Give Jolley 3 year deal

Quoted from GrimRob

If you were MJ and you were offered a three-year deal on improved terms what would you do?

I am not saying he wouldn't sign it, just interested in opinions!

I’m sure he’d sign a new deal as he could use that to his advantage. Not so much to his own personal betterment but it would say to any prospective signings that we are a stable club with a long term plan.

There is evidence that the team can improve and play good football.  This potential hs been created by Jolley and he must see that he can take us further up the league.  This is to the benefit of the club - and Jolley. A win win position.  

MJ would welcome a 3 year deal I would think .I do not  think he is the type to walk away at the first bit of interest in him.He would like to finish his project with us before moving on I could be wrong you never know in football.

He has moved quite a bit on his career already. What is the longest he has been anywhere at?

Quoted from fivestarfish

He has moved quite a bit on his career already. What is the longest he has been anywhere at?

Maybe he has never had a long term contract,

Quoted from fivestarfish

He has moved quite a bit on his career already. What is the longest he has been anywhere at?

Coaching positions are different. He did a one game stint as assistant manager at Boston as a favour when Dennis Greene took over. His spell as first team coach at Lincoln was when they had just dropped into the Conference and were in all sorts of turmoil. He did a 3 year stint at Burnley before the opportunity in management came along at Eskilstuna.  You can soon be on the scrapheap as a manager so I think he will sit tight until he feels he has taken us as far as he can.

Imagine how many years contract you would give to MJ if he had won more league games than he’s lost and not the other way around. No ones going to be interested in MJ until he’s won promotion. I would suggest we wait until then before we start handing out daft contracts.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Imagine how many years contract you would give to MJ if he had won more league games than he’s lost and not the other way around. No ones going to be interested in MJ until he’s won promotion. I would suggest we wait until then before we start handing out daft contracts.

Right, so wait until people are interested and the react to that... yes because that’s never gone wrong before has it.

Three years is not “daft” I’d hazard a guess it’s probably just about the norm.

If what we are seeing now starting to bear fruit isn’t worth a little gamble than I’m at a loss as to what is. We as a club have been behind in how we do things for years and it’s about time we became a little proactive with these things. I could list a huge amount of players we’ve lost because we didn’t commit to contracts and was either too cautious or too tight.

He’s building a good side who play attacking football on the floor. They play with passion, pride and are improving weekly. Won’t be long until that gets noticed and it’ll be to late I’m afraid.

As I said, if that ain’t worth a relatively small gamble I don’t know what is!

You have only to have been to the last three games to realise something special is being built.

Quoted from Mikey_345

Right, so wait until people are interested and the react to that... yes because that’s never gone wrong before has it.

Three years is not “daft” I’d hazard a guess it’s probably just about the norm.

If what we are seeing now starting to bear fruit isn’t worth a little gamble than I’m at a loss as to what is. We as a club have been behind in how we do things for years and it’s about time we became a little proactive with these things. I could list a huge amount of players we’ve lost because we didn’t commit to contracts and was either too cautious or too tight.

He’s building a good side who play attacking football on the floor. They play with passion, pride and are improving weekly. Won’t be long until that gets noticed and it’ll be to late I’m afraid.

As I said, if that ain’t worth a relatively small gamble I don’t know what is!

2 of our last 15 permanent managers (spanning nearly 25 years) have lasted 3 years or more. To commit to 4 and a bit years of MJ when he’s only won just 17 league games out of 42 and lost 18 strikes me as being ridiculous.

How very long MJ is under contract if someone like Stoke City approached him (like with Nathan Jones) he’ll be gone whether he’s got 6 months or 3 years left on his contract.