Jolley Press Conference - YouTube link

was there any subsequent 1-1 interviews, or did they just go upstairs for the photos?

Im suggesting that as Jolley left his last role in Sweden as the board failed to show the same sort of ambition and commitment that Michael has, then our board had to and will continue to talk up the ambition of the club to convince him to sign in the first place.

Gonna be a huge ask to get us to the championship though as football is not what it used to be in Buckleys era.
The championship had teams like Town, Walsall, Crewe and Tranmere holding there own. Now giants like Sunderland with 30,000+ fans are struggling.

Excited about this appointment though and the future (once this season is out of the way).  We will pretty much start next season with a fresh canvas as the whole squad is pretty much out of contract come May.

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I will settle for low key and pragmatic after all the bull that has been sprouted before him. Not sure what you were after particuarly when you say you've heard it all before. Everybody on here seemed to want new blood, me included, and first signs are that he will definately never talk the bollox that Bignot did but will offer something new that Slade never could. Time will only tell though.

I wasn't particularly after anything. It was all a bit perfunctory and the fact that it was left to Mr Day, with not much fanfare suggests the club are actually keeping a low profile on this one, after all the promises of the last two managers came to nought. We were even told 2 days before who the manager would be that they were introducing. I think Mr Day should have just kept to the brief and not mentioned League 1 and the Championship. That's the bit that riled me. All the talk that comes to nothing, like being top 7 this season. Getting rid of all the best players in the arrogant notion that we would just sail along to seasons end with no problems is the reality of the situation. Stop talking about what we are going to do and actually sort out the main thing, which is staying in the division.

Sorry if all that sounds cynical and defeatist, but that's the way i feel after years and years of poor decisions, with myriad managers and players coming and going. The one constant in all this is still there.

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was there any subsequent 1-1 interviews, or did they just go upstairs for the photos?

There will probably be some on iFollow, so you will need a subscription to watch. Just a guess on my part though.

Good interview and he seems to be a realist who recognises the situation we are in. I thought Mr Day handled himself well and although he did make that rather ambitious statement for the next 5 years I thought Michael Jolley response that we deal with the present first and deal with other ambitions after was very grounded and wants to just get on with the job in hand. My first impressions positive.

One thing is certain,

He can only be an improvement on Slade,

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One thing is certain,

He can only be an improvement on Slade,

True!

Excitement and positivity abounds on The Fishy....whats gone wrong?

Quoted from grimsby pete

One thing is certain,

He can only be an improvement on Slade,

Second that Pete!

To be fair Phillip Day taking the team himself would be an improvement over Slade!

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Eloquent. Said all the right things. No wild promises. Mr Day said the club's long term goal is Championship football in 5 years. Now that would be some achievement and brought a wry smile from Michael who quite rightly wanted to concentrate on what he called is a 10 game season, starting on Sat. He said he is happy to work with existing staff. My guess is "for now"

Please tell me you made that up ?!?!  Hahahahahahahahaha....Long term..5 yrs... why the fck cant they just say " Good morning everyone...as previously announced here is Mr Jolley our new first team manager...any questions ? "

They are already setting themselves up for a missed target... we currently have ..

New ground in two years
Championship in five years

Highly unlikely on both counts i would say as we are currently just sitting outside the relegation from the football league places, havn't won in 15 games, have 5/6 players in place for next season, havn't even submitted an outline planning application for a ground ...yet  we hope to be playing  Championship football in the FentyExtreme Dome in 5 years ?!?!    I hope there was some sniggering at that point.