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Next manager - Ben Garner confirmed (p256)

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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    RoanRedNY said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    We all know TS is unconventional....what if he's considering something pioneering and never seen in English football before?

    Inspired by the Gritt/ Curbishley "duo of managers" which triggered our most successful recent period he is now implementing a "quartet of managers" and is due to announce Garner, Clough, Taylor and Beale as football's fantastic foursome?

    4 times the brains = 4 times the success. 

    The more I think about this the more I like it.
    Can we just have Clough and Taylor?
    Over their dead bodies

    We could always have Nigel Clough and Charlton legend Lyle Taylor.
  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,232
    edited May 2022
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    He's made it his club and got a 5 year contract.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
    Now if Crosby had been in the job he should have been last summer we might not be in this mess........
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    chev said:
    Another "exclusive" from Nixon 🙄...
    ..so he is walking here from Swindon, so announcement could be by next weekend, great.. B)
    Or he is walking away from the deal with Charlton.

    Giving a handy response to both possibilities of joining us/not joining us. 
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,032
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
    Now if Crosby had been in the job he should have been last summer we might not be in this mess........
    Excellent point. 

    Would Adkins have achieved more had he brought his trusted lieutenant? 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600


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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Cafc43v3r said:


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    Rubbish at Man Utd so no thanks for us.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,627
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Richard J said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
    Now if Crosby had been in the job he should have been last summer we might not be in this mess........
    Excellent point. 

    Would Adkins have achieved more had he brought his trusted lieutenant? 
    Not just on its own no.  IIRC Crosby signed a short term contract at Vale just before Adkins got our job.  The fact he didn't come in the summer was the first, not necessarily red flag, but incling something wasn't as it should have been. 
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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited May 2022
    Richard J said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
    Now if Crosby had been in the job he should have been last summer we might not be in this mess........
    Excellent point. 

    Would Adkins have achieved more had he brought his trusted lieutenant? 

    Not if the front 3 was Washington on the left wing, Stockley isolated in the middle and DJ struggling to get into the game on the right at the beginning of this season.

    If Conor hadn't been injured after two minutes into Nigel Adkins reign then possibly the season before last as Washington was in a purple patch but haven't we established that coaches implement what the manager requires. If a coach is going to dictate the formation then he is being short changed by just being a coach. Crosby only picked the team at Port Vale because of the circumstances of Darrell Clarke for six weeks.

    If's and buts.

    I still think JJ getting 17 wins out of 35 matches in the two spells is par for the course for the "worse squad in living memory"

    The mistake JJ made was saying there is quality in this squad in public so when the bad run came as soon as he was made permanent manager then questions are asked " where is the quality"
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
    You do realise Clouch has been in management for 14 years right? Minus a bit of time without a club of course. 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Cafc43v3r said:


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    New Austria manager 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
    He’ll get on well with Martin then. 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
    Hm, I’m not sure there’s much sentimentality in football. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Richard J said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
    Now if Crosby had been in the job he should have been last summer we might not be in this mess........
    Excellent point. 

    Would Adkins have achieved more had he brought his trusted lieutenant? 

    Not if the front 3 was Washington on the left wing, Stockley isolated in the middle and DJ struggling to get into the game on the right at the beginning of this season.

    If Conor hadn't been injured after two minutes into Nigel Adkins reign then possibly the season before last as Washington was in a purple patch but haven't we established that coaches implement what the manager requires. If a coach is going to dictate the formation then he is being short changed by just being a coach. Crosby only picked the team at Port Vale because of the circumstances of Darrell Clarke for six weeks.

    If's and buts.

    I still think JJ getting 17 wins out of 35 matches in the two spells is par for the course for the "worse squad in living memory"

    The mistake JJ made was saying there is quality in this squad in public so when the bad run came as soon as he was made permanent manager then questions are asked " where is the quality"
    At the same time if we had actually had the players to play the system, the manager had made clear, that was his preference who's fault is that?

    He could have course played a different system but when you look at the players we had available for the first few games I would ask what system? 
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Richard J said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
    Now if Crosby had been in the job he should have been last summer we might not be in this mess........
    Excellent point. 

    Would Adkins have achieved more had he brought his trusted lieutenant? 

    Not if the front 3 was Washington on the left wing, Stockley isolated in the middle and DJ struggling to get into the game on the right at the beginning of this season.

    If Conor hadn't been injured after two minutes into Nigel Adkins reign then possibly the season before last as Washington was in a purple patch but haven't we established that coaches implement what the manager requires. If a coach is going to dictate the formation then he is being short changed by just being a coach. Crosby only picked the team at Port Vale because of the circumstances of Darrell Clarke for six weeks.

    If's and buts.

    I still think JJ getting 17 wins out of 35 matches in the two spells is par for the course for the "worse squad in living memory"

    The mistake JJ made was saying there is quality in this squad in public so when the bad run came as soon as he was made permanent manager then questions are asked " where is the quality"
    At the same time if we had actually had the players to play the system, the manager had made clear, that was his preference who's fault is that?

    He could have course played a different system but when you look at the players we had available for the first few games I would ask what system? 
    A flat 442 or a diamond were the obvious choices. Not saying we'd have been successful with either and depth for any of system was clearly lacking. 
  • BetVictor still doesn’t have odds for our next manager but has odds for the next Swindon job so surely it must be a done deal with us and Garner…. Why the delay? Or am I missing something? 
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773
    BetVictor still doesn’t have odds for our next manager but has odds for the next Swindon job so surely it must be a done deal with us and Garner…. Why the delay? Or am I missing something? 
    Garner is walking here from Swindon.
  • HandG
    HandG Posts: 2,134
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
    You do realise Clouch has been in management for 14 years right? Minus a bit of time without a club of course. 
    And has just led Mansfield to the play off final. Although his managerial career has been nowhere near the level of his old man, he has still done pretty well and you don’t have as many jobs as he has had without knowing what you’re doing….

    Still not convinced he’s be the man for us though….
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    BetVictor still doesn’t have odds for our next manager but has odds for the next Swindon job so surely it must be a done deal with us and Garner…. Why the delay? Or am I missing something? 
    Yes, betting odds just reflect money laid not what is actually happening.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Richard J said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Dansk_Red said:
    Why are we not linked to the Port Vale manager, beat both Garner and Clough in the playoffs.
    Just signed a 5 year contract and given his family circumstances is highly unlikely to want to move.

    Agree:
    Darrell Clarke lost his 18 year old daughter recently and had 6 weeks compassionate leave and Crosby picked the side in Clarke's absent. I didn't see the final but I believe Darrell told Crosby to lead the team out.
    Sometimes in life and death you can't just up sticks and move on.
    Now if Crosby had been in the job he should have been last summer we might not be in this mess........
    Excellent point. 

    Would Adkins have achieved more had he brought his trusted lieutenant? 

    Not if the front 3 was Washington on the left wing, Stockley isolated in the middle and DJ struggling to get into the game on the right at the beginning of this season.

    If Conor hadn't been injured after two minutes into Nigel Adkins reign then possibly the season before last as Washington was in a purple patch but haven't we established that coaches implement what the manager requires. If a coach is going to dictate the formation then he is being short changed by just being a coach. Crosby only picked the team at Port Vale because of the circumstances of Darrell Clarke for six weeks.

    If's and buts.

    I still think JJ getting 17 wins out of 35 matches in the two spells is par for the course for the "worse squad in living memory"

    The mistake JJ made was saying there is quality in this squad in public so when the bad run came as soon as he was made permanent manager then questions are asked " where is the quality"
    At the same time if we had actually had the players to play the system, the manager had made clear, that was his preference who's fault is that?

    He could have course played a different system but when you look at the players we had available for the first few games I would ask what system? 
    A flat 442 or a diamond were the obvious choices. Not saying we'd have been successful with either and depth for any of system was clearly lacking. 

    4-4-2 may not be in fashion so much now but having two strikers closer together must help when Stockley can't be a lone striker.
    You have various options how the 4 are going to play in the midfield area.
    I like 3-5-2 but we obviously didn't have the fast full backs to make it successful every week. The games I saw  wasn't a failure, until late on in the season when we attacked fine with 3-5-2 but were hit  in transition as we couldn't get back into shape quick enough. The away games on Charlton TV were mainly poor with a couple of exceptions.

    Nigel Adkins was dealt a poor hand to kick the season off, but unfortunately for me we lost every home game I saw live at the Valley this season Including the defeat to Wimbledon in the cup under Nigel. Was it Cheltenham when we were 2-0 down at HT and Craig Mac kept the score down.

    Bizarrely i saw five wins in a row at the valley when we didn't concede a goal under JJ. Four 2-0 and a 1-0. I admit when the Step five  game I was at was called off at 2pm I then looked at the starting 11 for the Oxford home game and decided not to get a ticket at the ground as Oxford were my nap away and the 4-0 summed up a miserable performance according to everyone.

    Come on down Ben Garner if Ray the sausage man is correct.
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,972
    If? As seems likely the manager employment contract will have performance targets and he will be given a squad of players to work with. Then which British manager would take the job.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,881
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
    Just to be clear, I think clough would be bad purely because he isn't the young, up and coming manager that it's understood that the owner wants.

    To see he is a manager because of what his dad achieved is crazy. The guy has been manager for over 1,300 games and has an okay record. A large number of his games have been tier 3 and below, with the highest level he has managed at is the second tier. That suggests to me that he has carved out a decent lower level career based on his own merits, not what his dad achieved 50 years earlier
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,169
    msomerton said:
    If? As seems likely the manager employment contract will have performance targets and he will be given a squad of players to work with. Then which British manager would take the job.
    One who like being gainfully employed I imagine. So most of them
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
    Just to be clear, I think clough would be bad purely because he isn't the young, up and coming manager that it's understood that the owner wants.

    To see he is a manager because of what his dad achieved is crazy. The guy has been manager for over 1,300 games and has an okay record. A large number of his games have been tier 3 and below, with the highest level he has managed at is the second tier. That suggests to me that he has carved out a decent lower level career based on his own merits, not what his dad achieved 50 years earlier
    Is that clear?   Garner is the only name that has actually been linked at all but Thomas employed Adkins and then said they were aiming higher than Beale.  Its quite hard to find an up and coming manager that's stepping down a level. 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    TS = bullshido
     
  • Addick_8
    Addick_8 Posts: 687
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    6x LOL’s on this has absolutely ruined my confidence on this forum btw
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,778
    Addick_8 said:
    I’d take Nigel Clough in a heartbeat over Garner.

    Really  ???

    One has been coaching for years & the other one is still living off his fathers exploits. 
    You do write some complete and utter bxxxxxx without engaging the brain sometimes!

    1,189 games as manager over the course of the last 22 years. If he can take Burton Albion for the first time in their history (capacity 6,912)  into the Championship on their budget (and keep them there for two seasons) then I'm sure he's more than capable of doing the same for us.

    The issue is that he's always managed in close proximity to his family home not his ability to manage.