Will Still sacked
Posted: 02 Nov 2025, 20:28
Loses Southampton job after 5 months & 2 wins in 13 Championship games
Seemed to be a favourite of some on here
Seemed to be a favourite of some on here
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Will Still sacked
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Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 07 Nov 2025, 09:48
Despite this negative outcome I think that he still will want to manage in England.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 07 Nov 2025, 09:35
Will Will Still still be willing to take on another job in England?
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 07 Nov 2025, 09:31
Be interesting to see the reaction here if he managed us and was shit like Potter, whether there'd be any sympathy and dare I say it excuses because he's West Ham or not.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 07 Nov 2025, 09:05
Didn’t he only come to England because his Mrs was sick of something like that?
I think the hard part of management is day to day dealing with people and their personal issues/ personalities. I think that’s hard for younger people without life experience. It’s not just about your ideas and strategies on the pitch, its about communicating those ideas and getting people to do what you need them to do.
I think younger managers like Arteta or Julian Nagglesman worked with very high level motivated squads where I think it’s easier to just think about strategy and technical things. The lower down the leagues you go it must be nuts dealing with people. Especially if you are a similar age to some of them, the respect for you will be zero from the start. You’d have to earn that pretty quickly.
I think the hard part of management is day to day dealing with people and their personal issues/ personalities. I think that’s hard for younger people without life experience. It’s not just about your ideas and strategies on the pitch, its about communicating those ideas and getting people to do what you need them to do.
I think younger managers like Arteta or Julian Nagglesman worked with very high level motivated squads where I think it’s easier to just think about strategy and technical things. The lower down the leagues you go it must be nuts dealing with people. Especially if you are a similar age to some of them, the respect for you will be zero from the start. You’d have to earn that pretty quickly.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 06 Nov 2025, 18:02
Fergie
Klopp
Guardiola
Mourinho
I think I'd add Wenger to that list, too.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 06 Nov 2025, 12:33
honky cat" wrote: ↑06 Nov 2025, 08:58 Hard for him to gain the confidence and respect of the players, when he is almost the same age and has no playing or coaching achievements.
Yes, needs to work under a good manager for a few years like Keith Andrews did (who at least had a playing career).
Or maybe he's just a bullshitter/media performer. I know we like to think the best of our fellow supporters but on the face of it, they were nuts to give him the job
Good post. And that will always be his problem....Getting player respect. Especially in the UK where there is still a culture within football, specifically at lower level, where if you haven't played then you can't manage.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 06 Nov 2025, 08:58
Hard for him to gain the confidence and respect of the players, when he is almost the same age and has no playing or coaching achievements.
Yes, needs to work under a good manager for a few years like Keith Andrews did (who at least had a playing career).
Or maybe he's just a bullshitter/media performer. I know we like to think the best of our fellow supporters but on the face of it, they were nuts to give him the job
Yes, needs to work under a good manager for a few years like Keith Andrews did (who at least had a playing career).
Or maybe he's just a bullshitter/media performer. I know we like to think the best of our fellow supporters but on the face of it, they were nuts to give him the job
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 06 Nov 2025, 08:19
Dodged a bullet.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 05 Nov 2025, 21:57
Still exits and The Saints win the following game away at QPR.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 19:48
Has he Still got love for the streets?
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 19:47
Is will still sacked or did they change their mind
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 11:48
I told you he's a klepto.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 19:21
He's failed in his last few jobs, but quiet possibly because he's been inserted in impossible positions well out of skillset, and it's problem that often happens a lot where promising young managers are exposed to roles that they're not equipped for.
He's young, English and a West Ham fan, so I wish him all the best for the future, but take someone in the lower leagues like Eddie Howe did and cut his teeth at a level that isn't so intense and unforgiving due to the size and expectations at a club like Southampton.
I 'STILL' BELIEVE!
He's young, English and a West Ham fan, so I wish him all the best for the future, but take someone in the lower leagues like Eddie Howe did and cut his teeth at a level that isn't so intense and unforgiving due to the size and expectations at a club like Southampton.
I 'STILL' BELIEVE!
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 18:48
southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑03 Nov 2025, 09:08 Just my personal opinion, but I think Still might need to work as an assistant manager in the Premier League before he steps up to a big job over here. There's a lot about English football that he "still" needs to learn ('scuse the pun)
The fact is, English football is fiercely competitive - and a grind - especially in the Championship (46 high-tempo games that come thick and fast, with little time for training). And it's another level altogether in the Premier League. He just hasn't faced that intensity or level in France or Belgium.
He'd do well to call Nuno and spend a few years as our #2.
That would be an excellent PL apprenticeship - he could then step up, Lyall style, once Nanoo-nuno moves on (providing the toys don't all come out of the prams before Christmas, that is).
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 14:09
Just in time for the new Football Manager release...
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 12:40
Hard to judge what another teams manager is like unless you’re watching the team every week but I wouldn’t have thought that Still would have had such a quick rise through the management ranks without having something about him. Southampton fans will know best where the failures are.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 10:12
Only a few managers who have the luxury of being safe as houses in their positions, untouchable 'icons' or it's going extremely for well can ever 'speak their mind' in interviews rather than cliches and platitudes and know they won't get much blowback from the arse kissing press whatever they say.
Fergie
Klopp
Guardiola
Mourinho
Basically them. Everyone else has to be dull as dishwater to avoid getting ripped apart by the press. Look at Ange. Overplayed his hand and acted the big bollocks in his first few months at spurs, didn't shut up and they tore him a new one until the day he was sacked by Forest. Potter escaped a lot of pelters in the press by being so bland and never answering questions until he started getting tetchy toward then end and look what happened there with the sudden turn on him, along with the face swapping stuff etc.
It's key for success for a manager to just keep cards close to chest, not say how they really feel and be banal. I think it's a lesson young managers who have only ever really tasted success learn pretty quickly when results stop going their way.
Fergie
Klopp
Guardiola
Mourinho
Basically them. Everyone else has to be dull as dishwater to avoid getting ripped apart by the press. Look at Ange. Overplayed his hand and acted the big bollocks in his first few months at spurs, didn't shut up and they tore him a new one until the day he was sacked by Forest. Potter escaped a lot of pelters in the press by being so bland and never answering questions until he started getting tetchy toward then end and look what happened there with the sudden turn on him, along with the face swapping stuff etc.
It's key for success for a manager to just keep cards close to chest, not say how they really feel and be banal. I think it's a lesson young managers who have only ever really tasted success learn pretty quickly when results stop going their way.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 09:50
It’s the media training that as gank point as out is at fault. Pre and post match interviews are contractual requirements in most case now full of empty and meaningless words, the bland leading the bland.
Not like the days of SirFerg where his interviews, especially after a defeat, were eagerly awaited.
Not like the days of SirFerg where his interviews, especially after a defeat, were eagerly awaited.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 09:39
southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑03 Nov 2025, 09:28twoleftfeet wrote: ↑03 Nov 2025, 09:21 He is another one of these young breed of managers who speaks gobbledy gook at press conferences, they must get taught it at manager school
So true. What is it that makes them do that? Genuinely, do they get taught it at the UEFA/FA courses these days? With a few exceptions, they all talk in circles.
Yes. There are many tiers to 'mexia training' so if you do the full suite of coaching licenses, you also do the full progression of media training. Each module builds upon the modules completed to date so once you've done the lot, each fully-qualified coach has undertaken the exact same set of media training modules which explains why they all sound similar. When they're using deflection and you don't quite understand what they're saying, that's the point at which you notice that they're talking in the same way as the last coach you didn't understand.
We don't really pay attention to coaches' press conferences outside of who we support but you can look at a few on YouTube, especially if you look at similar managerial positions like an under-pressure boss on a losing streak having just lost again, and you'll recognise very similar platitudes throughout.
In sport, you get a more broad licensing authority the higher you progress so you get UK qualifications, then UEFA (Europe) then FIFA (world) awards which explains why top-level coaches rattle off the same old nonsense no matter where they are from in similar situations, both positive and negative.
It's training, and if you defer from the training, it looks like an angry rant (Postecogliu) or inane gushing (Holloway) we all laugh. Nobody wants to be laughed at, so we revert to the training. It takes years to become fully-qualified so it's driven into you.
Politicians are the same and to a degree, journalists, which is why similar questions are always asked.
We don't really pay attention to coaches' press conferences outside of who we support but you can look at a few on YouTube, especially if you look at similar managerial positions like an under-pressure boss on a losing streak having just lost again, and you'll recognise very similar platitudes throughout.
In sport, you get a more broad licensing authority the higher you progress so you get UK qualifications, then UEFA (Europe) then FIFA (world) awards which explains why top-level coaches rattle off the same old nonsense no matter where they are from in similar situations, both positive and negative.
It's training, and if you defer from the training, it looks like an angry rant (Postecogliu) or inane gushing (Holloway) we all laugh. Nobody wants to be laughed at, so we revert to the training. It takes years to become fully-qualified so it's driven into you.
Politicians are the same and to a degree, journalists, which is why similar questions are always asked.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 09:28
twoleftfeet wrote: ↑03 Nov 2025, 09:21 He is another one of these young breed of managers who speaks gobbledy gook at press conferences, they must get taught it at manager school
So true. What is it that makes them do that? Genuinely, do they get taught it at the UEFA/FA courses these days? With a few exceptions, they all talk in circles.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 09:21
He is another one of these young breed of managers who speaks gobbledy gook at press conferences, they must get taught it at manager school 
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 09:08
Just my personal opinion, but I think Still might need to work as an assistant manager in the Premier League before he steps up to a big job over here. There's a lot about English football that he "still" needs to learn ('scuse the pun)
The fact is, English football is fiercely competitive - and a grind - especially in the Championship (46 high-tempo games that come thick and fast, with little time for training). And it's another level altogether in the Premier League. He just hasn't faced that intensity or level in France or Belgium.
He'd do well to call Nuno and spend a few years as our #2.
The fact is, English football is fiercely competitive - and a grind - especially in the Championship (46 high-tempo games that come thick and fast, with little time for training). And it's another level altogether in the Premier League. He just hasn't faced that intensity or level in France or Belgium.
He'd do well to call Nuno and spend a few years as our #2.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 09:07
I was one that was keen on him last summer. Surprised he has struggled at Soton. Championship seems even more wild than usual this season.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 03 Nov 2025, 08:57
Messaged couple of blokes last night who I know who support Soton. Just to get the lowdown. They both kind of said Still had good ideas and tried but there was a disconnect between him and the players. One of them also said they players have been a joke and in some ways have played Still out of the club. Apparently its very toxic down there at the moment as alot of the fans wanted Still to remain. Relationship between players and Soton fans is not good.
Re: Will Still sacked
Posted: 02 Nov 2025, 22:07
My saints mate puts most of the blame on the players being lazy, cowardly and pathetic.