Echo News 'I'll watch Southend' - Harris reveals plans after leaving Millwall

Evening Echo · Monday at 10:22 PM

NEIL Harris is to spend more time watching Southend United following his departure from Millwall.

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gatecrasher · Monday at 10:34 PM

Would love him to manage us one day

stewart · Monday at 10:40 PM

Could be our next manager. If he dosent get the Southampton job. And bring Leonard back with him .
Come on COSU theres a man doing the job at Millwall on a limited budget too and doing well .Limited budget in the Championship and sitting 11th to me thats excellent.

Yer Blues · Monday at 11:43 PM

stewart said:
Could be our next manager. If he dosent get the Southampton job.

No. No he couldn't.

bertbert · 2024-12-17T06:30:43+0000

stewart said:
Could be our next manager. If he dosent get the Southampton job. And bring Leonard back with him .
Come on COSU theres a man doing the job at Millwall on a limited budget too and doing well .Limited budget in the Championship and sitting 11th to me thats excellent.

Don't read into this .We do not need a new Manager.New players forget Harris.

Blues4LifeDan · 2024-12-17T06:32:24+0000

stewart said:
Could be our next manager. If he dosent get the Southampton job. And bring Leonard back with him .
Come on COSU theres a man doing the job at Millwall on a limited budget too and doing well .Limited budget in the Championship and sitting 11th to me thats excellent.

Lenny got their player of the season last season and was described by Harris on his return to the club as, "the best right back he'd seen in the Championship."

As you say, they are 11th under his reign too. A wonderful thought, but neither of them will be in the NL any time soon.

RobB11 · 2024-12-17T08:56:31+0000

stewart said:
Could be our next manager. If he dosent get the Southampton job. And bring Leonard back with him .
Come on COSU theres a man doing the job at Millwall on a limited budget too and doing well .Limited budget in the Championship and sitting 11th to me thats excellent.

good fishing.

Tangled up in Blue · 2024-12-17T10:34:30+0000

Potential new manager for us?

Strykr · 2024-12-17T10:38:49+0000

Brave man if he's gonna watch us each week :Whistling:

Tangled up in Blue · 2024-12-17T10:40:59+0000

At least it would put an end to "crab " style fooball.we might even get some results too.

wiggy · 2024-12-17T12:10:06+0000

If Maher’s name was Moisley then he wouldn’t even be here anymore.
Dross football and underachieving with what he has got to pick from should lead to one thing , how anyone can support his ideas is beyond me? Keep playing Bridge, amazingly keep playing Husin, dropping Morton, Coker and KAF when he did, all about as puzzling as the way the country is being run at the moment?

NZamba Legend · 2024-12-17T12:42:12+0000

wiggy said:
If Maher’s name was Moisley then he wouldn’t even be here anymore.

Counterfactual genius

flangejackrabbit · 2024-12-17T12:53:24+0000

Tangled up in Blue said:
At least it would put an end to "crab " style fooball.we might even get some results too.

Can you imagine, after two weeks it would be "why do we keep hoofing it to strikers who can't win it in the air"...

Crowstone Crevette · 2024-12-17T13:13:43+0000

What are the reasons for Neil Harris 'stepping down' is it public knowledge?

Chris Powell's mate · 2024-12-17T13:36:17+0000

wiggy said:
If Maher’s name was Moisley then he wouldn’t even be here anymore.
Dross football and underachieving with what he has got to pick from should lead to one thing , how anyone can support his ideas is beyond me? Keep playing Bridge, amazingly keep playing Husin, dropping Morton, Coker and KAF when he did, all about as puzzling as the way the country is being run at the moment?

Whatever else, if somebody is 'underachieving' playing one available sub while being on the fringes of the play-offs, then anyone less than Pep as next boss is a poor choice, lol!
KM's ideas brought us and continue to bring results.
Sure, there's room for improvement, frankly, a lot of improvement, but that has to be down to personnel.
Maher was forced to go shopping late, and didn't it show!
Bonne, Walker, Gubbins, KAF, Jeacock and Moncur are currently very average.
If they do OK one week, they rarely repeat the next.
Wind and Pepple may have something, and by that, consistently something, and perhaps the two new faces, Golding and Kendall might add a bit more?
However, I agree KM needs to shuffle the midfield a bit more.

Supershrimper · 2024-12-17T13:40:58+0000

Believe it saw a statement that if the season had started when Neil had taken over at Millwall they would be 3rd in the Championship on something like 55 points.

THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK · 2024-12-17T13:43:54+0000

Crowstone Crevette said:
What are the reasons for Neil Harris 'stepping down' is it public knowledge?

Neil's being very diplomatic as to why he's stepped down. So we may never know. I will ask him when I see him, but he will probably just smile and keep schtum. There was a little spat with a very small minority of supporters after a defeat, which surprised him after all he's done for Millwall. He was also called in for talks with the Chairman. Just being called in can make someone like Neil make his mind up. Only Neil knows, and he's not saying at the moment. Saying the time was right is very diplomatic. Anyway, he did a terrific job there, and has left them in a position that they can push on if they spend in the transfer window. A big IF that, as that's not their style.

Linda Loan Shark · 2024-12-17T13:46:17+0000

I doubt Harris will go from managing a Championship team and doing well to managing in Non League

blues exile · 2024-12-17T15:21:21+0000

It might seem a superficially attractive idea that Harris becomes manager when the inevitable happens but the club needs to learn the lesson - never go back. It almost always ends badly whether ex player returning as manager, player coming back for second spell or manager getting second chance. We need someone who doesn't have a past connection and who has fresh ideas, motivational skills and a love of enterprising, entertaining football.

Supa Shrimpa · 2024-12-17T15:40:04+0000

blues exile said:
It might seem a superficially attractive idea that Harris becomes manager when the inevitable happens but the club needs to learn the lesson - never go back. It almost always ends badly whether ex player returning as manager, player coming back for second spell or manager getting second chance. We need someone who doesn't have a past connection and who has fresh ideas, motivational skills and a love of enterprising, entertaining football.

Would you swap enterprising and entertaining football for a team that can grind out results and get us out of this god awful division ? They usually contradict each other.