Shortlist of 6

I'll admit he was probably close to the bottom of any wanted list I would have made when looking at prospective Town managers last week but the more I read and think about Marcus Big not the more he makes sense and seems like a positive selection. He's down a fantastic job at Solihull,  winning the conference north last season after losing Omar was fantastic. He's worked his way up from the bottom and had an excellent education in football management. Ok he doesn't have league experience, but how important is that really? Surely if you can manage and organise a football team and prove to be tactically astute then you can transfer them skills up divisions. It's not like he's coming from a different country or culture.

Historically some of our most successful managers have taken the non-league route so why shouldn't we go down that path again.

He would undoubtedly get the best out of Omar too!

Has anybody seen his Solihull side play? What style of football does he get his team playing?

He has my vote  (not that it counts for much of course) but I for one would be delighted if he took the job and confident he's the kind of manager to take us forward.

Quoted from Mariner_09

Whoever the new manager is, Bignot or Stockdale seem the most likely at the moment, I hope they quickly work out that two of Chambers, Tombola and Browne on the wings with Vose in behind Omar with two of Comley, McAllister and Dis sitting deeper would help us, we'd scare teams with pace wnd Vose centrally would be very dangerous, we'd have too many dangerous players to mark out of games hopefully.

100% right!

I agree too, although it's not as if one line up or shape fits very game.

Quoted from Mariner_09

Whoever the new manager is, Bignot or Stockdale seem the most likely at the moment, I hope they quickly work out that two of Chambers, Tombola and Browne on the wings with Vose in behind Omar with two of Comley, McAllister and Dis sitting deeper would help us, we'd scare teams with pace wnd Vose centrally would be very dangerous, we'd have too many dangerous players to mark out of games hopefully.

Whilst that may be so it is how the new manager sees our  squad and how that fits with his perception of how he wants the game played. We may all think we are managers and can do better than the one we have, the fact remains it is down to him to do what he is paid to do.

[quote=1354]I'll admit he was probably close to the bottom of any wanted list I would have made when looking at prospective Town managers last week but the more I read and think about Marcus Big not the more he makes sense and seems like a positive selection. He's down a fantastic job at Solihull,  winning the conference north last season after losing Omar was fantastic. He's worked his way up from the bottom and had an excellent education in football management. Ok he doesn't have league experience, but how important is that really? Surely if you can manage and organise a football team and prove to be tactically astute then you can transfer them skills up divisions. It's not like he's coming from a different country or culture.

Historically some of our most successful managers have taken the non-league route so why shouldn't we go down that path again.

He would undoubtedly get the best out of Omar too!

Has anybody seen his Solihull side play? What style of football does he get his team playing?[b]

Watched them against Southport winning 4-0 Asante scoring a hatrick, second in a week.
Asante and Sterling James most impressed me on the day.  Asante similar to Bogle.
Solihull have struggled in recent games, hardly surprising having just played Aldershot, Tranmere & Forest Green back to winning ways against Braintree yesterday.

Quoted from puffin

It would surely be a mistake  to bring in a player from yesteryear.

We need a new broom - a manager with fresh ideas who can regenerate the club from top to bottom.

Some of the names being trotted out reflect lack of imagination and vision.


Not Marlon then.

According to today's telewag, Russ Wilcox the new bookies favourite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Wilcox

Who would be on YOUR shortlist of 6?

I'd go for (in no particular order)

Adkins
Evans
Bignot
Stockdale
Roninson
O'Driscoll

If we ended up with any opf those I would be reasonably happy

Hopefully that's down to old Russ sticking a tenner on himself.

Wilcox is a strange one. He's only managed for 103 games, yet has a record for an unbeaten run, a promotion and two sackings on his CV.