Is Morison the man for the rebuild ?

Whats peoples thoughts on if Morison is the man for the rebuild ?


Tbf he done a good job in keeping us up and the players brought in seem decent (or did when something to play for).
But i believe this is a critical time for us now with the rebuild.

I think he can get some good players, but is he experianced enough to have a complete rebuild and implement a style of play to take us forward ?

Personally starting to have my doubts now.


Does he need help above him ? Like a Bellamy type person ?

Critical time for us over the summer and if we get it wrong, then not even Pep could save us.

It could also go the other way and him turn into a hero if he gets it right.

Im interested in others thought due to our recent bad form and the red flags with his interviews etc

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Massive no from me, he's got a chip on his shoulder and doesn't come across as a nice person.

Big No from me. He lost the plot (and my respect) after the International break. Our performance v Scumsea was disgraceful, and so was his attitude about it. See how things stand after the first twelve games of next season…..

Hes still learning tbf. But tend to agree with comments so far.
I believe more experiance is certainly needed somewhere to help him. It was always a gamble when going with inexperiance

Juries out for me. I'd imagine he's cheap certainly in comparison to Sean dyche. I'm hopeful that he'll get some good youngsters in as well as some experienced older heads. These signings replacing an astronomical amount of deadwood who haven't got in the match day squad for the last couple of months and in some case years. I believe we will be more competitive next season but maybe not challenging the top 6. For me this is a long term project 5 plus years. Money wasn't the answer let's hope the academy can be over the long term.

He deserves till Xmas , but the real problem lies above Morison.

To be honest , I sadly feel he will fail, I hope I am wrong.

But who would we get on peanuts, Virtually No budget , 12 yrs , 11 managers , who should want to to work under our regime nowadays.

Who would employ Morison?
He’s a good U 23 manager and thats what we have.

Definitely a no from me.
He saved us from relegation yes,will he take us any further I think no.

SM fully deserves his chance and for me what he has achieved with the squad at his disposal has been remarkable. More important for me is that those higher up the food chain, like Dalman and Choo, need to be held accountable for the mess they have created in putting the squad together last summer.

But history will tell you they would both rather blame managers than hold their hands up and on that basis SM will become the latest in a long line of managers who will need to operates with their hands tied behind his back.

Like Annis has said if not SM who?

Completely out of his depth. Zero relationship with fans ( that will only bring an end to his reign much quicker). Huge chip on his shoulder. Never accepts the blame always passes the buck onto the players. Definitely not the type of manager you want in the trenches with you.
Has already been exposed umpteen times with limited tactics

SM fully deserves his chance and for me what he has achieved with the squad at his disposal has been remarkable. More important for me is that those higher up the food chain, like Dalman and Choo, need to be held accountable for the mess they have created in putting the squad together last summer.

But history will tell you they would both rather blame managers than hold their hands up and on that basis SM will become the latest in a long line of managers who will need to operates with their hands tied behind his back.

Like Annis has said if not SM who?

Absolutely Spot on Gary

Agree with this, but some of the so called fans on here need a "checkup from the neckup".

Completely out of his depth. Zero relationship with fans ( that will only bring an end to his reign much quicker). Huge chip on his shoulder. Never accepts the blame always passes the buck onto the players. Definitely not the type of manager you want in the trenches with you.
Has already been exposed umpteen times with limited tactics

1000% spot on and funny how many of our fickle fans will be bumming him to the hilt, the guy is clueless and will never be the man to take club forward

If SM is not the right man to take us forward, who is? There isn’t many managers out there at this level who would want to come here and work on a shoestring. We are where we are because of a catalogue of errors and poor judgment in the past.

Have we got the right recruitment team in place to build in the summer? That question will soon be answered in the next few weeks.

He’s done a decent job at steadying the ship this season, after the disaster that Was Mick McCarthy. I just hope that he gets his number one targets in the summer. Or he could find himself out of a job sooner rather than later.

He's managing to try build some form of structure to what he wants. He's getting himself and his staff meetings with top Prem clubs over youngsters - exactly what we need. There's no way Mick, Warnock etc would tried that. With them it'd have been another summer of Vets on stupid contracts and route one football. Give him his chance, let him have a full summer window - he got great signings in within a 30 day window, imagine what he can do with 90+ days!

If he is to be replaced it needs to be with the right man with a similar vision, if not we just go back years again

I'm still struggling to get past the Swansea result and his reaction to it.

That being said looking at the bigger picture he's done his job in keeping us up/saving us from relegation, seems to identify decent players and at least wants to play a bit of football. Whether he can deliver or not, we shall see.

Big No from me. He lost the plot (and my respect) after the International break. Our performance v Scumsea was disgraceful, and so was his attitude about it. See how things stand after the first twelve games of next season…..

I agree that Swansea game and the way he handled it was abysmal his attitude stinks

A big no from me we need a complete overhaul starting with the manager and coaching set up we can not start the season with the set up we got atm they can't even get the players to pass 5yards to a teammate never mind anything more constructive, unless the lot of them

Absolutely no

Inexperienced, and now being tasked with a TOTAL rebuild by an owner who just wants everything cheap.

Being a long suffering fan for over 50 years, unfortunately we have seen this option before with Kenton Utilities after Bob Grogan died.

We suffered back to back relegations , with zero input for monetary options for transfers,

Already I believe 21st place will take a miracle for next season.

If SM makes it to Xmas I’ll be amazed, unfair on him, unfair on the supporters of our great club.

If he is clueless how did he manage to get us safe from relegation with plenty of games to spare. He has tried to change formations and personnel to see if he can get a reaction,but most of the out of contract players seem to be on their summer holidays, if he put all the kids in we would be getting really battered.
When he has his own squad then we can judge him, until then he is stuck with Warnock's,Harris's and McCarthy's signings. Thank god there are only 2 games left, then we can see what sort of difference his signings make.

Credit to Morison for saving us this season, but I think 100 other managers could've done the same thing.

We're now giving him a MASSIVE task in rebuilding our squad top to bottom. Quite frankly it's too risky for someone with his limited experience.

The Tan years have been so dissapointing.

Opportunity struck twice and he fucked up.

Watching similar teams- palace, leicester, leeds, wolves, wba etc andthen JBs 7 years boiled my piss.

Piss poor running of a club where we are lower now than where we started with him..

Good, crowds, good players, good games.
Now its a shitefest, and has been for many years...

Yes. You only have to look at January to see that he signs players to fill roles he wants, rather than create roles for players he signs.

Whatever happens next season with Morison, he’ll have built a squad over summer for more modern and stylish football, so even if he is a disaster we’ll have broken away from the trap of having a Neil Warnock/Neil Harris/Mick McCarthy squad and will surely have to panic employ an experienced attractive football playing manager.

Though I don’t see it coming to that as I’ve seen enough from Morison to be pretty confident that with his own squad we’ll be more than fine.

Under 23 he is fine. First team is all about intensity and pushing the players more than they want to go. Sadly that is not him after seeing his players and his action from the sidelines. Change.

The post from M4 exile is exactly why I am so chilled at the moment.

To my knowledge SM doesn't have any family members acting as football agents or a massive unscrutinised budget to give £5K a week players 12K contracts.

The new recruitment team have now had 3 decent windows, if we continue this we should have a balanced squad capable of playing modern football. So if SM turns out not to be the man then a replacement shouldn't be that hard to find.

It’s a yes from me. We’ve all wanted to see a long term plan for a while now. Lots on here saying they were fed of the the constant short term plans from the owner. Well now he have a manager who is trying to change things and bring through youth players. This will take time, Maybe a few years. What I would say though is we also need investment in the squad, 5 or 6 good quality experienced championship players and maybe s director of football above SM

It’s a yes from me. We’ve all wanted to see a long term plan for a while now. Lots on here saying they were fed of the the constant short term plans from the owner. Well now he have a manager who is trying to change things and bring through youth players. This will take time, Maybe a few years. What I would say though is we also need investment in the squad, 5 or 6 good quality experienced championship players and maybe s director of football above SM

I have always championed a DoF, perhaps SM is really that. If that's the case, build a decent balanced squad and get a first team head coach in.

Everyone keeps moaning about how poor the club is run and how bad the team is which I agree with. Stop going to the games full stop. That's the only way we will get our message across that big change is needed. If Tan doesn't like it then he must sell and the rebuild begins. That just my opinion.

YES - hopefully.
SM did really well in turning City around after the disasterous run under Mc Carthy. He also did very well in the loan market. We need to replace at least 1/2 the team. He not only deserves the chance to take it forward. BUT he also should have a reasonable time to make it work. It is obvious that. Big changes are bound to take time to click into place. For years we have said we need ro do better than short termism. Give the guy a chance and time to achieve postive change.

All Jan signings have added something and more. The style change has been nothing short of incredible with what he has at his disposal and we need to keep with him longer term in my view.

Time Will Tell