League One - Who manages us?

[S1DDO]

Are we even allowed to appoint a new manager if Rowett is still under contract?

[Foxes1]

So now the good old Leic Mercury is linking us with Will Smallbone if Martin comes here, no thanks to either of them.

[HankMarvin]

4 minutes ago, S1DDO said:

Are we even allowed to appoint a new manager if Rowett is still under contract?

Yeah they just adjust the start date, or in Rowetts case finish date even though he probably is done already and the players on holiday

[teblin]

9 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Feel like we’ve not touched on the worst case scenario here of this all going really well and us having to like Russell Martin eventually….  

Could happen.

[fox_favourite]

161 pages of nothing. What other club could do that. We are massive 

[MPH]

1 hour ago, Broof said:

Doesn't make any sense. What is there to do in the middle of the season for the board? The best moment to take some time off would surely be between the season starting and Christmas. 

 Or at the end of a long and exhausting season?  When even the players are on holiday?

[MPH]

1 hour ago, ian__marshall said:

What stops them taking a few weeks off with the family at the end of April? Not exactly like they are going to be holidaying in Skegness, so weather certainly isn't a factor. Considering their main roles are centred around planning and performance to succeed during the season ahead, I'd say the football off season is the time they should be getting down to business. 

So they’ve around the end of April they are probably finalizing the transfer targets for the season. It makes sense to take the holiday when they do. Personally I wish Rudkin would be on permanent holiday but it does make sense.

[Grebfromgrebland]

I think people dissing Russell Martin haven't fully grasped where we are as a club. 

 

It's quite likely he'll reject us for a championship club or even a top tier club abroad.

[Broof]

2 minutes ago, MPH said:

 Or at the end of a long and exhausting season?  When even the players are on holiday?

But this is the moment they're needed, not during the season. The season is the busy period for the players, and recruitment + planning is on pause awaiting results and the transfer window causing movement. 

 

It’s like finishing the harvest and saying the farm can shut down, when the next job is preparing the fields and getting the next crop in. You don’t rest at the exact point the next season’s work needs setting up. You can rest once it starts growing. 

[SemperEadem]

2 minutes ago, Broof said:

But this is the moment they're needed, not during the season. The season is the busy period for the players, and recruitment + planning is on pause awaiting results and the transfer window causing movement. 

 

It’s like finishing the harvest and saying the farm can shut down, when the next job is preparing the fields and getting the next crop in. You don’t rest at the exact point the next season’s work needs setting up. You can rest once it starts growing. 

Thats how I see it too.

 

At my place there is no annual longer than a day or two in June and November due to the nature of the work. I fully feel the top brass should be on job in the off season as thats largely where they are needed as opposed to say February March time when the football is in full swing. 

[The Fosse Way]

6 minutes ago, Broof said:

But this is the moment they're needed, not during the season. The season is the busy period for the players, and recruitment + planning is on pause awaiting results and the transfer window causing movement. 

 

It’s like finishing the harvest and saying the farm can shut down, when the next job is preparing the fields and getting the next crop in. You don’t rest at the exact point the next season’s work needs setting up. You can rest once it starts growing. 

Rare to see such a well-used analogy. Hats off to you.

[Lambert09]

3 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

If we don't get Martin we'll end up with a pound shop version of him. This is not an endorsement of Martin, by the way—just an observation of what is likely to happen.

Yeah exactly.  I think with the way we are run, people need to realise that it won’t be a good thing in the slightest if it falls through. 
 

We would need a huge stroke of luck to not get it all wrong again 

[JimJams]

22 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

I think people dissing Russell Martin haven't fully grasped where we are as a club. 

You could argue anybody NOT dissing Martin hasn't fully grasped where Martin is as a manager.

 

 

[dannythefox]

Very embarrassing this with just under 4 weeks till preseason still no gaffer and still nothing about GR. Crazy 

[AjcW]

9 minutes ago, dannythefox said:

Very embarrassing this with just under 4 weeks till preseason still no gaffer and still nothing about GR. Crazy 

The polo is on

[Corky]

57 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

I think people dissing Russell Martin haven't fully grasped where we are as a club. 

 

It's quite likely he'll reject us for a championship club or even a top tier club abroad.

Given many on here would rather have a manager has never managed above League One, I think we have grasped it.

 

Martin isn't wanted through various factors. Snobbery isn't one of them. If that was the case, nobody would want Challinor.

[dooflip]

I’m not surprised that we are about the make the same mistake we keep making.

SACK THE BOARD OR NOTHING WILL CHANGE.

[ClaphamFox]

12 minutes ago, Corky said:

Given many on here would rather have a manager has never managed above League One, I think we have grasped it. If that 

 

Martin isn't wanted through various factors. Snobbery isn't one of them. If that was the case, nobody would want Challinor.

Yep. The big problem with Martin—and the reason he’d be an unpopular choice at most clubs—is that he has carved himself a reputation as a rigid ideologue who has only one way of playing and stubbornly refuses to compromise even when it’s clear to everyone that it is not working. He has such enormous belief in own coaching ability that he thinks he can coach Championship players to play like Man City against PL opposition and achieve success with it. There’s nothing wrong with having a preferred way of playing provided it is combined with a pragmatic sense of what is achievable given the players you have and the opposition you’re facing. But if your ideals are more important to you than the team’s results, you’re going to come unstuck sooner or later.

 

It’s not snobbish to not want a manager like that. 

[Muzzy_no7]

1 hour ago, S1DDO said:

Are we even allowed to appoint a new manager if Rowett is still under contract?

Yeah sack Rowett or place him on gardening leave

[MPH]

1 hour ago, Broof said:

But this is the moment they're needed, not during the season. The season is the busy period for the players, and recruitment + planning is on pause awaiting results and the transfer window causing movement. 

 

It’s like finishing the harvest and saying the farm can shut down, when the next job is preparing the fields and getting the next crop in. You don’t rest at the exact point the next season’s work needs setting up. You can rest once it starts growing. 

I find it mildly amusing people seem to think a Director of football is not needed during the season.

 

right now, with no football and no players around  no transfer window, what is there for anyone to actually direct?

[stevostadium]

From what i have heard Martin been offered the job, its now down to him.

He has worked with Glover at Saints previously.

I also got shot down on here previously saying he had worked with our new Technical Director at Swansea.

Apparently he was there on a consultancy basis and is highly regarded by RM

 

I hope the Burnley gig is turning his head but i have a feeling hes holding out for a bigger payday.

 

Worrying times ahead

 

[honeybradger]

9 minutes ago, MPH said:

I find it mildly amusing people seem to think a Director of football is not needed during the season.

 

right now, with no football and no players around  no transfer window, what is there for anyone to actually direct?

Scouting and recruitment, pre season plannig, in our case finding a new manager, managing contracts, long term planning.

 

This is usually the busiest period for directors of football. Sadly in our case May/June is when Rudkin seems to take his yearly holiday which is why we are always so unprepared.

[stevostadium]

Not that i give much of a sh*te anymore tbh

Oh and i off to Dallas Monday 

[cityfanlee23]

If we sign Martin we are going to need a new goalkeeper, Stol isn't good enough on the ball to play this style. 

[Broof]

24 minutes ago, MPH said:

I find it mildly amusing people seem to think a Director of football is not needed during the season.

 

right now, with no football and no players around  no transfer window, what is there for anyone to actually direct?

Completely unfair reading of my point to the point of absurdity tbh. But to answer your question, right now they should be finalising scouting lists, talking to managers, putting feelers out to see what movements are likely to happen and what the consequences of that will be. If club x recruits player y then they will be open to sell player z. If manager M wants unfavourable terms then we can talk to manager C. 

 

There's a million things to do right now, everything on the back end is allowed to move once the season is over and can't once the season is on. That's the point of transfer windows. Once September the first rolls around what are you expecting him to be doing? His choices have been made, everything is set. That's when he should **** off to wherever.