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Next Manager Search - August 2023
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That’s what I thought. Why bother to have interviews if they’ve picked their man.Addick_8 said:
We are concluding interviews tomorrow so I doubt anyone has been chosen, yetJamesSeed said:Someone at the game saying it’s Appleton.(Not the best manager, the new manager).Only time will tell I guess.0 -
Changed my mind again.Powell2ThePeople said:
Changed my mind. Les Dennis.Powell2ThePeople said:My money’s on Les Reed.Les Miserables.Should have been my first thought really. That’s 10 Bob I’ll never see again.0 -
Someone at the game is just watching the bookies odds…JamesSeed said:Someone at the game saying it’s Appleton.(Not the best manager, the new manager).
We’ve had Bowyer, Cowley, Challinor and Appleton all go very short odds and then immediately drift back out as soon as the next whisper comes along and someone sticks £20 on.4 -
Not sure anyone has been as low as 4/6 before now though.Callumcafc said:
Someone at the game is just watching the bookies odds…JamesSeed said:Someone at the game saying it’s Appleton.(Not the best manager, the new manager).
We’ve had Bowyer, Cowley, Challinor and Appleton all go very short odds and then immediately drift back out as soon as the next whisper comes along and someone sticks £20 on.1 -
Scott was talking about bringing in a performance manager in one of his early interviews - wonder if we’re getting one of them as well and if so, what will Scott do ? Guessing he will review the performance of the performance manager ?1
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Mourinho wasn’t even that.Richard J said:People seem to forget Lennie Lawrence was a PE teacher.
(I am in no way comparing Cowley to Mourinho)
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I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.3
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Probably helps if u can talk about players and tactics thoughMuttleyCAFC said:I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.1 -
Someone was 1/2 at some point, I think BowyerKips said:
Not sure anyone has been as low as 4/6 before now though.Callumcafc said:
Someone at the game is just watching the bookies odds…JamesSeed said:Someone at the game saying it’s Appleton.(Not the best manager, the new manager).
We’ve had Bowyer, Cowley, Challinor and Appleton all go very short odds and then immediately drift back out as soon as the next whisper comes along and someone sticks £20 on.0 -
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Some are saying 'no thanks' to certain names based on their past teams reputations for style of play, but given where we are now, is anything less important?
Whoever gets the job needs to focus on organizing the defence better, getting us fitter, making us harder to beat and on winning more games than losing. That's all and it's more than enough for now.
Better quality signings won't come in future if results don't improve as today's player knows us to be an established average L1 club regardless of our past. I doubt any teams in the football league fear playing us and there isn't a single one I'm confident we'd beat at present, not even Pompey!
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How would you find the right manager?MuttleyCAFC said:I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.0 -
Feel sorry for whoever gets it. They are going to have to watch back all our games from this season. Worst Netflix binge of all time8
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To make sure the manager isn't a dick?MuttleyCAFC said:I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.
To make sure the manager fits in
To make sure the manager is aware of the clubs vision
To learn the managers strengths
To learn the managers weaknesses
To discuss the managers previous successes and how the skills used in that success can be transfered
To ascertain the managers salary expectations
i could go on
how would you select a new manager? Win ratios from wiki?
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IF true then it’s scrapping the bottom of a very bad barrel. I’ve got zero time for Appleton. Got a bit of credit for managing Pompey during their financial crisis many years ago, and since then has done pretty nothing other than take Oxford up from league two about 10 years ago now.Braziliance said:
Typical as out of all the names mentioned he was the least favourable for me..JamesSeed said:Someone at the game saying it’s Appleton.(Not the best manager, the new manager).
I think we’re catching the Cowley’s on the way down from the peak of their managerial career and they will struggle, but if we’re appointing Appleton, we’re picking someone up off the bottom of the basement floor in terms of what he can offer and I predict he’ll be out by March next year, if he can even last that long.
Obviously just a rumour, but we’ve reached rock bottom if this is who we get from CM and co3 -
Appleton just feels so uninspiring. Was decent at Lincoln with a load of loanees but bar that spell not a lot to write home about.1
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Why didn't Powell have to do any of that then?Todds_right_hook said:
To make sure the manager isn't a dick?MuttleyCAFC said:I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.
To make sure the manager fits in
To make sure the manager is aware of the clubs vision
To learn the managers strengths
To learn the managers weaknesses
To discuss the managers previous successes and how the skills used in that success can be transfered
To ascertain the managers salary expectations
i could go on
how would you select a new manager? Win ratios from wiki?0 -
Agree with all this and suspect one of the important questions will be ‘how will they feel being a head coach and working with players they are provided, rather than choose themselves?’ Head coach vs manager has been referenced more than it’s fair share. Only consolation now vs previous regime is that I do believe Scott has a network and will be trying to bring as much talent and various styles to the squad as he can. The black box will either merely support the process or act as a doorstop.Todds_right_hook said:
To make sure the manager isn't a dick?MuttleyCAFC said:I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.
To make sure the manager fits in
To make sure the manager is aware of the clubs vision
To learn the managers strengths
To learn the managers weaknesses
To discuss the managers previous successes and how the skills used in that success can be transfered
To ascertain the managers salary expectations
i could go on
how would you select a new manager? Win ratios from wiki?0 -
Andy Scott has hardly proven himself in two transfer windows to date.
Whether that's the restrictions he's working under or all his own doing doesn't matter - that's what the new Head Coach will find himself working under.
This is looking more and more like a shit sandwich.15 -
Whoever the new manager is I hope he's a proper no nonsense hard bustard.
Some of our players are just going through the motions and not giving anywhere near 100%.
We need a Bowyer type manager who will come in and kick arse.
I don't think the softly softly approach will get us anywhere with this lot.
Some of our so called experienced players are setting a poor example to the youngsters who are being thrown in too soon.
A proper sergeant major type manager please.21 -
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Perhaps 🤔 we are being filmed for a new Netflix documentary and the managers interviewed are saying no way I’m putting myself out there I’ll never get a job again ! ! !3
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Gary O'Neil was given money to spend in January tho...Rothko said:My view on Parker as a manager is deeply affected by how he ended at Bournemouth. Threw the club under the bus after the Liverpool game, and was shown how wrong he was by what Gary O’Neill did after him. Just gives me the feeling he isn’t emotionally mature enough when there are difficult times1 -
I think it doesn’t matter who we get in, the defence fundamentally isn’t good enough for this level and any manager is going to struggle to fix that0
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The bit they can’t agree is for the manager to be self employed and can be dispensed with with no notice and no pay off.0
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Has Jack Ross never been mentioned? Out of work. Known to Methven etc…….0
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Because they were offering him the role on an interim basis while they went through that process with potential permanent managers. He would have effectively been doing what Jason has done for the last 2 weeks. Albeit with the potential to stay on if he did well.carly burn said:
Why didn't Powell have to do any of that then?Todds_right_hook said:
To make sure the manager isn't a dick?MuttleyCAFC said:I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.
To make sure the manager fits in
To make sure the manager is aware of the clubs vision
To learn the managers strengths
To learn the managers weaknesses
To discuss the managers previous successes and how the skills used in that success can be transfered
To ascertain the managers salary expectations
i could go on
how would you select a new manager? Win ratios from wiki?0 -
They gave us Holden as their first choice, not nearly as experienced as Appleton in L1. He's enjoyed moderate success in it too, enough for a championship club to take a gamble on, his most recent job where he was sacked following a poor run of form.cabbles said:
IF true then it’s scrapping the bottom of a very bad barrel. I’ve got zero time for Appleton. Got a bit of credit for managing Pompey during their financial crisis many years ago, and since then has done pretty nothing other than take Oxford up from league two about 10 years ago now.Braziliance said:
Typical as out of all the names mentioned he was the least favourable for me..JamesSeed said:Someone at the game saying it’s Appleton.(Not the best manager, the new manager).
I think we’re catching the Cowley’s on the way down from the peak of their managerial career and they will struggle, but if we’re appointing Appleton, we’re picking someone up off the bottom of the basement floor in terms of what he can offer and I predict he’ll be out by March next year, if he can even last that long.
Obviously just a rumour, but we’ve reached rock bottom if this is who we get from CM and co
Interesting to note that Mick McCarthy took over from him there to lose 9 out of 14 games in charge and then his job, effectively sealing their relegation.
He's not my pick, but I don't regard Appleton as basement floor and think there are far worse and less qualified managers out there for the job in hand here.
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Not from bookies’ odds. But if they’re still interviewing perhaps the person who told him has got the wrong end of the stick.Callumcafc said:
Someone at the game is just watching the bookies odds…JamesSeed said:Someone at the game saying it’s Appleton.(Not the best manager, the new manager).
We’ve had Bowyer, Cowley, Challinor and Appleton all go very short odds and then immediately drift back out as soon as the next whisper comes along and someone sticks £20 on.
Personally I’d like it to be someone from left field that we’ve overlooked, or know little about (so long as it makes sense of course). Not massively inspired by any of those being talked about. Moore and Bowyer are my favoured options I suppose.0 -
Ineptness from the board, going on name and previous achievements only. Picking a name to appease a disheartened fan basecarly burn said:
Why didn't Powell have to do any of that then?Todds_right_hook said:
To make sure the manager isn't a dick?MuttleyCAFC said:I will never understand how an interview is going to help you find the right manager. It just makes the people doing the interviews feel important. Different skills are required to do a good interview and be a good football manager.
To make sure the manager fits in
To make sure the manager is aware of the clubs vision
To learn the managers strengths
To learn the managers weaknesses
To discuss the managers previous successes and how the skills used in that success can be transfered
To ascertain the managers salary expectations
i could go on
how would you select a new manager? Win ratios from wiki?
would you ever employ someone without interviewing them
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He hasn't proven himself? You do realise that the window closed less than a week ago and 4 of the last day signings are yet to make their league debuts?supaclive said:Andy Scott has hardly proven himself in two transfer windows to date.
Whether that's the restrictions he's working under or all his own doing doesn't matter - that's what the new Head Coach will find himself working under.
This is looking more and more like a shit sandwich.
are you really judging on little run outs in the pizza cup?
does c Campbell look terrible? Has maybscored 4 in 6? Is Jones improving game by game? Does edun look good? Did mid field watson get positive reviews last night?
the others are not match fit and haven't been given a chance, especially seeing some signed less than a week ago.
can you explain what your expectations are for players that signed a week ago? 6 goals in their debut?6
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