[Luke]

Relieved of his duties and put on gardening leave.

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Hull City manager Phil Brown has been relieved of his duties at the KC Stadium and put on gardening leave.

Assistant boss Brian Horton and Steve Parkin will take charge of the Tigers' first-team until further notice.

After Saturday's last-gasp defeat by Arsenal, Hull are second from bottom of the Premier League and three points adrift of safety, with nine games left

So whats the crack then? Has he been sacked? If so why would he be on gardening leave?

[jase]

Luke, on 15 March 2010 - 12:22 PM, said:

Relieved of his duties and put on gardening leave.



So whats the crack then? Has he been sacked? If so why would he be on gardening leave?

There must be more to it than the performances, looking on thisishull.co.uk there is also an article about him only being able to speak to him through his advisers!!! The timing of it is stupid though their are 9 games of the season left and who is going to come in???

[Qzinho]

Gardening leave means they can remove him from his duties immediately before they agree a severance package ;)

[wilkie1984]

I think its a good move for Hull but its to late to save them if you ask me. This should have been done earlier in the season. I would have been more inclined to leave him until the end of the season now right enough.

You think they will take a Burnley type manager that is totally out of his depth in the premiership!

[JP87]

As a Hull City supporter, I do think it was totally the wrong time to get rid of him, he should've been sacked before xmas when we were having a string of bad results and poor performances. However, there is a sometimes a tendency of what new managers can do on results when they first enter a club, so maybe Chairman Adam Pearson is working along those assumptions. I personally would like to Mark Hughes take charge for the remaining nine games, if he kept us up he would automatically become a Hull City legend, but if he doesn't he could be like oh well i only had nine games to play with etc. Another possibility would be Terry Venables who did a similar job nine years ago with middlesboro to help keep them up.

[AlexBRFC]

I'd be very surprised to see Sparky take the job, but stranger things have happened.

Iain "proven Premiership manager" Dowie is the bookies' favourite at the minute though. Yeah, good luck with that... :Hmm:

[Chris]

Should've been done much earlier if they wanted to have a positive effect. With 9 games to go and coming into a crucial battle for survival the last thing you want to be doing is unsettling the team. If Brown stayed and went down then, obviously, that would've be fair enough. He got them there, the least he deserved was to try and keep them alive.

I may be eating humble pie but this decision was made at the wrong time and as a result Hull City will go down. Not saying with Phil Brown still in charge there is no way they would've went down but they would have a greater chance of staying up.

[adrian]

Would be surprised if Mark Hughes took the job, thought he would have waited for a Europa League kind of club or thereabouts.

[Big Matt]

Aye, I can see him going to either Everton or Villa, depending if Man Utd nick MON/Moyes. Dunno how long he'll wait around for, though.

[jase]

Iian Dowie is to be unveiled later this morning!!! bye bye premiershiphttp://forum.fm-view.com/public/style_emoticons/default/boo.gif

[AlexBRFC]

I just don't understand this (proposed) appointment - Dowie got relegated from the Prem with Palace, couldn't lift Charlton away from the relegation zone, failed miserably at Coventry and, although he wasn't actually their manager, got relegated whilst at Newcastle.

What is he going to bring to Hull, Mr Pearson?

Nothing.

[Cardozo]

Ian Dowie :doh: :doh: :doh: See you later Hull.

[Luke]

AlexBRFC, on 17 March 2010 - 09:19 AM, said:

What is he going to bring to Hull, Mr Pearson?

Relegation.

Terrible appointment.

[Jez]

At least it means he won't be back at Bloomfield Road this season to do his Sky Sports News schtick.

Unlucky Hull. It was a nice run you had.

[Jimmy]

AlexBRFC, on 17 March 2010 - 09:19 AM, said:

I just don't understand this (proposed) appointment - Dowie got relegated from the Prem with Palace, couldn't lift Charlton away from the relegation zone, failed miserably at Coventry and, although he wasn't actually their manager, got relegated whilst at Newcastle.

What is he going to bring to Hull, Mr Pearson?

Nothing.

Whilst palace did get relegated in the end, we performed well throughout that season and were unlucky to go down because of West Brom and there lucky escape. I refused to put 'great escape' because it wasn't!
Dowie is an impact manager at best, when he took over at Palace, we were a point above the relegation place in December and by April we were in the play-offs. If there is one thing Dowie can do, it is getting the players working hard and results will start to show.

[Cardozo]

I will set my homepage to meatspin.com, if Hull stay up this season, with that fool in charge.

[AlexBRFC]

Deano Gordinho, on 18 March 2010 - 03:17 PM, said:

Whilst palace did get relegated in the end, we performed well throughout that season and were unlucky to go down because of West Brom and there lucky escape. I refused to put 'great escape' because it wasn't!
Dowie is an impact manager at best, when he took over at Palace, we were a point above the relegation place in December and by April we were in the play-offs. If there is one thing Dowie can do, it is getting the players working hard and results will start to show.

Maybe so, but if the aim is to avoid relegation, with only 9 games to go, you'd have thought they would've hired someone with proven credentials at the highest level. Dowie is a Championship manager at best.

[Jimmy]

Like who exactly?

Mark Hughes & Steve Coppell would be complete fools to take over there. As for Alan Curbishley, he got lucky with West Ham staying up. if Tevez hadn't of hit form when he did they would of been dead and buried.