Next manager - Ben Garner confirmed (p256)

john3 said:

Do you think the CL pages record is going to be broken on this post??
   What are the odds?

1000/1, unless it takes three years to appoint a manager. 

Scoham said:

jimmymelrose said:

It's been a week today since JJ got sacked, and TS should have made an appointment by now.

The fact that he hasn't shows that it was a petulant, unplanned, ill-thought out sacking.

Unless the candidate was/is waiting until their season has ended.

Or having a short break after it has.  Imagine the up roar. 

"We are delighted to announce such and such, he is bobbing off on holiday for a couple of weeks now but he will be back soon" 

jimmymelrose said:

It's been a week today since JJ got sacked, and TS should have made an appointment by now.

The fact that he hasn't shows that it was a petulant, unplanned, ill-thought out sacking.

or the candidate is on holiday as managers only get a very small window to go away 

Or an offer has been made and negotiations are on gong

cfgs said:

Uboat said:

I want some more Exeter discussion. 

Nice place, usually warmer than here and drier.  The University is very secluded but still only a short walk from the city centre, it even has a duck crossing.  

My daughter is at uni there..

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Cafc43v3r said:

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Cafc43v3r said:

Dazzler21 said:

redbuttle said:

The Red Robin said:

The more I think about it, the more I want Michael Beale.


Don't think he's coming.

I have a feeling it will be someone of his ilk. 

Will we offer competitive contracts to get the best in, that's my concern.

I think TS sees us as a scale up organisation, you try the cheap options first then spend if/when that fails. I'm not sure after trying the cheap that he'll be able to afford the spending required as even the cheap costs millions per season.

To be fair Thomas has spent on the expensive options.  Adkins, Stockley, Kirk, Aneke and Fraser were not cheap by league 1 standards at all.

You can question how he has spent it but he hasn't tried to do it all on the cheap.

Most the signings made towards the start of the window have turned out to be good ish signings. It was the summer signings after the Wigan defeat which have been terrible. Arter, Leko etc (Lavelle being a obvious exception). It’s obvious what went wrong and hope the board and new manager won’t make that mistake again.

It did take quite a radical change of system to get the best out of them.  Good players certainly.  The right players at the right time?  Still question marks for me.

IMO without two decent full backs on either side we were always going to struggle. Those are the key positions which needed recruitment in both windows and never happened. Surely anyone in football would have noticed and identified that. We got lucky with CBT towards the end. 

That and the fact that the MF can’t go MIA without the ball or on turnover.  People keep saying we played 3-5-2 but in an attacking turnover we payed 3-1-2-3 plus wherever Matthews found himself standing at the time.  The gaps between the 3-1 and the rest you could drive a bus through

The vast majority of us are all too far removed from the process to comment on the sacking. He could have been considering this for months, or during the Ipswich game. This is arguably the most important decision TS will make for a while in relation to success on the pitch, so I give him the benefit of the doubt. He's the owner, he does it how he wants.

There's loads of things that could be impacting this - agents, commitments, holidays, other job offers. Unless he had an oven-ready replacement, it wasn't going to be done in a week. I share your desire for something to happen soon, but in reality, it's probably going take at least a month. We've got every right to be upset if he gets it wrong again and we don't hit the ground running, but TS has shared in the media that applicants are being reviewed.

I want it sorted as much as anyone, but it's naïve to think that it was going to be sorted within a week in normal circumstances.

AFKABartram said:

Callumcafc said:

Who’s tenner did this then?

https://twitter.com/thesackrace/status/1523661070153494528?s=21&t=7NuUky-_LK_X9imKvIrc4Q

The person at bettingodds who wrote that piece

It's me who backed him first - I gave my reasons for why I think he should be considered earlier on in this thread and asked BetVic to put him in the market which they originally did at 16/1 

Redhenry said:

cfgs said:

Uboat said:

I want some more Exeter discussion. 

Nice place, usually warmer than here and drier.  The University is very secluded but still only a short walk from the city centre, it even has a duck crossing.  

My daughter is at uni there..

I nearly went to uni there. 

cfgs said:

Redhenry said:

cfgs said:

Uboat said:

I want some more Exeter discussion. 

Nice place, usually warmer than here and drier.  The University is very secluded but still only a short walk from the city centre, it even has a duck crossing.  

My daughter is at uni there..

So is mine. What is yours studying?  Mine is in year 1 of Neuro Science.

Year two, Spanish and History, doing a year at Barcelona next..

Redhenry said:

cfgs said:

Redhenry said:

cfgs said:

Uboat said:

I want some more Exeter discussion. 

Nice place, usually warmer than here and drier.  The University is very secluded but still only a short walk from the city centre, it even has a duck crossing.  

My daughter is at uni there..

So is mine. What is yours studying?  Mine is in year 1 of Neuro Science.

Year two, Spanish and History, doing a year at Barcelona nextt..

Nice

jimmymelrose said:

It's been a week today since JJ got sacked, and TS should have made an appointment by now.

The fact that he hasn't shows that it was a petulant, unplanned, ill-thought out sacking.

Petulant

NorthumberlandAddick said:

Callumcafc said:

Victor
Hasselbaink 3/1
Warburton 4/1
Bowyer 5/1
Lennon 5/1
Beale 6/1
Ferguson 8/1
Taylor 10/1

Will Hill
Warburton 4/1
Lennon 4/1
Bowyer 6/1
Hasselbaink 8/1
Beale 9/1
Ferguson 10/1
Taylor 10/1

Didn't Cawley say a few days ago that Hasselbaink is definitely not in the running? 

Yes

cfgs said:

Uboat said:

I want some more Exeter discussion. 

Nice place, usually warmer than here and drier.  The University is very secluded but still only a short walk from the city centre, it even has a duck crossing.  

Disagree - it's wetter.