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. Another basket case.Sheffield Wednesday are still looking for a manager...
. Another basket case.Sheffield Wednesday are still looking for a manager...
Huddersfield was a well paid shop window. The pair of them can now afford to wait until they get the role they want. I think they have genuine affection for Lincoln. I feel that Huddersfield was purely transactional- which to be fair is 95% of the population when it comes to a job
Sheffield Wednesday are still looking for a manager...
Yes, geographically not far but the commute would take hours. Although maybe not if they pull the long hours they did here and travel in the early hours.Wimbledon is about an hours drive from Essex....depending on the Dartford River Crossing.
Okay, make that four hours.
I was under the impression the Cowleys were still living Lincoln way ?
I think Jez George is the person we have to thank for allerting Clive to Appleton's potential qualities. George's role also often gets overlooked when people discuss the success of player recruitment.Personally I think AFCW would be a good opportunity for the Cowleys to re-establish their reputation which, regardless of the HFC chairman, has suffered as a result of their HTFC "failure".
Success at AFCW (or any club at that level) would show football chairmen generally that their success at Lincoln was not a fluke. With the quality of chairmen in football nowadays, a manager needs a second successful spell somewhere to land a better job.
Look at MA. Clubs were not exactly queuing up to take him on after one success at Oxford. Clive (thankfully) saw something in him that our club needed. Other clubs didn't (again thankfully).
Sadly for us, it will mean that MA will be in huge demand if/when he gets us promotion this season a s his success at Oxford and then ourse;ves will show his true worth.
The Cowleys need exactly the same - success at a second club, even if it is in our division or below. One step forward, two steps back., sometimes.
I do agree though the Cowleys did well enough financially to wait for the opportunity that will fit them best. I'm not sure about Ipswich however as the chairman there is incredibly loyal to his managers. If Lambert makes the play-offs, he will be kept on next year - and the Cowleys need to be back in the fold well before then. Most chairmen have short memories of anyone's success.
I do wish them the best as they were a class act, and were the catalyst that got Clive here. And it is Clive's football knowledge that got us MA.
I think Jez George is the person we have to thank for allerting Clive to Appleton's potential qualities. George's role also often gets overlooked when people discuss the success of player recruitment.
A big problem with the Wimbledon gig is success. How do you gauge a successful manager there? I reckon they are unlikely to be involved in the top end of the division, I could be wrong, so what would constitute a job well done? If it isn't promotion then the level of "success" isn't likely to get much attention from the higher football world.Personally I think AFCW would be a good opportunity for the Cowleys to re-establish their reputation which, regardless of the HFC chairman, has suffered as a result of their HTFC "failure".
Success at AFCW (or any club at that level) would show football chairmen generally that their success at Lincoln was not a fluke. With the quality of chairmen in football nowadays, a manager needs a second successful spell somewhere to land a better job.
Look at MA. Clubs were not exactly queuing up to take him on after one success at Oxford. Clive (thankfully) saw something in him that our club needed. Other clubs didn't (again thankfully).
Sadly for us, it will mean that MA will be in huge demand if/when he gets us promotion this season a s his success at Oxford and then ourse;ves will show his true worth.
The Cowleys need exactly the same - success at a second club, even if it is in our division or below. One step forward, two steps back., sometimes.
I do agree though the Cowleys did well enough financially to wait for the opportunity that will fit them best. I'm not sure about Ipswich however as the chairman there is incredibly loyal to his managers. If Lambert makes the play-offs, he will be kept on next year - and the Cowleys need to be back in the fold well before then. Most chairmen have short memories of anyone's success.
I do wish them the best as they were a class act, and were the catalyst that got Clive here. And it is Clive's football knowledge that got us MA.
The Cowleys have been out of football (despite numerous TV studio appearances) longer than expected.
I think they're now in danger of developing Alan Curbishley Syndrome.
This is what Curbishley said after he'd resolved his differences with West Ham:
“...the opportunities I was being offered didn’t really appeal to me.
“It was mostly Championship stuff. Suddenly you find that it’s been two or three years and you’re out of favour. You’re forgotten."
This is an important point. After Huddersfield, despite most of us thinking it was a qualified success because it had a specific aim, I don't think most Chairmen of "progressive" Championship clubs will touch them now, because of the manner of it.
So in the Championship they'd be left looking for a club like Millwall or Rotherham who don't look like dispensing with their managers.
L1 is different but how many clubs who might currently be considering it would be at a similar level to Huddersfield? Ipswich, Charlton or Portsmouth, that's it.
Anything else is a step down and the ideal job looks a long way away.
But it they leave it too long they could end up like Curbishley.
There comes a time with football managers when any job is better than no job..
Think Clive is on record as saying it was Jez who persuaded him that Appleton was the man. That was very lucky !!I think Jez George is the person we have to thank for allerting Clive to Appleton's potential qualities. George's role also often gets overlooked when people discuss the success of player recruitment.