Most liked posts in thread: McCall - officially new manager

I wonder what Novak thinks of this after been at scunthorpe when McCall was sacked. I just hope that it works out for Stuart but he wouldn't have been my choice .

 

Time to put negativity to bed. I think we now have a chance of gaining promotion. Hopefully Stuart and Kenny can get the best out of them. Not sure how he is going to use all those tall strikers, lol

 

I think they'd already sounded McCall out before they announced they'd sacked Bowyer.

 

Don't start putting pressure on him straight away, lets give him a chance to settle in, he's got a right rag bag full of players to knock into shape, and that will take time, and won't be easy, Personally I think a lot of the team need a good strong kick up the backside

 

We might not have been able to afford to pay off the final 18 months of Bowyer's deal, and pay off Drury, had we not raised 250k moving on Doyle and Vaughan?

 

Welcome home stuart with the group of players we have should do ok loves to play with wingers.It about getting behind a guy that only wants the best for the club and always has. Would of loved for him to have had Vaughan to pick as he is the sort of player macca likes but we are where we are and for me his last spell here was good just the interference of Rahic who never wanted him was clear. I grew up watchin McCall from the days of the bicycle shed midland road to the premiership era and both spells in charge and will be there Saturday to get behind macca and the lads and achieve something this season.

 

Long term I've mixed feelings about this, because I really would hate it to go badly wrong for Stuart.
But, as of now I'm buzzing. Irrespective of results we are actually going to see some football played again. I can look forward to Saturdays again.
I actually think we owe Stuart this, after the conditions he had to work under last time and the outrageous decision to sack him, having kept us in the playoff places for a season and a half whilst being undermined by Edin at every turn.
It'll be interesting to see if he can get good players like Reeves and Cooke to thrive, where Boreyer couldn't.
But what's he going to do about our soft central midfield underbelly? We don't have a decent tackler in the squad. No Cullen or Vince to break up play. One option would be to move AOC to DM but that would weaken the defence. Tricky.

 

Ha ha.

I'm sure there will be many fans having a few drinks tonight to celebrate McCall's return. I'm going all out. Curry, with tikka starter and a shed load of poppadoms. My mouths gonna be drier than our GF column under Bowyer.

STUUUUUUUUUUUUUART!

 

I believe that conversation will have been had, I believe Stuart knows exactly what Julian & Rupp want of him this season, to get the squad back believing in themselves, and short term I believe he is the right candidate to do that, time will tell.

 

Thanks for pointing that out. We were all wondering why Bowyer had been sacked and Mccall brought in. Now we know.

 

Just gonna leave this here. Its gonna happen peeps.

 

Not a gripe as such. Just feel it’s gone a bit cringeworthy. McCall himself in the interview said it’s not about him, it’s about the performance on the pitch and getting results. The club should act the same - recognition that the great man has come back, but letting him and the team get on with things.

 

Yep. Think that's nailed it. Covered off both viewpoints.

"But if McCall’s return makes a few long-suffering fans feel better, or make them look forward to attending games again after the joyless grind of recent times, or at the very least just feel some sort of connection to the club again, then it will be worth it."

Or

"In objective terms, McCall is not an especially appealing manager: he was sacked from Scunthorpe last season having set them on course for relegation, and has never won promotion in his career. There were not, you suspect, dozens of teams clamouring for McCall’s signature and expertise"

Which way will it go this time? Who knows but it will hopefully be fun to watch at least.

 

“daddy?”

 

When you look at what other clubs are spending, we need a long term plan for how we intend to be sustainable. Unless Rupp or another owner is prepared to fund regular over spending, the only way I see of us doing it is player sales. And to do that well, we need to invest in scouting, coaching and recruitment.

 

Reading between the lines, I don't think Rhodes will have had to do too much persuading to get Rupp on board with Stuart's appointment. I don't think Rhodes would be publicly stating how unfairly he was treated last time by Edin if Rupp didn't agree with him.

 

We accept Rupp is not footballing man, I believe Rupp would be fully behind Julian and would have been quite happy to go along with Julian's choice of manager.
We all wanted a new man who could give the club a lift and get us back into the promotion mix and who better than Stuart to do that, certainly gives most fans a boost, many saying they are looking forward to Saturday.
We see posters saying they will be returning after boycotting games and I'd suggest the vast majority of City fans welcome this appointment.

 

Gotta feel for my young un. i forced him to endure such atrocities as Carlisle, Macclesfield, Mansfield, literally had to bribe him to go to Oldham. And now he's missing the return of the ginger god because of other commitments. Lifes a bitch sometimes.

 

If he can get us out of this league then at least it won't be to the conference where we could have been heading with another season under Bowyer....

 

Any other guy in charge should officially be referred to as "caretaker manager" in the future.

Just keeping Stuart's seat warm while he's on sabbatical.