mcfluff1985 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 1 hour ago, JoeP said: Suppose it would depend how entertaining season two was and whether we could see what he was trying to do. If there was fan restlessness in season two, I could understand the appeal for patience from certain factions as the evidence would be there from season one that he could do it. No chance. Finish in play offs one season and midtable the next would be an absolute failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greek Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 43 minutes ago, Punce said: Neil Warnock is set to leave Huddersfield. Just sayin. Please don’t say it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc1955 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 43 minutes ago, Punce said: Neil Warnock is set to leave Huddersfield. Just sayin. He’d certainly be my choice, certainly in the short term! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Right, he's gone then. I'll run down the names mentioned in this thread so far, and my own thoughts. I've a feeling he'll be one of the names here anyway: Danny Cowley Great choice. Did amazingly well at Lincoln. Knows League one down to National League really well. Available too, had a nice break and will be hungry. Downside would be playing style would be physical, robust and more long ball style to a large forward. 8/10 Ritchie Wellens Unfinished business here and a chance to right the wrong of overseeing our basket case club to relegation. Loads of success since. Well out of our ball park unfortunately unless he gets sacked today. 3/10 Michael Carrick Has heavy Man United connections which would never win a percentage of our fanbase over. Very highly doubt he'll leave Championship Middlesborough to drop four divisions though. Never happening. 0/10 Kevin Maher He'd be my choice. Former Latic (although wasn't prominant) and has cut his teeth now with some caretaker roles before Southend. Despite all the pantomime around their club, he's been brilliant and was the most impressive footballing side I saw us play last season and this. Played us off the park in every match (I know, no mean feat and all that). Slightly doubtly he'd leave 'his club' to come the length of the country to us though. Would be the one fans would be most patient with too. 9/10 Mike Williamson Great player in his day and what he's achieved at Gateshead has been phenomenal. Not sure it's transferred to this season though after most of his best players last season were taken off him. He'd try and build a tenacious, heavy pressing team and moving from Gateshead to us would be a nice upward step for him. 7/10 Jim Gannon Just fuck right off. He's long lost his shine and his appointment would send our fanbase into meltdown. Big, fat 0/10 for me Clive. Pete Wild Would love him to come back. Fans would adore him. Godlike status which is slightly baffling since he hasn't yet achieved anything in the game. However he'd get all the patience in the world and would try and play good football. It's the wrong time for him, perhaps a target once we achieve promotion and we stall somehwat. 4/10 Lee Johnson Just taken the job at Fleetwood which is good as he'd be a terrible appointment. Stunk the place out when leaving and despite some promising runs of form he's fell apart at every club he's been at. Blagger. 1/10 Iain Dowie Not worked since the Arctic Monkey's second album. Only worth wheeling out to entertain hospitality IMO. 2/10 Frankie Bunn / Peter Clarke Dream Team Wouldn't discount this. Thought he did well before being sacked on a whim. Great eye for loan signings too. Hasn't worked other than coaching since though. 6/10. Andy Peaks Fans wouldn't accept someone so low down the pyramid at Tamworth. Achieved promotion before with Rushton. We and the board need a bigger name and bigger credentials rather than someone who'd be good for a raw gem but a complete gamble. 3/10 Micky Mellon Ticks a lot of boxes. Available. Promotion with Tranmere, a similar-sized club to us when in non-league. Promotion with Shrews too. Stock is still relatively high. Prone to rapid dips in form though. 8/10 Neil Warnock I don't think we even feature on his radar any more. Not one to the future since he's about 70 and he was pulled out of retirement for a shot to nothing with one of his big loves. Nah. 1/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Branston Pickle Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 5 hours ago, deyres42 said: Incredible patience People were calling for him to go within weeks of being appointed. Turns out they were bang on. Unfortunately we lost a year to him Williamson would be my choice. But let's be honest, anyone would be an improvement 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzlatic Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 I like the look of Mellon’s cv. What’s his playing style? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Danny Cowley Leam Richardson Darren Clarke Mickey Mellon Lots of managers out of jobs, all of them a huge improvement on DU. Add in our supposed pulling power and there’s lots of in job managers who would be very interested. Next appointment is massive though, so we need to take our time, do a proper process and stay away from employing your mate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeP Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Someone on Twitter has pointed out that Darren Moore is still out of work after his ridiculous sacking from Sheff Wed. He'd be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careca9 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Proper recruitment process, let them apply and pick the best one. Someone who wants to be here and is impressive. Plus hopefully a track record of some sort of success with adult teams 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astottie Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Jonathan Greening has done well at Scarborough and has a good pedigree. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Add a couple more into the mix. I suspect as @Lee Sinnott says, Mellon wil be favourite. Simon Weaver Been at Harrogate since 2009 so pipe and slippers job with him. Prob lacks the drive to better himself but turned them from National League North makeweights to a well run club in League Two. They're at their ceiling though so time for a change? 3/10 Gary Bowyer Stock's lowered somewhat since his Blackpool heyday. Could be a contender but last two jobs have failed fairly miserably. (4/10) Marc White Why the fuck not? The ludicrous love in for the ludicrous snapback cap wearer could continue at pace. Calls it as he sees it so post match interviews would be fantastic (for a change). It'd never happen though as there's too much at stake for the owners to get this right and he's barely left the confines of the M25. 3/10 Phil Parkinson The Alty one, obvs. Far too low are target for us realistically, however he's on a really impressive spell at Alty who punch above their weight. Don't think he'd make the shortlist based on that, but he'd most likely do a far better job than 80% of the candidates on my previous (and this) post. 7/10 Karl Robinson Horrible bastard but is he a horrible bastard because he wasn't a horrible bastard for us? Loads of play-off and promotion experience with MK Dons and Oxford. Was assistant to Allardyce at Leeds last year. Wouldn't be out of the ordinary but can't see our fans taking to him. 5/10. Darrell Clarke Impressive CV. Promotion with Bristol Rovers playing exciting football. Got Port Vale up, a club similar to us in what they've been through. It's unravelled last season but he's a strong candidate for me and he's available. I'd expect him to bring in quality from League one and two as well. 9/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 (edited) 33 minutes ago, nzlatic said: I like the look of Mellon’s cv. What’s his playing style? Think it was more Wrexham than Notts County in style. He's worked with Norwood before though, and he'll know what it takes to get promotion. I have reservations that his ceiling is League Two but we just need to focus on getting promotion here first. It was 2016/17 which was quite a long time ago now. I've looked at their results. Similar start to us this season where they lost four times by mid-Sept. Lost once from 21st November until 20th Feb (a 2-5 battering at Fylde). Went on a six-straight winning run at the end of the season to make the play-offs. Best Ebbsfleet at home 4-2 and then Boreham Wood 2-1 in the final. Following season they were very inconsistant all season up to Feb (seems like W-D-L on a complete cycle) and then went on a seven straight wins to burst into the play-offs where they edged out Forest Green 2-1 and then Newport 1-0 in the final. My takes from that is he needs time and patience to build it with a bunch of inconsistancy in the process. Whether he gets that from our supporters is my biggets concern. Edited September 17, 2023 by Frankly Mr Shankly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
League one forever Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Id go Darrell Clarke all day long. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjk2008 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Darrell Clarke please 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flemboy Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, League one forever said: Id go Darrell Clarke all day long. Good one.Quite a few good experienced candidates around who would love the abundance of strikers we have. Just glad Unsworth and Ebbrell have gone . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiseowl Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 All I would say is; please no knee jerk reactions. Interview people properly and get this right - and Latics will be on an upward trajectory for a good few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 20 hours ago, GlossopLatic said: Come on we may aswell get the ball rolling with this thread. Any Suggestions? my suggestion would be a lengthy, exhaustive recruitment and interview process which we aren't really in the ideal place to run. Muzza and The Decent Right Foot Winger guy whose name escapes me at the moment as joint caretakers if they fancy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 1 minute ago, wiseowl said: All I would say is; please no knee jerk reactions. Interview people properly and get this right - and Latics will be on an upward trajectory for a good few years. l think thats what l said!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggleblue Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 45 minutes ago, Careca9 said: Proper recruitment process, let them apply and pick the best one. Someone who wants to be here and is impressive. Plus hopefully a track record of some sort of success with adult teams Previous success is no guarantee. ANYBODY after D.U will be an improvement but patience will be needed.Lets just see a settled team and formation.Let the players play and let's start enjoying B.P. again. Success WILL come with time. We've great owners who care so now we need players who care. We already have fans who care. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 2 hours ago, The Greek said: Please don’t say it again. l'd love Warnock he would be perfect for our unbalanced squad. bit outspoken for Franks taste maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_R Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 I’m not sure Mellon with his strong Tranmere past would get much time and patience here if he didn’t get off to a flyer. Something about the Cowley’s says no for me, probably how horrible they were when we played them. Darrell Clarke could be a good shout. Got Bristol Rovers and Port Vale up, and had a personal tragedy to deal with the year Vale went up, which is why I thought his sacking last year was particularly harsh. Parkinson and Williamson should definitely be considered, but would both need time to adjust to the demands here and change our playing style, which they probably won’t get. In short, I haven’t a fuckin’ clue! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukers1 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 4 minutes ago, Monty Burns said: my suggestion would be a lengthy, exhaustive recruitment and interview process which we aren't really in the ideal place to run. Muzza and The Decent Right Foot Winger guy whose name escapes me at the moment as joint caretakers if they fancy it. Steve Thompson is interim for the time being. I’m sure Muzza will be assisting in a capacity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukers1 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Just now, Steve_R said: I’m not sure Mellon with his strong Tranmere past would get much time and patience here if he didn’t get off to a flyer. Something about the Cowley’s says no for me, probably how horrible they were when we played them. Darrell Clarke could be a good shout. Got Bristol Rovers and Port Vale up, and had a personal tragedy to deal with the year Vale went up, which is why I thought his sacking last year was particularly harsh. Parkinson and Williamson should definitely be considered, but would both need time to adjust to the demands here and change our playing style, which they probably won’t get. In short, I haven’t a fuckin’ clue! Yeah, that was an absolute tragedy losing his daughter in that way. Like you say, who knows, maybe we get an absolute left side appointment that no one knew about… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemood Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 What we don’t want is a big Joe recommend. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 4 minutes ago, Lukers1 said: Steve Thompson is interim for the time being. I’m sure Muzza will be assisting in a capacity tbh l was posting in my capacity as unaware that he had been sacked!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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