Would you pay him 8 grand a week?
This thread from a year ago after that awful showing at Southend is quite interesting. There's 3 or 4 posters not at all happy with him back then.
However, the rest of us can gloat....
https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/threads/appleton-discussion.102392/
Is that what he's on? In the Championship, that's probably not too outrageous.
I wasn't overwhelmingly positive with some pluses/minuses, but I think the objections were all emphatically answered! In retrospect the shock therapy (quick removal of the high earners and bed in the younger players) was warranted. The issues with the passing out the back largely fixed by bringing in players more capable of doing it/more time to work with the team.
The 4-4-2 we played for a bit disappeared and we got more permanent long term options in too to complement the loans.
I think the thing none of us could have predicted is just how well it has gone from there!
He's had Covid, for heaven's sake! And it took him longest to recover.I feel a bit sorry for Anderson, but all the signs are he could be one of the first out the door in the summer. His (ever diminishing) appearances of late suggest to me that the team and the tactics and how Appleton wants to play are overtaking Anderson somewhat.
Don't get me wrong he still does a good job and has that uncanny knack of scoring a goal which is always valuable, especially in a midfielder. However to me at least, he looks a little bit lost at times within the game as the direct 'get your head down and run with it' style that is his strength just doesn't fit naturally into how we are setting up and playing under MA.
Hope I'm wrong, but could easily see him being replaced/upgrdaded in the summer.
We have never really played 442 under Mapp though have we? He has pretty much been set on one central striker the whole time. 433 or 4231 is pretty much similar depending on the person playing in the number 10 role. Tyler Walker is one striker who maybe needed to play in a 442 because he was so flimsy and lightweight playing up top on his own.
Looking back at that old tread it’s really embarrassing for some, overall MApp and his staff are doing alright at the moment
Me neither. Think he had a 3 year plan, don't think he then added "toodle pip".
That was a very slow back line, Melbourne (who I've never really rated) aside. The rest of the side looks decent, but the defence was really not up to what Appleton wanted to achieve.I think it was very specific to the time of the post (end of Jan/Feb 2020) - e.g lineup v Portsmouth after we had signed John-Jules and Hopper (there were also a few with TJJ and Walker as a front two).
Vickers; Eardley, Bolger, Shackell, Melbourne; Anderson, Morrell, Coventry, Grant; John-Jules, Hopper.
It saw some of our worst performances - including the Southend one that I think led to that thread?
I don't think it was ever Mapp's preferred to be fair, just remember us struggling in some of those games. Trying to play out the back (badly) but with 2 central midfielders scuttling back and forth and TJJ not touching the ball. After that I think the regular set up was Hesketh as a 10 behind one of them.
Would you pay him 8 grand a week?
When he was interviewed on Quest (maybe) fairly recently there was also a slight slip where he indicated he had his plan and the implication was that he wasn't looking to stay beyond that. Certainly if he achieves his goal, I can't see him staying. Even in the Championship we would be punching, so he hasn't got much to gain by staying on.No i think it was subtly implied though, but given it was a year ago i cant find any articles of him quoted on it, so i could be wrong
I am not saying you wrong and I wouldn't be surprised but how do people know all these figures?
Players salaries aren't published in this country as they are in the USA ( for instance Micheal Mancienne who was training with us got around £14,000 a week playing for the New England Revolution over 2 years because salaries are made public) I suspect much of what we think we know or have been tipped off is just wild speculation and wide of the mark.
Salaries will be made up of basic and bonuses and I guess the more successful you are as a club the more the players get. But do any of us really know what each individual player is on?
a simple reference to the length of his contract? as it stands.Here you go. 2mins20, quickly qualifies his "2 and a half years left of my reign at Lincoln" with "as it stands..."
i agree with you, his drive/ambition is part of what makes him so good.Maybe I read too much into it, but he's an ambitious guy who has said he wants to manage at the highest level, which in this country is the Prem. As much as I love this club, we are never going to play at the highest level, so he will move on when the right offer comes.
Meaning until it’s extended further. I couldn’t read anything more into that myself.a simple reference to the length of his contract? as it stands.