soapboxsam said:

CAFC shortlist 

Oohaah: At the interview said the players, fans and life is shit, shame as excellent cricketers who would've been good in the corridor of uncertainty.

Bob Munro: Good candidate as knows the employment law inside out. Unfortunately big Bob couldn't take the drop in wages.

Heather AKA Weegie: Well travelled female but also couldn't take the drop in wages. Wanted to be flown to every game from Scotch land. Have seen her on zoom and it looks like Heather lives in a Pub !

Henry Irvine: Great knowledge of Charlton History and a Museum man. Ruled out as he may bring back Wagstaff on the wing over Green. I would like to promote Henry as he has many fine qualities. (I still take cheques)

SoapboxSam: A man who believes winning a 32 team cup in the Competitive Tandridge youth league when the players aren't old enough to shave qualifies him for the poison chalice of Cafc men's team.

Comedian !

Shooters hill Guru: Nearly got the Job as he could double up as the Physiotherapist but wanted to just work match days as he won't move down from Yorkshire.

Fanny Fanackapan: Great analytical brain but she dropped out when told she couldn't take her camera into the showers after training or matches. Shame as she is a great motivator; just ask Mr F !

Seth Plum: Saying every game is must win is unreasonable over 46 games to collect 138 points. Seth said if they don't want him to manage he will win the euro lottery and buy the club, Lock stock and 2 smoking barrels. 

AFKA: Born to be a Gaffer and intelligent guy when sober. He would want a cut of every transfer and to run the Comms department. Small but dynamic.

I demand a recount. 

Someone who at least looks the part and proudly wears a club tie on match days would be step in the right direction.

I have zero confidence these charlatans will get this right any more than they have got anything else right during their destructive tenure.  

Fleming will be the next full time head coach

Cloudworm said:

Fleming will be the next full time head coach

Why do you think that?

Scoham said:

Cloudworm said:

Fleming will be the next full time head coach

Why do you think that?

It may be that Fleming being added to the coaching staff a few weeks ago was an indication that Appleton's days were numbered. Its interesting to see the list of potential managers this time round, after Ferguson rejected our overtures, the list at the time was fairly shocking, Appleton, The Cowleys, Lee Johnson. As a lot of people said and thought at the time, the club would have been better to have persevered with Holden, he would have done no worse, in my opinion, and the alienation caused by the appointment and subsequent failure of Appleton would have been avoided. 

Let's not rewrite history, top man though he is, Holden was terrible tactically 

TEL said:

Bailey said:

Scoham said:

Cloudworm said:

Fleming will be the next full time head coach

Why do you think that?

It may be that Fleming being added to the coaching staff a few weeks ago was an indication that Appleton's days were numbered. It's interesting to see the list of potential managers this time round, after Ferguson rejected our overtures, the list at the time was fairly shocking, Appleton, The Cowleys, Lee Johnson. As a lot of people said and thought at the time, the club would have been better to have persevered with Holden, he would have done no worse, in my opinion, and the alienation caused by the appointment and subsequent failure of Appleton would have been avoided. 

Spot on. I couldn't see our fan base turning on Holden the way they did Gollum. 

On this note & I could be in the minority, but I liked Holden & thought he was hard done by.  Holden had a lot of injuries to deal with towards the end of his reign.  The squad was bolstered dramatically once Holden was sacked. Think there were 3 signings the werk holdem was sacked &  Appleton has had 4 or 5 new players since then.

Holden could barely get a fit 11 out at the end of his tenure.  He would've done far better with the squad Appleton has had in my opinion 

dicktracey said:

Lennie Lawrence 

The Lawrence appointment at Hartlepool is a bit of a shady one. Sounds like it’s the assistant calling the shots who doesn’t want the manager title. 

Henry Irving said:

Brownie12 said:

Scoham said:

While we wait for news how many former players aside from the obvious are managers or have managed in the past? Got these so far:

Shaun Bartlett
Jonatan Johansson
Claus Jensen
Jorge Costa
Radostin Kishishev
Paolo Di Canio
Scott Parker
Mark Kinsella
Martin Pringle

Hermann Hreidarsson

Hasselbaink
Graham Murty
Mark Bowen
Steve Thompson
Peter Shirtliff
Neil Redfearn
Alan Kernaghan
Leroy Rosenior 
Alan Mcleary
Chris Wilder

Gary Rowett

Pardew..

jams said:

Let's not rewrite history, top man though he is, Holden was terrible tactically 

There is a tendency in our fanbase to remember ex-managers and players far more favourably than when they were actually here. E.g:

Holden - great guy, completely average manager that lost it at the end.

Purrington - bang average LB at this level ok defensively but very slow scored a couple of goals which seems to have made our fans think he was Roberto Carlos reincarnate.

shirty5 said:

jams said:

Let's not rewrite history, top man though he is, Holden was terrible tactically 

All about opinions but the fella had a 40% league win rate with us. 

Were results the reason Holden got the sack in August, or was Scott not happy with something else? Maybe it was his tactics then? 

I thought it was stated at the time that it was because they recruited players to play a certain system and then Holden changed the system?

WrightCharlie said:

valleynick66 said:

YannTheMann said:

Mate of mine who's a City fan said Fleming is a top bloke and was really well liked at Bristol City and won the games where he was interim boss there, no idea if it will translate here but thought it was worth passing on to give a vague resemblance of positivity 

Hope so. But implies MA ignored him since he was here. 

Whatever marching orders Fleming had when he came in, it would have been difficult not to go in the direction MA and his first team coach were pointing. I have no idea what Fleming's like really but I'm hopeful he can begin to turn our fortunes around.

Yeah hopefully he will discover a new formula and get us winning.
He may need to put us in a petri dish and examine us to find it of course.
High praise could follow, maybe posthumously....

Allan Simonsen has managed.