Next Town manager ?

If we're going off rumours and innuendo, whilst attacking the club for taking its time, it was widely reported around Altrincham that we did approach Parkinson in the week after Hurst sacking and he politely turned us down.

Now if, very big if granted, that is true, then you can imagine that we did identify certain candidates and reach out and probably received a few knock backs which drags the process on further.

The plan always seemed to be before the fans forum to have a new manager in place, now depending on what he said, she said is out there, it's quite obvious something caused a hitch to that plan.

What that hitch is/was nobody but the ones involved will know until a lot of time has passed as is usually the case.

That being said, I am polishing off my Dave Moore autographed photo in preparation....

Quoted from Simon

Twitter is awash with rumours that Artel has now walked away favouring a move to Morecambe, we are in a mess if managers see Morecambe as a better prospect than ourselves

Morecambe are the club Artell made most league appearances for (110).

His playing and coaching career suggest he’s been based in the north west since 2005; Morecambe is in the north west.

Morecambe are currently 2 points outside of the play-offs; we are 4 points above the relegation zone, with the team second bottom having a game in hand on us.

Morecambe were in League One last season; we haven’t played at that level for 19 years very nearly 20 years.

This might make for uncomfortable reading, but Morecambe are most likely a way more attractive proposition to David Artell than we are. If it’s a straight choice, I think he’d be mental to choose us, with all the upheaval it would mean for him, than the Shrimpers.

Quoted from Poojah

Morecambe are the club Artell made most league appearances for (110).

His playing and coaching career suggest he’s been based in the north west since 2005; Morecambe is in the north west.

Morecambe are currently 2 points outside of the play-offs; we are 4 points above the relegation zone, with the team second bottom having a game in hand on us.

Morecambe were in League One last season; we haven’t played at that level for 19 years.

This might make for uncomfortable reading, but Morecambe are most likely a way more attractive proposition to David Artell than we are. If it’s a straight choice, I think he’d be mental to choose us, with all the upheaval it would mean for him, than the Shrimpers.

And forza ivano has stuck money on him...so we can now pretty much discount Artell now.  

Morecambe is obviously a better fit for Artell and I get why he’d go there.

The club can hold their hands up and say ‘can’t help if he’s got a better option’ but the fact is we allowed that door to be opened by taking far too long to get to this point.

I said in the Just Back thread yesterday that ‘time kills deals’ and that’s exactly what (appears to have) happened here.

Quoted from Simon

Twitter is awash with rumours that Artel has now walked away favouring a move to Morecambe, we are in a mess if managers see Morecambe as a better prospect than ourselves

Smaller club but in the same league, above us, and possibly closer to his home. Could be geographic and financial and family factors; none of which you or the rest of us know nothing about, so a bit daft to be making sweeping statements. Besides, if he isn’t champing at bit to come here, I don’t want him anyway.

Quoted from chaos33

Smaller club but in the same league, above us, and possibly closer to his home. Could be geographic and financial and family factors; none of which you or the rest of us know nothing about, so a bit daft to be making sweeping statements. Besides, if he isn’t champing at bit to come here, I don’t want him anyway.

Having seen his online interview with Gabriel Sutton, I expect family will play a big part in his decision. That said, I don't see a queue of decent candidates waiting to take the job with us.

There is a lot to be said for wanting to live where you want to live, rather than chase apparently richer pickings somewhere far away…..

Quoted from 137

And forza ivano has stuck money on him...so we can now pretty much discount Artell now.  

how right you are!

Quoted from forza ivano

how right you are!

I assume from this that he's not coming.

Artell 4/1 for the Shrimpers gig. Has to be worth a quid.