what's wrong with hiring an inexperienced manager?

Hasn't anyone been watching the international scene recently? Germany hired Roder Voller and Jurgen Kilnsmann to be managers, and neither had any prior experience, and one got to a World Cup final, and the other a semi-final - far more than our super experienced Sven did (or Graham Taylor for that matter). Mark Hughes almost perfromed miracles with Wales, before doing an excellent job with Blackburn. Charlton hired Curbishly with no experience - look what he achieved. In fact there are scores of examples we could come up with. And there are hardly any experienced managers who havent had at least one bad season to mark their copy book - what makes them any better? Take Megson - some success, some failure. Joe Royle - the same.

My point is, whoever we hire is going to be a risk. We could get Tilson, and his luck runs out and he has the bad season which blots his copy book. He might not. But the point is it will be a risk. Yes there are brilliant managers out there (Mourinhio, Ferguson, Wenger) but we're not going to get one - unless he's one on the way up. Rather one on the way up, than one on his way down or platauoing out.

That's why for me it's Tilson first, and if not, then take a gamble on an inexperienced manager.

Posted By: Poirot, Oct 12, 20:16:33