Hurst & Cowley MK2 already in Lincolnshire

I was just thinking that there is an awful lot of similarity between the football management career paths and achievements between Paul Hurst and Danny Cowley.

Both started at low non-League level and gradually learned their trade. Both enjoyed success at low level and developed their skills, gaining promotions on route. Both then took different jobs in none league and still made progress.

So I got to thinking about what other young talented up and coming managers there are out there, doing things that mirror what the Cowleys are doing. Then I realised that there is one already on our doorstep, down the road at Boston United. Craig Elliott.

Their manager who recently left, Adam Murray, took Boston United into the depths of the relegation places in National League North. They couldn’t buy a win. Boston’s Chairman sacked him and then went in search of someone in the same moulded of Hurst and Cowley. He found this at Shaw Lane in the lower reaches of none league football.

Elliott has instantly transformed Boston into a team that has won six straight games, and is now daring to think that they might even make this season’s play offs.

Every step this guy has made so far, has been successful.

This guy is one to watch and I shall be interested to see how he continues to progress

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/w.....ambitious-767066.amp

You could have said all that about Marcus Bignot to be honest.

Way too early to put that record in the same bracket as the Cowleys when Lincoln picked him up. Even too early to be compared with Hursts record.

Not saying he couldn't be a good manager though

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I was just thinking that there is an awful lot of similarity between the football management career paths and achievements between Paul Hurst and Danny Cowley.

Both started at low non-League level and gradually learned their trade. Both enjoyed success at low level and developed their skills, gaining promotions on route. Both then took different jobs in none league and still made progress.

So I got to thinking about what other young talented up and coming managers there are out there, doing things that mirror what the Cowleys are doing. Then I realised that there is one already on our doorstep, down the road at Boston United. Craig Elliott.

Their manager who recently left, Adam Murray, took Boston United into the depths of the relegation places in National League North. They couldn’t buy a win. Boston’s Chairman sacked him and then went in search of someone in the same moulded of Hurst and Cowley. He found this at Shaw Lane in the lower reaches of none league football.

Elliott has instantly transformed Boston into a team that has won six straight games, and is now daring to think that they might even make this season’s play offs.

This guy is one to watch

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/w.....ambitious-767066.amp

Not a bad spot that Ascend. He's delivered every season for the past three or four seasons. The only note of caution would be that Shaw Lane Aquaforce were extremely well funded and had by far the biggest budget in the leagues they got promoted from..

Definitely worth considering though..

I think we have to look at a similar profile to his, maybe a level or so higher in non league, or look for an ambitious assistant from a club higher up the pyramid than us. We've got to unearth something different from the well-worn merry go round managers that go from club to club in the lower leagues..

I agree that he is one to watch. His transformation of Boston has been remarkable as well as his success at Shaw Lane. He is a born winner. However, given he's only been at National League level  for a couple of months my concern would be that he's yet to be tested fully at anything approaching full time, professional football. We're also in need of an overhaul of the squad and I'd be worried that his knowledge of players may currently be too low down the pyramid for what we're needing. If he continues with his success at Boston and has a bit longer at that level, I agree he could be one for the future but I don't think he'd be what we need right now.

For what it's worth, I think Luke Garrard is doing a remarkable job at Boreham Wood. Only his second season in the job and only their third in the NL but they're 6th and only a point behind Pearson's Wrexham in 4th. They've also got a pretty good goal difference, the fourth best in the division. All this with attendances averaging 700 per game which is significantly less than Solihull are getting (the second lowest attendances). People were impressed with Bignot even though his Solihull were only 15th with a negative goal difference when he left. This chap is doing a much, much better job.

The sort of managers mentioned  this thread do prove that there  are some good young choices out there if you care to look outside the stale merry-go-round of the league.

These are the types we should  be inviting to interview when Slade is eventually gone.

Just to clarify though. I am only suggesting that he is one to keep tabs on for now. Not that he is ready now

Interesting, but there is another local ish manager who fits the bill even better. Have a look at Martin gray at York.did great things at darlo previously

Better shout than whichever cretin said dave challinor

I was hoping to wake this morning with texts and news about slade leaving. And it says so much when the majority of threads on here, and so other social media streams are littered with anti slade and anti Fenty vitriol.

The club has become poisonous and it actually makes me wonder about who would actually want to manage while Fenty sits at the helm. The club isn't an attractive proposition at the moment and any up and coming manager would, in my opinion, have to have serious balls to come here. Are we reaching desperate times where no worthwhile candidate will be appointed and  that is the only reason why slade is still dictating his style of football (sic)

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I don't wish to go off topic here, but I find this extremely offensive.  It was me and I already deleted that very post with regret. Words like 'cretin' – a congenital disease, 'spastic', 'imbecile' are unacceptable offensive words and shouldn't be used in todays society.

You can call be 'stupid' or 'idiot' I don't mind at all as I was, but I want you to change that word and if you don't I will report you to the administrators of this forum as I find it totally distasteful and offensive.

Why is imbecile offensive and unacceptable? It literally meant a person with a below average IQ so if that's the context in which it's used then what's the harm?