Danny and Nicky Cowley left The Imps for Championship club Huddersfield Town in September 2019 and were most recently at fellow League One club Portsmouth. They were sacked by Huddersfield after keeping them in the Championship and sacked by Portsmouth after a run of two months without a league victory.
Gaz_Imp has shared his thoughts on why he would love to see Danny and Nicky Cowley return to Sincil Bank. You can discuss what he has said on the forum HERE.
Nailing my colours firmly to the mast – Danny and Nicky Cowley, please.
I’ve never been a fan of saying like ‘don’t go back’ in football – every situation is different.
I think there is some absolute guff spoken about the Cowleys, my main two being:
1. ‘They like to control everything’ when they were appointed at Lincoln they had to, there wasn’t much to work with! Actually from bits of insight I fortunately had – the Cowleys championed collaboration. They brought in the sports scientists, coaches, medical staff etc. I have no doubts they could work with a recruitment team. I think they’d want final say and what they would have final say would need to be agreed on appointment – but I’ve no doubts if they agreed to something they’d stick to it.
2. ‘They don’t develop young players’. What the Cowleys do – better than anything other than perhaps winning – they achieve their objectives. This seems to have been thrown at them a lot but was never really an objective when they were here, it was added after they left to develop the club as a whole. Woodyard, Anderson, Toffolo, Ragget and many more actually developed immensely under their leadership. Many players played the best football of their careers under DC and NC — Rhead, Waterfall, and the likes of Theo Robinson in even a short spell. From what I saw they are very good at getting the best from people. Plus, they are former educators who would be brilliant with young players if that’s their remit, I have no doubt.
With an agreed vision and plan with the board, I think the most successful managers we have arguably ever had could certainly thrive again. Would love to see what they could do with likes of Erhahon, Mandriou and House. We seem to have a bit of a lost dressing room at the minute – you don’t get one of them under Danny and Nicky.
Could it tarnish reputation? Maybe. But I’d bank of them more than anyone else. And I think if it didn’t work out they’d walk away rather than ruin legacy.
Writer: Gaz_Imp
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If you think back to the last few months of their reign, things were going down hill, also I have to question buying and playing John Akinde ahead of Matt Rhead, but apart from that I’m sure it would be good if they did come back but will they want to ?
Loved the Cowleys at Pompey but they are far to reluctant to go for a win. They set their teams up not to get beat and it gets boring after a while. There was a big question mark about selecting injured players at fratton. Would never have them back at Pompey but would always shake their hand and buy them a drink. They are gentlemen.
100% (to quote Mark Kennedy) agree Gaz.
Why would you not recruit a manager who won 2 League Titles and 1 Wembley Cup Final in 3 years?
And he did it with Lincoln City!