I remember people complaining about the football under Powell as I enjoyed my favourite season of all time followed by getting as close as we have got to having a go at a return to the PL since we were relegated.
Cannot beat the feeling at the Valley after a win, I could not care less how many sideways passes we take to get that vital goal.
To dither and delay is to rue the day. Some sound candidates being touted from which one ought to be a good fit. To stick with Flemming until it goes wrong seems a mad idea to me, the board giving themselves a vote of no confidence in their own ability to find the right man now.
Yes, but do you have faith in Scott making the right choice? Bearing in mind Appleton was the outstanding candidate of 1.
Appleton was .. others were Cowley brothers , Lee Johnson , Lennon or Harris
I remember people complaining about the football under Powell as I enjoyed my favourite season of all time followed by getting as close as we have got to having a go at a return to the PL since we were relegated.
Cannot beat the feeling at the Valley after a win, I could not care less how many sideways passes we take to get that vital goal.
To dither and delay is to rue the day. Some sound candidates being touted from which one ought to be a good fit. To stick with Flemming until it goes wrong seems a mad idea to me, the board giving themselves a vote of no confidence in their own ability to find the right man now.
Yes, but do you have faith in Scott making the right choice? Bearing in mind Appleton was the outstanding candidate of 1.
I've no faith in Scott to get it right, but I think the candidates being muted are of a higher calibre than last time, so he might get lucky and we need him to. I have doubts that any will turn our squad into hard to beat winners overnight though.
I remember people complaining about the football under Powell as I enjoyed my favourite season of all time followed by getting as close as we have got to having a go at a return to the PL since we were relegated.
Cannot beat the feeling at the Valley after a win, I could not care less how many sideways passes we take to get that vital goal.
To dither and delay is to rue the day. Some sound candidates being touted from which one ought to be a good fit. To stick with Flemming until it goes wrong seems a mad idea to me, the board giving themselves a vote of no confidence in their own ability to find the right man now.
Yes, but do you have faith in Scott making the right choice? Bearing in mind Appleton was the outstanding candidate of 1.
I've no faith in Scott to get it right, but I think the candidates being muted are of a higher calibre than last time, so he might get lucky and we need him to. I have doubts that any will turn our squad into hard to beat winners overnight though.
This season is now only about climbing away from the relegation zone. Anything else for me is a bonus. Yet again the summer will be the key and whether the new long term manager is put in place now or then doesn’t bother me. Let’s get clear of the bottom and worry about promotion next season when it’s possible.
To dither and delay is to rue the day. Some sound candidates being touted from which one ought to be a good fit. To stick with Flemming until it goes wrong seems a mad idea to me, the board giving themselves a vote of no confidence in their own ability to find the right man now.
Yes, but do you have faith in Scott making the right choice? Bearing in mind Appleton was the outstanding candidate of 1.
I've no faith in Scott to get it right, but I think the candidates being muted are of a higher calibre than last time, so he might get lucky and we need him to. I have doubts that any will turn our squad into hard to beat winners overnight though.
If I made as many wrong calls as he has then I would probably be dumped by my bosses.
Jones is a devout Christian who credits his faith with getting him through bad times.[72] He has several religious tattoos on his body including praying hands and the crucifixion on his left biceps and forearm, Jesus Christ on his right biceps, and Michaelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam' across his back.[73]
Nathan Jones does not hide his faith and is very open to mentioning it during press conferences, occasionally appending 'God willing' to his hope that his tactics work.[74]
Jones is bilingual, able to speak both English and Spanish.[75]
I am so glad he speaks Spanish, otherwise I was getting a bit worried .
Jones is a devout Christian who credits his faith with getting him through bad times.[72] He has several religious tattoos on his body including praying hands and the crucifixion on his left biceps and forearm, Jesus Christ on his right biceps, and Michaelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam' across his back.[73]
Nathan Jones does not hide his faith and is very open to mentioning it during press conferences, occasionally appending 'God willing' to his hope that his tactics work.
So he believes in miracles , religious and tattoos something for everyone to get involved with , like/dislike /wank off
Jones, with God as his Number 2. Shurely the ultimate dream team? Just worried about the compensation payable to the Christian church if God leaves them for us.
We’d have an infallible backline. And when we played the Nigel’s and the Scum I strongly suspect we’d apply a smiting formation.
I am not against appointing him but I would like us to give Fleming a chance first. A two defeats (and some wins) or we bring somebody in chance over February. I think that is the common sense approach. I know some people don't share it but if Jones came in and failed that would fcuk us up. Somebody like him should be the lasp gasp option.
And if we give Fleming a chance but he doesn't win any games, whoever we then get in has an even more difficult job and less time to rectify it in. So... no. Fleming is caretaker and only the caretaker, his only priority right now is to try and stop the rot and provide the basics of continuity. He's spent a career as assistant to the main coach, he's good at it, he seems quite content.
He is a decent guy from what I've seen but nowhere near the full time job.
But what makes you so sure Jones will? I am not having a Fleming love in but I was happy with Saturday and what if he gets a result next week? Even if it is short term, do we throw that away for something that may go right or wrong. If it doesn't work with Fleming we still have time. Maybe one or two games less but we have an extra life as it were.
Because Jones is someone who has proven success at this level as a Head coach. Fleming is not. Its a gamble either way and I am not 100% sold on Jones but he's by every metric a safer gamble than Fleming.
Getting someone (anyone really) in over Fleming may go right or wrong yes. But sticking with Fleming may also go right or wrong and hard to justify as anything other than kicking the can down the road.
If we were in midtable doldrums going nowhere then Fleming would get longer. We're not, so he doesn't. Harsh on him maybe but that's the game.
Jones is a proven success and a proven failure. People seem to forget that last bit. My argument with Fleming is that we can correct it within a few games if it isn't having instant results.
Don't get the logic behind that thinking.
Should we be giving Fleming the job because we can "correct it within a few games" or should we go for the person who can best deliver, in the regime's opinion, short and long term success?
I think the latter. We can as easily, though not as cheaply, sack Jones or whoever as sack Fleming. Waiting a few games isn't an option for us at the moment IMHO.
PS I like what I've seen of Fleming and can see why he's had a long career as an assistant as he would be the calm one in a crises and could smooth over problems and give individual players a lift. Wouldn't be at all unhappy if he stayed by the new manager's choice.
I am not saying give him the job. If he provides an instant lift, I am saying go with it. If it proves to be more than that, then we have the discussion about giving him the job.
I totally disagree with how easy it would be to sack Jones. There is a reputational element to this as well as a financial one.
Then what exactly are you saying? I'm genuinely confused. As of right now, he is charge of training and tactics.
Admittedly it would solve our reputation for hiring and firing coaches if we never actually employ one and just have a succession of 'caretakers' instead.
I'm saying dont rush into appointing anybody yet. You may disagree but It isn't that complicated a position.
I remember being impressed with Nathan Jones when he was coaching our U21s and felt we had let a good one slip when he left. I think he would do a good job for us.
I’m starting to feel encouraged that the new owners are prepared to spend some money rather than do it on the cheap. Surely that’s why, finally, we’re looking at managers who are a significant notch up on what we’ve looked at before. I also think they’ve shown intent in this transfer window. I know nothing is a given but I feel Jones could do a good job with us with the right backing which I think he’ll get.
I am not saying Jones or Rowett or somebody else might not be a success but appointing them now gives us one option. Giving Fleming a chance to get instant/quick results gives us two options. If only having one option was a guarantee of success, I would be for it but if Fleming is liked by the players he could have a short term impact which lifts us out of trouble and that buys time to make the right call.
But if you give him say the next three games and he doesn’t lift us out of trouble then not only will it give the next manager less games to get us out of trouble but it may take a week or so to get that manager in and by then we are well and truely in the brown stuff. How do we know he even wants the job, has he ever applied for any managerial positions? We are not in a position to experiment.
But you are assuming the new manager will do better in those three games. We have just got a point away to a team with the best home record in the league. We got better as the game went on and I want to see if that improvement continues.
Jones is a devout Christian who credits his faith with getting him through bad times.[72] He has several religious tattoos on his body including praying hands and the crucifixion on his left biceps and forearm, Jesus Christ on his right biceps, and Michaelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam' across his back.[73]
Nathan Jones does not hide his faith and is very open to mentioning it during press conferences, occasionally appending 'God willing' to his hope that his tactics work.
So he believes in miracles , religious and tattoos something for everyone to get involved with , like/dislike /wank off
Jones, with God as his Number 2. Shurely the ultimate dream team? Just worried about the compensation payable to the Christian church if God leaves them for us.
We’d have an infallible backline. And when we played the Nigel’s and the Scum I strongly suspect we’d apply a smiting formation.
If he joins, I hope does well and I don't know who else we could realistically appoint who would definitely do better, but something about the idea of Nathan Jones as our manager makes me uneasy.
1) Thou shalt not concede in added time 2) Lloyd Jones shalt not dally on the ball in dangerous positions 3) AMB shalt end his vow of silence and talk to his defenders 4) Alfie May shalt not take long throws and corners ever again 5) Thou shalt mark opposition players and not space 6) Thou shalt not wear the black away kit when there is no clash 7) Thou shalt not allow CBT to score against us 8) George Dobson shalt sign a new contract 9) Thou shalt beat Millwall before the second coming of Christ 10) Thou shalt piss the league in 2024/25
With Darren Moore suddenly available, is he an option ?
I hope not!
I wouldn’t have agreed after watching the crowd limited covid match against Donny Rovers when they stuffed us 3-1 at The Valley. He was on the way up at that time.
He's had a very good management career, although this season at Huddersfield, working with a tight budget, hadn’t gone well.
Potted career adapted from Wiki:
On 2 April 2018, West Brom manager Alan Pardew was sacked after a run of poor results, leaving them bottom of the Premier League and 10 points from safety. Moore was then appointed as caretaker manager until the end of the season. West Brom then went undefeated in April, a run that included a 1–0 away win against Mun Utd - in part earning Moore the Prem Manager of the Month honour. However, West Brom were relegated from the Premier League later that day.
Moore was then appointed head coach. He then led the team to fourth in the Championship with the club still in with a chance of automatic promotion to the Premier League, but this was cut short with his surprise sacking with only ten games remaining of the regular season.
Moore returned to manage Doncaster Rovers. He began well,- a six-game undefeated streak, prior to losing 1–0 to Blackpool.
As a result of Covid all football was halted from March 2020 onwards. On 9 June, all clubs voted to curtail the season; the final league table was calculated by a points-per-game method; Doncaster finishing the season in ninth position.
Next season saw Donny regain form, which saw the manager nominated for the division's Manager of the Month accolade for both September 2020 and January 2021.
After going through the entirety of January 2021 winning every single league match, he was poached by Sheffield Weds.
Wednesday were relegated that season, but the next season they reached the play offs with 85 points, but lost to Sunderland over two legs.
He kicked off the following season with four wins from five games, with a clean sheet in each, giving him a manager of the month nomination for August. Getting 14 points from 7 games in October and 6 points from 2 in November would see him get back-to-back EFL Manager of the Month nominations for October and November. Another 9 points in January from 3 games with a combined score of 7–0, gave him another nomination for January. The club went 20 league games without defeat and managed to go top of the league, resulting in another nomination for manager of the month. On 11 April, he was nominated for EFL League One Manager of the Season.
Then a dip in form saw his team finish the league season in third spot, earning a play-off tie against The Posh. Wednesday lost the first leg by a convincing 4–0 scoreline and were booed off the pitch by their own fans. The second leg they won 5-1 and went through on pens. Moore had such a positive impact on the squad that long standing captain Barry Bannan personally thanked him in front of the whole squad following the game saying, "What he has done is unbelievable, to turn around the mindset of the players. I'm so proud of him how he's handled this week after the racism he's experienced. This one's for him."
They won tbe final 1-0 and were promoted back to the Championship. He then moved on after failing to agree terms with the Wednesday Chairman.
He then joined Huddersfield last summer where is all went a bit Pete Tong. He was relieved of his duties on 29 Jan after just three wins in 23 matches, with the club 21st in the second tier and three points above the relegation places.
I wouldn’t rule him out at all, although I suspect he’d be looking for a job in the Championship?
I feel like Nathan Jones is a more exciting name than Gary Rowett.
Neither are very exciting names in my opinion.
Now if the club were to appoint Pussy Galore to the head role and Honey Rider as her number two…there’s two exciting names the fan base would come together behind.
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Cannot beat the feeling at the Valley after a win, I could not care less how many sideways passes we take to get that vital goal.
Is it a live hostage negotiation?
1) Thou shalt not concede in added time
2) Lloyd Jones shalt not dally on the ball in dangerous positions
3) AMB shalt end his vow of silence and talk to his defenders
4) Alfie May shalt not take long throws and corners ever again
5) Thou shalt mark opposition players and not space
6) Thou shalt not wear the black away kit when there is no clash
7) Thou shalt not allow CBT to score against us
8) George Dobson shalt sign a new contract
9) Thou shalt beat Millwall before the second coming of Christ
10) Thou shalt piss the league in 2024/25
He's had a very good management career, although this season at Huddersfield, working with a tight budget, hadn’t gone well.
On 2 April 2018, West Brom manager Alan Pardew was sacked after a run of poor results, leaving them bottom of the Premier League and 10 points from safety. Moore was then appointed as caretaker manager until the end of the season. West Brom then went undefeated in April, a run that included a 1–0 away win against Mun Utd - in part earning Moore the Prem Manager of the Month honour. However, West Brom were relegated from the Premier League later that day.
Moore was then appointed head coach. He then led the team to fourth in the Championship with the club still in with a chance of automatic promotion to the Premier League, but this was cut short with his surprise sacking with only ten games remaining of the regular season.
Moore returned to manage Doncaster Rovers. He began well,- a six-game undefeated streak, prior to losing 1–0 to Blackpool.
As a result of Covid all football was halted from March 2020 onwards. On 9 June, all clubs voted to curtail the season; the final league table was calculated by a points-per-game method; Doncaster finishing the season in ninth position.
Next season saw Donny regain form, which saw the manager nominated for the division's Manager of the Month accolade for both September 2020 and January 2021.
After going through the entirety of January 2021 winning every single league match, he was poached by Sheffield Weds.
Wednesday were relegated that season, but the next season they reached the play offs with 85 points, but lost to Sunderland over two legs.
He kicked off the following season with four wins from five games, with a clean sheet in each, giving him a manager of the month nomination for August. Getting 14 points from 7 games in October and 6 points from 2 in November would see him get back-to-back EFL Manager of the Month nominations for October and November. Another 9 points in January from 3 games with a combined score of 7–0, gave him another nomination for January. The club went 20 league games without defeat and managed to go top of the league, resulting in another nomination for manager of the month. On 11 April, he was nominated for EFL League One Manager of the Season.
Then a dip in form saw his team finish the league season in third spot, earning a play-off tie against The Posh. Wednesday lost the first leg by a convincing 4–0 scoreline and were booed off the pitch by their own fans. The second leg they won 5-1 and went through on pens. Moore had such a positive impact on the squad that long standing captain Barry Bannan personally thanked him in front of the whole squad following the game saying, "What he has done is unbelievable, to turn around the mindset of the players. I'm so proud of him how he's handled this week after the racism he's experienced. This one's for him."
They won tbe final 1-0 and were promoted back to the Championship. He then moved on after failing to agree terms with the Wednesday Chairman.
He then joined Huddersfield last summer where is all went a bit Pete Tong. He was relieved of his duties on 29 Jan after just three wins in 23 matches, with the club 21st in the second tier and three points above the relegation places.
I wouldn’t rule him out at all, although I suspect he’d be looking for a job in the Championship?