Next Manager Poll

[MattySlug]

You're all just wasting your time. No football for a week is affecting your judgements. I.E is as safe as Lofty the Lion.

Lofty Out!

“Lofty to tour the Universe with Philly Phanatic and possibly a select group of other great mascots ! ! !”

Ah great poll as well, i would vote either the two people i know of but better not as none knowledge of footy.

Yes i personally dislike international breaks, i will try get up early though tomorrow for England - Greece.

[The_Gun]

Rowett, Ainsworth, Robins, Neil, Ainsworth and Nolan all no longer available.

Des Buckingham now on the market, and he’d be a very interesting candidate.

[BWFC_Insane]

Rowett, Ainsworth, Robins, Neil, Ainsworth and Nolan all no longer available.

Des Buckingham now on the market, and he’d be a very interesting candidate.

I’d rather set fire to my own eyes.

Get someone who knows what they are doing and has shown it over and over. Not some untested theory.

[The_Gun]

Rowett, Ainsworth, Robins, Neil, Ainsworth and Nolan all no longer available.

Des Buckingham now on the market, and he’d be a very interesting candidate.

I’d rather set fire to my own eyes.

Get someone who knows what they are doing and has shown it over and over. Not some untested theory.

How many other attainable managers are there who’ve achieved something as impressive as Buckingham last season?

[GhostoftheBok]

Every older, proven manager in League One has a proven record of failure.

Evatt has won 11 in 24 this season. Rioch won 13 in 36 for Millwall the season he was sacked, before he came to us a couple of months later. Prior to that he'd managed two promotions with Boro, but then got them relegated and was looking like he might drop another division before they binned him off. He left us for Arsenal and then never did anything notable in the game after they sacked him.

Any manager who is old enough to be "proven" and wins consistently is well above this level.

[BWFC_Insane]

Rowett, Ainsworth, Robins, Neil, Ainsworth and Nolan all no longer available.

Des Buckingham now on the market, and he’d be a very interesting candidate.

I’d rather set fire to my own eyes.

Get someone who knows what they are doing and has shown it over and over. Not some untested theory.

How many other attainable managers are there who’ve achieved something as impressive as Buckingham last season?

Going on a late run and beating an Evatt side in a final is not something that is necessarily going to repeat itself. If Buckingham shows he can do it again at a different environment then maybe. But right now you’d be taking on someone who has had half a good season. Or half a half of a good season. I think that is part of the problem with the modern game. Managers don’t build themselves up they go from zero to everything.

You can throw completely untested people in but we have no idea whether they are up to it. Buckingham might repeat his success elsewhere but he lasted about a year didn’t he? With nothing relevant prior.

The two former Plymouth managers (not bloody Rooney) have a bit more of a record to examine.

[BWFC_Insane]

Every older, proven manager in League One has a proven record of failure.

Evatt has won 11 in 24 this season. Rioch won 13 in 36 for Millwall the season he was sacked, before he came to us a couple of months later. Prior to that he'd managed two promotions with Boro, but then got them relegated and was looking like he might drop another division before they binned him off. He left us for Arsenal and then never did anything notable in the game after they sacked him.

Any manager who is old enough to be "proven" and wins consistently is well above this level.

Having experience of failure is good. Nobody expects a manager who has always succeeded. That isn’t happening. But managers learn from failure. The scars imprinted on them harden them and ensure their decisions are grounded in harsh reality not unrealistic flighty nonsense.

There will be plenty of barely tested managers who might be very good but we don’t have a way of knowing and nobody in the club who I’d trust to have a chance of picking one.

We need some experience. I think Neil was the best shout but we’ve missed out.

[GhostoftheBok]

I do wonder how much of a draw a famous old name in English football is.

What level of manager is actually attainable for us?

Could we attract Jim Goodwin? Dundee Utd are flying, but he's not earning a huge amount and he's probably maxing that club out as things stand. Promoted them last season and now in the European places - but in Scotland.

He plays a style of footy that would suit our squad.

Probably not gettable at this level, though. In the Championship, maybe.

[Harry Genshaw]

I'd be wary of Buckingham. A bloke who had a real connection with Oxford. It'd be a bit too similar to the Freedman appointment for me.
Lowe or Schumacher for sure but as someone on X said - Ludonautics will probably have some left field candidate from the Estonian 3rd division.

[The_Gun]

Just watching Ruben Selles’ interview with George Elek on Not the Top 20. I think he’s destined for the Prem, and would have been a great option for us.

[The_Gun]

Just watching Ruben Selles’ interview with George Elek on Not the Top 20. I think he’s destined for the Prem, and would have been a great option for us.

They just released another of these, but with Richie Wellens. He comes across fairly arrogant, but I found myself thinking that I’d swap him for Evatt in a heartbeat. Strange times.

[Harry Genshaw]

Just watching Ruben Selles’ interview with George Elek on Not the Top 20. I think he’s destined for the Prem, and would have been a great option for us.

They just released another of these, but with Richie Wellens. He comes across fairly arrogant, but I found myself thinking that I’d swap him for Evatt in a heartbeat. Strange times.

Wellens was very vocal last year about us. Saying he'd get us promoted such was the strength in our squad. Sounds and looks like he could start a fight in an empty room but yep, I'd take him too.

[boltonboris]

Nah Wellens ain't for us.