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Who do we want as our new Manager
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Plus of course the ATV microphones would struggle with his octave changes.
Walid Regragui, left of field but a great style snd exciting style of football, gets total player commitment, high pace, counter attacking style. May worth seeing if interested
As if a World Cup semi final coach for the 13th ranked nation in the world would consider coaching little old Plymouth Argyle. That's almost as incredulous as suggesting a part time coach for a local club about 7 levels below us in the football pyramid should be considered. They have both done a great job at their respective levels but with respect are pretty ludicrous suggestions.
Because there is a big wide world out there.
Of course there is and we should explore it fully but to say no more Scousers means the big wide world becomes a little smaller. It also suggests previous Scousers haven't been very good at their job under the current regime when only one has failed in reality.
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For all the obvious mistakes of the Foster appointment (no not going down *that* rabbit hole), the management of process (externally anyway) was synonymous with the “new Argyle” quietly done with no leaks. In that sense alone we run a really tight ship.
NO ONE saw Foster coming when it did, until it was too late, none of the 17 year old experts on Twitter, the media and that’s my only prediction is that it’s done in the same way. For better or for worse argyle do seem to be able to avoid “trial by social media appointments”.
I still think the person we appoint will have an element of surprise to it. Rightly or wrongly.
NO ONE saw Foster coming when it did, until it was too late, none of the 17 year old experts on Twitter, the media and that’s my only prediction is that it’s done in the same way. For better or for worse argyle do seem to be able to avoid “trial by social media appointments”.
I still think the person we appoint will have an element of surprise to it. Rightly or wrongly.
I agree
It's time for a re think on many issues I think , if, as I suspect will be the case, we get relegated on saturday
The relegation will have the feel of 'negligence' to it, in my view.... totally avoidable in my opinion
Penny wise and pound foolish- in the sense of the wasted pounds from the upcoming sky deal
The clubs links with the england youth set up may have run their natural course in my view if our aspirations are as a mid-table championship club ....and we dont want to get 'ambushed' in the way that we did last january over loan players, again
After foster do we really want another contact of dewsnip as manager ( albeit termed 'coach') ?
If things ain't working - learn why, and make the necessary changes
We could have signed out of contract strikers/ wingers/ attacking midfielders any time up to the start of march it transpires...so failure in the january transfer window is not the only issue....it goes deeper than that
As for neil dewsnip.....
The trend of scouse managers would be laughable if it wasnt so sad...and frankly pathetic....
I think there are 1 or 2 good P & D League managers out there! How are Southway doing?
And if two of them hadn't managed Argyle to promotions in the past few years.
I find the accent as maddening as the next man, but does it really matter where the person comes from if they get the results?
'Isms and failure to follow a proper process..
Perception is important, and even if there is no truth in these perceptions ( and I'm not suggesting that there is ), perception and presentation is v important
It gives a rather amateurish impression of the process ( even as I said if likely to be untrue)
I regret that the club no longer has a fan representative in important decisions like this to reassure even sceptics, of the transparency of the process
Another scouse manager ? No thanks.As somebody has already said, earlier in the thread, theres a whole big world out there....
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I watched a clip on YouTube where Big Sam was saying we should have appointed Karl Robinson. I think he was intimating he was in for the job when Foster was appointed.
Absolutely there is a big wide world out there, but if the club appointed someone with no previous ties to anyone else at the club, they just happened to be from Liverpool (I don't believe for a second that every single Scouse person knows every other Scouse person), that is the same as them being from anywhere else in that big wide world in my view.
It's not the Liverpudlian origin that's the issue, it's the absence of any obvious arm's-lengthedness (new concept I am going to try to trademark) of the appointment.
Allardyce is probably just talking up his mate - Robinson was his assistant at Leeds.
Reminds me of the old joke ' you wait ages for a bus, then four come at once'
I dont know any jokes about scouse managers. Anyone ??
