Which muppet can we appoint next?

[BWFC_Insane]

This is nothing more than a hunch but I suspect that our new owners plan to be very involved with the transfer side of things, particularly if money is tight. Should this prove to be correct, then we are probably going to go for someone who is more of a head coach than a manager in the traditional sense. This would tend to point us in the direction of someone like O'Driscoll as opposed to Warnock.

I think there has to be a possibility that we won't be in a position to do transfers at all.

Perhaps part of the delay is around whether they can lift the embargo or not. I'm sure it is impossible to attract a decent candidate if they can't bring in a single player.

[Lord Kangana]

Neil Warnock is still available, I'm lead to believe.

I'd take him ahead of Reid any day of the week....

Well obviously – you reckon a bladder on a stick could get us promoted and Reid would take us down...

Warnock IS a bladder on a stick!

I knew you'd come round to my way of thinking eventually

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Posted without comment, here are some of the (British) managers currently without club:
James Beattie
John Carver
Ian Baraclough
Micky Adams
Mark Wright
Neil Redfearn (ha!)
Gary Bowyer
Ian Holloway
Stuart Pearce
Neil Adams
Dave Jones
Steve Cotterill
John Gregory
Graham Westley
Mark Robins
Wayne Burnett
Terry Butcher
Brian Laws
Peter Jackson
Steve Clarke
Malky Mackay
Billy Davies
Paul Dickov
Paul Sturrock
Kit Symons
Iain Dowie

[bobo the clown]

Wayne Burnett. Bloody Hell. There's a blast from the past.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Wayne Burnett. Bloody Hell. There's a blast from the past.

Currently working for the FA, coaching the coaches. I could've gone to one of his sessions (Working Through The Thirds - perhaps I'd've bumped into Lennon and Freedman there) but I opted for Fulham-Bolton instead...

[plymouth wanderer]

Posted without comment, here are some of the (British) managers currently without club:
James Beattie
John Carver
Ian Baraclough
Micky Adams
Mark Wright
Neil Redfearn (ha!)
Gary Bowyer
Ian Holloway
Stuart Pearce
Neil Adams
Dave Jones
Steve Cotterill
John Gregory
Graham Westley
Mark Robins
Wayne Burnett
Terry Butcher
Brian Laws
Peter Jackson
Steve Clarke
Malky Mackay
Billy Davies
Paul Dickov
Paul Sturrock
Kit Symons
Iain Dowie

I'd like Holloway or Cotterill out of that lot!

My outside bet would be Sturrock, did really well with my home town club Argyle! 2 promotions (practically) but he's had some health issues of late so that kind of rules him out! fantastic man manager and has been there and done it.

[thebish]

ian Dowie!!! wasn't he always on Worthy's list of usual suspects??

[Enoch]

Holloway.

[Bruce Rioja]

No mention of Souness, O'Leary or Strachan on this thread? My how times have changed.

[Worthy4England]

ian Dowie!!! wasn't he always on Worthy's list of usual suspects??

He was/is...we might have just gone right past the bogeyman list of usual suspects....

[Hoboh]

Posted without comment, here are some of the (British) managers currently without club:
James Beattie
John Carver
Ian Baraclough
Micky Adams
Mark Wright
Neil Redfearn (ha!)
Gary Bowyer
Ian Holloway
Stuart Pearce
Neil Adams
Dave Jones
Steve Cotterill
John Gregory
Graham Westley
Mark Robins
Wayne Burnett
Terry Butcher
Brian Laws
Peter Jackson
Steve Clarke
Malky Mackay
Billy Davies
Paul Dickov
Paul Sturrock
Kit Symons
Iain Dowie

Is Megson working?

[Prufrock]

No mention of Souness, O'Leary or Strachan on this thread? My how times have changed.

Watched the city game at the weekend. They were in the car park at old Trafford, souness, carragher and henry. Souness taking about how poor city have been saying how the worst thing was none if them were fighting each other. In his day they'd have been scrapping and the manager would have encouraged it, had Jamie and thierry had fights, he wished city had been fighting. A full five minute rant about how they hadn't fought each other enough. Imagine that in the dressing room. Presumably he was proud of bowyer and dyer. Mental.

In my head that's Peter Reid. I'd rather have Warnock!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

"You can fight, but not with Paddy Kenny. Nobody's allowed to touch my Paddy."

[malcd1]

I am going to say something controversial. I'm not against Peter Reid taking over. We certainly had better shape and defended as a team after Lennon left but was it Reid or Phillips who introduced the changes? I'm going for Reid.

There, I have said it.

[LeverEnd]

Give credit to Reid, he's obviously keen to manage us which probably puts him in a select group given the shambles the club is right now. We won't be appointing an accomplished manager so it's beggars can't be choosers and fingers crossed whoever we end up with.

[BWFC_Insane]

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... e_defence/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He does talk sense here. I particularly agree with his comment about needing "men" to supplement what we've got. We certainly don't need anymore donkeys that is for sure......

Meanwhile, Deano says he and Ken will have to start getting along for the good of the club....

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... erers_quot_/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[thebish]

Give credit to Reid, he's obviously keen to manage us which probably puts him in a select group given the shambles the club is right now. We won't be appointing an accomplished manager so it's beggars can't be choosers and fingers crossed whoever we end up with.

would he walk to work every day, though??

[Peter Thompson]

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... e_defence/

He does talk sense here. I particularly agree with his comment about needing "men" to supplement what we've got. We certainly don't need anymore donkeys that is for sure......

Meanwhile, Deano says he and Ken will have to start getting along for the good of the club....

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... erers_quot_/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Does he really BWFCI, can you point me in the direction of where he actually says this - I took it as that they will have to agree on a few decisions not that they have fallen out & dislike each other.

In most partnerships the two parties have differing opinions, which they eventually agree a compromise to enable them to move forward - but it doesn't mean that they dislike each other, which is what you are basically saying / fabricating.

[BWFC_Insane]

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... e_defence/

He does talk sense here. I particularly agree with his comment about needing "men" to supplement what we've got. We certainly don't need anymore donkeys that is for sure......

Meanwhile, Deano says he and Ken will have to start getting along for the good of the club....

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... erers_quot_/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Does he really BWFCI, can you point me in the direction of where he actually says this - I took it as that they will have to agree on a few decisions not that they have fallen out & dislike each other.

In most partnerships the two parties have differing opinions, which they eventually agree a compromise to enable them to move forward - but it doesn't mean that they dislike each other, which is what you are basically saying / fabricating.

It really doesn't matter if they love or hate each other. I couldn't care less. What is important is that there is clarity on who makes what decisions. And how those decisions are made.

Clear from this interview that previous reporting (which you dismissed as rubbish I hasten to add) about disagreement over the next manager, process and shortlist were on the nose.

They need to sort it out. Though Iles and Nixon are both suggesting there are bigger problems of a financial nature that are a priority right now.

[Hoboh]

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... e_defence/

He does talk sense here. I particularly agree with his comment about needing "men" to supplement what we've got. We certainly don't need anymore donkeys that is for sure......

Meanwhile, Deano says he and Ken will have to start getting along for the good of the club....

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/wa ... erers_quot_/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The man with the money calls the shots, I think that's Anderson.

The only link I can think of that remotely looks like our well known other co-owners in football is Lyndsey Dawn