tufcbrett wrote:He is a football manager of Torquay United. The club will not let him talk to you during the play offs. No club would let them.
Did your "sourse" also tell you that Simon Baker was there too, our club chairman.
After the play offs, i can see your lot and swindon being intrested. Untill after everyone knows what league were in, this conversation is pointless.
I'm not so sure that this development would make the "rumour" any less true. As PB is contracted to us then any approach to take him off us would have to be made through the Board. I would imagine given the excellent relationship that there appears to be between the board and PB that they would at the very least offer him the chance to interview for the job if he wanted to. Personally I reckon that If PB wants it then I don't think the Board would stand in his way - that's not to say that they wouldn't be hugely disappointed at this outcome though. So with that in mind it would make perfect sense for Simon Baker to meet with his oppos at BRFC in order to discuss compensation and perhaps also agree on the timing of the appointment given our involvement in the Play Offs!
I believe that we are entitled to a decent chunk of compo as he (Bucks) is on a rolling 12 month contract rather than the fixed contract to November 2011 as has been mooted elsewhere. My guess would be that we would end up with something like 6-12 months of Bucks' salary but of course it all depends on how his contract is structured.
I can understand why Bucks may be interested in the BRFC job as let's face it they are a bigger club than us and in many ways it's an ideal time to take a job like that on in that they are at a low point at this moment in time and with the right Manager in charge surely the only way is up! They are certainly capable of bouncing straight back to L1 next season and who knows maybe even challenging at the right end of L1 the season after although I don't really see them as a Championship club in waiting as some have suggested!
From Bucks point of view he may well feel that after 4 years with us it's time to move on and given his personal circumstances a move a bit closer to London would probably suit him too. Not only that but he might have a decent budget to play with there, almost certainly a lot more than ours as things stand whatever league we end up in, but if they were to cash in on Will Hoskins who is far and away their best player and biggest asset then he could be quids in. They are also planning a move to a new ground which can only help in their progress.
A word of caution would of course be that they sacked their last Manager (Dave Penney) within 3 months and who's to say that if he weren't to get off to a flyer next season that he might not be out of a job by Xmas! I certainly doubt that the BRFC board would afford Bucks the same level of patience that he has enjoyed, and would continue to do I'm sure, with us.
As for the timing, well who knows, perhaps BRFC will make the appointment "within the week" as has been suggested , or perhaps they will delay it until after next weekend or if necessary (hopefully) maybe not until the end of May! I suppose one option might be that they could announce him as their new Manager but allow him to stay with us to "complete" the job if that is what the parties concerned wanted - although not sure how well that would sit with TUFC!!!!
