whinges a bit about what a great squad his successor will inherit, but out he has gone.

Norwich vice-chairman Roger Munby claimed the manager had gone in early April to give the Canaries plenty of time to find a replacement who could take them back to the Premiership. "We chose this timing, the earliest possible time, to give ourselves the best possible chance of setting out with the right recruitment policy," he told ClubCall. "It is an open process. We have given ourselves the maximum possible time. "We want to deliver the right football manager able to deliver our number one objective - the Premiership."

It made sense with Walker. It makes sense with Worthy too.

Worthy out on 1 April!! It is written in the stars, and on Snakey's buttocks.

Posted By: Old Git on February 28th 2006 at 09:34:39

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