Michael Jolley

Some views about MJ from a Bolton forum :-

" Jolley is a clever bloke, and very Moneyball - Cambridge MA in economics, coaching badges up the wazoo. Didn't exactly scorch the heather at Grimsby but few do, and the circumstances of his exit were peculiar rather than particularly worrying."

"I've got a sneaky suspicion Michael Jolley ticks a lot of the FV-highlighted boxes; I just hope we don't find ourselves a month into the season with poor results sparking complaints about a couple of wet-eared kids (he and Phoenix) at the helm."

"Left his first job because he fell out with the board. Left his second after launching a huge expletive filled rant at the local media - not very promising for a man to come and manage Bolton Wanderers....in fact it screams problems to me in these circumstances!"

"Yeah, neither of those things worries me. He left a small Swedish club over "the direction of the club" - which usually means money. Then he had a pop at a radio reporter who in a rather weaselly move leaked it. Various quotes are here and there's plenty who'd say that shows passion; in a Fergie or Big Sam it'd be heralded as protective genius.
I'm not saying he's the answer, but those things don't worry me. The fact the rant (or "impassioned defence") came after a seven-game winless win is more worrying."

"Having read the quotes it screams 'Keith Hill' to me. Just don't want someone who becomes confrontational over criticism, perceived or otherwise. Hill was starting fights before anyone had really raised an eyebrow in his direction. Bolton is a tough place to manage - I want someone who gets it, is tough and no nonsense, but also has a touch of class about them in difficult circumstances - Parky and Rioch both displayed said characteristics."

This all seems so long ago now.

I can't honestly see him at a league club. A spell in the conference perhaps.

Seems a lifetime ago, doesn't it?  

If he ends up at Bolton it will show just how good of a talker he is.  I don't mean that disparagingly; he talks very well, but it won't be his managerial record that lands him another job in the EFL.  

Wish him well wherever he ends up, on the couple of occasions I spoke to him he seemed polite and knowledgeable. It didn't end well for him here at Town but it never does, does it?

I wish him all the best and all the luck in the world, but wonder if the best move for him would be a basket case like macclesfield  ,morecambe or scunny😜🤣 or a big, failed non league club like Wrexham stockport ,poolies, or york where he could re establish himself

I hope they appoint him just for a laugh. Ultra negative in his approach and a bit of a male masturbator.

Not all bad as we ground some results out to stay safe but in the main the football was dreadful.

Hope he gets the job or something else in the pro game. Only way we will find out if it was him or us.

Quoted from GrimRob

Hope he gets the job or something else in the pro game. Only way we will find out if it was him or us.

If what was him or us?

I want him back managing somewhere would be interested to see how he gets on

Quoted from hheh2

I want him back managing somewhere would be interested to see how he gets on

I agree, would be interesting to see how he got on and as someone said earlier was it him or us (could ask that of a lot of our recent managers)