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I actually really like NW and think he did a decent job for us in the Championship. Struggled in the top division, both with us and with Sheff Utd, but I think he's a very good championship manager.

Is there a lack of decent managers out there? And why would he care anyway given this is his last job in football. Oh wait that was the last one. No the one before that. ....

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Managers are not what they used to be you could class them now as Head coach only because they do not control what is going on around a club.

I always liked Warnock it's a shame he could never make it in the Prem but this comes down to Prem clubs operated different to the lower leagues it is filtering through to other leagues as well now but in Prem tactics are very important with the correct players to pull them off.

I know people like to put managers into this well they have always had wealth or good infrastructure but that doesn't mean you are bad having money doesn't = winning just look how much Palace has spent and previous seasons other clubs.

Infrastructure is very important but pointless if you do not use it correctly so you need more then just a manager but qulaity managers identify this sort of thing or work with people that do

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Yes, I think he's right, a lot of managers seem to be out of 'the game' soon, or at very low levels from where they started within five years.

Problem I think is that a lot of the talented English managers are those who've started out lower down and worked their way up.

Too many managers seem to be 'straight in' at the sharp end, having got their coaching badges and having a high profile. A bit like taking a graduate on as CEO...

I think its telling that the best English managers in the premiership are Allerdyce, Pulis, Dyche (to a lesser extent) and Howe, all of whom got that way through the management path by way of lower leagues, or lower positions within a club, and earning the step up internally.

The only exception is Mark Hughes I guess, and he did start management with Wales for five years (arguably a non-league international team). Paul Clement never played professional level football (so is really a career coach - Arguably that's a promotion by way of ability).

Craig Shakespear, spent nearly 17 years as a coach before getting his first managerial position, and even then only because the 'gaffer' got sacked, and he got results.

Too many players who move straight from playing to management, do so on profile as a player, not their proven ability as a coach, and lack the experience to really learn how to manage.

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