Jimsmithswig
Vital Squad Member
recently appointed coach at Barnet, leaves to join us, fits the bill of lower league experience
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Gary Waddock
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Pompey have this morning announced the appointment of Gary Waddock as their new Assistant Manager
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Emsworthianblue
Vital Reserves Team
Best of luck to you Gary. Lorna, enough already, I yield, I yield! :88: LOL
gentleman jim
Vital Youth Team
mr waddock coming in will pile pressure onto mr awford, nothing more nothing less,the prospect of mr waddock replacing mr awford,iminent I think,will not help pompey in the slightest.when the powers that be realise you cant coach your way out of this division,what you do need is character, a will to win,men who will run through a brick wall for the blue shirt,and a manager who can whip them into shape without coaching them to death,the game plan is to play to the strengths of the ships crew and to hell with the opposition.taking all this in and considering the players and management we have,were done for.if your going to sack one at this stage of the season the club might just have well sacked all three,it looks to me as if mr waddock is being slotted in as a replacement should we lose the next two games and eventually serve as assistant to a bigger fish.ideally the club should find the money to buy three or four proven players to strengthen the side added to lads like whatmough Webster chaplin Wallace butler dunne and robinson and possibly jones and hollands and a man manager to actually manage not coach.mr waddock is not the answer,the board knows this.play up pompey.
When Pompey appointed a new 1st team coach last week the anticipated arrival was not Gary Waddock, although this was the man that came in on Friday.
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Jimsmithswig
Vital Squad Member
still a new no 2 is a good place to be if AA sacked, Gary can you take over until the end of the season and see where we end up?
pompeyrug
Alert Team
When Gary Waddock arrived, what towards the end of last year or early this year, many felt at the time that this was a signal to herald the 'beginning of the end' for Andy Awford, with it just a matter of time before he took over as manager...
Technically this has proven to be the case but he has told the News that this was not the way, at all, that he wanted to get back into management!
In fairness I would believe him! All managers want to get back into work but they are a fairly close-knit unit and community with few happy to stab each other in the back! Some would mind...
He does want a permanent return to management but knows that the decision on this happening at Fratton is 'a decision' that others will make.
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Technically this has proven to be the case but he has told the News that this was not the way, at all, that he wanted to get back into management!
In fairness I would believe him! All managers want to get back into work but they are a fairly close-knit unit and community with few happy to stab each other in the back! Some would mind...
He does want a permanent return to management but knows that the decision on this happening at Fratton is 'a decision' that others will make.
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pompeyrug
Alert Team
Will basically say here what I had in another thread, to clarify my views - and stance - on Waddock...
If AA wasn't willing, or able, to take on board anything that Waddock had said or done why has he stuck around? If he was nothing more than a 'yes man' in that case is he what we would want anyway?
All in all though my main reason for not wanting Waddock is I am convinced there would be NO improvment on what we had seen under AA and do not think that Waddock, all in all, has a track record to suggest this would change.
I think we have taken the 'give someone a caretaker role and then appoint' too many times in the past, history has proven several times - and not just for us - that the short-term improvement that we might see under them doesn't then bring the long-term results does it?
It's nothing personal against Waddock, and although it might come across as it is, I can assure you that it's not - I do not know the guy but the impression that I get is that he is a decent coach but not a manager, again we have had enough of those.
We need a clean break with someone new.
If AA wasn't willing, or able, to take on board anything that Waddock had said or done why has he stuck around? If he was nothing more than a 'yes man' in that case is he what we would want anyway?
All in all though my main reason for not wanting Waddock is I am convinced there would be NO improvment on what we had seen under AA and do not think that Waddock, all in all, has a track record to suggest this would change.
I think we have taken the 'give someone a caretaker role and then appoint' too many times in the past, history has proven several times - and not just for us - that the short-term improvement that we might see under them doesn't then bring the long-term results does it?
It's nothing personal against Waddock, and although it might come across as it is, I can assure you that it's not - I do not know the guy but the impression that I get is that he is a decent coach but not a manager, again we have had enough of those.
We need a clean break with someone new.
mslorna48
Vital Football Hero
I think that maybe getting the right or wrong man as manager will be due to luck, or the lack of it. Quite often managers succeed with with a team, then get taken on by another club on the strenth of it, but the trouble is every team and club is different, what succeeded for a manager at one club may not do so at a different club, and as I dont think there are any other clubs (certainly in League 2) that will have given any manger a glimpse of the ins and outs of P.F.C. It think if we eventually get the right man it will probably be down more to luck than judgement. :17:
pompeyrug
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Maybe you're right lorna...
'Luck' will play a part in things but I like to think that given a GOOD chance now to bring in the man that 'should' be deemed the 'right man' can play a part in making that judgement a sound one first and foremost - they will need some luck but the judgement in picking the right one is a must here.
I may be completely wrong on Waddock and he WOULD be the right man!
'Luck' will play a part in things but I like to think that given a GOOD chance now to bring in the man that 'should' be deemed the 'right man' can play a part in making that judgement a sound one first and foremost - they will need some luck but the judgement in picking the right one is a must here.
I may be completely wrong on Waddock and he WOULD be the right man!
sea-juicer
Vital Squad Member
Rug
im with you on this i think Pompey need to move away from appointing waddock as manager , bring in a new proven Manager with his own assistant & totally fresh ideas . If Waddock has been advising AA of what to do /play its obviously hasnt had any effect on inflencing the team .
so time to on with a fresh new look . but we will have to wait & see
