Marcus Bignot

The travel thing was something the board backed him on and then hung him out to dry on it.

Again, it's that transition from being at Solihull to here, different standards and expectations.  Whole different playing field.  What did the board do to support Bignot in going form managing a part-time side on the outskirts of the second largest city in the country to a full-time outfit that is a good hour of a commute from a larger metropolitan area.  Travelling in will have worked when players train twice a week and can juggle it about, less so at our level.

He was a bit of a basket case but the club didn't help him or, by all accounts, those players he brought in from afar.

Regardless of what people thought of him, his sacking & the subsequent appointment of Slade was another disgusting & snide episode in the club’s history.

The away end at Blackpool was awash with rumours that Bignot was going to be sacked & Slade appointed. I couldn’t believe it but lo & behold, that’s exactly how it played out.

We were then treated to a week of bullshít from the usual suspects about how Slade had been first contacted the day after Bignot was relieved of his duties (he was up a mountain somewhere?) and then the deal sealed over fish & chips (heard that before) the next day.

I didn’t mind the bloke, he’s no more mental than some of the other oddballs we’ve had at various positions of power within the club.

Quoted from sam gy

Shows how crap we are when people are claiming Bignopt was good purely because we actually won a couple of games when he was in charge.

On the whole it was crap and it's been well documented that the players didn't like him. His selections were baffling most of the time (hence Bignot Bingo)...distinctively remember a terrible game away at Stevenage when we ended up with about 5 strikers on the pitch.

He signed some good players, but theres more to a player than just ability. There was seemingly no background or character checks, he just chucked money at players who didn't really wanna be here/didn't wanna travel/didn't wanna relocate.

Yep, with no gameplan as to how we were going to get the ball to them or in to dangerous areas. Resulted in our best striker and the league's top scorer coming in to his own half to try and get the ball and ulimately leaving us frustrated at the end of the match. He signed some players with talent (Osborne, Jones, Clements) but he was absolutely clueless tactically.

There were some at the time who were trying to suggest that his playing Gunning in centre mid against a free scoring Donny was some sort of master plan to work out how flexible the players were or to stretch them a bit during a season which didn't have much left to play for. Absolute bollocks.If you need a drubbing at home to local rivals to work out that Gavin Gunning hasn't got a single attribute that makes him capable of playing in centre mid then you're not cut out for football management.

Didn't he play Dan Jones (forgotten CB that Hurst signed and never played) in CM too, just to try him out?

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Quoted from mariner91

Yep, with no gameplan as to how we were going to get the ball to them or in to dangerous areas.[b] Resulted in our best striker and the league's top scorer coming in to his own half to try and get the ball and ulimately leaving us frustrated. He signed some players with talent (Osborne, Jones, Clements) but he was absolutely clueless tactically.

There were some at the time who were trying to suggest that his playing Gunning in centre mid against a free scoring Donny was some sort of master plan to work out how flexible the players were or to stretch them a bit during a season which didn't have much left to play for. Absolute bollocks.If you need a drubbing at home to local rivals to work out that Gavin Gunning hasn't got a single attribute that makes him capable of playing in centre mid then you're not cut out for football management.

Do you really think Bogle left due to tactics or Bignot. He left because someone dangled thousands of pounds a week in front of him and opportunity to play at a higher level. I

Quoted from Madeleymariner

One of the goalies I think, good move for him, more money now in top end of womens game than Lg 1 downwards

Not sure why there would be more money in it. The standard is so poor hardly anyone seems interested in watching it, so it's puzzling as to where exactly the money is coming from.

Quoted from A Brace Of Tees

Not sure why there would be more money in it. The standard is so poor hardly anyone seems interested in watching it, so it's puzzling as to where exactly the money is coming from.

The money is coming from the top European mens teams. European clubs are paying tranfer fees to get players now. The WSL is dominated by 4 of the big 6 and smaller teams can no longer compete. Look at how Man City created a womens team (inc internationals), and without kicking a ball replaced Doncaster. Money now talks.

Quoted from moosey_club

he got players performing for us which subsequent managers didnt

No - he didn't get players performing at all. His bizarre tactics, including at one stage getting all the players congregating in one quarter of the pitch was mind-boggling. And the away performance at Stevenage during his tenure was one of the worst live matches I've ever witnessed - which ended up with 4 strikers on the pitch including Bogle trying to play in midfield! The kind of strategy a six year old might have come up with.

As other posters have said, his career since then has hardly sky-rocketed. I think he's probably at about the right level - managing in the women's game which as we all know is of a very poor standard. .

Quoted from Madeleymariner

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Do you really think Bogle left due to tactics or Bignot. He left because someone dangled thousands of pounds a week in front of him and opportunity to play at a higher level. I

No I don't think that although I admit it reads that way. I should have said left us frustrated in that match.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Like a say putting Bignot’s time here versus Holloway’s apart from the QPR links there where parallels but on reflection I’d have been surprised if he stayed that Bignot would have left us in the mess Holloway has.

We weren't left in the same mess because we had better players at the time, but if he'd hung around I suspect we'd have ended up in sh!t street.