How many games do you give Jolley

Quoted from Poojah

Let’s be honest, football management is one of the most results-based and cut throat professions anywhere in the sporting and business world.

We find ourselves in the early stages of a season following a narrow escape from relegation (thanks to Jolley no less) looking unlikely to win a league game right now and with only three sides below us in the league. One of those, Notts County, I expect to pull away sooner rather than later leaving only Macclesfield and Morecambe who do at least look like they’re there for the long haul.

It will ultimately come down results and nothing else.

What about Jolley’s unique back story? His Cambridge education. His 9/11 experience. The fact he gave up a promising and lucrative trading career to pursue his dream of an unlikely career in football.

The fact that he seems to be a genuinely nice bloke. Intelligent. Articulate. Sincere. That he commits his own time to good local causes. To commitments outside of his basic job description. That he turns up at people’s birthday barbecues?

His youth? His apparently modern approach to coaching and the game in general. That he seems to want to play football the right way. The fact he kept us up last season, somehow, when all hope seemed lost?

I, I think like most Town fans, like and admire all of those things about Michael Jolley. But what do they mean, really?

Not a lot, most likely. Perhaps at most, that he would get an additional two or three games to turn things around should things get really sticky, than an otherwise less likeable character might be afforded.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re not there yet - not by a long shot. But if push comes to shove, and results don’t improve he’ll find himself staring down the same barrel as Marcus Bignot and Russell Slade.

I hope upon hope that never comes to fruition, because I think given time Grimsby Town and Michael Jolley could be really good for one another. But it would be naive to think that his likeable character makes him impervious to failure or the sack. A result and performance on Saturday would go a long way at the minute...

Quoted from oochiad

You can’t blame Jolley for Whitmore’s poor pass that gave Bury their first goal.

Quoted from 140067

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Quoted from Ipswin

So you're saying he should go when we are relegated?

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Time to resurrect this thread.....how any games are we thinking now??...
Me, personally I'd give him 6 more games, that's enough time to have all the squad bar 1 fit and at his disposal....should get at least 3-games out of the next 6 with a settled starting 11 and maybe more of a feel of exactly where we are going under Jolleys stewardship...