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I watched the Hamilton v Rangers game today and was impressed with the way Hamilton's manager Brian Rice set up his team with plenty of young lads in the team, Pre match he said it's no good sitting back and defending we will be going at them, He was true to his word with 2 strikers up front and they gave Rangers a lot to think about and they were in the game until the last few minutes, Having gone behind they got an equaliser and it was only 2-1 to Rangers until the last minute or so. Brian played for Notts Forest and had a loan spell with us playing 4 times so he knows the area I don't think for one minute he would up sticks and come to us but he is the type of guy we should be looking at.
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| Over 36 years living in Suffolk but always a mariner. 68 Years following the Town
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TownSNAFU5 |
November 24, 2019, 5:09pm |
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Ian Evatt (3 , is manager of Barrow, who are top of the National League with a game in hand. Impressive on a small budget, and being geographically isolated. Rod Liddle in the Sports Times today devoted all his article to their impressive rise. They just escaped relegation last season and started this season with only 6 registered players. Their owner stepped down a year ago and the club have not looked back since (you could not make this up). A consortium of 4 local businessmen were committed to turning dire finances round. Ian Evatt has got the team playing (according to Liddle) “neat possession football and, in away games, counterattacking with speed and precision. There is no hoofing, no bludgeoning. They pass the ball with a panache that would do credit to a Championship side”. This footballing philosophy is light-years away from the football that we are generally producing. Would he be a good fit for us or not? Why would he want to come here?
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jaf243 |
November 24, 2019, 5:18pm |
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Simon Weaver, Harrogate Town.
(As alluded to, his dad is the chairman, so I'd class this guess as good as one of those ones off Family Fortunes!)
Appoint him to replace Jolley, and his Father to replace Fenty!
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Marinerz93 |
November 24, 2019, 5:20pm |
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Who ever is coming in, it needs to be as soon as possible because on current form we will be bottom before Christmas.
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| Supporting the Mighty Mariners for over 30 years, home town club is were the heart and soul is and it's great to be a part of it.
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rancido |
November 24, 2019, 5:23pm |
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Rancido, ive been watching Town since I was 6 years old, I was a regular in the Boys Stand in the Barrets, my elder brother took me to every game, so that adds up to 59 years of being a Town fan. Ive seen managers come and go, seen the demise of bringing in player managers of Bobby Kennedy and Mike Lyons, after Ron Ashman left, I can only count a few managers who went for the glory of the Mariner Badge, Buckley was one of them, besides Laurie there hasn't been a definite messiah. I pledged a donation for Joe Waters, wined and dined on coca cola and burger at George Higgins house, attende the Ground to watch the players train, and get autographs. So don't tell me I never watched Alan Buckley manage us, or even forgotten. I simply added to a topic on here, and as usual, I get an idiot calling me for my thought on the subject. Its always the same on here, you try to put your reasons forward for thought, and then someone ridicules ya.
I certainly wasn't ridiculing your post and I had no idea how long you'd have been a town supporter-hence the remark about forgotten. I was merely pointing out that the last time AB managed town he never covered himself in glory and some of his recruiting was questionable.Ihave been a town supporter since 1965 and certainly witnessed all the managers you mentioned but was never fortunate, like you, to socialise with them on a personal level. I just don't think that AB, and I respect him greatly for what he achieved with town, is the right person to consult for the way forward.
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Ipswin |
November 24, 2019, 6:12pm |
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Ian Evatt (3 , is manager of Barrow, who are top of the National League with a game in hand. Impressive on a small budget, and being geographically isolated. Rod Liddle in the Sports Times today devoted all his article to their impressive rise. They just escaped relegation last season and started this season with only 6 registered players. Their owner stepped down a year ago and the club have not looked back since (you could not make this up). A consortium of 4 local businessmen were committed to turning dire finances round. Ian Evatt has got the team playing (according to Liddle) “neat possession football and, in away games, counterattacking with speed and precision. There is no hoofing, no bludgeoning. They pass the ball with a panache that would do credit to a Championship side”. This footballing philosophy is light-years away from the football that we are generally producing. Would he be a good fit for us or not? Why would he want to come here?
I can't think of any reason at all why Evatt would want to leave a club at the top of the Conference and possibly on the brink of a return to the football league after so many years (which would make him a legend forever in the town) and with a new go ahead consortium in charge to come to Grimsby Town possibly on the brink of swapping places with Barrow and run by a board who are totally clueless and lacking ambition.
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chaos33 |
November 24, 2019, 7:25pm |
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Ah give over. I can understand you being critical and disillusioned but you can’t fathom why someone would leave a tiny conference club to manage a big L2 club and work at a higher level on more money with better players?!
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Poojah |
November 24, 2019, 7:38pm |
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Does this make us any different from the vast majority of other clubs in League 1 or 2?
I don’t know to be perfectly honest, but I reckon that the outlook for GTFC managers is far more stark than most. Almost 90% get sacked, of which (over the last decade and a half at least) 0% have ever managed at the same level again. That’s pretty grim, is it not?
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arryarryarry |
November 24, 2019, 7:43pm |
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I can't think of any reason at all why Evatt would want to leave a club at the top of the Conference and possibly on the brink of a return to the football league after so many years (which would make him a legend forever in the town) and with a new go ahead consortium in charge to come to Grimsby Town possibly on the brink of swapping places with Barrow and run by a board who are totally clueless and lacking ambition.
Have you ever been to Barrow's ground? BP may well be run down and well past it but it is still far superior to Holker Street and we have a fan base that Barrow can only dream of.
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Davec |
November 24, 2019, 7:47pm |
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on the GTFC hashtag on Twitter an ex football analyst who claims he is in the know thinks Chris Hargreaves will be appointed, he says he was at Northampton yesterday, also some random person twitter is suggesting Liam Rosenior could be the manager
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