New Manager Thread

[Themotherfunky]

2 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

 

So if you had to choose between Russell Martin and Tonda Eckhart right now you’d pick the latter?

I find that incredible.

I’m not a RM fan by any means but I’d take a manager that’s got us promotion over one that’s managed a handful of games.

You could argue that Tonda is being too “proud” of his tried and tested hybrid 3-4-3 defensive tactic and is too naive or stubborn to change.

Ag least with RM teams they kept going right the way to the end, we’d actually set up to win.

It's like having the choice between stepping in dog shit, and stepping in cow shit. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Because Sports Republic haven’t done that in seven attempts.

That’s probably the fair answer 😂

In which SR needs to give up and sell the club. Or appoint an experienced and independent manager.

[Badger]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

Why are people so brainwashed about playing that dire, slow, boring style of football?

How about appointing a manager who doesn’t deploy that? Plenty exist.

Agree Gloucester, but you have to ask if SR actually want one ? 
 

Do they want someone to challenge the template, and say no, I want to mix it up, go long, whatever ? Big question for me is why we have regressed in this style over recent weeks. 
 

I read on here a comment referencing Nathan Jones outburst about being compromised etc. That may be nothing , and some (I’m sure you can predict who) will dismiss it as conspiracy bollocks, but food for thought perhaps. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Badger said:

Agree Gloucester, but you have to ask if SR actually want one ? 
 

Do they want someone to challenge the template, and say no, I want to mix it up, go long, whatever ? Big question for me is why we have regressed in this style over recent weeks. 
 

I read on here a comment referencing Nathan Jones outburst about being compromised etc. That may be nothing , and some (I’m sure you can predict who) will dismiss it as conspiracy bollocks, but food for thought perhaps. 

I agree Badger, Ankerson has been interfering throughout. Spors is supposed to report direct to Dragan but I bet that 🐍 ensured that didn’t happen in the background.

We’ve all worked with ‘big picture’ arseholes like him who can’t deliver a pint of milk or run a bath, but are constantly politicking in the background. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Sport Republic strike me as people that want to be clever and do things on the cheap.

They could be safe but no they’d rather follow data and statistics rather than good old fashioned scouting of watching a player.

Data means fuck all if a players heart isn’t in it.

They tried to build something two years ago and arguably did very well under Wilcox and Martin, JW then left and recruitment was cheap and tatty that summer.

It has been a colossal catalogue of errors ever since.
It is beyond shameful.

[Badger]

7 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

 

Ag least with RM teams they kept going right the way to the end, we’d actually set up to win.

We have to agree to differ on that then Willo. 
 

But I’d question your belief that Martin’s teams kept going. Fair point that they did get last gasp winners at Hull, Millwall for example, but often I recall they just fizzled out and passed it around aimlessly towards the end of matches with no idea or initiative on display. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Just now, Badger said:

We have to agree to differ on that then Willo. 
 

But I’d question your belief that Martin’s teams kept going. Fair point that they did get last gasp winners at Hull, Millwall for example, but often I recall they just fizzled out and passed it around aimlessly towards the end of matches with no idea or initiative on display. 

Agreed! One thing I do recall is when the game was crying out for pace and a change he waiting until the last ten minutes, by which point the game tempo had generally died off (if we were chasing the game).

[Badger]

3 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Sport Republic strike me as people that want to be clever and do things on the cheap.

They could be safe but no they’d rather follow data and statistics rather than good old fashioned scouting of watching a player.

Data means fuck all if a players heart isn’t in it.

They tried to build something two years ago and arguably did very well under Wilcox and Martin, JW then left and recruitment was cheap and tatty that summer.

It has been a colossal catalogue of errors ever since.
It is beyond shameful.

Despite our differences on the Tonda or Lego issue, I do agree with what you’ve written here. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

It’s not difficult to build a squad, shifting players on I get is different but they’ve wasted a lot of time and money

[S-Clarke]

5 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Sport Republic strike me as people that want to be clever and do things on the cheap.

They could be safe but no they’d rather follow data and statistics rather than good old fashioned scouting of watching a player.

Data means fuck all if a players heart isn’t in it.

They tried to build something two years ago and arguably did very well under Wilcox and Martin, JW then left and recruitment was cheap and tatty that summer.

It has been a colossal catalogue of errors ever since.
It is beyond shameful.

But their insistence to try and do things 'clever', has actually cost them multi-multi millions in attempts to correct the course. Spending £30-40m on a striker in 2022 for example would have saved them so much money longer term, but they don't seem to plan longer term. They live in this 'current' bubble.

You'd have thought their first window in 2022 when we signed all those kids, and it failed, would have been lesson learnt - but they've just doubled down on it harder, and wasted millions and millions more.

[Willo of Whiteley]

5 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

But their insistence to try and do things 'clever', has actually cost them multi-multi millions in attempts to correct the course. Spending £30-40m on a striker in 2022 for example would have saved them so much money longer term, but they don't seem to plan longer term. They live in this 'current' bubble.

You'd have thought their first window in 2022 when we signed all those kids, and it failed, would have been lesson learnt - but they've just doubled down on it harder, and wasted millions and millions more.

This entirely.

Unfortunately you can’t cure people of stupidity or being cocky etc

[Football Special]

5 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

But their insistence to try and do things 'clever', has actually cost them multi-multi millions in attempts to correct the course. Spending £30-40m on a striker in 2022 for example would have saved them so much money longer term, but they don't seem to plan longer term. They live in this 'current' bubble.

You'd have thought their first window in 2022 when we signed all those kids, and it failed, would have been lesson learnt - but they've just doubled down on it harder, and wasted millions and millions more.

They have learnt absolutely nothing

solak still advised by Rasmus 

management appointments and transfer signings with no long term strategy 

clueless 

[Harry_SFC]

42 minutes ago, Badger said:

Think you’d be in a minority, if others are honest about it. 

Probably - but he's got better credentials than Tonda. 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Probably - but he's got better credentials than Tonda. 

In common with 99.99999% of others. No reason to want that dreadful slow shitball continuing. 

[Mboto Gorge]

14 minutes ago, Football Special said:

They have learnt absolutely nothing

solak still advised by Rasmus 

management appointments and transfer signings with no long term strategy 

clueless 

That’s the key for me, I lost all hope when I heard dragan was still being advised by Rasmus , after what’s been presided over in the last 3 and a half years. There’s no helping this level of incompetence. They all need to fuck off