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Post by Claremont Gas on Nov 17, 2023 14:13:39 GMT
Dan just keeps regurgitating the same tripe..... The only thing about the Managerial position he has got right is there was clearly no plan when Barton was sacked.
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Post by TAGas on Nov 17, 2023 14:19:32 GMT
I think it's really bad how there has been no communication from the hierarchy.
At least come out and say it has been a longer process than expected, but we are now down to just 3 candidates and a new manager will be appointed early next week.
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Post by pirate on Nov 17, 2023 14:23:34 GMT
I knew the process would be ham-fisted when I was reliably informed Wael was leading the search for a new manager.
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Post by Claremont Gas on Nov 17, 2023 14:27:48 GMT
I knew the process would be ham-fisted when I was reliably informed Wael was leading the search for a new manager. Absolutely right .... Why on Earth he is leading it is beyond me. Then again who else is there to do it .... Could well end up Mangan in charge as everything else isn't to their liking and they have no idea, we go up against decent sides and get absolutely rinsed. Mangan has no experience in a transfer window - what could possibly go wrong? On the positive side - The scouse Mafia led by Finley all get three year deals ! Seriously - we are on a cliff edge here with this appointment.
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Post by phillistine on Nov 17, 2023 14:38:12 GMT
The fact that the Board sacked JB without a clear replacement in sight suggests that they are not the sort of people to act behind the managers's back and from the owners comments it is apparent that they expeected a stand out candidate to present themselves quite quickly - which hasnt happened.
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Post by pirate on Nov 17, 2023 14:47:05 GMT
The fact that the Board sacked JB without a clear replacement in sight suggests that they are not the sort of people to act behind the managers's back and from the owners comments it is apparent that they expeected a stand out candidate to present themselves quite quickly - which hasnt happened. A forward thinking and well run football club always has a plan b, c, d etc and a succession plan.
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Post by buktaboy on Nov 17, 2023 14:48:51 GMT
I knew the process would be ham-fisted when I was reliably informed Wael was leading the search for a new manager. Nice bloke but not qualified to make these sorts of decisions. Really hammers home the need for us to have some capable and experienced football business people in the building.
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Post by barumgas on Nov 17, 2023 14:54:30 GMT
I knew the process would be ham-fisted when I was reliably informed Wael was leading the search for a new manager. Nice bloke but not qualified to make these sorts of decisions. Really hammers home the need for us to have some capable and experienced football business people in the building. Maybe we are no different to many foreign owned clubs
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Post by lastminutewinner on Nov 17, 2023 15:10:23 GMT
I knew the process would be ham-fisted when I was reliably informed Wael was leading the search for a new manager. Surely he is due to get one right eventually?
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Post by rossinio on Nov 17, 2023 15:10:52 GMT
Nice bloke but not qualified to make these sorts of decisions. Really hammers home the need for us to have some capable and experienced football business people in the building. Maybe we are no different to many foreign owned clubs How does the nationality of an owner have any baring on this? Who exactly are these capable and experienced football business people that you think we should have running the show? Football clubs generally appoint the same old managers on a merry go round. Whether an appointment is a success or a failure is as much down to luck as it is anything else. There will be fans at clubs who think Barton would be a wise choice as their next manager based purely on the fact he has a promotion on his CV, but the truth is the only impact he had on our promotion was the luck that he happens to be in the phonebook of Newcastle’s loan manager. Barton had not gone looking for Anderson and he was not even on his radar. Instead he was offered to us, last minute, by Shola Ameobi. Without that bit of luck we would not have been promoted and Barton’s CV would look even worse than it does now. In short, all the planning and all the experience and football knowledge in the world can easily mean about as much as the post match managerial blatherings after a defeat - bupkiss.
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Post by warehamgas on Nov 17, 2023 15:20:01 GMT
I knew the process would be ham-fisted when I was reliably informed Wael was leading the search for a new manager. Absolutely right .... Why on Earth he is leading it is beyond me. Then again who else is there to do it .... Could well end up Mangan in charge as everything else isn't to their liking and they have no idea, we go up against decent sides and get absolutely rinsed. Mangan has no experience in a transfer window - what could possibly go wrong? On the positive side - The scouse Mafia led by Finley all get three year deals ! Seriously - we are on a cliff edge here with this appointment. What appointment? UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Nov 17, 2023 15:25:31 GMT
I knew the process would be ham-fisted when I was reliably informed Wael was leading the search for a new manager. Nice bloke but not qualified to make these sorts of decisions. Really hammers home the need for us to have some capable and experienced football business people in the building. That I agree with. But at the moment perhaps we don’t have those football business people. I’d suggest the owners are aware of that fact hence their comment about staff being employed that are ‘club staff’ not managers mates a few weeks ago. But we’ve got to get to that position and it won’t happen overnight. Thats why AM, doing so well, has given the owners some time, some leeway over the appointment. I’m sure they have a ‘plan’ but it may not be the one that lots on here want! 😉 UTG!
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Post by wallywalters on Nov 17, 2023 15:36:31 GMT
Was on the Exeter forum to see what they thought of us being linked with Taylor and found this comment from a Pompey fan. Hit the nail on the head for me....
I've no axe to grind with Rovers whatsoever - spent some time living in Bristol and always identified with them more than City - but you'd have to ask wtf is going on with their recruitment process if, three weeks after they choose to sack their manager, they're set to hold talks with someone who only became available a few days previous. From the outside it would suggest there's something going pretty wrong in their off-field set-up to find themselves in that position (you'd expect them at this stage to, at worst, be finalising their appointment following a recruitment process - not holding talks with someone); add the farce around the stand with no planning permission. If I were Matt Taylor I'd at least want to do some due diligence on their set-up.
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Post by daniel300380 on Nov 17, 2023 15:51:14 GMT
Was on the Exeter forum to see what they thought of us being linked with Taylor and found this comment from a Pompey fan. Hit the nail on the head for me.... I've no axe to grind with Rovers whatsoever - spent some time living in Bristol and always identified with them more than City - but you'd have to ask wtf is going on with their recruitment process if, three weeks after they choose to sack their manager, they're set to hold talks with someone who only became available a few days previous. From the outside it would suggest there's something going pretty wrong in their off-field set-up to find themselves in that position (you'd expect them at this stage to, at worst, be finalising their appointment following a recruitment process - not holding talks with someone); add the farce around the stand with no planning permission. If I were Matt Taylor I'd at least want to do some due diligence on their set-up. They were hardly going to interview him while he was still at Rotherham. We might well have been in the final stages of interviews, but delayed them due to him becoming available. I reporter tweeted as much on social media a week or so ago. If we are interested in Taylor, should we have appointed one of the others, just because some fans can't wait another week or two when we were winning anyway and don't have a game for over a week?? Some fans are never happy. If we appointed someone and then they found out Taylor was interested, they would have said we could have at least spoken to him. We need to get this right. The new owner said he is at the club every day and he would be involved in the process and wants a proper back from structure. But Pirate has been informed Wael is in charge. Moaning about past decisions, when he agreed with them at the time. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 17, 2023 16:02:35 GMT
In the words of Inspector Abberline, do we want the right man or will anybody do?
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Post by devonwhite9 on Nov 17, 2023 16:03:51 GMT
Was on the Exeter forum to see what they thought of us being linked with Taylor and found this comment from a Pompey fan. Hit the nail on the head for me.... I've no axe to grind with Rovers whatsoever - spent some time living in Bristol and always identified with them more than City - but you'd have to ask wtf is going on with their recruitment process if, three weeks after they choose to sack their manager, they're set to hold talks with someone who only became available a few days previous. From the outside it would suggest there's something going pretty wrong in their off-field set-up to find themselves in that position (you'd expect them at this stage to, at worst, be finalising their appointment following a recruitment process - not holding talks with someone); add the farce around the stand with no planning permission. If I were Matt Taylor I'd at least want to do some due diligence on their set-up. Interesting views from a Pompey fan. Thankfully for local hospitals, schools and other businesses, we're more diligently run than Pompey
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 16:26:06 GMT
It may be taking time to recruit because of the complications of all the backroom staff brought in by JB.
The owner said he wanted to change that and the new manager may not want to work with a team loyal to JB and subsequently Andy Mangan.
There may be a lot of parts to this appointment and a lot of expense
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2023 16:27:12 GMT
We need to stop saying 3 weeks guys, it’s 4 weeks tomorrow they decided Barton was going, owner publicly said it was after the Burton game.
More delays than HS2 at Bristol Rovers.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Nov 17, 2023 16:27:21 GMT
Was on the Exeter forum to see what they thought of us being linked with Taylor and found this comment from a Pompey fan. Hit the nail on the head for me.... I've no axe to grind with Rovers whatsoever - spent some time living in Bristol and always identified with them more than City - but you'd have to ask wtf is going on with their recruitment process if, three weeks after they choose to sack their manager, they're set to hold talks with someone who only became available a few days previous. From the outside it would suggest there's something going pretty wrong in their off-field set-up to find themselves in that position (you'd expect them at this stage to, at worst, be finalising their appointment following a recruitment process - not holding talks with someone); add the farce around the stand with no planning permission. If I were Matt Taylor I'd at least want to do some due diligence on their set-up. Why wouldn't you hold talks with him if a manager wasn't currently chosen? Holding talks doesn't mean we are appointing him. I think the good run we have been on since Barton has left has brought us more time. I could understand your point if we had lost every game since but W haven't.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Nov 17, 2023 16:29:27 GMT
We need to stop saying 3 weeks guys, it’s 4 weeks tomorrow they decided Barton was going, owner publicly said it was after the Burton game. More delays than HS2 at Bristol Rovers. Obviously there are no guarantees but I'd rather spend 4 weeks and get it right than 1 week and appoint and get it wrong (Ben Garner).
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