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6 minutes ago, Dick_Valentine said:

What happened to Stevenage Borough? 

Wish it was a more interesting story but they dropped it when they got promoted to the football league.

One for the doommongers: wonder whether we can pick it up where they left in a couple of years?

1 hour ago, dannyboy55555 said:

OWTB spelling mistakes down 10% on this news. 

Definately

3 hours ago, Dick_Valentine said:

 

Does anyone know who it’s going to be?

28 minutes ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Sol Campbell is doing a good job with probably the smallest budget in the league.

 

I've never thought Scholes would ever really want the job but it appears he's genuinely up for the challenge and looking at the alternative it's a no brainer . Pete Wild really is a good club man, I dont think hes cut out for the sharp end of football, not yet atleast, and John Askey someone who did well at Macc town but was sacked by Shrewsbury, not really an inspired choice is it. Scholes, one of if not the best midfielder of his generation clearly is. This will be the most high profile managerial appointment in the bottom 2 divisions.

 

No manager outside the championship has anywhere near his standing in football. His playing career won't guarantee any success as a manager they are 2 different things we all know that. But the players should feel inspired that someone that decorated in the game wants to come and coach them on a day to day basis. He should command their respect instantly.

I agree with everything you say but can I please be there when you tell Sol this? He was, of course, one of the greatest footballers in the world.

Haha sorry rudemedic you beat me to it. I started typing before I saw you’d already replied. Least it looks like we’re on the same page though!

4 minutes ago, Midsblue said:

 

Still cant understand why it’ll take ten days to appoint.

 

Resolving the Salford conflict of interest isn’t necessary until next season and only if Salford become an EFL team.

 

AL returns to UK tomorrow - Jim White said on Talksport this morning that AL told him via a phone call.

 

Still deciding between the four candidates?  No disrespect to the other three but unless one of those is Mourinho then is Askey really a better option?  

 

10 days brings us perilously near to the transfer deadline... hmmm?!

Is that the case? As I read the EFL regs they prevent someone having an interest in two football clubs.

The definition of ”football club” includes clubs all the way down to the Northern Premier League.

29 minutes ago, mikejh45 said:

Or to the wife.

 

 

Except with the prior written consent of the Board a person, or any associate of that person, who is interested in a Club cannot at the same time be interested in any other football club.

The rules extend to “any associate” (Mrs S) so that cunning plan wouldn’t work for him.

You'd think he would have had all this planned if he’s been interested in getting into management for some time. Perhaps taking the job with the “prior written consent of the [EFL] Board” that he can do it if he commits to disposing of his interest in Salford within a certain timeframe? Speculation...

8 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

Think Johnson was announced on a Sunday. 

So was Joe (second time around) but I agree: if it is happening then you’d think it’s only going to be when AL is there for a photo op.

3 hours ago, Monty Burns said:

Missile has had three good games. Less than Maouche has.

Think Missilou has had more than three good games but, in any event, is the difference between them at this stage that since he’s found his feet Missilou has been performing consistently whereas Maouche has been less so? Not that I’m actually being critical of Maouche because I think he’s played well in a good few games.

7 hours ago, Dave_Og said:

Fair to say that we currently have no Lemsagam duds? 

Who do we have at the moment? Making the big assumption that all the foreign lads were signed by AL (which is an assumption but one I think we have to make - none of Sheridan, Wellens or Bunn are known for their scouting of the French 4th division):

Maouche - doesn’t look like he’s worth what we’re reported to be paying him (he’s no Christian Colusso) and he has blown a little hot and cold but seems a more than adequate player at this level and when he’s been on form he’s looked very good

Missilou - superb

Nepomuceno - decent cross, good going forward when played on the wing, not a bad reserve full back, good signing

Sylla - too early to say

Branger-Engone - has some skills, and a left foot (right one still to be located), I’m happy to be proved wrong in time but I’m not at all convinced, just doesn’t seem to fit into the team 

De la Paz - exists

I agree - no duds on that list (personally I’d probably count Branger-Engone because he frustrates me so much but I accept that won’t be a widely held view).

There’s some other parts of the website that could probably also do with updating...

5 minutes ago, Magic Mikey said:

We'll need to score at least two. Danny Whittaker will score for Macc (probably a penalty).

At least the opportunity to welcome back our best midfielder of the last 25 years should put an extra few thousand on the gate.

1 hour ago, laticsmarra said:

Most teams in our division have players that cost as much as them some already relegated. For example  in terms of financial clout we are well behind Bury who started the season with a seasoned and previously successful manager.

Before the Southend game Wellens was looking like he might have been about to lead us on a Huddersfield style unbeaten run. ?

8 minutes ago, simplythemostimportantkick said:

Wow out of everything that’s fucked up you go straight in for the towels ? Not cotton rich either I’m hearing. Fuck me mate, your a gas ?

I was originally thinking it was just one example (very, very low down the list) of the muddled thinking and lack of direction that we’ve been suffering from over the last couple of months. Others might have included constantly lumping the ball up to bounce off Craig Davies, Jack Byrne incessantly charging towards the ball like the most talented nine year old in the school and insisting it’s passed to him regardless of where he and his teammates are on the pitch, the team generally playing with no width whatsoever, or our inability to shoot without taking ten touches inside an opponent’s penalty area, but they’ve been covered elsewhere and the towels just amused me tonight.

But now you mention it, yeah, 100% cotton might have done it.

Thoroughly awful all round tonight.

Even the towels were embarrassing. Did no-one in the dressing room really see that happening when they put them out on only half the pitch?!?

Walsall away at Fleetwood on the last day. Shez could keep us up for a third year in a row.

Unlikely though, as we need to get some points for that to happen.

2 hours ago, LightDN123 said:

He won’t drop Pringle on the left I wouldn’t think 

Does he play on the left? Does anyone play on the left or right? The lack of width yesterday was so frustrating at times, particularly in the first half. The first instinct of the entire midfield was to come central and collect the ball to feet and there were times yesterday in the first half when Gardner, McEleney and Pringle were all in the middle of the pitch. One of them would get the ball and look up to find no options anywhere. It was fine playing short passes and threading the ball through earlier in the season but we’re now out of that form and it doesn’t seem possible anyway given how the pitch has cut up. Having said that, it does seem difficult to get any width into this team with the players available (particularly as I’d play Fane, Gardner and Byrne as a central three). Perhaps 3-5-2 with Hunt and Moimbe pushing forward or 4-3-3 with two of the front three pushed wider? 

Rob Purdie?

Oh...

4 minutes ago, b0ndl1ne said:

I agree. Hunts distribution was poor tonight I thought. Gerrard looked very solid.

Apart from one beauty of a ball inside the full back for (I think) Menig.

Hunt is an interesting one. Can’t put my finger on what he brings to the team but I wouldn’t suggest replacing him because it seems that he does a job. He’s all arms and legs and rarely looks fully in control of the ball. Is he a League One standard version of Connor Brown?

Must be a difficult decision for Clark to comprehend. Bury were unbeaten in over 48 hours when they sacked him.

23 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

This. Always seem to be GKs of late too. Remember Oxley getting pelters for most of a season, he then got us 3 points by producing a string of quality saves in a game we won 1-0. His 92% of the vote for MOTM is still a record on here I think.

 

The abuse players get during the game makes me think if some of our fans shouldn't be forced to memorise the dictionary definition of a supporter before they enter ISZ.

Surely Jordan Bove got at least 100% against Notts County?

4 minutes ago, Mickey Quinn's testicles said:

I agree it's irrrelevant. People discussing a football match on a football forum, whatever next? I'm just watching Match of the Day, why do they need Alan Shearer and Danny Murphy to discuss a match we have all just watched?

That’s a very good question in itself.

23 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

They were pretty decent to be fair particularly their No 16 who had Hunt on toast for the first half.

Agree. Thought they were pretty solid and you can see why they’d conceded only 11 in 15 before today but once we got into the game we were more than a match for them. With the team as it is now it looks like we’ll play well and entertain but possibly won’t kick on to the top end of the table because we’re still liable to draw and lose too many games because of the number of goals we give away.

Also wonder what Dummigan and Hunt thought for the first half hour today. They’ll have a lot of tough afternoons this season if opponents realise it’s so easy to double up and overlap because of the lack of support they get from midfield.

Having said all that, I’d rather watch this football than anything we’ve had in the last decade. 

Credit to Wellens for the substitution last night as well. On the face of it a defensive move when we were 1-1 and looking to win the game but we were losing a bit of control and Omrani helped solidify the midfield. I wouldn’t advocate changing anything about how we’re playing at the moment but potentially the beginnings of a Plan B with Omrani and Fane in midfield when we need a more solid base for others to push on ahead? (although Omrani also does look like he can play a bit too)

He puts in the effort too: one of the hardest trainers at the club. Might even help sneakers into the playoffs.