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AdamHaddock
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In the name of Pouton it's actually happening


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Right let’s chat about the ££££ and the budget available......oh


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That fella will feel a bit silly if there is a last minute change of heart, he'll be forever the guy who got a random selfie with the guy who turned us down  
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I have just asked a mate of mine ,ANDREW, and he says the photo has been doctored and the arm round Holloway has been added afterwards
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[quote=37]In the name of Pouton it's actually happening [/q
Would perhaps be better signing in his own name.


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Odemwinge all over again on deadline day.

I for one am very excited about this if it happens, the bloke is crackers but one of a few remaining managers that will talk straight? Give rollickings to players when needed and offer praise when deserved. It will certainly be a better second half of the season.
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Let's be positive and hope it happens.....not everyone will agree he's the right man for the job but surely we need to give him a chance, cannot be worse that what we have going on now.

I am all for him, hopefully get a couple of wins and there will be a bit of a buzz around the place again.

First 'real name' we've had for a while....

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The team from my first season 1993....hooked ever since

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I’m really excited. Yes there’s a risk but that comes with any manager. This guy has a superb pedigree and is a genuinely exciting name that I bet none of us ever thought we’d manage to get.
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First name since Mike Newell and before that Lennie Lawrence  


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.  
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Quoted from Poojah
There’s no doubt that Holloway’s quirky, cheeky chappie image has given him a bigger profile than he’d otherwise have, however his achievements in management shouldn’t be overlooked.

He’s won promotion three times, twice to the Premier League including once with a massively unfancied Blackpool side under crackpot ownership (even if they hadn’t gone fully rogue at that point). You simply don’t do that without a modicum of managerial talent.

Aside from those achievements, his time at Plymouth was also very well regarded. His most recent appointments at Champiobship clubs Millwall and QPR are probably best described as unspectacular, but they weren’t disastrous.

Over the course of his career his win % averages out at around 36%, including two goes in the Premier League where win percentages are always likely to be on the low side. To give that some context, Paul Hurst’s win % here was around 50%, but that includes four successive play-off finishes in the non-league. I believe he’d improve on his last three predecessors.

There’s probably no doubt that of all realistic options, Holloway is the most decorated and highest profile. That doesn’t mean much in terms of influencing future accomplishments but it probably does at least help in terms of player recruitment. It gives players a reason to select Town as their employer. At the minute there’s very little in our favour - geography, money and facilities are almost all going to work against us when competing with the vast majority of other League Two sides.

At the outset, the list of names being bandied about were largely a mix of either unproven young managers or experienced, out of work journeymen. Holloway falls very much towards the latter end, but if (and for me it remains a big if) he were to end up here I’d be confident that he’d arrive full of hunger and a desire to achieve. Why else take it? Financially I doubt he needs it - he already has gainful employment in cushy TV and radio roles.

It would also strongly suggest that we’d made commitments in terms of investment in the squad and club infrastructure. Again, if not, why come?

In terms of lifting the club and community out of what seems like a never ending malaise, his character and general approach would work well for me. Of course he’s well media trained - it’s his job at this moment in time - but I do think he would ‘get’ Grimsby Town FC. That only carries you so far, and people have little time for attempts at humour or a charm offensive when you’re losing (as Marcus Bignot soon found out) but in the short-term at least Holloway’s appointment would lift people and that can’t be a bad thing.

Would it work out? Who the fúck knows? Will Ancelotti work at Everton? Arteta at Arsenal? Even at the top level where money is plentiful there are no guarantees, even less so in the basement. But if your only other option is a man whose football league record to date extends to a point and a goal every six games, it has to be the best way forward. Doesn’t it?



As usual Pojah sums it up perfectly, especially the last paragraph
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