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Next Manager Search - August 2023

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  • Appleton didn’t think Jack Payne was good enough for League One when he arrived at Lincoln. Good judge of talent or poorly handled situation?
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Chunes said:
    Mate at Sparrows Lane has just messaged me to say a new training schedule has gone up today courtesy of the Cowley's:

    Monday - Football
    Tuesday - Cross Country
    Wednesday - Rounders

    What do they do when they forget their kit 🫣
    Have to do in their vest & pants
  • Appleton didn’t think Jack Payne was good enough for League One when he arrived at Lincoln. Good judge of talent or poorly handled situation?
    It's funny how Lincoln signed him just before Appleton got the gig and Oxford signed him as soon as Appleton left.

    I don't think you can comment on how the situation was handled from that clip.  Player was dropped, didn't like it.
  • edited September 2023
    seth plum said:
    I think we have good players but a crap team.

    Mr Plum that sounds about right.
    Some good players as opposed to the whole squad.
    Worthy of a Tony Blair soundbite.
    Education, education, education for not only our Under 21's but the whole team of individuals who just don't play as a team over the 112 minutes of a match in 2023.
    They do need a bright, lucid thinker who can educate a plan, Strategy and give confidence to the players.

    I want a manager/Head coach who can think on their feet and utilise the 16 players who may be needed to out wit the opposition head coach. Use the three sub windows wisely and FFS keep the last window and 5th player until the added time as keeping a player on when he is injured, Fraser, just makes the injury worse.
  • Its not the players that is the problem
    Yes it is...
  • Chunes said:
    Mate at Sparrows Lane has just messaged me to say a new training schedule has gone up today courtesy of the Cowley's:

    Monday - Football
    Tuesday - Cross Country
    Wednesday - Rounders

    The Dowies want their training schedule back

    The last or one of the last training sessions that Iain Dowie took had 30 seconds shown on ITV London news. Darren Bent was superb, he did a cover drive that went all the way to the boundary.
    Does anyone remember this ?
  • seth plum said:
    I think we have good players but a crap team.
    This 100%. But a good manager, with a bit of time, would be able to create a good team out of them. Our problem is we probably won’t get a good manager or give them time to do it 
  • So who gets signed is the managers fault is it?
  • Chunes said:
    Mate at Sparrows Lane has just messaged me to say a new training schedule has gone up today courtesy of the Cowley's:

    Monday - Football
    Tuesday - Cross Country
    Wednesday - Rounders

    Thursday - Country Dancing
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  • What I can't understand is that people on here know someone, who is not a Charlton fan, and gives them information about incoming managers or players ... weird
  • Chunes said:
    Mate at Sparrows Lane has just messaged me to say a new training schedule has gone up today courtesy of the Cowley's:

    Monday - Football
    Tuesday - Cross Country
    Wednesday - Rounders

    Thursday - Country Dancing
    Letters from the Mums of Michael Hector, Tayo Edun, Lucas Ness, Lloyd Jones, Deji Elerewe, Terry Taylor & Louie Watson:

    "Please excuse (insert name here) from Country Dancing class today, as the poor lamb has two left feet, can't count to 8 and suffers extreme anxiety when asked to perform in front of others."

    Charlie Kirk's mum emailed Sparrows Lane to say "don't expect Charlie to do much when he gets to work today cos he's been a bone idle waste of space since he was 11 and there's no changing him now, worst luck."
  • Scoham said:
    supaclive said:
    Sadly we're currently in a position where

    The squad isn't good enough
    The new owners got rid of their own man less than a month into the season
    We have some promising youngsters
    Defensively we are terrible
    We are out of two cup competitions
    Andy Scott has say over who you can and can't sign
    We appear to not have significant budget to overhaul a mid table league one squad 

    That's not attractive on paper 

    Correction the manager / Coach still has major say in recruitment working with Andy Scott …. And we do have sufficient funds but not wasting it on over priced league one and two players .. we will look again in Jan 
    Your constant defence of the new regime got me thinking as to whether you've ever had a bad word to say about anything to do with the club.

    So i checked the thread when Karel Fraeye was appointed. Here's a comment from you under one of your previous usernames about him:

    "People are saying about the players well they know him they spoke very highly of him and is training methods before so this not a problem"

    My god.
    Yes, he didn’t rate Powell as a manager for us.
    Why not Ronnie? Had a much better record than many you’ve supported to the bitter end. 
    Just interested to hear your reasons. 
  • Announcement today ?
  • JamesSeed said:
    Scoham said:
    supaclive said:
    Sadly we're currently in a position where

    The squad isn't good enough
    The new owners got rid of their own man less than a month into the season
    We have some promising youngsters
    Defensively we are terrible
    We are out of two cup competitions
    Andy Scott has say over who you can and can't sign
    We appear to not have significant budget to overhaul a mid table league one squad 

    That's not attractive on paper 

    Correction the manager / Coach still has major say in recruitment working with Andy Scott …. And we do have sufficient funds but not wasting it on over priced league one and two players .. we will look again in Jan 
    Your constant defence of the new regime got me thinking as to whether you've ever had a bad word to say about anything to do with the club.

    So i checked the thread when Karel Fraeye was appointed. Here's a comment from you under one of your previous usernames about him:

    "People are saying about the players well they know him they spoke very highly of him and is training methods before so this not a problem"

    My god.
    Yes, he didn’t rate Powell as a manager for us.
    Why not Ronnie? Had a much better record than many you’ve supported to the bitter end. 
    Just interested to hear your reasons. 
    His reasons......he is on the wind up and wants attention
  • Billy_Mix said:
    Chunes said:
    Mate at Sparrows Lane has just messaged me to say a new training schedule has gone up today courtesy of the Cowley's:

    Monday - Football
    Tuesday - Cross Country
    Wednesday - Rounders

    Thursday - Country Dancing
    Letters from the Mums of Michael Hector, Tayo Edun, Lucas Ness, Lloyd Jones, Deji Elerewe, Terry Taylor & Louie Watson:

    "Please excuse (insert name here) from Country Dancing class today, as the poor lamb has two left feet, can't count to 8 and suffers extreme anxiety when asked to perform in front of others."

    Charlie Kirk's mum emailed Sparrows Lane to say "don't expect Charlie to do much when he gets to work today cos he's been a bone idle waste of space since he was 11 and there's no changing him now, worst luck."
    Does trolling half the team achieve anything?
  • Announcement today ?
    have you heard something or are you just asking if we think there will be?
  • Announcement today ?
    have you heard something or are you just asking if we think there will be?
    Don’t get excited. Just asking 
  • NabySarr said:
    Our job would have been a LOT more attractive if available in May, and the new manager had the chance to mould the squad and do a pre season with them.
    Unless they are shit then they’ll have a chance next summer. Realistically if they get us up to 8th-10th they will get another go like Holden did 
    The concern is that IF the players brought in are duds and the new manager does not improve results he'll probably get the bullet by the end of this season.
    Ambition and money to spend? Do me a favour.
  • Announcement today ?
    I think the player told the fella who I spoke to on the train after Crawley that they were told (good grief 😂)  ‘announcement on Thursday, followed by training’. But it’s all a bit of a blur. Could have said Wednesday. Could have meant next week. 
    Sorry, that was a bit rubbish. [We’re used to that - ed] 
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  • Gribbo said:
    I think this appointment is much more about who is willing to do it than who the club wants. 
    How many have actually turned it down then, apart from Powell who was only offered an interim position ?
    At least one current L1 manager at a much smaller club, to my knowledge, despite their club giving permission for him to talk if he wanted.

    “Turned it down” might be pushing it mind as it isn’t even getting that far.
    Jon Brady. That’s bad if we can’t poach managers from clubs the size of Northampton.
    Depends really on why, football or non football reasons.

    the manager might not want to move family etc.
    Who wouldn’t want to relocate from Northampton?
  • edited September 2023
    supaclive said:
    Sadly we're currently in a position where

    The squad isn't good enough
    The new owners got rid of their own man less than a month into the season
    We have some promising youngsters
    Defensively we are terrible
    We are out of two cup competitions
    Andy Scott has say over who you can and can't sign
    We appear to not have significant budget to overhaul a mid table league one squad 

    That's not attractive on paper 

    Correction the manager / Coach still has major say in recruitment working with Andy Scott …. And we do have sufficient funds but not wasting it on over priced league one and two players .. we will look again in Jan 
    Your constant defence of the new regime got me thinking as to whether you've ever had a bad word to say about anything to do with the club.

    So i checked the thread when Karel Fraeye was appointed. Here's a comment from you under one of your previous usernames about him:

    "People are saying about the players well they know him they spoke very highly of him and is training methods before so this not a problem"

    My god.
    Ronnie isn’t always positive. He started the Holden out thread on ITTV.

    Plus don’t mention Peter Varney to him. He’s not a fan at all of staff back in our better days (Chris Powell included). Things are much better nowadays in his eyes.
  • Finalising offers today, announced tomorrow I reckon
  • seth plum said:
    I think we have good players but a crap team.
    On and off the pitch.
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    seth plum said:
    I think we have good players but a crap team.
    I think that's been the case for 3 years.  

    Every player we sign gets worse.  The only exception to that has probably been Dobson.
    Good point actually, ownerships not looking back to previous ones and seeing the error of their ways.
  • Would make sense if they announce it tomorrow. There's too many people saying it's going to be Appleton for any late shocks I think. 
  • Fight off down at Macros arranged for this afternoon for the last two protagonist's, with the winner being announced tomorrow...🙄
    My money is on the Appleton death stare!
  • I really hope it’s not Appleton. He won’t exactly bring the fans back and his record is poor. Would rather Cowley if had to pick between the two. He always comes across as a decent human being.
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