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Next manager - Ben Garner confirmed (p256)

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  • 1968CAFC
    1968CAFC Posts: 577
    1968CAFC said:
    Hal1x said:
    1968CAFC said:
    Well lady’s & Gentlemen I hope I am proved wrong, but I am getting the feeling we will end up with someone far worse the JJ was and more has been crap players on free transfers or loans.
    so far what has TS actually achieved apart from buy the Club? And he wants premier League football 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👎👎👎👎
    Let me guess you are a glass half empty sort of person.
        No actually I own 5 companies and have supported CAFC since 1968.
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    Welp, that's my non-sequitur of the week.
      None-Sequitur a noun is not the correct word
      but a sense of humour might help 🤣🤣🤣
  • J BLOCK said:
    So weird we have a owner answering fans questions on LinkedIn (weird fans asking in first place too) 
    How he has the time as a big time business owner is beyond me. 
    It's not him replying. He's got Sandra from Accounts doing his SM posting. 
    Mmmmm that's interesting. What site is she posting on? Asking for a mate.
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,040
    MarcusH26 said:

    I think we'd basically ruled Beale out anyway but looks like he's going to be confirmed at QPR. One I'll probably keep an eye on and see how it goes. 
    Nailed on QPR get a couple of Villa kids on loan next season then.

    Wouldn't be shocked to see Cameron Archer the young striker that looked good for Preston second half of last season go there.


  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,344
    Looks like Garner on holiday that’s what the delay is …. 
    No access to emails? No internet for a zoom.

    A holiday shouldn't hold up accepting a job. 
    Would say it’s all been agreed before he went away 
    Swindon are therefore being very accommodating in these circumstances then as there Manager is clearing off and they have not announced that to their ownnsupporters yet so as not to ruin our own announcement!

    Or are you just making it up as you go along?
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,884
    Rob7Lee said:
    As I've been saying for a while, TS the cuddlier/friendlier version of RD whose finding it very difficult to find a manager, that he wants, to work under his set up.

    I'm not convinced at this rate it won't be Euell or MS taking the teams to Spain!
    MS, behave. That will never ever happen and everyone knows it. It keeps getting mentioned as a way of having a cheap pop at the owner
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    J BLOCK said:
    So weird we have a owner answering fans questions on LinkedIn (weird fans asking in first place too) 
    How he has the time as a big time business owner is beyond me. 
    It's not him replying. He's got Sandra from Accounts doing his SM posting. 
    Mmmmm that's interesting. What site is she posting on? Asking for a mate.
    Plenty of Fish. She’s proper Charlton. 
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,884
    Looks like Garner on holiday that’s what the delay is …. 
    But you said it would happen this week?
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,536
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Looks like Garner on holiday that’s what the delay is …. 
    No access to emails? No internet for a zoom.

    A holiday shouldn't hold up accepting a job. 
    Would say it’s all been agreed before he went away 
    Swindon are therefore being very accommodating in these circumstances then as there Manager is clearing off and they have not announced that to their ownnsupporters yet so as not to ruin our own announcement!

    Or are you just making it up as you go along?
    ***Shock Horror** B)
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    DubaiCAFC said:
    Sounds like TS is trying to be over smart with contracts, which is making it tough to close the managers.. performance related, and release clause that wouldn’t cost him much! Managers want to come, but they also need to look after themselves!

    Garner compo package was agreed, and were still trying to arrange personal terms, but as they were a long way apart TS started shopping again!

    Wouldn’t be surprised if another name enters the race, someone coaching in the premier league! I think by the end of this week we will have our manager!
    That’s an interesting post from a known itk poster. Coaching in the PL is likely, I think to be number two somewhere ? Anything less than number two seems unlikely to me. Any names jump out ? SCP is one I suppose but is he number two at The Spuds or Academy?
  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    Don't think it's been suggested (can't be bothered to trawl through all the post's) but the delay could be because Garner has been offered the job but is considering other offers. 
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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Looks like Garner on holiday that’s what the delay is …. 
    No access to emails? No internet for a zoom.

    A holiday shouldn't hold up accepting a job. 
    Would say it’s all been agreed before he went away 
    Swindon are therefore being very accommodating in these circumstances then as there Manager is clearing off and they have not announced that to their ownnsupporters yet so as not to ruin our own announcement!

    Or are you just making it up as you go along?
    He makes everything up as he goes along. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    1968CAFC said:
    1968CAFC said:
    Hal1x said:
    1968CAFC said:
    Well lady’s & Gentlemen I hope I am proved wrong, but I am getting the feeling we will end up with someone far worse the JJ was and more has been crap players on free transfers or loans.
    so far what has TS actually achieved apart from buy the Club? And he wants premier League football 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👎👎👎👎
    Let me guess you are a glass half empty sort of person.
        No actually I own 5 companies and have supported CAFC since 1968.
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    Welp, that's my non-sequitur of the week.
      None-Sequitur a noun is not the correct word
      but a sense of humour might help 🤣🤣🤣
    Someone's discovered emojis
  • RedRobin
    RedRobin Posts: 1,377
    Sounds like TS is trying to include the same clauses that Jacko agreed to. The issue is, Jacko had nothing to lose and everything to gain, someone in a contract already isn’t going to agree to any of that! We are going nowhere next season if this continues to linger on. 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    every summer I never fail to understand how some people get themselves so worked up on a daily basis based on snippets and rumours. Some will be true, some won’t, but ultimately there’s nothing any of us can do about it. 

    We’re not playing a competitive game for another couple of months and they’ll probably be plenty of disappointment coming our way then, so just take yourselves down The Winchester till it comes a bit meaningful and don’t stress out on it all.

    Charlton ruin most of my year. I’m damned if I’m gonna let it ruin the close season as well. 

    You part-timer.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    RedRobin said:
    Sounds like TS is trying to include the same clauses that Jacko agreed to. The issue is, Jacko had nothing to lose and everything to gain, someone in a contract already isn’t going to agree to any of that! We are going nowhere next season if this continues to linger on. 
    This is another example of where TS needs someone with football experience around him. 
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    1968CAFC said:
    Hal1x said:
    1968CAFC said:
    Well lady’s & Gentlemen I hope I am proved wrong, but I am getting the feeling we will end up with someone far worse the JJ was and more has been crap players on free transfers or loans.
    so far what has TS actually achieved apart from buy the Club? And he wants premier League football 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👎👎👎👎
    Let me guess you are a glass half empty sort of person.
        No actually I own 5 companies and have supported CAFC since 1968.
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    Only since 1968?

    Just another Johnny-come-lately. *shakes head in despair*  :smile:


  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,349
    Surely any manager with an ounce of sense won't agree to performance-related clauses when they have no control over recruitment. 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    Chunes said:
    Surely any manager with an ounce of sense won't agree to performance-related clauses when they have no control over recruitment. 
    Especially when they already have a job. The only type of manager you’re attracting with a contract like that is another Slade or Adkins. I.e, washed up and out of work. 
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    Chunes said:
    Surely any manager with an ounce of sense won't agree to performance-related clauses when they have no control over recruitment. 
    Which is why, imo, we still don’t have one. 

    No manager, half a squad and the season starts earlier than ever before, but better not suggest other clubs are ahead of us. 
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,540
    New manager won’t be Michael Beale, he’s been given permission by Villa to speak to QPR. 

    Big miss IMO but unlikely to have happened given our League 1 status 
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  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 4,500
    Looks like Garner on holiday that’s what the delay is …. 
    But you said it would happen this week?
    Don’t know Garner family commitments … sorry about that his misses forgot to text me !!
  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 4,500
    New manager won’t be Michael Beale, he’s been given permission by Villa to speak to QPR. 

    Big miss IMO but unlikely to have happened given our League 1 status 
    Plus his salary … was way out of league one 
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    edited May 2022

    Thomas initially said it could take up to preseason to find a suitable replacement. Saying yesterday that they were still searching within the same time frame is consistent with that, but two journalists leaked last week that Ben Garner had been offered a deal subject to final terms being agreed. It probably had, but don’t know who their sources were and Thomas probably didn’t want it made public then unless he was using Ben as a stalking horse to gauge public reaction. If so, he can’t think that highly of him. Whatever the reason, social media went into meltdown with an outpouring of WTF’ery.

    He knew that when asked about the reports, replying that nothing had been decided and that they were still interviewing, lots of good candidates etc. If that initial fan response did sway his thinking, then as the deal hadn’t been finalised, and with Ben not having agreed to contract performance related milestones, Thomas kept his options open. I guess he’s just being cautious and didn’t have the confidence to offer a contract without a performance related element based on what happened with Nigel the 1st. We now know of another candidate who was subsequently given permission to talk to him, let’s call him Nigel the 2nd!

    Thomas can’t control how any of this gets reported by the external media, hence what we see appears to be mixed messaging, which he seems to address by answering direct questions put to him using ‘linked in?’ knowing it will end up broadcast more widely.

    The irony is that since Ben Garner was ‘not’ announced, opinions towards him appear to have softened. I hope Thomas takes that into account when making a final decision, but whatever happens now, and assuming Ben doesn’t tell him where to go, from the outside it appears to be an awful mess and what should be a good news story for us is rapidly turning into a farce because of, dare I say it, dithering and delay.

    I’m just offering one possible explanation that seems to fit what I think I know.

  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Aren’t all managers jobs performance related, squad or no squad, control or no control?
    I don’t believe TS had anybody lined up to replace Jacko, but I still believe Jacko lost his job because of the shameful performance at Ipswich, as that event made up Sandgaard’s mind for him.
    A manager at, say, Oldham can still get sacked with poor performances even with no resources. Yet there will be plenty who would apply even for the job at Oldham.
    If a manager doesn’t want a performance related contract they can surely look elsewhere.
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    seth plum said:
    Aren’t all managers jobs performance related, squad or no squad, control or no control?
    I don’t believe TS had anybody lined up to replace Jacko, but I still believe Jacko lost his job because of the shameful performance at Ipswich, as that event made up Sandgaard’s mind for him.
    A manager at, say, Oldham can still get sacked with poor performances even with no resources. Yet there will be plenty who would apply even for the job at Oldham.
    If a manager doesn’t want a performance related contract they can surely look elsewhere.
    Compensation related - you can be sacked at any time but TS wants minimal payoff. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    New manager won’t be Michael Beale, he’s been given permission by Villa to speak to QPR. 

    Big miss IMO but unlikely to have happened given our League 1 status 
    Plus his salary … was way out of league one 
    His salary at Villa was less than Adkins was on here and very similar to what Bowyer was on.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    edited May 2022
    Being in America for many years i suspect that TS does not fully grasp the irony of supporting a football club like ours. We are not blinded by the star studded snake oiled fantasma of tippy tappy breathless media orgasmistic now now now stellar football. It's the local team my grandad and uncles agonised over, they no doubt suffered the same long periods of mediocre interspersed with short green uplands of promise culminating in the fleeting phantom of success soon to be whisked away in front of their eyes. That's what my forbears left me, a grinding gnawing hope that one day just one day...

    TS is beginning to right royally cheese me off.

  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    Chunes said:
    Surely any manager with an ounce of sense won't agree to performance-related clauses when they have no control over recruitment. 
    Which is why, imo, we still don’t have one. 

    No manager, half a squad and the season starts earlier than ever before, but better not suggest other clubs are ahead of us. 

    Ben Garner took over Swindon with about 7 players and after Bristol Rovers didn't work out he didn't have many options of getting a manager's job in the EFL. Charlton would be a step up despite the implosion of the last decade or so at Cafc.

    Just a gut instinct but ever since JJ left I have been convinced that the decision would be made on the 31/5 or 1/6.

    I believe Cawley contacts have given him the correct information and unless Thomas Sandgaard has done a U-turn because of the initial negativity when RC did the scoop then Ben Garner will be the next person in the hot seat.


  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,651
    Just wondered if we were still paying Adkins salary , and whether thats come out of this season budget, how much would we have had to pay to fire him?