Next Town manager ?

Quoted from sam gy

Don't know anything about him really, or how highly (or unhighly) he is rated, but i've been surprised to not see ex Lincoln Mark Kennedy linked much, if at all? Especially seen as his assistant is Danny Butterfield.

Quoted from Poojah

My thoughts on this. I’m prepared to look past the first Slough game, which took place under a multitude of difficult circumstances, and since then they’ve returned two positive results and two improved performances out of two. In doing so, they have restored faith that there is some reasonable talent in this squad and certainly made tangible improvements to our attacking play, even if defensive frailties remain at present.

In terms of what they’ve been asked to do, they’ve done a sterling job. So far. We have to be careful about getting too excited about a couple of games, one of which was against a side over 40 league places below us. And we need to retain the assumption that we are in a precarious position; getting our next managerial appointment right remains absolutely paramount.

Ultimately, the number one priority facing Stockwood and Pettit right now is identifying the indvidual(s) best suited and best qualified for the job, offering the highest probability of a good outcome, by whatever means of assessment available to them. Realistically, Shaun and Ben’s collective CV is weak, and so all they have to back themselves with is what’s happening in the here and now.

The problem with that is, I don’t think you can delay the appointment of an outstanding, more qualified external candidate while we try to work out whether Pearson and Davies are capable of doing the job long-term. Snooze, and you might lose. Situations, like a manager’s availability, can change rapidly in football.

You would assume that they will remain in charge for this weekend’s game against Forest Green, but beyond that it’s hard to say. Our next game after that is Sutton at home on the 25th November, which marks the four week anniversary of Hurst’s exit.

I consider four weeks sufficient to run a diligent recruitment process, especially when you consider that tentative plans were being drawn up while Hurst was still at the club. Even if we win our next two games, replete with renewed vigour, I’m still not sure we’ll have sufficient evidence that Ben and Pearson are the best men for the job - it’s still a very limited pool of data to go on.

This may be harsh on the two of them, both of whom have been great ambassadors for the club, but the only way I see them landing the gig permanently is if the external process naturally runs for another 4 or 5 weeks from here, and they’re still clocking up the points with good performances.

I just don’t think it will. My personal expectation is that we’ll make an announcement some time between the Forest Green and Sutton games, and it will be someone from outside the club currently.

Quoted from arryarryarry

May be they want to announce a new manager at the fans forum a week on Friday.

Quoted from sam gy

Don't know anything about him really, or how highly (or unhighly) he is rated, but i've been surprised to not see ex Lincoln Mark Kennedy linked much, if at all? Especially seen as his assistant is Danny Butterfield.

Quoted from chrissy

The big test on how much better we are under the present management will be when we go to Oxford. They are a very good side in the league above scoring plenty of goals. We need to tighten our defence and be at our best going forward or the cries for Ben and Shaun to be permanent managers will go very quiet.