So Slade goes.....who’s in?

At least there was some excitement under Bignot (amazing one week, appalling the next). Everything about the club is just boring now and I’m getting increasingly fed up. Even at the start of this season I was excited to go to games - now I’m debating whether to even go tomorrow.

I don’t know who I’d bring in. Foreign coaches only seem to work at the higher level (Wagner at Hudds, Farke at Norwich) and it’s a risky business in the lower leagues. Port Vale tried it and failed last season. I also don’t trust Fenty’s knowledge of foreign coaches, or any coaches for that matter.

This talk of Adkins is nice, until you realise that while he did well at Scunny and Southampton, he’s done pretty poorly at Reading and Sheff United since. Another Slade perhaps, though with a bit more early success? FWIW, I would try the National League route again - probably John Askey from Macc who seems to have done an alright job at Macc every season (despite falling away at the end). They don’t have much of a budget and there’s always rumours that he’ll walk away from the chairman.

After that, who knows? All the other teams are southern and part time, except Dean Keates but he’s a bit of a newbie.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Dream on, why the fcuk would a manager who has done well abroad come to us?

Money! This is a wealthy country and anyone who makes their name at Grimsby can move onwards and upwards (as PH will testify) to somewhere here where the wages are higher.

Quoted from Grantley

This talk Adkins is nice, until you realise that while he did well at Scunny and Southampton, he’s done pretty poorly at Reading and Sheff United since. Another Slade perhaps, though with a bit more early success? FWIW, I would try the National League route again - probably John Askey from Macc who seems to an alright job at Macc every season (despite falling away at the end). They don’t have much of a budget and there’s always rumours that he’ll walk away from the chairman. .

Decent shout, I'd say.

If we end up in a real relegation battle we need a man with a proven record of keeping GTFC in this division.

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Take Tommy Wright from us, man has picked up 1 point in 4 games.

Grab David Healy from Linfield

Quoted from EY Mariner

I think that is absolutely spot on. Sadly, however, nothing will change in that respect until and unless parties come forward and give Mr Fenty what he wants to go. If that hasn't been clear before now, then the anti-public relations of the last week or so should have opened people's eyes to the reality.

Turning to the managerial question, I never wanted Russell Slade back in the first place and, even if he has been handicapped by tight budgets and things like that, I don't think anybody can realistically argue that he is getting the best out of the squad he has. If there is to be a change of manager in the near future, then I would prefer us to go for an up and coming manager rather than one who has been on the league merry-go-round. But, if Slade does go, I'm sure there will be many people in football who would feel, as I do, that we'd be getting what we deserve for the shabby way that we treated Marcus Bignot. Whatever misgivings one could legitimately have about his methods, he should have been given longer. The decision to bin him in the manner we did may make it that much harder to recruit the sort of manager we need should a vacancy arise.

If he had budget constraints then why was he allowed to sign 11 new players and take our squad up to 31 players? I don't accept he was restrained by his playing budget, he just wasted it on second rate bench-warmers.

Quoted from Grantley

At least there was some excitement under Bignot (amazing one week, appalling the next). Everything about the club is just boring now and I’m getting increasingly fed up. Even at the start of this season I was excited to go to games - now I’m debating whether to even go tomorrow.

I don’t know who I’d bring in. Foreign coaches only seem to work at the higher level (Wagner at Hudds, Farke at Norwich) and it’s a risky business in the lower leagues. Port Vale tried it and failed last season. I also don’t trust Fenty’s knowledge of foreign coaches, or any coaches for that matter.

This talk of Adkins is nice, until you realise that while he did well at Scunny and Southampton, he’s done pretty poorly at Reading and Sheff United since. Another Slade perhaps, though with a bit more early success? FWIW, I would try the National League route again - probably John Askey from Macc who seems to have done an alright job at Macc every season (despite falling away at the end). They don’t have much of a budget and there’s always rumours that he’ll walk away from the chairman.

After that, who knows? All the other teams are southern and part time, except Dean Keates but he’s a bit of a newbie.

Askey has been at Macc since he was a baby so I doubt you'll tempt him. Re a foreigner don't forget that the fully pro league structure in most countries i not as deep as it is here so someone from say the 4th tier in Germany may not be of a level that would give us a massive improvement on what we could recruit in the UK.  

I really don`t like Slade`s brand of football but he is an experienced Manager who would probably have been considered for any vacant jobs at league 1 or 2 level so this makes me wonder why he came here? If this salary being bandied about is true 138k a year it makes me wonder why we would want to pay that sort of money and what is remit is? Bignot said his remit was to stay in the league but he was sacked when that was pretty nailed on to be mission accomplished.With virtually nil investment since I doubt Slade`s remit will have been to have won the league much more likely consolidate and possibly sneak the play offs? So why him? I think there is a bigger picture probably centred around the new ground and Slade is tasked with keeping us safe til it`s delivered then he will move to an upstairs role and another probably Wilko will get the horns of power? The thing with Slade which is most baffling is this strange choice of strikers none of them fit the mould for the type of football he is trying to play and 3 of them he signed and meanwhile large swathes of the support CBA to watch.

i think the £138K was a number Golfer plucked out of the air I think, might be wrong