New Broom

A thread devoted solely to speculation as to the next manager (assuming Mackay leaves, else this thread will be quickly redundant...)

I posted elsewhere the following list of possibles:

Nigel Gibbs
Andy Hessenthaler
Paul Tisdale
Lee Clark
Mark Robins
John Ward
Russell Slade
Sean Dyche
Derek McInnes

Just wondering, at this early stage, which of the above would be our preferred choice (if any: of course the next manager could be someone entirely different, perhaps a complete unknown as has happened in the past).

I hope my attempt to put up a poll has been successful. If you vote 'other' please indicate who you would like to see the club approach. I'd be interested to read all your views.

P.S. Anyone suggesting Bassett, Vialli etc will be subject to the customary online lynching.

 

Nigel Gibbs would be my top choice.

 

Lee Clark, if we could prize him away from Huddersfield Town. The costs involved may be a bit steep and scupper that one.

 

My preference would be Hessenthaler.

My money would be on McInnes.

 

Alec Chamberlain for caretaker manager assuming we cannot afford decent champo standard managers.
Watched him organising the WFC Legends cricket side up at the Old Albanian ground...would back him as one for the future, possibly an assistant to a new manager that comes in.

Otherwise I'd take hughton (near impossible) or lee clark, although I expect he is fairly happy to get his side into the champo this season.

 

Without wishing to stereotype, I'm trying to think of the greatest manager who spent his playing days as a keeper.

And I'm struggling.

 

P.S. I am saying that Bassini should appoint Bassett, as Bassett is the only man capable of luring the online lynch mob away from himself.

 

Possibly Peter Taylor as he has experience at bringing up youngsters

 

Ahh but you should have seen him captain his team, even though it was a different sport and they were doomed to fail! (I sound almost like claridge)

On top of this he's a club legend and the work he does as GK coach is fantastic (watch out for our young keepers in the years to come)

He'd also be an alternative to another young, ambitious manager who would only move on in a few years anyway.

But the main reasoning is cost.

 

Albert Camus

 

As long as its not Dennis Wise or Lawrie Sanchez , I dont really care! For at least some miniscule continuity I would go for SD , but he will prob follow MM!

 

Dino Zoff GK turned coach

 

P.S. Anyone suggesting Bassett, Vialli etc will be subject to the customary online lynching.[/QUOTE]

Agreed - Basset + Vialli no hopers. Etc however.............??????????????

 

Class comment!!!

If Dennis Wise was even interviewed it would be clear how much control the Russo's have over the "New (tarnished reime".

Lee Clark has a bigger budget at Huddersfield than Watford. John Ward would welcome an excuse to exit Colchester.

My vote is on Gibbs, but I know nice men don't (often) make good managers.

 

Just to bring some cheer up today, I am told that the odds on a Mr. A. Boothroyd have gone from 40/1 to 5/1 over the past few hours.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing Alec Chamberlain actually

 

Such a shame that Boothroyd's career has turned out the way it has.

I reckon his self-belief, one his stronger qualities initially, mutated into a stubbornness, even arrogance, which prevents him seeing what everyone else sees: the style of football he believes in is ugly and ineffective.

His first season with us showed that direct football isn't the same as hoofball. We utilised strength, pace and determination, played quick wingers, showed great organisation and had real team spirit. I realise we couldn't replicate that in the Premiership, particularly after losing King to injury and Young to Villa, but the stuff we played back in the Championship was diabolical. Going to Vicarage Road wasn't the pleasure it should be.

I think the only way for Boothroyd to rehabilitate himself is to have a Damascene conversion: he needs to totally renounce the dross he's favoured in recent times. The problem is he needs a club to take that gamble on him: I hope it's not us and, as a former fan of his, it saddens me to say that.

 

P.S. On the poll, I'm the one who voted for Tisdale. I've been really impressed by his work at Exeter, even more so when I saw just how young he was and read reports of the style he prefers.

 

Kick a man when he `s down

 

I've gone for McInnes.

We did OK with our last McManager - and it looks like McInnes can work within a budget.

Legal Dept - Should the use 'Mc' in front of anything Sweaty Sockish be regarded as racist - I'm 75% Sweaty myself (despite being born in Watford) - so there.