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Discussion in 'City Talk' started by BantamJ, Oct 3, 2023.

  1. BantamJ

    BantamJ Fringe Player

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    Inevitable will happen now… so worried it will be the cheap option and Truman get this gig. Really worried as this is a rudderless ship.
     
  2. Silverbantam

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    Obviously he would be the caretaker.
     
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  3. Old Grey Fox

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    Trueman should be nowhere near the job,he is just as culpable as Hughes and Hodges.
     
  4. JonButterfield

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    Yep, prepare for the tightening of belts.

    Truman installed by the weekend, and a budget friendly manager who is totally unsuitable lined up for November.

    Possibly Pete Wild.
     
  5. WilsdenBantam

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    Another negative manager who’s used to managing small clubs with no pressure, just what we need…
     
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  6. Storck

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    We just tried a manager with experience at top end and that hasn't worked out well either
     
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  7. Faithful Bantam

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    And round and round we go.

    Proud custodian
     
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  8. gingercafu

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    Get the Cowley brothers in immediately
     
  9. Birky Bantam

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    Going for the big option in Hughes and Adams hasn't exactly worked well. Trueman is the only logical choice for the caretaker role so he will get that but unless we have some amazing results in the 2-3 weeks it takes to appoint someone else.
     
  10. HUDDERSSBANTAM

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    Pete Wild is worse than MH. 10 men behind the ball.
     
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  11. Faithful Bantam

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    The reason why manager after manager fails is clear. The problem sits higher up.
     
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  12. DimitriPayet

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    Their football is truly horrendous.
     
  13. Storck

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    What is the problem higher up. Hughes seems to have been given a decent budget, just like previous managers, backed in recruiting his own back room staff, again like previous managers. What else could the owner have done to support him, except giving him an open cheque book
     
  14. Two Legs

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    Unless Sparks has Warnock or someone else in the wings we only have two choices. Keep him in post or Truman. Suppose he could ask Edin to step in?
     
  15. Faithful Bantam

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    We're operating without a plan or any coherent strategy and our selection of managers is therefore disjointed and reactive. No one at the club has the experience to hold the manager to account and provide a framework for how we recruit properly. For years, our recruitment of managers and players has been awful.
     
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  16. Chris Redfield

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    "Don't worry. I've really learned a lesson from appointing Hughes. Anyway, here's Steve Bruce."
     
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  17. Bantam75

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    Sparks needs to have a long hard look at this. You have a club that is well supported an is dying out for a manager who's football is attacking. Our biggest asset as a League Two club is our fanbase. How we can we utilise that when we bring in managers who persist with negative football? Home games should be our advantage, Valley Parade should be a fortress. It hasnt been like that for almost 10 years now

    We need a manager that is attacking minded. We have last years top scorer in the team, and a lot of attacking minded players (Walker, Chapman, Tulloch, Wilson, Pattison). We need to utilise those by playing good football. You can't play negative football as Bradford City manager, Adams, Bowyer, Hughes have showed that.

    Get a manager in that actually gives what the fans want, someone who doesnt have the philosophy of parking the bus. Watch the mood an the atmosphere at Valley Parade change an the performances that come with it
     
  18. Idlebantam

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    We won't be paying compensation for a manager currently employed
     
  19. Sergio Pinto III

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    I agree. Hughes has been backed well. He has had a playing squad of 30 senior plus pros both seasons!!

    Like those before him he has bought quantity over quality. When Chapman and Oilver are back we will have 10 or so senior players missing out on match day. We are L2 ffs!!!

    We shudda just put all our eggs in 1 basket and got Dan Kemp instead of Tulloch, Afoka and Wilson. Its the same every fcuking time. We did it 2 years ago with Jack Diamond.
     
  20. Jordan

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    Cowleys have coasted on their Lincoln success and failed to impress at every club since. That Portsmouth squad should have walked the league last season.

    But it's not exactly a talent pool of lower league managers out their at the minute. Cowleys are probably the top end of a bad bunch.
     
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