Next Permanent Manager (now with Poll amended to include Truemen/Sellars)

Spot on

 

Posted as such yesterday Border - why does everyone suddenly need 'clarity'? We have a couple of motivated and achieving young managers, a core team of players who are happy and 'up for it' again, a recruitment manager who is going to hopefully improve the squad and if at all possible move on some of the dead wood - and yet some on here burble on like politicians about every fine detail. And some of those who do were the advocates of keeping it simple when Stuart was doing his tinkering! Stop being so bloody negative and get behind them fellas

 

He’s giving them a crack at senior management - how many academy coaches will get that?!

if he appointed them permanent, not interim, we’d then appoint permanent academy coaches to replace both. If things went pear shaped with the seniors, they’d have no job to go back to?

 

This half arsed compromise could completely shaft our ability to recruit well in January. Or do we really want to do that and this is a holding move to bring a new team in when we are safe ?

Its a huge gamble.

 

Well said. City fans are pessimistic by nature - to be expected after what they put us through.

But the shite-o-meter has exploded this morning on here with the negative lot chirping up about the wording of a bleeding statement.

The game is about winning 3 pts on the pitch, not reading too much into online statements. It’ll soon be forgotten if we beat Port Vale tomorrow and they’ll find something else to whinge about.

 

Not sure Rhodes is still at the club but he will only be a phone call away. And when he’s trained our new CEO for half a year it’s no surprise the new ideas are same as the old ones

 

A consultant then? At a cost?

The club haven't announced hes left mate.

 

Not necessarily a paid consultant but I’m sure he’s still consulted

 

It’s not about the wording of the statement though, is it? It’s the manner of the ‘appointment’ and what that does in relation to our short term future, thats the concern.

 

Why does everyone suddenly need clarity?? Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't that exactly what Sparks himself has been harking on about us needing? Clarity about our identity, clarity about what the long term plan is for the club, clarity about our targets in the January window, clarity about the manager so that the players already here and those to come know there is stability and continuity. Today's non announcement provides non of that but that's OK because suddenly clarity is overrated??

 

Can't believw people can't see this is the best way forward?

 

Seeing as we've basically got Turnbull in the building already, I would be more than happy to see them take charge till the end of the season and see how they can build on the good work they've done so far. Might as well have just said end of the season, because until further notice could be tomorrow, could be next week, could be a year. Props to sparks for having the sense not to rush in to appointing a manager though

 

Entirely agree with this post.
Sparks hasn't handled the McCall extension nor this matter at all well.

 

The Club were floundering and poor management decisions blighted progress and stability.Why take a further risk when we have turned a page ..better the devil you know right now.

 

Our thought process is surely one for the following:

1) An immediate appointment of someone else - now looks to be off the table
2) We review again in the summer - which is many respects makes sense
3) We simply don’t know and will take a view of how things pan out in the next few weeks.

If its 2, why not say so? If its 3, how does that provide for any sort of stability and planning as we enter into a critical transfer window. Critical in the sense that if we get it wrong, relegation remains a very real possibility and if it were to happen, the club would be done.

T&S have done very well in the 4 games they’ve had. But I worry that some now seem to assume that our long standing issues are suddenly sorted, with more recent talk of the play-offs than relegation. If we’re complacent going into this window, if there’s uncertainty about what we need to do in the short term, we could be in a very bad place in a few weeks time.

 

Spot on post!

 

The wording? Is it your belief people are misinterpreting the statement?

Also, if we beat Port Vale or not, this issue isn't going away and if a decision is made in early February to replace these two, especially if its after a downturn in form you better turn that "shite-o-meter" off because it won't be able to stand the barrage of negativity that will rightfully be thrown at the decision makers.

 

Why is everyone going on about clarity, short term view and no decision being made it's pretty clear to me. Trueman and Sellars are interim managers and will oversee the Jan transfer window with Turnbull further decisions to be made when the club are ready. People may not agree with that decision and that is fine but it is a decision. As for short term thinking I suppose its how you spin it. Looking at it another way you could say Sparks realises that the long term vision for the club is so important that he won't rush into an appointment and I for one am glad about that.

None of us really know what's going on behind the scenes maybe Hursts got wind the Grimsby job might be coming up and is stalling, perhaps we have someone at a club already who's taking time to make a decision, perhaps Sparks has done some in depth checks and not liked what he's heard, maybe Turnbull has been working his nuts off already and we've already got the transfer business sorted just need to dot the i's and cross the t's. Most of that stuff he can't really just put a press statement out and say because it Could jeopardise things happening.

 

A further risk? I don’t understand that comment.
Is it a risk appointing a manager? Of course it is but that’s the decisions you need to make as a CEO and why you are paid well. That’s why you take the big job and you are judged on those decisions