Who?

Sol Campbell is a very moody individual and would not last five minutes with the equally moody JF

We are in a perfect storm 16 years of mismanagement and under resourcing have took their toll.Fenty your chickens are coming home to roost and you have eventually been found out.

Quoted from chaos33

Factually incorrect.

So someone of a poorer calibre then mate, yeah?

How is it?

Quoted from Davec

Incorrect, both have experience at league 2 level, McCall a fair few years ago and Brown actually achieved promotion from league 2 4 years ago.

Mccall was manager of Bradford.  He managed a club with 5x the fan base
They get 20k a game

I am always surprised by comments re our apparent lack of a playing budget, when Bignot came in JF backed him by allowing 9 new players join the club, Slade similarly has brought in more than a team during his short stay and I have heard Managers moan about training facilities, back room staff, fitness coach but never about support in the transfer market.

Where JF makes mistakes is allowing Managers to bring in quantity rather than quality. We can have the same budget with a much smaller squad and hopefully attract better players. I would think we have a competitive budget, loads of players contracts are up, others can be paid off so I still think we are a pretty attractive option if you want to be a Manager.

Let’s be honest lots of Managers out of work, lots of coaches with over 100 full-time clubs in England plus lots of ex-players who want to be Managers some of whom will be wealthy guys in their own right so will want the job for professional reasons rather than necessity.

No idea what standards are like over in Ireland or whether there are potential managers over there who may also know where some hidden talents may also be available.

Whatever, think when we get down to selecting the new manager we should have a decent group to select from.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

I am always surprised by comments re our apparent lack of a playing budget, when Bignot came in JF backed him by allowing 9 new players join the club, Slade similarly has brought in more than a team during his short stay and I have heard Managers moan about training facilities, back room staff, fitness coach but never about support in the transfer market.

Where JF makes mistakes is allowing Managers to bring in quantity rather than quality. We can have the same budget with a much smaller squad and hopefully attract better players. I would think we have a competitive budget, loads of players contracts are up, others can be paid off so I still think we are a pretty attractive option if you want to be a Manager.

Let’s be honest lots of Managers out of work, lots of coaches with over 100 full-time clubs in England plus lots of ex-players who want to be Managers some of whom will be wealthy guys in their own right so will want the job for professional reasons rather than necessity.

No idea what standards are like over in Ireland or whether there are potential managers over there who may also know where some hidden talents may also be available.

Whatever, think when we get down to selecting the new manager we should have a decent group to select from.

I agree and whoever comes in will have plenty of scope because the players contracted for next season only number about half a dozen i think- without checking.

It will be a journeyman L1 or L2 foot soldier... John Sheridan?
Won't risk another Bignot type - ie: from non league, young and with potential

And all these suggestions about Shakespeare, Appleton etc...who the f*ck do people think we are?
A thriving, on the rise Championship club?!

We have no cash, a clapped out ground, 17th in L2 - get real folks

Phil Brown

As devs said, lets be realistic.