Next Town manager ?

Quoted from chaos33

Jesus, are you gonna indulge or join the headbangers?

Jason & Andrew would be stupid not to consider any manager who's recently won promotion out of this division and comfortably kept his club up the following season. Especially so if they are now out of work. And that doesn't just go for Joey Barton. I'd include any successful manager on that list, even the one down at Stevenage who so many Town fans consider we are too good and too righteous to have as our manager.

I'm sick to death of having to support a bottom half of League 2 club. I couldn't care how me get promotion(s), I just want to see Grimsby Town as a respected smaller club punching above our weight again,

Quoted from GollyGTFC

I'd include any successful manager on that list, even the one down at Stevenage who so many Town fans consider we are too good and too righteous to have as our manager.

If being good and righteous means not having a sex offender (allegedly) as manager of my club, then yes, I guess I am good and righteous.

Quoted from Stew0_0

Julio Arca doing a good job at south shields. Luke Garrard had been doing a remarkable job at Boreham Wood and Mark Cooper has yeovil flying high in National League South table. All youngish managers cutting their teeth at 2 leagues below?

Cooper got Yeovil relegated from the NL last season and he is no spring chicken either.

Phil Parkinson is an obvious one but it strikes me as a risk, this is a much bigger job than anything he’s had previously & it’s not like his Alty side are outstanding. A good start this though season no doubt.

Leam Richardson looks to fit the bill, managed at a good level & bags of experience coaching.

I can’t see the Cowleys or Karl Robinson coming anywhere near the job.

I’d like to think we could push the boat out for somebody, we all know the potential and I think we all know there’s good potential in this squad with a couple of additions. Unfortunately from the outside looking in, we don’t look all that attractive right now.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Looks like Phil Parkinson is one of the few that fits the likely profile

The last 3 seasons Altrincham have finished 17th, 14th & 17th in the National League. They started this season very well and are 5th, but they've only won 7 out of 17 this season. He's overseen 48 wins from 149 National League matches since winning his second promotion via the play-offs in the COVID curtailed season. Is a manager with a 32.2% win record in the division below where we are a good choice? Especially as he never played professional football.

If we're not going to appoint a proven winner such as Steve Evans, Danny Cowley or whoever, I think we need someone who's played professional at a decent level, knows the lower leagues fairly well and who has a good knowledge of recent under 18s to under 23s football.

How about BIlly Sharp? Why wouldn't he want to give up a final year in Los Angeles to move to Cleethorpes and begin his coaching career?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Jason & Andrew would be stupid not to consider any manager who's recently won promotion out of this division and comfortably kept his club up the following season. Especially so if they are now out of work. And that doesn't just go for Joey Barton. I'd include any successful manager on that list, even the one down at Stevenage who so many Town fans consider we are too good and too righteous to have as our manager.

I'm sick to death of having to support a bottom half of League 2 club. I couldn't care how me get promotion(s), I just want to see Grimsby Town as a respected smaller club punching above our weight again,

Right, and that’s fair enough, but that’s not my point. Why are you saying we should consider someone because they are a ‘socialist’? This is a sticky little puddle of nonsense that only 3 or 4 dimwits on here like splashing around in, and who’ve generally shown themselves to not even understand basic concepts. It’s completely irrelevant.

Quoted from GrimExile

My son is a Wycombe Wanderers fan as he has lived in Bucks all his life. Naturally I’m very disappointed with him for that and obviously he’s been taken out of my will!!

However he said that Ainsworth did wonders for many years at WW and would do a great job for us. He also said that the football won’t be Brazil in the 1970’s but he’d win us a lot of games. Ainsworth is a northerner too, but I do wonder whether firstly he may want a complete break away from football for a while and secondly would come to an outpost like Grimsby? Time will tell but he will no doubt be on the radar of Jason and Andrew.

Interesting one GA. In the week I had a meeting with a chap who used to be on the board at Wycombe and is really good friends with GA.We qwre talking football and I was saying how we needed a win vs Col U etc he had a lot of Grimsby connections and said GA would be a great fit for us. By all accounts one of those guys who takes an interest in everyone like the groundsman tea lady youth team to his prize centre forward. Not sure about the timings right but he would surely lift players and fans alike if we could nab him.

Graham Alexander ticks a lot of boxes for me. Experience managing at this level as well as the leagues above and below. 2 promotions on his CV and seems to have done well at some point in all of his appointments, including this season with MK, picking up manager of the month for August. He’s been unfairly sacked by a couple of clubs, leaving both Scunthorpe and Salford whilst they were 5th in the league, we know what happened to scunny after that, and even Gary Neville later admitted it was a huge mistake to sack him. He did ok at Motherwell only being sacked because they were knocked out the Europa league by Sligo Rovers. He’s not been out of work long either, having only just left MK so he’ll still be in touch with the game and familiar with the league and maybe even us.

If he’s interested, I think he should be our man.

Quoted from chaos33

Right, and that’s fair enough, but that’s not my point. Why are you saying we should consider someone because they are a ‘socialist’? This is a sticky little puddle of nonsense that only 3 or 4 dimwits on here like splashing around in, and who’ve generally shown themselves to not even understand basic concepts. It’s completely irrelevant.

What are you talking about? It was a joke about Joey Barton having the same political opinion as our owners (especially Jason). I'm a socialist, Labour Party member and have been a candidate a couple of times (in unwinnable seats only as I have no desire to be a councillor). Being a socialist isn't an insult.

But in all seriousness, when Jason talks about values what do you think that is code for? Here's a link to give you a clue...

HR Magazine interview January 2017

If you think Jason & Andrew would appoint somebody who doesn't share their values, like Sol Campbell for example. you're deluded.

Quoted from 1mickylyons

Interesting one GA. In the week I had a meeting with a chap who used to be on the board at Wycombe and is really good friends with GA.We qwre talking football and I was saying how we needed a win vs Col U etc he had a lot of Grimsby connections and said GA would be a great fit for us. By all accounts one of those guys who takes an interest in everyone like the groundsman tea lady youth team to his prize centre forward. Not sure about the timings right but he would surely lift players and fans alike if we could nab him.

I recall when we lost at Wycombe Ainsworth took the time to clap the Town end pointing upwards which signified he believed we’d stay up, maybe we need some belief like that now. He wouldn’t come here though.


Find the Parkinson theory funny, seems like it’s the classic Fishy case of bigging up someone who’s bang average.

I suspect we’ll have a new manager quickly as Jason said they had a clear plan, I also suspect it will be someone who isn’t a big name or someone we’ve never had on the radar.

Just wonder how much involvement the bloke who works/worked in the Middle East who joined as a non exec will have in the process?