Phil Brown to be named as gtfc manager tomorrow

Quoted from Will Haddock

Telewag reporting a story from the weekend about David Healy...

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.c.....s-suggesting-1237042

Rumour has to have come from somewhere - gives us hope that the club are making approaches to employed managers.

I was in Belfast at the weekend at the Northern Ireland League Cup Final. As the brand I'm UK Marketing Manager for makes both teams kits. In the Lounge during.. and after the game the talk was that Healy had applied for the job... so he had.

He won the League with Linfield last season and is receiving dogs abuse this season because it seems he has taken the club as far as he can... They are currently 4th with no chance of retaining the title.

Healy's teams are known for playing decent football, but in my opinion, If we were to get a manager from Northern Ireland, Dungannon Swifts manager Rod McAree would be the man. Plays very attractive football on the deck 11 of the 18 in the final squad came from the academy including former down loanee Dougie Wilson who went to Hull then went back to the swifts.

I think this club has become the poisoned chalice that no one wants  except for the desperate or inexperienced.  I hope not but can see Wilko in charge until the end of the season.  This club in its current  state is a career breaker.

Didn't we have Dougie Wilson on loan for a while a few years ago?

Quoted from realist

I think this club has become the poisoned chalice that no one wants  except for the desperate or inexperienced.  I hope not but can see Wilko in charge until the end of the season.  This club in its current  state is a career breaker.

Have a little faith. There's been clubs in the past as bad, even worse off than the current Town setup who have been not only rescued bit gone on to bigger better things. Some managers relish this kind of  challenge too...we just need to find them.

Quoted from RoboCod

Have a little faith. There's been clubs in the past as bad, even worse off than the current Town setup who have been not only rescued bit gone on to bigger better things. Some managers relish this kind of  challenge too...we just need to find them.

Agreed. We are a solvent League 2 club with a loyal fan base, which is bigger than most in this division. Even with all their off field problems, Blackpool found a decent manager and got promoted.

Quoted from realist

I think this club has become the poisoned chalice that no one wants  except for the desperate or inexperienced.  I hope not but can see Wilko in charge until the end of the season.  This club in its current  state is a career breaker.

Looks like it. Plus the desperate maybe want too much money. The inexperienced would probably be keen to work in the FL, but coming here in our present state might put them off. I really don't know what to think. Someone to guarantee us league football is the priority so offer a big incentive payment to achieve that, then review again at the end of the season and make a fresh start I agree it is looking more like Wilko to the end of the season.

Quoted from ginnywings

Agreed. We are a solvent League 2 club with a loyal fan base, which is bigger than most in this division. Even with all their off field problems, Blackpool found a decent manager and got promoted.

I agree but it is this difficult period of the next few weeks that makes it more scary.

Would a decent manager risk their reputation on saving us from the drop with so little time to do it in, with players he doesn't know that are very poor? If he did, then great and we can look forward to a summer of rebuilding etc. But if he takes the job and we continue in freefall... its a big risk.

Once again the board have played a shocker - a few weeks ago dismissing our poor  form and saying we were comfortable in the table. Left it too late to make the change and are now in a relegation battle with no manager.

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

Well this never happened

Quoted from Wrawby_Mariner

I was in Belfast at the weekend at the Northern Ireland League Cup Final. As the brand I'm UK Marketing Manager for makes both teams kits. In the Lounge during.. and after the game the talk was that Healy had applied for the job... so he had.

He won the League with Linfield last season and is receiving dogs abuse this season because it seems he has taken the club as far as he can... They are currently 4th with no chance of retaining the title.

Healy's teams are known for playing decent football, but in my opinion, If we were to get a manager from Northern Ireland, Dungannon Swifts manager Rod McAree would be the man. Plays very attractive football on the deck 11 of the 18 in the final squad came from the academy including former down loanee Dougie Wilson who went to Hull then went back to the swifts.

So, sounds credible, Linfield Chairman trying to sweep it under the carpet, but rumour confirmed by Wrawbz 'on the ground'.

Most appealing candidate from all mentioned so far for me.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

I agree but it is this difficult period of the next few weeks that makes it more scary.

Would a decent manager risk their reputation on saving us from the drop with so little time to do it in, with players he doesn't know that are very poor? If he did, then great and we can look forward to a summer of rebuilding etc. But if he takes the job and we continue in freefall... its a big risk.

Once again the board have played a shocker - a few weeks ago dismissing our poor  form and saying we were comfortable in the table. Left it too late to make the change and are now in a relegation battle with no manager.

We may be in a bad spot, but if a manager cannot keep us up from our position, then he won't be much use anyway. There are still 6 teams below us and we are 9 points clear of 23rd spot.

Do agree that we have fiddled while Rome burned. The only type of action has been inaction.