Clever Fox

10 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Imagine what the opposition will do to him.

Maybe some of ours will in Training. He doesn't like the physical side of the game.

He seemed promising but was an abject failure who never got the players onside.

Marti proved to be weak in management but it may have been better to stick with him in hindsight.

1 hour ago, Greg2607 said:

who else would you have gone with?? i'm not being pedantic... I'm just interested.... 

 

Who were the truly realistic prospects that would have been happy to manage us in League One, with no money and a boat load of expectation??  

 

I'm no fan of the Martin Appointment (rFm) but I also don't know who else we could have secured... 

 There's plenty of people out there who would have taken the job knowing that they could get us back to the Championship without too much effort.

Foreign managers and Good Coachs just looking for a break to show their talent.

Personnally I liked the sound of Hake, A Dutch Coach with some proven backround who's been around the block.

I feel giving someone who's failed in his last few jobs a 3 year Contract is just further evidence that we are still not learning from our mistakes.

It should be a 1 year contract with a Bonus and further year based on league position or promotion. Any Manager who feels he's good enough would back himself.

If he doesn't then he's only a shister and we've had enough of them lately.

Martin is going to have to put together a new young team and yet he has to hit the ground winning, Otherwise he'll be under early pressure and trouble.

Not happy with this appointment, I feel we could have done so much better. Haven't we learn't anything in giving out 3 year Contracts to people who have continued to fail.

I just hope he smat enough to bring in a Defensive Coach. Then maybe he might just win over some Fans with results.

We've known for Months that the team wern't fit enough and yet no one done anything about it. 

Not the fitness trainer, whoever that is, He's as useless as the Set piece Coach. The Manager done nothing either but most of all the DOF JR failed everyone again.

You only had to look at some of the attempts to run back or even forward.

It's even more laughable when you see the Training facilities they have at their disposal.

With a proper fitness Coach we should really piss this league.

You have to be committed to the Club, He wasn't so the sooner he's gone the better.

John, Tell your Mother to be quiet, She's embarrassing you.

There are no positives. He's proven he can't deliver winning results consistantly, Which is what we need to get out of league 1 quickly.

We need to move on and get a proper manager who knows the game well.

It's surely a tactic for us to throw more money at him.

Nobody will be buying him for his goal scoring anyway.

You could see he was really trying the last few Months probably because he was looking for a new Club and he still couldn't Score.

It's all a Cod if you ask me.

5 hours ago, Kilworthfox said:

No.

 

Players are released by coaches 

 

Signings are made by recruitment.

So it's a collective decision by the Coaches.  Whereas recruitment is by Rudkin and Top. 

Who decides who we keep and who we release. Is it the dame people who signed the senior players. Genuine question.

9 hours ago, ajthefox said:

I don't mean to pick on you specifically but I can't believe I keep reading this stuff as if it's that simple. Give X role to: King/Wes/Fuchs,/Kasper/Albrighton/Vards (as appropriate), that will solve our problems!

 

Good player does not translate to good manager, no matter who you are. It's far more than that. There are plentiful great players who have tried management and not succeeded. Kasper is doing his badges but has no experience coaching as far as I can tell. I think you are right in that his attributes will probably lend themselves well to it, but throwing him into this situation with no experience of management? I'll pass, thanks.

 

One of our problems has been being too sentimental, giving out overly long contracts to people with any sort of connection to the club and jobs for the boys regardless of merit. Giving a coaching role to a young, up and coming coach with some experience who is doing well makes sense, but this clamouring for every title winner to be involved forever is closely linked to the former as much as the latter and is fuching tiring.

 

 

Thanks for your consideration I understand but it's all about opinions.

While it's true that good players don't always make good managers. It's also true that many of them do. Dalglish, O Neill, Cruyff, Pep along with others.

I do agree with you about giving jobs to people just because they played for the Club without considering if they are suitable. King comes to mind.

He had his failings as a Goal Keeper but he never let that hold him back, which is usually the sign of a winner.

However, I do think you're missing the key points Kasper would bring to the job.  1. he'd come cheap because he's only starting out. 2. He knows the Club inside out.

3. He'd command respect because he's been a Prem League and Cup Winner. He's also someone for young players to look up too. 4. He'd be an attraction for new signings.

5.He's on first name terms with Top and might just get through to him the harm JR has caused the Club, unlike a strang Manager coming in.

6. We know he won't be intimidated or messed with by anyone unlike Marti and others.

Yes, He'd be coming in with no personel experience of Management,  But given the Clubs and Manager's he's played for he must have learned a lot from all of them.  And that's something we could tap into. Yes theres an element of risk but no worse than any new Manager coming in.

Look at the Job Michael Carrick has done for Utd, A young inexperienced Coach after the failure of numerous high profile Managers at Utd. 

Why do you think that is. It can only be because he grew up at the Club witnessing what went on from one of the best in Ferguson.

Keith Andrews at Brentford another in expereinced Coach who should get Manager of the season for the job he's done for Brentford.

There's every chance Kasper could do the same for us while he builds his Resume and Profile as a Manager.  And let's be honest, I'ts not the most difficult task to get us out of league 1.

Personnaly I think he'd be to big a Charcter for JR to handle so unlikely to happen. Probably end up with another subservient loser.

11 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Mate, we don't really owe any serious money to 'banks' - if indeed any. 

 

It's liquidity that's the issue. Pay the staff. The players.  The taxman. Cutting the grass. Keeping the lights on (literally). And, perhaps most concerning, transfer fee instalments likely due on Bilal, Fatawu, Hermansen, Skipp, Stephy, Souttar, VK. 

 

Unless the owner has magically developed an IQ above SEN level and attracts 100m or so in cash, the club will be taken off him under insolvency laws representing the clubs and players and staff and taxman we can't pay. Not the banks. 

 

 

I agree liquidity is the short term problem, but didn't we borrow to build Seagrave. which has little equity value.  The big problem is we cant use the Prem money because it's already been spent. 

All they were doing was kicking the can down the road rather than face up to doing the right thing. Which is also why Susan left.                                                                     

If Top wouldn't listen to the one person who was there from the start of KP is a Money person and knows the duty free business inside out, Then he's some form or Cretin.

I can understand pushing the boat out a little in 2016 even if they did f---k that up also.

For someone who comes from a proud race of people a people in Thailand He must be the laughing stock of Thailand now .

Top is displaying a special level of incompetance.  My guess he's paralysed with fear for doing the wrong thing and refusing to open his eyes.

Sadly he may lose everything before he really sees or understands the problem.

That report makes for very sad reading. The level of incompetance goe's from year to year.  With KP also struggling we can't expect much financial help from them.

All of this is down to one man. Unless Top takes action he's going to be left owning is it 40% of nothing and the Banks will take over.

And Banks are only interested in one thing, that's getting their money back with little thought for the Club or Fans. 

We're in for a Roller Coaster of a season, that only the right Mangerial appointment can bring hope.

It seems everyone around us is on the way up while we're on the way down.    

Of Course we really could drop another league. But it's way to early to make any predictions with no manager .

We can hardly field a team at the moment unless we use junior players.

What we need is a kickass strong Manager who can bring the players together and onside and  knows what he's doing.

He surely has enough experience and seen enough to give him the managers job. He wouldn't take any messing from anyone.

I think he'd make a top manager as he exudes buckets of confidence.

We're starting from Rckbottom and he's starting a new Journey. We can both achieve greatness again.

1 hour ago, lfu said:

Kniat wouldn't be a bad choice, he was really good with SC Verl in the third division on a small budget. Decent job getting stablising Bielefeldafter their relegation two seasons ago with a huge squad upheaval, got them promoted last season and got to the German FA Cup final, didn't really have the squad to do much more than a relegation fight this season. Plays a 4-3-3 where he wants possession and likes high-pressing.

Plus look at his arms, Michael Appleton successor right there 😂

 

Apparently he's wanted by RB Salzburg though, which is undoubtedly a more attractive job than ours.

I don't know anything about him, But I can't imagine any of our clowns picking a fight with him.

We also need a few  players of the same build to survive in this league.

On 03/05/2026 at 20:40, TonyN11 said:

No, you can't ask or,

No, you're not American?

No I'm not American.

17 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

Can I ask, are you American? 

No,