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Championship’s managerial churn hurts clubs and hits player morale

B eing a Championship manager is a precarious business, only ever a short run of defeats from the sack. Fifteen have been dismissed this season and five clubs are on to their third manager. A cycle of constant change rarely seems to help.

Overall there have been 19 managerial changes in the division by 14 clubs, leaving 10 managers in the position they started in when the first ball was kicked in July. The Championship is a division few want to be in – for most it is as a vehicle to reach the monied top flight– and that means clubs are willing to make bold decisions to try to get out of it.

Going down and being two years away from the Premier League is an even greater worry than missing out on promotion. Huddersfield and Blackpool have turned to the experienced Neil Warnock and Mick McCarthy to try to get out of trouble. Bottom-placed Huddersfield finished third last season and were 90 minutes from the top flight but lost the playoff final, further evidence of the second tier’s competitive nature.

Last season there were 11 permanent changes in Championship dugouts, and during this campaign League One and Two have had 10 and 11 respectively.

“When I first went into management in the early 90s, there was an almost unwritten law that a manager would need three years to sort a football club out,” the former Stoke manager Tony Pulis says. “The first year to assess what you had, the second to deal with the weaknesses and turn them into strengths and, because you had the opportunity to turn things around, the third year would be successful – and if you weren’t, you would hold your hands up and accept change would come. If you look at it now, managers are getting three months and people are starting to question what you are

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