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Sorry to disappoint you but Clarke Carlisle despite no doubt being a very nice man, Is no way managerial material for a football club. If you ever read his book, he is a self confessed alcoholic and depressive. The job is a cert to drive him into the ground. i think he would admit that himself. You need to be hard as nails to survive being a manager in this game. Guy Branston is an interesting thought though. I suggested David (Boris) Mehew up at Gloucester City. I guy who has contacts. Knows how to operate on a shoestring and can still get the best out of his team.
But I won't even look at anyone else as Knill Is our manager at the moment and needs our backing.

arcadia wrote:Martyn Allan is passed his sell by date thats what kind of managers we attract. Look at what Buckle did here he was fresh in his first years. Martyn Rogers was good at that time and yes I think he would have been good for Torquay I was involved with that league at the time. We need a fresh look at things most managers have had good years look at Knill then struggle. What I'm saying go for a fresh manager with a coach alongside I expect you were saying the same about Buckle when he was appointed. Sean North helped him.

I would not have touched Rogers with a barge pole. I agree about fresh young manager. Our two best managers in the last decade have been Rosenior and Buckle. Both brought a vibrancy to the club.

Leroy took over after Roy McFarland had steadied the ship in the aftermath of the almost relegation season that we escaped at Barnet. Buckle was exactly what we needed when life needed breathing back into a carcass of a football club.

Martin Allen is not so done I see here long term, but simply someone to get us over the safety line and then ultimately, start again with a fresh young manager.

Sean Joyce, I just would not see working at Plainmoor. I have always got a little frustrated by those going on about Hargreaves, but it may be that his time is coming. Does he have the tactical nous? Well, neither does Alan Knill, so it could hardly be worse.

ferrarilover wrote: Ok, same scenario, except the house is still 5 miles from the beach and the insurance premium is 10 times my annual salary.

Matt.

Except it's not five miles away. It's one place and one point and the ground is eroding pretty rapidly, judging by our current form. But hey, you keep your fingers crossed, blame the BBC for their biased weather forecast and welsh referees for our predicament and that house may just be stay in one piece as it tumbles down the cliff side.

It's November, the sea is bloody miles away.

Matt.

ferrarilover wrote:It's November, the sea is bloody miles away.

Matt.

How long have you been a member of the Flat Earth Society? You are in denial. You want to wait until the house is half-way across the Atlantic before you wake up and realise that, hey, maybe I should have done something about it.

You have been preaching the patient game for two months now and still, nothing is better - in fact it is worse.

I'm not explaining it to you again. You didn't listen the last 5000 times, you won't listen the 5001st.

Matt.

EddUK12 wrote:Didnt we start the season bottom of the table? Therefore AK has moved us up the league!

Wimbledon
Wycombe

ferrarilover wrote:I'm not explaining it to you again. You didn't listen the last 5000 times, you won't listen the 5001st.

Matt.

I don't require you to explain anything. Your nonsense is nonsense. Once, twice, 5000 and 5001 times.

You slate so many of our team, yet in another breath bleat about referees, the BBC, inaccurate reporting - probably the BBC again - in terms of Rochdale's shots on target compared to ours, that we have only really been properly beaten once, at Fleetwood, because the other lengthy list of defeats are not proper defeats. So is our team crap, like you point out, when singling out players you don't like or is it bad luck? Your nonsensical ramblings cloaked in spiteful, pseudo-intellect just make no sense. They are mad. They overlook the bleedin' obvious.

And to top it off, this team, the one stuffed with players you slate and its inept manager - you want to stick with it, when the whole world, but you, can see it plainly isn't working, and wait to see if it, err...doesn't work. Hmm, wake up, Matt!

You're not the last surviving worker from the Titanic are you? 'We don't need lifeboats, this boats not for sinking!' There you are, standing on the deck, playing your violin, wondering why the deck floor is a little wet but ignoring the fact the boat is at 90 degrees. Ignorance is bliss, perhaps. :Oops:

AFC Wycombe?

jonnyfive wrote:AFC Wycombe?

And York.

Edd, you'd best get your coat!!

;0)

It's almost as though you've been spouting your appallingly twisted tripe for so long that you've started to believe it.

Matt.

Now, now ladies, put those claws away and play nicely.. :aww:

ferrarilover wrote:It's almost as though you've been spouting your appallingly twisted tripe for so long that you've started to believe it.

Matt.

...Says, Matt, as he brushes his hair in front of the mirror.

EddUK12 wrote:Do i have to get my coat cos ive pulled?

You certainly have, you saucy minx!

Matt.