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Post by gobby cow on Nov 8, 2007 8:48:03 GMT
I am fed up with all the non stories etc surrounding this job, the proceedure should be confidential. The WN is obviously trying to shift some more of its crappy papers.
It is the Directors choice and I doubt any story in the WN or public opinion is going to sway their decision. There is no sense of urgency as we have a good caretaking team and I am sure that will help the directors to choose the right candidate. Whoever the new manager is, they will have my support.
May the best candidate be successful.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2007 8:59:09 GMT
Yep its cheap crap journalism. The procedure is confidential, and the Board will decide. The Evening News will simply speculate.
As I've said before, its a lottery unfortunately, and all we can do is support the Boards choice.
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Post by gobby cow on Nov 8, 2007 10:25:32 GMT
Blimey Brooksider and I agree, what is the world coming too!!
I am off to have therapy!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2007 10:39:11 GMT
I don't go out of my way to disagree with anyone, ever. If I share the same view as someone else, then thats fine, if I don't , then thats also fine. I don't even go out of my way to disagree with niels, its just the way it is that he likes crap music, and I like different crap music  |
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Post by Tim Munslow on Nov 8, 2007 11:18:41 GMT
Niels is such a nice intelligent bloke that I am amazed he likes "crap music"; I suppose it depends how you define "crap music".
For me it's anything written after about 1940.
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Post by gobby cow on Nov 8, 2007 11:30:36 GMT
It is so nice when we agree to disagree. Very civilised. New manager, new ground and now new karma on the MB.
Whatever next? Maybe JB and PS will bring back Pat!!!
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Post by tim on Nov 8, 2007 11:47:54 GMT
If anything, the local rag are making the situation harder for the club by starting these non-stories and whipping up speculation.
Do us all a favour, Steve Carley, and shut the f**k up. You patently haven't got a clue about WCFC or non-league football in general.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2007 12:26:55 GMT
To be fair to the Local rag, every local rag has to fill pages, and cheap speculation about football managers is easy pickings, at any level of the game.
Still cheap journalism though. An interview with Stanty would be timely.
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Post by andy on Nov 8, 2007 13:07:41 GMT
I think Steve Carley's innovation on the live updates is superb and invaluable if unable to make a game.
Yes, I also found the Andy Legg interview a little strange. 'I would apply if someone asked me ....' ... the advert is out!
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Post by dave on Nov 8, 2007 13:51:09 GMT
"Martin Jol said he had not applied for the Worcester City job, and is unlikely to."
See I could work for the Worcester News, it is easy!
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Post by tim on Nov 8, 2007 14:19:59 GMT
Yes, the live updates are good. Besides that though, we have a mixed bag of speculation and tittle-tattle which does more harm than good. It's not journalism.
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Post by Tony is not to despondent now. on Nov 8, 2007 14:53:00 GMT
All the people who say they would like the job should just send an application along with their CV's. Then in time we will find out which selection the board have made.
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Post by tim on Nov 8, 2007 15:55:00 GMT
Prceisely. We don't need the local paper stirring things up by going and ringing up out-of-work managers and asking them if they are applying, and rubbish like that.
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Post by countryman on Nov 8, 2007 17:29:43 GMT
Lots of speculation about a new manager.................. Just one more for the pot........... Dion Dublin?  |
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Post by niels on Nov 8, 2007 17:32:05 GMT
Steve Cottrell has just left Burnley.
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Post by tim on Nov 8, 2007 19:29:00 GMT
About time we had a reality check isn't it? WCFC are a two-bit 2nd tier non-league club with a dwindling support, the best part of a million in the red and a trophy cabinet with rust on the hinges. Just because there may be a new ground in two years time doesn't suddenly make this a "must-have" job. Sure, ex-pros are applying, but as soon as they find out the budget and the manager's salary they'll be off up the road to the next small club they think could be a pocket-liner!
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Post by Tim Munslow on Nov 8, 2007 19:35:04 GMT
Perhaps he left so as to be available for the City job!
Seriously tho' what has he actually done since he left Cheltenham?
A miniscule and unsuccessful spell @ Sunderland with Howard "The Undertaker" Wilkinson. A spell at Stoke and he's hardly been setting the world alight at Burnley, now 15th in the Championship where, as Niels says, he's just left by mutual consent with the Board issuing the usual mumbo-jumbo that they would like to "...place on record their thanks to Steve Cotterill for his hard work and commitment to the club since he took the role in June 2004." (Don't those words sound awfully familiar).
And look at the side-kick he spawned, now in charge @ Kidderminster : no, on second thoughts, don't look.
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Post by alwaysnextyear on Nov 8, 2007 22:34:14 GMT
I agree with TJ. The " Sleeping Giant " has been in a virtual life, sorry bank supported coma for 25 years, and finding someone with the right amounts of inspiration and perspiration won't be easy.
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Post by countryman on Nov 10, 2007 12:39:54 GMT
Anyone got any thoughts on Jim Smith now he hasresigned as manager of Oxford.
Plenty of experience for the job.
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Post by nickb303 on Nov 10, 2007 19:04:13 GMT
Bernard McNally was at the ground today wandering round with an envelope - draw your own conclusion.
McNally played for WBA and Northern Ireland, he managed AFC Telford in the spell following their pheonixism.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2007 22:47:33 GMT
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Post by prestonwcfc on Nov 11, 2007 18:56:24 GMT
I know Barty has said he doesn't want the job, but what about Stanty ? Watching him on the touchline yesterday he looked all the part and if the guys can put a winning run togeather could he be persuaded I wonder ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2007 19:45:16 GMT
I thought the same Preston, if not manager, then surely there's a role for Stanty at the club. He carries a lot of respect, which he earned the hard way.
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Post by Tim Munslow on Nov 12, 2007 18:16:07 GMT
I thought he was a re-incarnation of Jock Morrison (in behaviour) but with a better shave; and boy can he shout!
I think he got the players' respect all right.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 12, 2007 21:19:08 GMT
Hence the press up celebration I thought..
We would have a pack of lions if Stanty was in charge.
He fits my bill as not an ex City player (I know he played a few games but it was a temp affair). He has experience at a higher level and contacts the length and breadth of the land.
We would be fit but I wonder about his tactical nous? I am not sure forwards make great managers (Ol Big Ed being the exception that proves the rule!)but i think Stant has the desire and the passion together with the commitment to hard work and I am sure he has the ability to be both a leader the players could look up to and learn from. 8/10!
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Post by Mark on Nov 13, 2007 12:08:10 GMT
Anyone got any thoughts on Jim Smith now he hasresigned as manager of Oxford. Plenty of experience for the job. I was talking about that very possibility with a friend a couple of weeks ago, but did not dare post it on here. If the 'bald eagle' still has the hunger for it, I for one would welcome him. And before anyone mentions the fact that he is over 60, I am talking about managing the team not playing centre forward! |
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Post by Tim Munslow on Nov 13, 2007 19:25:58 GMT
Appoint a manager who failed with most of the big clubs he managed and has now presided over the relegation of a league club to the Conference and failed to take them back up, and has now quit to go into the boardroom. What is countryman thinking of ? I can't think of a worse choice.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2007 20:15:02 GMT
Hence the press up celebration I thought.. We would have a pack of lions if Stanty was in charge. He fits my bill as not an ex City player (I know he played a few games but it was a temp affair). He has experience at a higher level and contacts the length and breadth of the land. We would be fit but I wonder about his tactical nous? I am not sure forwards make great managers (Ol Big Ed being the exception that proves the rule!)but i think Stant has the desire and the passion together with the commitment to hard work and I am sure he has the ability to be both a leader the players could look up to and learn from. 8/10! John Toshack is considered one of the great managers in the Spanish game. Keegan showed he had ability to do the job well. Dalglish was a very capable manager. Personally, I don't think bneing a good manager has anything to do with what position you played in, or whether you were any good as a player either, its about whether you are good as a manager. A manager is a totally different beast to a player. Good soldiers do not make good generals. Anyone know what position Arsene Wenger played? and who he played for? |
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Post by wh on Nov 13, 2007 21:57:54 GMT
Hence the press up celebration I thought.. We would have a pack of lions if Stanty was in charge. He fits my bill as not an ex City player (I know he played a few games but it was a temp affair). He has experience at a higher level and contacts the length and breadth of the land. We would be fit but I wonder about his tactical nous? I am not sure forwards make great managers (Ol Big Ed being the exception that proves the rule!)but i think Stant has the desire and the passion together with the commitment to hard work and I am sure he has the ability to be both a leader the players could look up to and learn from. 8/10! John Toshack is considered one of the great managers in the Spanish game. Keegan showed he had ability to do the job well. Dalglish was a very capable manager. Personally, I don't think bneing a good manager has anything to do with what position you played in, or whether you were any good as a player either, its about whether you are good as a manager. A manager is a totally different beast to a player. Good soldiers do not make good generals. Anyone know what position Arsene Wenger played? and who he played for? Spot on that man! Give me a proven manager any day, not a player manager or one who has potential or even a City legend. Anyone can go on a management course and learn how you are expected manage but true managerial instinct I believe is god given and it is this which separates the wheat from the chaff. As they say you don't need to have been a horse to be a good jockey, or something like that. I remember reading a book on Bob Paisley and in it was said that he had such a talent for physiotherapy and he could diagnose most current and even future injuries just by watching how players move even when watching games on TV he was known to predict player injury problems. |
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Post by alwaysnextyear on Nov 13, 2007 22:56:12 GMT
Things must be getting bad, I'm starting to agree with Tim on most things ! Jim Smith ! - an over hyped footballing managerial failure virtually everywhere he's been. He fits into the category of keep getting employed ex managers who always seem to get this tag " he's a footballing man ", along with Peter Reid, Gary megson, Dennis Smith, Bryan Robson and other serial failures. Now if it was Penny Smith............
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