Watkiss

Dont know if it's been mentioned already but looks like Stuart's back to help out Dave Moore.

Quoted from Mikey_345

Dont know if it's been mentioned already but looks like Stuart's back to help out Dave Moore.

If you mean he has been spotted around I think he lives locally, I fleetingly spoke to him yesterday as he regularly shops where I work.

I thought he was going to India

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Nope your right he is back helping out

Makes sense. He knows the club well and has helped out in the past several times.

from his linkdin page:

"Stuart Watkiss

Experienced UEFA A/UEFA Academy Manager's Licence Football Coach back from India looking for new challenge."

Thinking back, we may not have got in the mess we did if we'd given him the job instead of Newell. Hindsight!

Lets get Dave Booth back as well he returned to England a few months back

Quoted from ginnywings

Thinking back, we may not have got in the mess we did if we'd given him the job instead of Newell. Hindsight!

No we may not have got in that mess but I think we would have been in a different one! Stuart is another of those excellent coaches who is just not cut out to be a manager.

Maybe his coaching ability will get us scoring at home again soon!

Love it! getting the old boys back to help out in the vacuum, Watkiss is a very good coach and it can only be a good thing.

  Dave Moore`s Black and White Army

I think I'm right in saying that Watkiss is a very highly respected and well regarded coach in his own right, especially in terms of helping young professionals making the step-up.  When you consider we've got our own young lads in Clifton, Venney and Wright plus a fair few lads who are stepping up from part-time football like Bolinarwa and Mills, I wonder if bringing him in on a longer-term basis might be of benefit.

Having him back in the building, even if it's just for the short-term, is no bad thing.  

Does Watkiss do strength and conditioning? 😉

Quoted from LongEatonMariner

Does Watkiss do strength and conditioning? 😉

My 2 in 1 shampoo does  

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

My 2 in 1 shampoo does  

Excellent, here's hoping it is head and shoulders above the competition ...

I bet he is feeling the cold,

A very good coach and would be a good No. 2( no puns please )  

Could it be the "dream ticket" of Moore/Watkiss?

Didn't Stuart Watkiss take charge just before Newell was given the job, I remember seeing him trying to excuse a poor performance at Rotherham after we had been thumped 4-1.

Quoted from diehardmariner

I think I'm right in saying that Watkiss is a very highly respected and well regarded coach in his own right, especially in terms of helping young professionals making the step-up.  When you consider we've got our own young lads in Clifton, Venney and Wright plus a fair few lads who are stepping up from part-time football like Bolinarwa and Mills, I wonder if bringing him in on a longer-term basis might be of benefit.

Having him back in the building, even if it's just for the short-term, is no bad thing.  

I think you're bang on with that assessment. There's no denying that his spell as caretaker manager was a failure, but his real quality is developing young players.

I'm pretty sure Mr Disley respects him highly. He was one of a handful of Mansfield youngsters who really established himself in the side under the management of Watkiss (I think Liam Lawrence, who went on to play in the Prem, was part of that crop).

The training pitch will feel a bit strange for the players without Hurst - especially as more than half of the squad joined believing their careers would develop under him, and now three months later he's gone.

I think it makes sense to have someone like Watkiss helping out.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Didn't Stuart Watkiss take charge just before Newell was given the job, I remember seeing if trying to excuse a poor performance at Rotherham after we had been thumped 4-1.

He was the oine who said we were going to sign two stars on loan from Big, Big clubs (rumour I heard is that he'd enquired about a young Welbeck and Cleverly....but told no!) and we ended up with Malvin Kamara from the mighty Huddersfield and Tomi Ameobi from the even mightier Doncaster Rovers.

I think we lost 1-0 at home to Barnet and it remains one of the worst games of football I've ever seen - and that includes matches not involving Town, and all matches I've watched on TV!

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Lets get Dave Booth back as well he returned to England a few months back

We were talking with Dave Boylen a few months ago in the Notts and my mate who was in Tennerife at the same time as Dave Booth went, asked Dave Boylen why Booth left Town to go there.

Dave Boylen said, "Thereby hangs a tale:" and spent 15 minutes talking about everything that went on at the time and mentioned many players and clubs.

When Dave had finished, my mate asked again, "So why did Dave Booth leave?"
and Dave Boylen replied, "Nobody knows."

You had to be there.

Watkiss is a good coach and we need that right now alongside DM during the interim period.

But whilst we all remember the disappointment of Alan Buckley's last period in charge, remember also that Stuart was a big part of that.

I alluded the other day to Alan being out of touch with the modern player market. Well there hardly seemed to be a signing that Buckley made without a mention being given to "Stuart knows him from his time at X - or Watkiss worked with the player at Y".  I particularly remember the big useless centre half from Brentford we signed on the back of Stuart Watkiss recommendation. Matt somebody or other???

Happy to have him back on the coaching team for the time being, but nothing more than that.

Matt Heywood. He was a proper cart horse.

Quoted from RichMariner

I think we lost 1-0 at home to Barnet and it remains one of the worst games of football I've ever seen - and that includes matches not involving Town, and all matches I've watched on TV!

I'm still trying to forget that game and there you go, bringing it back up again.  

Quoted from Mariner_09

Matt Heywood. He was a proper cart horse.

Seen smaller cart horses!

Me I'd prefer all of the past coaches / managers not to be involved with our great club again , nothing personal but all part of a era id rather forget

Quoted from Mallyner

We were talking with Dave Boylen a few months ago in the Notts and my mate who was in Tennerife at the same time as Dave Booth went, asked Dave Boylen why Booth left Town to go there.

Dave Boylen said, "Thereby hangs a tale:" and spent 15 minutes talking about everything that went on at the time and mentioned many players and clubs.

When Dave had finished, my mate asked again, "So why did Dave Booth leave?"
and Dave Boylen replied, "Nobody knows."

You had to be there.

The season Dave Booth left we beat Everton and finished about 10th in Div 2 after finishing 5th the season before. I suspect there were a number of reasons why he left. One was the turmoil in the board room with the Ramsdens fighting between themselves and team investment looked to be stalling. Chris Nicholl who was hugely influential on and off the field, went to Southampton. My guess is that Booth thought he had done as much as he could and had enough of the hassle. Dave actually went to a non-football property venture to start with, came back when that fell through and tried a comeback at Darlington before going off to various places in India and the Far East.

If all Stuart does is to train players how to take and score from corners and free kicks he will have done us a massive favour.

If all Stuart does is to train players how to take and score from corners and free kicks he will have done us a massive favour.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

The season Dave Booth left we beat Everton and finished about 10th in Div 2 after finishing 5th the season before. I suspect there were a number of reasons why he left. One was the turmoil in the board room with the Ramsdens fighting between themselves and team investment looked to be stalling. Chris Nicholl who was hugely influential on and off the field, went to Southampton. My guess is that Booth thought he had done as much as he could and had enough of the hassle. Dave actually went to a non-football property venture to start with, came back when that fell through and tried a comeback at Darlington before going off to various places in India and the Far East.

Thank you very much, I will pass this on to my fiend.