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Phil Chapple leaves Luton!!

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,586
    edited May 9
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,128
    Did did he leave the h behind?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,433
    Fumbluff said:
    Did did he leave the h behind?
    Think he joined Steps.
    Tragedy!! 
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,625
    From the Jones and Chapple thread (and I concur)


  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    I heard he'd taken up professional ice skating... :)
  • CafcSCP
    CafcSCP Posts: 1,466
    Oops. As some noticed I missed the H. Soz😂
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,155
    Pretty sure I heard he’s rejoining us a few weeks back
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited May 10
    As long as we are not planning to play him upfront v Wycombe.

  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,782
    What’s his record like signing players since leaving us?
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,625
    I hope there’s truth to this. I think he knows the type of players Jones wants which I don’t think Scott ever did. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,782
    edited May 10
    sammy391 said:
    What’s his record like signing players since leaving us?
    If you want to look up some of his signings, you probably want to look at any player Brighton signed from Europe in 2017/18/19 or any player Luton signed from 2022 onwards. Not all of them will be his work but a number will be.

    1. Charlton 2007-15 (Chief Scout)
    2. Fulham 2015-16 (Senior Scout - 15 months)
    3. Brighton 2016-19 (European Scout)
    4. Stoke 2019-20 (Head of Recruitment - 5 months, brought in under Nathan Jones)
    5. Luton 2021- (under Nathan Jones and then various others since)


    I think the key thing is that he’s worked with Nathan Jones at Charlton, Stoke and Luton in the past. NJ clearly rates his work and they must get on well.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,891
    Yes it’s good and seems too much of a coincidence not to happen but is he knowledgable of our bargain basement shops of choice? 😉🙂

    all joking aside it’s a good thing and something I would regard as getting the foundations right rather than roles for mates a la Andy Scott. 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,811
    Rooes for nathan's mates all good, roles for methven's mates, not so good
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,232
    Rooes for nathan's mates all good, roles for methven's mates, not so good
    Role for experienced and proven recruiter 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,811
    Yeah it was a joke
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    edited May 10
    I heard he'd taken up professional ice skating... :)
    Well that fell on stoney ground.....

    " Bambi on ice" anyone ?
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    CafcSCP said:
    Another article where the Athletic just gets dropped 😞
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,827
    Have Luton not just had consecutive relegations, with parachute payments ?
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    wmcf123 said:
    Have Luton not just had consecutive relegations, with parachute payments ?
    Yes. And Jones failed at Soton and Stoke, but luckily for us, those who make appointments consider positives as well as negatives, and if Chapple could help Jones get Charlton up into the Premier league, I'm sure few would complain. 
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  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,979
    sammy391 said:
    What’s his record like signing players since leaving us?
    He hasn't signed any players for us since he left. 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    What interests me is who recommended and did the scouting for Lloyd Jones, Edwards, Ramsey, and Small to play for Charlton as they need some praise if it was the same person 👏🏼

    Big Phil Chapple earned his stripes with Powell and Dyer with the team that was accumulated for the 100+ season so would be a decent reunion if PC still has a good network.
  • CafcSCP
    CafcSCP Posts: 1,466
    wmcf123 said:
    Have Luton not just had consecutive relegations, with parachute payments ?
    Let’s not forget Luton are paying for a new stadium!!

  • CafcSCP
    CafcSCP Posts: 1,466
    Stewart said:
    CafcSCP said:
    Another article where the Athletic just gets dropped 😞
    The Athletic?

  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,924
    wmcf123 said:
    Have Luton not just had consecutive relegations, with parachute payments ?

    Definitely forget all the promotions they had before that.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,827
    swordfish said:
    wmcf123 said:
    Have Luton not just had consecutive relegations, with parachute payments ?
    Yes. And Jones failed at Soton and Stoke, but luckily for us, those who make appointments consider positives as well as negatives, and if Chapple could help Jones get Charlton up into the Premier league, I'm sure few would complain. 
    Oh agreed.  I still think it’s almost impossible to do that now (or statistically ever) .  


  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    sammy391 said:
    What’s his record like signing players since leaving us?
    If you want to look up some of his signings, you probably want to look at any player Brighton signed from Europe in 2017/18/19 or any player Luton signed from 2022 onwards. Not all of them will be his work but a number will be.

    1. Charlton 2007-15 (Chief Scout)
    2. Fulham 2015-16 (Senior Scout - 15 months)
    3. Brighton 2016-19 (European Scout)
    4. Stoke 2019-20 (Head of Recruitment - 5 months, brought in under Nathan Jones)
    5. Luton 2021- (under Nathan Jones and then various others since)


    I think the key thing is that he’s worked with Nathan Jones at Charlton, Stoke and Luton in the past. NJ clearly rates his work and they must get on well.
    East Terrace Junior tells me the Brighton highlights are Gross, MacAllister, Bissouma, Dan Burn.

    Whether he had a hand in them who knows?
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,168
    sammy391 said:
    What’s his record like signing players since leaving us?
    If you want to look up some of his signings, you probably want to look at any player Brighton signed from Europe in 2017/18/19 or any player Luton signed from 2022 onwards. Not all of them will be his work but a number will be.

    1. Charlton 2007-15 (Chief Scout)
    2. Fulham 2015-16 (Senior Scout - 15 months)
    3. Brighton 2016-19 (European Scout)
    4. Stoke 2019-20 (Head of Recruitment - 5 months, brought in under Nathan Jones)
    5. Luton 2021- (under Nathan Jones and then various others since)


    I think the key thing is that he’s worked with Nathan Jones at Charlton, Stoke and Luton in the past. NJ clearly rates his work and they must get on well.
    East Terrace Junior tells me the Brighton highlights are Gross, MacAllister, Bissouma, Dan Burn.

    Whether he had a hand in them who knows?
    Bissouma and Groß more than likely, the other two weren’t playing in Europe so would have been from someone else 
  • IanJRO
    IanJRO Posts: 691
    wmcf123 said:
    swordfish said:
    wmcf123 said:
    Have Luton not just had consecutive relegations, with parachute payments ?
    Yes. And Jones failed at Soton and Stoke, but luckily for us, those who make appointments consider positives as well as negatives, and if Chapple could help Jones get Charlton up into the Premier league, I'm sure few would complain. 
    Oh agreed.  I still think it’s almost impossible to do that now (or statistically ever) .  


    Not saying it’s easy but Ipswich have done it recently, plus off the top of my head Southampton, Leeds, Luton, Sheffield United have all been in League One and got to (or back to) the Prem. Sunderland may well add to that list too.  

    Bloody difficult, but certainly statistically not impossible!


  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    I really hope he’s back, the man is an encyclopaedia of footballers in this country.

    i saw him a few times in the Directors box last season and he is always up for a chat but also VERY guarded about who he is looking at.  

    A very professional man who would be a great fit for us.  Fingers crossed