After watching When Eagles Dare, I can't see many better qualified. For where we are right now, it makes complete sense and would be less of a gamble.

We can only guess that if Freedman had stayed we would still have gone up. At Bolton and Forest he was less than impressive.

I suspect that like Dowie he earned his managerial reputation because the footballing "stars" all aligned at the right time. Most of his signings came off which was fantastic at that level of football.

Surely the mark of a good manager is to repeat success at other clubs which he and Dowie failed to do.

One more point

Why would we appoint someone who hasn't managed for years, whose only real success was a brief period with us, who has no PL management experience and who has not even been involved in coaching since returning? I'd rather see Shaun Derry given the job (to be clear I don't want him either).

The question at the time was were they his signings or Lennie Lawrence's? When he was here as a manager he was very green and hence the older statesman in Lawrence. We will never know but his unknown purchases as DOF have mostly been less than impressive. By this I mean a lot of the players like Cahill knew how Hodgson worked.

The boat sailed long ago for him to be a prem manager .
I also don't want him near the first team .

he's added some timber over the years. I remember dealings with him years ago when he a skinny little thing. Was a bit shocked when he appeared on the documentary, barely recognised him.