Michael Jolley

Quoted from headingly_mariner

The most anti-football style of any manager I’ve ever seen at Town. Ultra negative style of play.

I’m not convinced it was a massive success in keeping us up that first season, we only got closer to the drop after he joined.

Also a nonce.

That last line is bang out of order. I would expect it from  Lincoln scum or a scunt, but not from a town fan.

Quoted from Posh Harry

That last line is bang out of order. I would expect it from  Lincoln scum or a scunt, but not from a town fan.

That’s as maybe but it is an indisputable fact that he’s a convicted sex offender. Regardless of the detail behind it.

Probably not as important here as the fact that he was an utterly shite manager.

A youth coach who talks a good game

I was genuinely really excited about him after that Notts County game. Not only did we stay up but in that game we played some really decent stuff with a squad that didn't have much going for it and he hadn't put it together nor had long with it. I thought we might have stumbled on to someone who knew how to make a system around the players he had available at his disposal.

It all started to go south when we then spent all summer training for and practing to play with wing backs in pre-season games. Sounds great on paper but he'd not actually bothered to sign a single player capable of playing as a wing back. Cue a poor start to the season and from then we played really boring, defensive football. I can't remember how long it had been since we'd scored a goal when he eventually left but we were pretty terrible.

Good luck to him if he finds another club and thanks for keeping us up but ultimately don't think he has what it takes to make it professionally as a manager.

On a personal note he took time out from a training session to have a photo taken with my Foster daughter who was chair bound at the time.
I remember being taken up by the wave of optimism after his appointment, but left feeling let down in the end. The football was dire to watch.

Quoted from Hagrid

Supposedly Arrogant and disliked. Personally found him very approachable. And did a very good job keeping us up. Wish him well

Speaking to a member of staff at the time he said he did come over as arrogant and wasn't well liked with at least some of the non playing staff.

I don't know why Jamille Matt left the club, presumably we didn't offer him a deal but I assume neither Slade or Jolley played him right and didn't realise how good he was as he went on to score 20 goals in 76 games for Newport and now 9 in 19 for FGR.

What we would give for a player like that now?

Did an amazing job to turn that side around and stop us being relegated. Identified weak points and corrected them, identified the odd strength and helped play to it.

As soon as he had his own team massively over complicated things and went ultra defensive when IN possesion! Bizarre. Also over paid considerably for some players (green, ogbu, ohman, and in hindsight hansen). Dire football. Definitely struggled badly with the pressure (hence the social media stuff and outburst that led to thesack).

But as others have said, just maybe our excrement board held him back in some ways, but i would be surprised if he gets another chance at league level.

Not the first manager to bodge together a run of results with a limited squad but then fail to build on the squad when given a close season to do so. Won't be the last, either, from what we've seen over the past couple of decades.

Fondly did the biz 10 games left going down kept us up against all the odds  so respect. UTM