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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: New Manager
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on: February 16, 2021, 15:59:17 pm
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I think this is quite a tricky appointment. These are the criteria IMO in order of importance:
1. Someone with sufficient League 1 - or at least football league - experience to keep us up. Personally I'm not convinced that a non-league manager would have sufficient nous to be able to scout League One opposition and work out how to effectively combat their threats. It's just too big a jump IMO, but I would feel differently if we were in League Two.
The financial ramifications of staying at this level IMO are too great to risk an appointment purely based on potential and long-term vision. We need to appoint someone who has the best chance of keeping us up.
2. Someone who plays a mixture of direct and passing football If we appoint another hoofball merchant then 0 progress will have been made and we may as well have stuck with Curle. The squad and the fans are crying out for a different approach. However, if we brought in someone who was too much of a purist or someone like JFH with a tendency to over-complicate lower league football then things might lurch to the opposite extreme. I've said before that I personally wouldn't want to watch the type of powerpuff pass-it-to-death football peddled by MK Dongs and neither would I want to endure another proponent of Curleball. The type of football I personally like to watch is a combination of direct play (crosses into the box, physical aggression, the odd ball over the top for pacey forwards to run onto) and passing (overlaps, proper width, strikers laying things off to onrushing midfielders, passing through the midfield). The type of football played by Chris Wilder, in short.
3. Someone with a track record of developing youth players There are some talented youngsters at the club who desperately need nurturing: McWilliams, Chucks, Pollock, Seal, Dyche etc. In the post-Covid era when money becomes tight I think youth development is going to become more and more important. I'd love someone to take over who could set up a genuine pathway for us there.
Those personally are my criteria. As I've said before I wouldn't personally be looking at non-league managers right now. One possibility would be to give it to someone experienced on a contract until the end of the season and then look to make another long-term appointment in the summer.
Of the names mentioned so far, I personally like Cook, Flynn and Duff.
Bungle, The Great Graham Carr came from non league as did most of his players and he didn't do so bad.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Wigan at home Tuesday 9th February 2021 REARRANGED
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on: February 09, 2021, 18:57:10 pm
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Utter garbage. No shots on target. Epitomised by Rose hoofing the ball out of defense when not a single Cobbler up field. Can't remember a passage of play where we managed three consecutive passes. Unless tactics changed at half-time I can see Wigan winning this, and if they do, KC has to go.
+1 no midfield except for McWilliams. Utter crxp again.
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