Jolley sacked

Read the last just Bach thread folks. The football has become god awful to watch and fans are voting with their feet. Jolley seems stuck on defending even at home and trying to catch teams on the break. Spade got sacked for exactly the same reason. Jolley was too dogmatic.  He couldn't see that it was awful to watch. He has every coaching badge going but on one very boring style of play.

The next manager should get the job promising to at least try to attack.

Great stuff. Not sure who to vote for between ABIV or Russ Wilcox now.

I'm surprised and yet not surprised if that makes sense.

The coaching is basically to complicated they think their coaching Barcelona asking players to do things their capabilities won’t allow .. from within the club that

I know it's not exactly an original thought, but I still find it remarkable how short the tenure of football managers is these days. As of this morning, Jolley was the 25th-longest serving manager of the 92 - i.e. 67 other clubs have changed manager at least once in the last 20 months.

[edit: 91 clubs at present, of course...]

Not had a (league) game in weeks yet our superior leader pulls the plug.

It seems a strange decision

Surprised at the negative reaction so far on this thread.

I wasn't calling for his head but am absolutely not bothered that he's gone.

Did a good job to keep us up when he first came in, finding the 4-1-4-1 formula that did a job and stuck with it to get us over the line and finished the season well.

Last season spent all summer building to play 3-5-2 without having suitable wing-backs to make it work, then abandoned it before August was out. Winning and losing sequences throughout the year and a comfortable mid-table finish which, as boring as it might be, was an improvement on the relegation scrap the year before.

This season has been the disappointment for me. Expecting us to kick, we signed some good players in the summer. Even if the squad's still a little unbalanced, we have some players of really good pedigree and some good young players.

The tactics and team selections have absolutely baffled me at times. Going man-for-man at Chelsea was absolutely mental. Yeah we'd have probably lost anyway but going to a team of £40million players marking them all man-to-man all over the pitch, made it far easier for them than it could've been. Therein lies an issue. That could be a good approach tactically, but you've got to know when to use certain tactical systems, not just use something because it's worked before in a different scenario.

I might be wrong but I get the impression that we work on a different game-plan every week, depending on who we're playing against. Even if it's not just to counter the opposition strengths, its how to exploit their weaknesses. I don't disagree that you should look at how to exploit oppositions weaknesses, but in my eyes that would be little tweaks or focuses in a certain area adding to what we already do, not changing the plan every week to suit.

The use of players out of position is an ongoing problem. And I personally think Mattie Pollock should be playing regularly. I know MJ has given Max Wright and Pollock their debuts, and got Clifton in the team regularly, but I'd have had Wright and Pollock in the team more than they have been this season. So whilst people say he's given youth a chance, they've only had the odd chance and then been back out again.

Had he stayed, I think we'd have plodded along as a lower midtable/safe bottom half type of team. But i think we could and should be doing better than that.

When he came in, I have to admit i thought he'd be a modern-minded coach and try get us playing football on the ground in an expansive style of possession football. Instead, he's seemed more "old-school" than anything else, maybe influenced heavily by Sean Dyche at Burnley.

I'll be interested to see if Limbrick, who is well-liked around the Club, will look to change much. His Woking side apparently played really good football before he lost his best players and they began to struggle.

Hardly a disaster. Chance to move us forward.

Quoted from AndyGTFC

Club is an absolute joke honestly. Don’t even know why we bother.

I’ve not exactly been convinced but bloody hell the same board kept Woods and Slade forever, and the side have had one meaningful game in 3 weeks.

Maybe the Board has learnt from previous mistakes in persisting with a manager who clearly isn't improving the team. Surely  that's better than the Mr Micawber attitude.

I am fairly confident that it is more than just recent results.  We all know someone who's aunty's postman had a mate who works at BP etc. But I heard from two different usually reliable sources this week that something was amiss.

My usual gripe is people saying ' Grimsby fans/Fishy posters' etc when they should be saying 'football fans/football messageboards' etc. with regard to comments. Football fans are the same the whole world over.

On a personal note, I am not too sad to see him go, but wasn't quite yet calling for his head.

As I said on a different thread a while ago, I doubt things will change that much with the present board in control.

I suspect a new manage will arrive full of enthusiasm until it gets ground out of him in two-three months time.

Without a new board and a new ground I expect us to remain an average div 4 (or league 2) side.

UTM

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Not sure that limbrick shouldn't have gone too...
Not really that surprised, it's not only the results but the performances that have been p!as poor for far too long ..

So, ladies and gents,who we betting in for the next manager??

Limbrick has stayed because he's the next cheap, no one has heard of him, good on the theory and got his certificates but couldn't manage a urine without assistance replacement (just like Jolley really)