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1mickylyons
February 12, 2018, 9:51am
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He sounds the right type BUT we should bat out the Season with an interim boss from within and then recruit.Anyone coming in from outside will need a lot of experience due to the squad imbalance as long as we can avoid relegation the new man can come in and build .Just such a shame RS was allowed to get rid of 4-5 decent players and bring in dross in their place.
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I would imagine that the budget he had available to him at Shaw Lane went some way to help the success he achieved . Money talks at those levels.
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Quoted from Shilts
Of all names mentioned already my vote goes to Craig Elliot at Boston.

Sick of journeyman players and managers on the merry go round. Why get a bigger name manager that had success once with a club in league 1 but has since been hired and fired from 5 different jobs in the last 10yrs.

Instead get a winner from leagues below (Lincoln should know that), and all our previous best came as winners from below, Buckley and Hurst were nobody's till they came here (when I say nobody's, I mean managers on the up with proven records, but as yet unknown to us)

There's plenty out there that know only success and promotion, a la cowleys.

It would be a rapid rise for elliot, he was managing Shaw Lane a season ago!!!

But won 3 promotions with them in 4 seasons and left for Boston when they were 3pts off top with games in hand.

Now he's completely turned Boston round from a situation just like oirs currently. Want a bit of that.

Someone use to a budget as well and knows the lower leagues.

Not another Slade type.

If Fenty can't get an appointment right or do the relevant checks, clearly the Boston chairman can, and has an eye for a manager (Hurst, now Elliot), so if we poach their managers u know that the manager has been vetted by a competent chairman also.


Might be worth a look, worth noting that the Cowley's walked into a club that yes on the pitch where struggling but off the pitch had an owner committed to taking the club forward and happy to put some money behind doing it.

Off the pitch we are a basket case ATM.


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Quoted from jonnyboy82
All you have to do is look at the Cowley brothers for me and it's proof it works.

Let's get an upcoming fresh manager and not one that's been sacked a thousand times.


I think a lot depends on how much the club owner is willing to put in. Lincoln were able to attract the Cowleys because of that

As far as we are concerned no more non-league managers please (Hurst might have worked - eventually. Bignob did not) we can't afford to risk a non league bloke from a little club at this moment (although he might be useful if we go down)


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I like the sound of him think we need someone who is on the up rather than on there way down the league's and just sees us as a last payday before retirement
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He's only been managing at that level for a few months, to jump 2 divisions would be tough and I'd question whether his knowledge or contacts at this level would be good enough at the minute but certainly one to keep an eye on IMO.

What good has Slade done with his knowledge and contacts ?.

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Don't know anything about this chap although his career does look impressive to date. The Lincoln example isn't really right though as they took a manager from above them in the same league.


So true, in an alternate timeline Braintree got promoted to league 2, we sacked Hurst and beat the vegans the playoffs after, Lincoln stayed excrement and Shrewsbury stayed excrement.


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February 12, 2018, 10:24am
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Quoted from Shilts
Of all names mentioned already my vote goes to Craig Elliot at Boston.

Sick of journeyman players and managers on the merry go round. Why get a bigger name manager that had success once with a club in league 1 but has since been hired and fired from 5 different jobs in the last 10yrs.

Instead get a winner from leagues below (Lincoln should know that), and all our previous best came as winners from below, Buckley and Hurst were nobody's till they came here (when I say nobody's, I mean managers on the up with proven records, but as yet unknown to us)

There's plenty out there that know only success and promotion, a la cowleys.

It would be a rapid rise for elliot, he was managing Shaw Lane a season ago!!!

But won 3 promotions with them in 4 seasons and left for Boston when they were 3pts off top with games in hand.

Now he's completely turned Boston round from a situation just like oirs currently. Want a bit of that.

Someone use to a budget as well and knows the lower leagues.

Not another Slade type.

If Fenty can't get an appointment right or do the relevant checks, clearly the Boston chairman can, and has an eye for a manager (Hurst, now Elliot), so if we poach their managers u know that the manager has been vetted by a competent chairman also.


Alan Buckley
First of all, how you can say Alan Buckley was a nobody before he came to Grimsby is beyond me. Alan was a very well respected professional footballer. Furthermore, although he came to Grimsby from non-league Kettering, he had also had Football League management roles with Walsall. Where he had steered them to the semi final of the League Cup, getting a draw at Anfield against a Liverpool side full of European Cup Winners.

Craig Elliot
Some information for you about Craig. Like Dennis Greene before him, Craig is an unqualified coach as far as Football League rules are concerned. Doesn't have UEFA B License, A License or the Pro License. So I am note sure how he would stand as potential manager. I am led to believe that he isn't much of a technical/tactical coach, and that most of his success to date in non-league, has been a result of pure hard work and being a good motivator of players. Certainly attributes that are important, but pretty useless if that is all he has in his armoury at Football League level.

He is a school teacher with a full time job in PE education. Some might get excited at that prospect, perhaps thinking he might be Cowleyesque. But don't get too excited, as Russell Slade was a PE teacher too

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Quoted from 120790

He is a school teacher with a full time job in PE education. Some might get excited at that prospect, perhaps thinking he might be Cowleyesque. But don't get too excited, as Russell Slade was a PE teacher too



Physical education education? He's training gym teachers?
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February 12, 2018, 10:30am
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Physical education education? He's training gym teachers?


No, he is a school teacher.

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