Ian Holloway

For the money Holloway will cost please can we have one more go at Tisdale
I really feel Holloway is old school and will fill the team with older journeymen
Tisdale will give us a longer term future

Quoted from sydney

For the money Holloway will cost please can we have one more go at Tisdale
I really feel Holloway is old school and will fill the team with older journeymen
Tisdale will give us a longer term future

And old school is what we need...no more Mr Nice guy managers, we need someone to get them geed up more...give them a roasting and out their arms round the shoulder when needed, a proper man manager with experience and one that will get GTFC back in the limelight for all the right reasons...

I would be interesting to know what Gary McShefferey had to say to Holloway regarding his time at Town. I'm sure it would have been discussed during last night's filming... You would hope Gary would be complimentary about his time here.

I'm gonna come out with a Holloway esque quote here...

It's like buying a new car. JF has budgeted himself 6 grand. He's gone on auto trader and looked about and what's on offer. There's alot of cars with motorway miles on the clock. They look nice but cone with a load of problems hence the reason they're cheap (Dave Jones etc), there's the newer but less fashionable cars knocking about but you're not sure If they're up to much because no one has bought one (some random lower league coach), or you can plow your money into the 800 quid MOT failure of your current car. It's abit excrement, got a dodgy seatbelt and some rust on the door, but you know what it's about Ans it's the safe option (limbrick)

However , It's only when JF has wandered into the show room and some cheeky chappy salesman shows you the nice 12 grand motor that you start changing your mind. All of a sudden the budget is out the window, you're loving the idea of heated seats and parking sensors and before you know it you've signed up to a 13 year finance deal at 3 grand a month (Holloway)

If JF were to go on auto trader and look for a 12 grand motor he'd find something that suits him much better and would please everyone rather than what's shoved under his nose.

But if I'm given a choice between Limbrick and Holloway, I'm swayed towards the latter. He's going to bring the fans back in, give us some media attention, put a rocket up the players and hopefully give us a lift

Quoted from sydney

For the money Holloway will cost please can we have one more go at Tisdale
I really feel Holloway is old school and will fill the team with older journeymen
Tisdale will give us a longer term future

No league Promotions.. i fail to see the buzz about Tisdale. Done nothing compared to IH

Quoted from Hagrid

No league Promotions.. i fail to see the buzz about Tisdale. Done nothing compared to IH

Tisdale has been promoted from league 2 multiple times

Quoted from Davec

Tisdale has been promoted from league 2 multiple times

His only managerial promotions have been with Team Bath.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

His only managerial promotions have been with Team Bath.

Did I imagine him getting MK Dons promoted last season?

Quoted from bigdavemariner

I'm gonna come out with a Holloway esque quote here...

It's like buying a new car. JF has budgeted himself 6 grand. He's gone on auto trader and looked about and what's on offer. There's alot of cars with motorway miles on the clock. They look nice but cone with a load of problems hence the reason they're cheap (Dave Jones etc), there's the newer but less fashionable cars knocking about but you're not sure If they're up to much because no one has bought one (some random lower league coach), or you can plow your money into the 800 quid MOT failure of your current car. It's abit excrement, got a dodgy seatbelt and some rust on the door, but you know what it's about Ans it's the safe option (limbrick)

However , It's only when JF has wandered into the show room and some cheeky chappy salesman shows you the nice 12 grand motor that you start changing your mind. All of a sudden the budget is out the window, you're loving the idea of heated seats and parking sensors and before you know it you've signed up to a 13 year finance deal at 3 grand a month (Holloway)

If JF were to go on auto trader and look for a 12 grand motor he'd find something that suits him much better and would please everyone rather than what's shoved under his nose.

But if I'm given a choice between Limbrick and Holloway, I'm swayed towards the latter. He's going to bring the fans back in, give us some media attention, put a rocket up the players and hopefully give us a lift

Your analogy works better if you think of the MOT fix-up not as the safe choice, but simply as the cheapest option in the short-term.

Many moons ago, I actually got caught up in this trap myself. I had a 20 year old Peugeot with about 200,000 miles on the clock. Something would go wrong on an almost weekly occurance, and I was regularly sinking £300 or £400 of my meagre monthly wages just to keep it on the road because I didn’t have enough money to go out and buy a proper car.

Ultimately, if I’d have spent the money up front on something fit for purpose, it would have cost much less in the long run and I’d have had a better driving experience along the way to boot.

That’s really what we’re faced with here. Everyone knows Limbrick is the cheapest option today in terms of salary expectation. But what’s the true cost of going with unproven inexperience in the long-term?

The role of a manager is so fundamental to the financial performance of a football club. In our case, the manager is the custodian of a seven figure playing budget, and their performance has a huge impact on gate receipts and other income such as prize and TV money - as we know all too well, austerity seriously hits home if you find yourself in the Conference.

When it comes to picking a manager, no one can ever being 100% certain that they’re not being sold a lemon; at least Holloway comes with a pretty solid looking full service history.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Did I imagine him getting MK Dons promoted last season?

And he took Exeter from the Conference to League One.

So including his spell at Team Bath he has 5 promotions (including at least one at every club he’s managed) and 1 relegation.