Bignot sacked

This club never fails to surprise. Genuinely don't know what to think. We need some clarity very quickly, and the three paragraph club statement doesn't do that for me. And here's me thinking the season was just going to drift away quietly!

Quoted from ginnywings

Good point Civvy. Maybe JF told them that if they win at Blackpool, he'd pull the trigger?  

i have the feeling that you may be close to the mark with that, ginny

Quoted from Welwynmariner

Believe me that it is.

We've said - "Leave and don't come back" - and not allowed him to work his notice. That's why he's entitled to damages (his net pay that he would have received had he worked his notice).

It's a very cost effective way of getting rid of someone.

How do you know the contract does not allow for the employee i.e. MB, to be placed on garden leave or dismissed with full payment of notice?

Football manager's contracts are I am sure very different to the ordinary guy in the street and I would still guess contact has not been breached but without the paperwork we will not know for sure so academic argument!!

Surely there's got to be more than football results to this. He's not set the world on fire but then neither did his predecessors but they got much longer. If it is, it's bonkers.

All sorts of rumours out there. Be nice to get some clarity at some point but I doubt we will get anything official.

Quoted from Mandy Dunnit vs Hettie

This club never fails to surprise. Genuinely don't know what to think. We need some clarity very quickly, and the three paragraph club statement doesn't do that for me. And here's me thinking the season was just going to drift away quietly!

Looks like it has come about hastily, so they just wanted to get it out there before it emerged through other means. I think they will explain it more when the dust settles.

Quoted from forza ivano

i have the feeling that you may be close to the mark with that, ginny

There's a guy on 1FF who's a Lincoln fan but works for the GET. He posted something cryticon Saturday and is now saying he'd been told Bignot was being sacked yesterday.

Thinking about it, the fact that Whild and Moore have also gone suggests it not another Newell scenario (Brian Stein hung around another week)

A surprise but overdue event. He was out of his depth from day 1 in fact his appointment was IMO another Fenty member up. We needed an established manager on our return to EFL not some no mark from the non-league we had just left.
Get the new man in asap, get new contracts signed by Andrew, Collins et al, get Gunning back to Scotland in time for the Edinburgh Festival so he can do his comedy spot to an audience that might just find it amusing and clear out some of the others so the new boss starts with a relatively clean sheet in August
Well done John Fenty, whatever the real reason for the sacking ( which we will of course never find out the truth about) just a few months too late.

Absolutely the correct decision in my eyes.

A bit of a marmite character, even those who supported him didn't seem to understand what the end game was, if there was one.

It is one of the strangest episodes Iv'e witnessed after all these years - appoint an up and coming manager who by and large the fans approve of, who then seems to go into meltdown before really getting his feet under the table.

I too understand a delegation of players had a meeting with the non chairman to show their concerns, and if a manager doesn't command the respect of the players then he has to go.

He will be kicking himself for making such a pigs ear of it. If only he had felt his way into the job before changing everything.

Quoted from Ipswin

A surprise but overdue event. He was out of his depth from day 1 in fact his appointment was IMO another Fenty member up. We needed an established manager on our return to EFL not some no mark from the non-league we had just left.
Get the new man in asap, get new contracts signed by Andrew Collins et al, get Gunning back to Scotland in time for the Edinburgh Festival so he can do his comedy spot to an audience that might just find it amusing and clear out some of the others so the new boss starts with a relatively clean sheet in August
Well done John Fenty, whatever the real reason for the sacking ( which we will of course never find out the truth about) just a few months too late.

But do you trust Fenty to get it right this time, his record on appointing managers isn't great?