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« Thread Started on Aug 26, 2012, 6:48pm » | |
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Andy Thorn sacked as manager by Coventry City
Coventry City have sacked manager Andy Thorn after 16 months in permanent charge at the Ricoh Arena.
The cash-strapped Sky Blues have drawn their opening three games in League One following relegation last season.
"Last season there were off-the-field matters that affected team affairs," said Coventry chief executive Tim Fisher in a club statment.
"We felt it was right to give Andy the chance to put that right but do not feel that has happened."
Fisher added: "Of course, the fact that we have surrendered the lead in the first three league games has not helped but there are several other factors in this decision - not just three disappointing results.
"We would like to put on record our thanks to Andy for his work in current and previous roles at the club."
Thorn, 45, took charge of Coventry in April 2011 following a stint as caretaker boss when former manager Aidy Boothroyd left the club.
The Sky Blues started this season brightly with a 1-0 win over Dagenham & Redbridge in the Capital One Cup.
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"It's so soon in the season you don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
"Andy was at the helm when they got relegated last season. You think if they were going to make a decision they would have done it in off season but obviously something has gone on.
"I had a great time at the club, we brought some decent players then but they've since become a selling club."
But Thorn's side could only draw against Yeovil, Sheffield United and Bury.
On Saturday, the Sky Blues led at the break at home against the Shakers but let their two-goal advantage slip in the second half and were booed off at the final whistle.
Coventry finished second from bottom in the Championship last season and went down along with Portsmouth and Doncaster Rovers.
They are now in the third tier of English football for the first time since 1964.
Thorn, who was a member of Wimbledon's 1988 FA Cup-winning side as a player, took over as caretaker boss in March 2011 and won three, drew three and lost two in temporary charge before being handed the job on a permanent basis.
But since then he has only won nine out of 51 league games.
Coventry are struggling financially and owe £600,000 in rent and bills to Ricoh Arena operators Arena Coventry Limited (ACL).
Former Sky Blues players, assistant manager Richard Shaw and first-team coach Lee Carsley, will take temporary charge.
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« Reply #1 on Aug 26, 2012, 6:48pm » | |
Coventry Managers (from Wikipedia) - Since Jimmy Hill and Noel Cantwell
Jimmy Hill England December 1961 May 1967 282 125 82 75 44.33 1 Div 2
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Noel Cantwell Ireland October 1967 March 1972 213 69 61 83 32.39
Joe Mercer England June 1972 July 1975 90 29 39 22 32.22
Gordon Milne England June 1972 May 1981 436 150 121 165 34.40
Dave Sexton England May 1981 May 1983 96 30 24 42 31.25
Bobby Gould Wales May 1983 December 1984 72 21 18 33 29.17
Don Mackay Scotland December 1984 April 1986 67 22 12 33 32.84
George Curtis England April 1986 May 1987 56 28 13 15 50.00
John Sillett England May 1987 November 1990 150 56 39 55 37.33 1 FA Cup
Terry Butcher England 15 November 1990 6 January 1992 60 20 14 26 33.33
Bobby Gould Wales June 1992 December 1993 59 18 19 22 30.51
Phil Neal England 23 October 1993 14 February 1995 67 21 20 26 31.34
Ron Atkinson England February 1995 November 1996 74 19 28 27 25.68
Gordon Strachan Scotland 5 November 1996 10 September 2001 214 70 54 90 32.71
Roland Nilsson Sweden September 2001 16 April 2002 43 19 6 18 44.19
Gary McAllister Scotland 24 April 2002 11 December 2003 76 21 26 29 27.63
Eric Black Scotland 15 January 2004 4 May 2004 22 10 4 8 45.45
Peter Reid England 8 June 2004 6 January 2005 81 30 24 27 37.04
Micky Adams England 23 January 2005 17 January 2007 99 33 26 40 33.33
Iain Dowie Northern Ireland 19 February 2007 11 February 2008 49 20 8 21 40.82
Chris Coleman Wales 19 February 2008 4 May 2010 117 34 47 36 29.06
Aidy Boothroyd England 20 May 2010 14 March 2011 39 12 8 19 30.77
Andy Thorn England 14 March 2011 26 August 2012 49 9 15 25 18.37
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« Reply #2 on Sept 9, 2012, 7:22am » | |
Guardian re Coventry's Plight
Poor start leaves Coventry City fans staring into the abyss
Once a fixture in the top flight, Coventry City have continued a slide which fans fear could result in them going out of business
James Riach
Ron Atkinson used to say if the Titanic had been painted sky blue it would not have gone down. For Coventry City, though, the time to scramble for lifejackets and sound the SOS alarm may soon be nigh. Without a manager and yet to win a league game this season going into Sunday's encounter with Stevenage, their return to the third tier for the first time since 1964 has deepened the choppy waters that are beginning to threaten the club's very existence.
City's hedge fund owners, Sisu, have long considered pulling their backing and another campaign in League One would only serve to tip Coventry closer to the precipice. If they do not achieve promotion this term, there are real fears of administration or even liquidation. Sisu, who bought Coventry in 2008 when the club were in dire straits, appointed the chief executive, Tim Fisher, last December to try to salvage the £30m lost in four years.
"There is a frustration and that manifested itself with the departure of the manager," he said, following Andy Thorn's recent sacking. "I don't want to play the blame game, we made a strategic business decision to change the man at the helm."
City have received more than 50 applications for the vacant manager's position after they terminated Thorn's contract. The former Wimbledon defender who enjoyed success with the Crazy Gang spent 16 months in charge after taking the reins on a caretaker basis in March 2011, but started the league campaign with three draws.
For the supporters, it is the lack of clarity from Sisu that remains a key issue. The Mayfair-based owners rarely, if ever, attend games and are trying to buy a 50% stake in the stadium, currently owned equally by Coventry city council and the Higgs Trust, which has been the club's home since an ill-fated switch from Highfield Road in 2005.
While matters off the pitch are perhaps the most pressing concern, the turbulence that has engulfed City has not surprisingly been mirrored on it. Relegation from the Premier League in 2001 ended 34 years in the top flight, before 11 seasons in the Championship were brought to a bitter denouement. This summer has seen the departure of experienced players such as Richard Keogh, Sammy Clingan and Martin Cranie in a reshape of a squad which still harbours hope of an immediate return to the second tier. Fisher said: "It's a critical season and a critical point for many reasons. At the outset we talked about promotion, that's why the previous incumbent put together the squad that he felt was more than capable of getting a top-six position. There's no reason to believe that in the main that squad doesn't have the talent. We've seen it in flashes, there have been moments of quality. We now need to build on that and get to a consistent level of performance."
On the financial constraints hindering City's progress, he added: "There's been an awful lot of hard work transforming what is a Championship-budgeted club into a League One-budgeted club, because the revenue just falls off a cliff."
The supporters have been vociferous in their attempts to oust Sisu from the club. Chants during games may fall on deaf ears but the Sky Blue Trust has been reinvigorated after a dormant few years. The trust says Coventry's plight is so serious that it has already made contingency plans if D-Day arrives, a potential fan-backed takeover having been discussed as hopes of promotion begin to dwindle even at this early stage.
"What frustrates is they [Sisu] can suddenly find £10m to try and buy the stadium, but they can't pay the rent on it and they can't buy players," said their spokesman, Jan Mokrzycki. "It's obvious they don't give a monkeys about the club. No one else is going to come in and save us, it's up to the fans to do it ourselves. We might as well get in a position to do it now, rather than be like Portsmouth, scrambling around at the last minute trying to get something done.
"Getting rid of the manager after three games – why let the guy bring in nine or 10 journeymen players and then get rid of him? Why didn't they get rid of him at the end of last season and give someone else more of a fighting chance? Now we're wasting time, two or three weeks in limbo. The team in the last two or three games has looked totally unmotivated. When we came down from the Premiership to the Championship, we were in a cosy mid-table position and then dropped from there, I think we're in danger of the same thing happening."
Whoever City appoint as manager in the coming weeks needs the backing of everyone at the club. Fisher remains confident of a revival: "We're turning the ship and we're turning the ship in choppy waters." Coventry must hope there will be calm after the storm.
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« Reply #3 on Sept 9, 2012, 10:46am » | |
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« Reply #4 on Sept 9, 2012, 11:36am » | |
To see that club go out business would be very sad. 
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« Reply #5 on Sept 9, 2012, 11:53am » | |
Sept 9, 2012, 11:36am, shenandoah wrote:| To see that club go out business would be very sad. |
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very sad indeed
c'mon Stevenage 
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« Reply #6 on Sept 9, 2012, 2:13pm » | |
Sorry Coventry, still no win
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« Reply #7 on Sept 10, 2012, 10:44am » | |
They were impressive in the cup when they did beat Birmingham. But Richard Shaw and Lee Carsley obviously have a big task ahead of them. 
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« Reply #8 on Sept 10, 2012, 10:55am » | |
Two caretaker managers, strange that, still, they'll both get the sack soon!
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« Reply #9 on Sept 10, 2012, 11:49am » | |
Coventry is in some very deep brown stuff.
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« Reply #10 on Sept 10, 2012, 12:36pm » | |
I never liked them. But in the 1960s and 1970s they were truly innovative in various off-the-Field activities.
+ That Donkey Kick
And that last second free kick winner by Stan Bowles in the FA Cup at Loftus Road
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« Reply #12 on Sept 10, 2012, 12:52pm » | |
Sept 10, 2012, 11:49am, nomar wrote:| Coventry is in some very deep brown stuff. |
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Couldn't possibly be any worse than the brown stuff they used to be in.....
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« Reply #13 on Sept 12, 2012, 3:22pm » | |
Good, just to spite that vile, odious fat **** Jon Gaunt.
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« Reply #14 on Sept 12, 2012, 8:49pm » | |
Shold have done the job properly on our first visit to the Ricoh arena!!!
I'll wager it's no nearer completion now! 
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« Reply #15 on Sept 13, 2012, 10:49am » | |
Sept 10, 2012, 12:52pm, haqpr1963 wrote:
Sept 10, 2012, 11:49am, nomar wrote:| Coventry is in some very deep brown stuff. |
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Couldn't possibly be any worse than the brown stuff they used to be in.....
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The ol' chocolate railway tracks - yeeeesh! Although the sky blue version wasn't too bad. Jimmy Hill initiative.
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« Reply #16 on Sept 13, 2012, 4:57pm » | |
Sept 10, 2012, 12:52pm, haqpr1963 wrote:
Sept 10, 2012, 11:49am, nomar wrote:| Coventry is in some very deep brown stuff. |
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Couldn't possibly be any worse than the brown stuff they used to be in.....
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« Reply #17 on Sept 19, 2012, 8:51am » | |
Coventry's New Manager: Mark Robins
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Mark Robins: Coventry City to name ex-Tykes boss as manager
Coventry City are set to appoint Mark Robins as their new manager, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire has learned.
The cash-strapped League One club have been without a permanent boss since Andy Thorn was sacked in August.
Caretaker Richard Shaw was understood to be one of the three candidates in contention, but his prospects were damaged after his side fell to their fourth consecutive defeat on Tuesday.
Robins has previous experience at Rotherham and Barnsley.
But he has been out of management since leaving the Tykes at the end of the 2010-11 season.
Coventry were relegated from the Championship last term and currently sit second from bottom in League One.
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« Reply #18 on Sept 19, 2012, 9:44am » | |
Considering the weak bargaining position they're in, that's not a bad appointment at all. Remember him doing pretty well with poor resources at Barnsley for a time.
Feel bad for them really, I've got a few friends who support them and one was saying how for the first time in his life he actually hates the players. He acknowledges that they've been crap for a while but he's always had favourite players or could pick out ones he rated at least the work ethic of, but not anymore. Club is a total basket case at the moment.
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...they need a Holloway. Who is the lower league equivalent of him nowadays? Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Mr Burns is making a film. "Get me Steven Spielburg!", "He's not available sir...", "Then get me his Mexican non-unionised equivalent!".
Coventry need a Senor Hollowayo.
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« Reply #20 on Sept 19, 2012, 10:33am » | |
I have a feeling it could be 3-4 years before Coventry go back up to the championship
Very simular to when we went down to the 1st div
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« Reply #21 on Sept 19, 2012, 4:22pm » | |
There is something kind of exciting in the challenge of taking a club at it lowest ebb and building it back up again though. Especially if you need to sign a whole new team such as Portsmouth.
It would be like playing "Championship Manager" but for real.
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« Reply #22 on Sept 19, 2012, 4:27pm » | |
Sept 19, 2012, 4:22pm, blatantfowl wrote:There is something kind of exciting in the challenge of taking a club at it lowest ebb and building it back up again though. Especially if you need to sign a whole new team such as Portsmouth.
It would be like playing "Championship Manager" but for real.
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I know some people hate Chelsea and Manchester United Fans. But I'd really like for Chelsea and Man Ut Fans to experience for themselves this kind of Real World "Championship Manager"
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« Reply #23 on Sept 19, 2012, 4:43pm » | |
Aug 26, 2012, 6:48pm, Macmoish wrote:Classy!
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Andy Thorn sacked as manager by Coventry City
Coventry City have sacked manager Andy Thorn after 16 months in permanent charge at the Ricoh Arena.
The cash-strapped Sky Blues have drawn their opening three games in League One following relegation last season.
"Last season there were off-the-field matters that affected team affairs," said Coventry chief executive Tim Fisher in a club statment.
"We felt it was right to give Andy the chance to put that right but do not feel that has happened."
Fisher added: "Of course, the fact that we have surrendered the lead in the first three league games has not helped but there are several other factors in this decision - not just three disappointing results.
"We would like to put on record our thanks to Andy for his work in current and previous roles at the club."
Thorn, 45, took charge of Coventry in April 2011 following a stint as caretaker boss when former manager Aidy Boothroyd left the club.
The Sky Blues started this season brightly with a 1-0 win over Dagenham & Redbridge in the Capital One Cup.
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Image of Iain Dowie Iain Dowie Former Coventry manager
"It's so soon in the season you don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
"Andy was at the helm when they got relegated last season. You think if they were going to make a decision they would have done it in off season but obviously something has gone on.
"I had a great time at the club, we brought some decent players then but they've since become a selling club."
But Thorn's side could only draw against Yeovil, Sheffield United and Bury.
On Saturday, the Sky Blues led at the break at home against the Shakers but let their two-goal advantage slip in the second half and were booed off at the final whistle.
Coventry finished second from bottom in the Championship last season and went down along with Portsmouth and Doncaster Rovers.
They are now in the third tier of English football for the first time since 1964.
Thorn, who was a member of Wimbledon's 1988 FA Cup-winning side as a player, took over as caretaker boss in March 2011 and won three, drew three and lost two in temporary charge before being handed the job on a permanent basis.
But since then he has only won nine out of 51 league games.
Coventry are struggling financially and owe £600,000 in rent and bills to Ricoh Arena operators Arena Coventry Limited (ACL).
Former Sky Blues players, assistant manager Richard Shaw and first-team coach Lee Carsley, will take temporary charge.
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Sept 19, 2012, 4:27pm, Macmoish wrote:
I know some people hate Chelsea and Manchester United Fans. But I'd really like for Chelsea and Man Ut Fans to experience for themselves this kind of Real World "Championship Manager" |
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and this is why they are and never will be true supporters, at least this generation.
cant believe to wonder what it is like to be born into success, and how boring and disinteresting it must be.
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