CB Fry

Four years ago, with a poor squad and in our exact current position, we appointed a man who had recently finished second in the Bundesliga and had Champions League experience, and we were paying him six million a year.

Sherbourne can qualify for the Champions League 50 seasons in a row and it won't make more money than we do if we stay in the Premier League. SR have already said that we are the top club in the group and will be for the foreseeable. Look, we can't afford a striker and we're about to appoint a nobody manager from Luton. This is not a group on the brink of a billion dollar takeover of Atletico Madrid.

If he gets us relegated (which on the balance of probabilities is the most likely outcome) then I think it highly unlikely that the fan base will accept him staying on because he's managed in the Championship before. I am sure this poll will show collectively he is not our choice so if he fails that will be it. He'll be gone.

9/10 transfer window it was. 9/10.

I've heard that they are a bigger club than we are.

Lawrie McMenemy was 0-2 once and everyone wrote him off but he turned it round and won the game.

I've not seen anyone, anywhere say they want Gerrard but you be you.

They put "all of their professional resources" into deciding to not buy a striker during the summer transfer window. A decision a lot of people said was crazy and those people are right. I'm not sure when the club leadership became infallible because I don't see it.

The same Gordon Strachan who had five years previously managing in the top flight and finishing above us most years? That one? Jones has got that Premier League experience has he? Its disappointing that we are employing a manager with such a weak pedigree that the only "positive" response people on this forum have is the classic "if everyone is writing him off then that means he'll definitely be brilliant and prove you wrong" argument. No one needed that bloody argument when Hasenhuttl was appointed because he'd recently finished 2nd in the Bundesliga.

I don't know about everyone else but it feels good to leave the bad old days behind. I mean, in the bad old days, under the penny-pinching, soul destroying Gao era, the only manger he appointed was a hugely experienced guy from the German top division with experience at Champions League level as well as experience lower down. Now, under Sport Republic, in our bold, exciting, dynamic new dawn we are recruiting someone who, er, has some experience of working in Luton and losing 17 games in 38 at Stoke. When Gao got Ralph in the door the fan base was enthused and excited, it felt like a genuine new dawn. And that was because Ralph had obvious pedigree. Put it this way - people on this forum back then did not spend the day of the announcement trotting out shit comparisons and fairy stories to desperately make out this really is a great appointment honest it is. No one had to do that because we'd recruited a guy who had recently finished Second in the fucking Bundesliga. It was all there. I now believe Sport Republic actually do want us to be smaller than Göztepe. Strap in.

Its interesting to read this an other write ups on Jones. There seems to be a belief amongst some on here that Jones is some hipster exciting manager but everything I am seeing suggests he us as old school cloggy as they come. There's people on here raving and getting excited about Jones because "at least he's not Sean Dyche". But from what I can see, he is Sean Dyche. That's exactly what he is.

As soon as the news came through I thought to myself that this is the kind of appointment made by a club where money is no object.

Some of these hot takes are absolutely appalling. Adkins was hired as a man with two League One promotions under his belt. We hired the best guy we could get to get us promoted. The Nathan Jones equivalent in that scenario would be someone who got to the L2 play offs with Torquay or something the previous year. And when Adkins was sacked he was higher up the table than Ralph is now. Was still a shame to get rid of him regardless of what came next. Honestly this stuff is pitiful.

Jesus wept.

We are about five games away from someone on this forum posting up "look all you people can say you want Nathan Jones out but no one can name any other manager who can do better than him".

I'm not devastated about that, I've never heard of him until about three weeks ago. Recruiting Nathan Jones shows the scope of ambition of the club. The Les Reed culture of "look how awfully clever and different we are" lives on. Inexperienced squad + Inexperienced manager in a league season where it is really hard to see 3 other clubs clearly worse than us. This is not the recruitment move we need right now. He got to the play offs last season, great. Look at the team and manager who won the frigging play offs right now. It might work out but the overwhelming most likely scenario is relegation. A couple of days of exciting speculation would be nice but the Bananarama Sturrock it is.

Yes, we appointed Paul Sturrock.

Must be one hell of a coincidence that a "poor" journalist making up a story in an "emotional state" turned out to be completely correct. Pathetic indeed.

Never?

Me too. I'll wait for the solid links before doing my Wikipedia assessments.

Dreadful analogy - there are foreign managers scrapping about in the Championship and (to a lesser extent) L1 and I wouldn't want them either. Currently he is doing the best he has ever done and he is 8th in the Championship. And we know he failed at Stoke a bigger club with bigger expectations than Luton. He can be called Jose McGuardiolason and that ain't some amazing record. We've had Dave Jones and Sturrock and Adkins so we know what lower league managers can do.

Being that this board has never actually recruited a manager we don't actually know what they will like.

Such beautiful hair.

Nathan Jones just sounds like a betting market scam to me.

I think the only "dick moves" being made are by the club. Clearly leaking like a sieve to The Athletic and making themselves look absolutely shambolic. Blaming a decent journo for being first to a story seems to me as off-target as Che Adams.