Hull and Burnley have shown lack of ambition

When Hull City announced that they had appointed Iain Dowie as their new boss I had the same feeling I had when Burnley appointed Brian Laws. The feeling was that the club is preparing for life in the Championship already.

Ambition

The lack of ambition at the clubs may be down to the fact that they are quite small clubs in terms of Premier League football.

And Hull City have shown that by appointing a Championship manager to do the job of a Premier League manager.

Iain Dowie has hardly any experience at managing a Premier League club. His last experience of managing a Premier League club lasted just 15 games, despite being allowed to spend more money than the previous bosses in the Addick’s hot seat.

He was then back in the Championship with Coventry City and then QPR, where again he lasted just 15 games. Does this really sound like a coach who is set to save Hull from relegation, sorry but no. It seems he will probably be back in the Championship by May, if not sacked.

He has had some success as a Championship manager but that doesn’t bode well for Hull’s current situation. Phil Brown wasn’t exactly the best manager in the world and he certainly isn’t my favourite manager but in my opinion he’s a far better coach than Dowie.

Awful

When Brian Laws was appointed as Burnley boss I wrote an article saying how they would be relegated. And now as Hull City have appointed Dowie I’m going to say the same that Hull will join them in the Championship next season.

Since the appointment of Brian Laws Burnley have been awful and have won just one game. That victory came over West Ham at Turf Moor. The Hammers are lucky that Hull and Burnley are in the Premier League, because in recent weeks and months they have shown a distinct lack of fight.

Quality

However the Hammers have far more quality than the other two. They are not too good to go down but the other two are too poor to survive. The Hammers have quality players such as Robert Green, Matthew Upson and Carlton Cole, whereas Burnley and Hull can’t call on players in the same class.

The Hull and Burnley squads are full of hard working honest players but most of them are of Championship quality. They have bought the sort of player they thought would be good enough for the Premier League. Unfortunately most of them have struggled with life in the top flight.

Fans

The fans of these two clubs have been let down by their boards. They may have come along way in a short time but there’s now a danger that both clubs are now going backwards. The clubs may be victims of their own success but surely they should show more ambition than appointing managers who are Championship rejects.

The Burnley fans especially have shown their team superb support this season and the appointment of the naive Brian Laws was an insult. Law’s is really out of his depth in the Premier League and Burnley are sinking fast. I actually feel sorry for the former Sheffield Wednesday and Scunthorpe boss.

The club had lots of other available experienced bosses and they decided to take a risk in appointing a boss that had just been fired from a club at the bottom of the Championship. The Hull board actually said they were sacking Phil Brown to give them a chance of avoiding relegation.

That’s very strange logic considering who they have appointed as their new boss. If they wanted to survive relegation from the Premier League then they should have appointed an experienced Premier League manager.  It seems that the Hull City board are already resigned to life in the Championship, even if the team and the fans are not.