Is history about to repeat its self?

For DC to go to Yeovil would seem like desperation for a job, is he, would he be that desperate?

I cant for a moment see that being true, if they were mid-table and safe - maybe.

Like most people who listen to Radio Bristol on route home after a game, I cringe every time
a Zummerzet Zid rings Geoff with tales of pity and how massive a club they are, dreadful.

Who heard the Zummerzet Zid last Saturday and his 'STAT-TIS-TICKS' pronunciation - a wonderful moment in radio history.

yep the atmosphere at the 2-2 was incredible and unforgettable, we could even have won it!!

From what I hear it isn’t, and it’s come from a fairly reliable source who is direct with DC. it’s a decent sized club but not too big and not too big an expectation other than stabilise in the middle of the league a to flirt with the top 8 would be batting above their average.

Good luck to him. From your description that would be Brentford, Reading, Millwall or Wigan because everyone else has PL expectations, more or less.
UTG!

I think lots of chairman up and down the country will know the dynamics of our club as well as the limitations on DC budget wise.  They will also look at his whole transfer activity and what he made on transfers as well as the ones that didn't go quite so well.  The modern manager has a shelf life of about 2-2 1/2 years and DC surpassed that.  That speaks volumes too.

For every Paul Hurst you will have a Dean Smith, who was Walsall manager, went to Brentford and is now in charge at Villa.  Lee Johnson went from Oldham, to Barnsley to City and Alex Neil who went from a small Scottish team to Norwich, took them to the Prem and back and is now at Preston.  My point is Paul Hurst's role at Ipswich cannot be used as a barometer for success or failure when you can point to others who have made a success of it.  Its down to the individual and whether he can make it work at the club and you only know that for sure once he is installed.  

Hurst's problem was he didn't get the right mix of proven championship players with experience together with potential non experienced championship players who perhaps couldn't cope with the step up straight away.  A lot of pressure was put on the inexperienced ones too quickly and they buckled.

I'm not saying DC is a saint to the footballing world, but he is a very good manager who, in my opinion, has the potential to grow, become better and manager a bigger club at a higher level.  Of course we don't know if he is able to do so unless given the opportunity.

I agree that DC’s recruitment wasn’t as good at the end of his reign, but just for balance, DC also signed Sercombe, Craig, Holmes-Dennis, Kelly, Upson and Bonham (loan) in the last two seasons, which haven’t turned out as badly as the 6 names you have mentioned.

If he lost it in Div 1 I would be surprised if he went to a club higher than league 2. Swindon would be a good bet. Easy to get to from his house, and he will take Sinclair and a few others with him

Like all football hatereds it's mostly irrational, but intense nonetheless and well deserved in their case. They came into the league and showed total disrespect for established sides and were a cheating bunch with a nasty cheating manager. Their antics in that 2.2 draw turned many against them and of course the twat with the placard which they all thought was funny at the time. Well the joke might be on them.

I think the facts speak for themselves re: the wider perception of DC's reign. Success in the lower leagues and struggled to build a team at L1 level which resulted in his departure from the club. Our subsequent improvement is quite telling. Budget wise he was handed the tools to have a crack at establishing ourselves at this level and it was going the other way sadly.

In terms of the examples provided, Johnson obviously got the City gig on connections. The success of Scottish managers in this country was a contributing factor in Norwich turning to Neil. Dean Smith was doing a great job with Walsall at was earning plaudits of their style of play at the time.

All of the above were in jobs when poached and I'm struggling to think of precedents of Championship clubs appointing someone unemployed who left a previous job in a relegation battle in L1. Maybe Holloway getting the QPR job in 2001 but a lot has changed in football since that time.

The particular comparison Paul Hurst makes sense given both didn't play at the higher levels of the game and attained a significant amount of experience playing and managing in the Conference or lower. Ipswich gambled on Hurst and it clearly failed. He's the most recent example of a club who have given the chance to a lower league manager and I've no doubt it will impact on the chances of other aspiring managers.

Of course you can only know when installed but given the calibre of managers around the world interested in jobs at that level, gambling on someone who left his previous job at the level below and who's never played, coached or managed at that level would make very little sense.

The evidence is that he's got a fair bit to do before registering on the radar of Championship clubs. Clearly a very effective lower league manager but major question marks exist whether he could be a success at L1 level or higher for me.

If clubs were looking for lower league managerial talent, I'd imagine Cowley at Lincoln would be far in a way the front runner.