Not sure he will 'easily "get any managerial job now.How is it his career over? He could easily get a league 2 job for starters.
What he does need to do is actually think long and hard about the clubs he is going into.
Not sure he will 'easily "get any managerial job now.How is it his career over? He could easily get a league 2 job for starters.
What he does need to do is actually think long and hard about the clubs he is going into.
I expect he’ll get a job through a relationship with someone there, maybe the likes of Salford.Not sure he will 'easily "get any managerial job now.
Yup. But he's screwed his management career by constantly running after the next pay cheque. That's what Kitson accused him of, and he's probably right. Appleton is only about 45 and that's hid management career pretty much over
Losing to a 97th minute goal. Always someone worse off than you.
He didn't get the memo that they're going for it this season
Good fit for Charlton*...wonder what his thoughts are on Salmon coloured chinos and 90's house musicAfcon 2023: Ghana sack boss Chris Hughton after group-stage exit
Ghana sack boss Chris Hughton after the Black Stars suffered a group-stage exit from the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.www.bbc.co.uk
While this is an international sacking, I wouldn't be surprised to see him back in the Football league
#ambitionI’d have Appleton back here right now!
#ambition
Think you may be might need to look a little bit deeper at club personnel around that time to fathom out why MA was a success here. And not forgetting this was after a fairly disasterous start too, the same leeway that is apparently not being afforded to our current manager . . .
You're familar with the injury list, right?At least under Mapps, you could see there was a plan on how he wanted to play. Despite the early set backs.
Des has been here since November, and I’m struggling to see what he’s trying to do, and sometimes the tactics and team selection is quite kind boggling.
With funds available I have no doubt Mapps would be a success here. Even after Ashton left he got us to the brink of the playoffs. We even demolished the eventual playoff winners 0-3 Millwall.
You're familar with the injury list, right?
Manning got lucky in that the starting 11 at his disposal was very good indeed, but as we've now come to realise, we were punching above our weight, the squad was paper thin behind it and carries far too many injury prone and over the hill players on expensive long contracts (not Manning's or Des's fault, granted). So, a paper thin inadequate squad and with several match day squad first choices out is always going to struggle with the make do nature of what was available (OisinSmyth on the right in defence?? - still managed to score a worldy winner though!). Just look at the Derby game as a prime example. We were gifted a two goal lead and were hanging on for dear life for the rest of that game with exhausted players and pretty much nothing on the bench that would improve us - who's fault is that?
It wasn't that long ago when Manning arrived that we were pretty much all acknowledging that it would take several transfer windows to undo the previous damage and re-balance the squad. What has changed suddenly? Is it the frustration of getting so high early on in the campaign and now seemingly unable to sustain it I wonder?
I think there is certainly a lot of truth in that. We probably need a bit of a clear out in the summer and for the new manager to be able to get the players in that he needs to build a team that can play in the way he wants.Manning got lucky in that the starting 11 at his disposal was very good indeed, but as we've now come to realise, we were punching above our weight, the squad was paper thin behind it and carries far too many injury prone and over the hill players on expensive long contracts (not Manning's or Des's fault, granted). So, a paper thin inadequate squad and with several match day squad first choices out is always going to struggle with the make do nature of what was available (OisinSmyth on the right in defence?? - still managed to score a worldy winner though!). Just look at the Derby game as a prime example. We were gifted a two goal lead and were hanging on for dear life for the rest of that game with exhausted players and pretty much nothing on the bench that would improve us - who's fault is that?
It wasn't that long ago when Manning arrived that we were pretty much all acknowledging that it would take several transfer windows to undo the previous damage and re-balance the squad. What has changed suddenly? Is it the frustration of getting so high early on in the campaign and now seemingly unable to sustain it I wonder?
Spot on I think! And I do think a lot of the frustration is around the difference in performance at the start of the season to what we're witnessing now. We look like we're going backwards quickly, but I think there are several reasons for that, some of which I mentioned up the thread. As I've already said, injuries and not much behind the strongest starting 11 = limited options to maintain the push. We've been crying out fora consistent (and fit) scorer since, like, forever! Lest we forget that Greg Leigh was our leading goalscorer during our purple patch, which might lead us to think we were flattering to deceive a little. ALL of this has been compounded by the enforced manager change. . . . and possibly even by the senior management taking their eye off the ball to sort out the pressing issues surrounding the stadium planning app. . . . who knowsI think there is certainly a lot of truth in that. We probably need a bit of a clear out in the summer and for the new manager to be able to get the players in that he needs to build a team that can play in the way he wants.
But there are certainly frustrations that come with watching the team on the pitch at the moment. I don't think I am alone in not actually being able to see what we are even *trying* to do much of the time. Sometimes playing the ball about at the back seems illogical and dangerous for little obvious advantage or reward. Hence the shouts from the stands to 'play it forward' - even when there seems little actually on! Playing with our backs to goal is far too prevalent. Some of the positioning, marking and movement off the ball is very questionable. It certainly *looks* at times as if the players are as confused as the people in the stands. It *looks* as if we are relying on worldy shots from 30 yards out (from midfielders and defenders) to score a goal. It *looks* unexciting and pedestrian. All of this *may* be misleading. There may be some gameplan I cannot see, that is too subtle for me - but I suspect not...
(And that isn't only when we lose! I thought the first half at Carlisle, for example, was very ordinary indeed.)
So while I think it's unfair to castigate DB for every miskick and certainly too early for any definitive judgement on him, it is the job of a manager to organise and motivate the players he has at his disposal to make the whole more than just the sum of its parts. Hand on heart, I can't see that when I look at the majority of our recent performances.