Dean Wilkins

[shurlock]

Is still around - and taking the helm temporarily. As he was Pards first recruit, you would expect he would have been asked to pack his bags as well or that would have left on his own volition as some gesture of collective responsibility; of course, he might still leave once the new regime is installed but its a funny, odd one and perhaps suggests that it wasn't as simple as time being called or running out for Pards and his team or that behind the scenes its just Cortese vs. world.

[S-Clarke]

I think he is here to create some sort of continuity whilst they search for a new manager (the fact he has been kept on indicates to me that they're not close to appointing a new one)

 

He'll probably leave as soon as the new guys come in. Must be hard to get yourself motivated in a situation like that.

[Pilchards]

You need someone to take the training as you cant sacked everyone.

Wilkins will be sacked when a new manager comes in.

[shurlock]

I think he is here to create some sort of continuity whilst they search for a new manager (the fact he has been kept on indicates to me that they're not close to appointing a new one)

 

He'll probably leave as soon as the new guys come in. Must be hard to get yourself motivated in a situation like that.

 

If so, someone needs to come in asap: as you say, if its hard to motivate yourself, however professional you are yet there's no announcement imminent (otherwise wilkins would have been gone), that's a perfect recipe for drift. admittedly its still early in the season, but there are some biggish, away games on the horizon - Swindon, Sheff Weds. The only worse thing would be to rush the search process and bring someone second-rate in - hard to imagine Cortese being so reactive and exposed, so unlike you I think he's slightly further down the road to appointing a new manager. At least I hope so.