Mark Robins

Some good responses

Never done anything anywhere as a manager. Why would he here?

A giant MEH from me.

I'm not particularly inspired by the idea but I think he's extremely likely to be a candidate. Reasonable experience, no problem with us geographically, enough success of some description at Huddersfield to be worth considering.  

Should have said 'absolute disaster' is based on what Scunny fans I know  have said to me about him.  Other than his dour press interviews on Humberside and the odd irrate Scunny fan ringing up post game to moan, I've really little knowledge of his tenure at Scunny.

Said a few days ago that I'd heard he was a front runner. Not a bad choice imo and certainly realistic.

He seems to have a history of saving teams from relegation and then being sacked early in the next season due to a run of bad results. I'd really rather we looked in non-league. Nothing in his managerial CV suggests he's ever likely to be a success.

[quote=657]So much depends on the ambitions of the board (i.e. John Fenty) doesn't it?

Does he want someone with the potential to take the club onwards and upwards?

Or does he want another steady eddie to just keep the club ticking over while the ground business is sorted?

Or does he realise that a new ground and being progressive on the field are not mutually exclusive?

What he says to potential recruits is going to have a big bearing. Is he going to sound ambitious and talk about someone getting us up where we belong? In that case he will have to guarantee a war chest for the new manager as well as shell out more wages than Hurst was getting I'd guess.
So when we look at the "6" or whoever, it isn't quite as cut and dried as it looks. Which is why I think that in the end he would be best going for an up and coming manager even if they have no league experience rather than an L1 reject who may have expectations beyond the club's means.[/quote

If they have applied it does not matter because there needs are greater, however if we have approached them our needs are greater, we would have to sell the club to them in order to win them over

Quoted from Garth

[quote=657]So much depends on the ambitions of the board (i.e. John Fenty) doesn't it?

Does he want someone with the potential to take the club onwards and upwards?

Or does he want another steady eddie to just keep the club ticking over while the ground business is sorted?

Or does he realise that a new ground and being progressive on the field are not mutually exclusive?

What he says to potential recruits is going to have a big bearing. Is he going to sound ambitious and talk about someone getting us up where we belong? In that case he will have to guarantee a war chest for the new manager as well as shell out more wages than Hurst was getting I'd guess.
So when we look at the "6" or whoever, it isn't quite as cut and dried as it looks. Which is why I think that in the end he would be best going for an up and coming manager even if they have no league experience rather than an L1 reject who may have expectations beyond the club's means.[/quote

If they have applied it does not matter because there needs are greater, however if we have approached them our needs are greater, we would have to sell the club to them in order to win them over

Not necessarily the case Garth. Football job interviews don't work the same as the real world. Applications (official and unofficial) are often made by highly qualified candidates on the basis of "might as well see what they have to offer" only to be withdrawn when they find out.

Most of the managers who are out of work have been sacked by their last clubs for being failures [ resigned by mutual consent and we thank them for their excellent service ] So why do we want them.If you were interviewing someone for a job and they said they had been sacked in their last 2 jobs for being crap, you would show them the door. So that rules out all these ex-managers. What's left, a load of has beens or never was's out of the Conference   Who have recently beaten Spain [albeit in a friendly]  That's right England Ladies who played exactly to orders.If a man can order a woman to do something,nevermind 11 of them, then he is the man for me. Mr. Fenty, his name is Mark Sampson. Get on the blower straight away. You might have to ring for a long time because I believe he has cotton wool in his ears.

Let's face it golfer how many managers can you count that have never been sacked . It's life in football I'm afraid . For some success ,sack ,success ,sack. For others sack, sack ,sack . You takes your pick .