Super Jimbo

[jackal2]

OK I'm sticking my neck out here and am expecting some flack for it but how about this for a dream team. Burchnall and Jim O'B has his number 2. I think it's agreed that people feel That Jim bob doesn't have the experience and that Burchnall is probably not a natural born leader. So how about the coaching skills of the calm smooth boggle eyed one and the abrasive kick up the arses from the irate mad scotch man , obviously minus any ageist and racist comments aimed at players!?? answers on a post card please

Brave!

But I do see your point.

As I said in response to a previous post by yourself, I don't resent/hate Ian Burchnall. I thought his decision to leave us for a club as lacking in stature as Forest Green was a strange one, but even he might now look back on that as a mistake and might be more loyal in future, having learned that the grass at a higher league club isn't always as green (indeed as forest green) as it looks.

If you disregard the discomfort around his departure, then you're looking at a Head Coach who played an important part in the transition of the team to what we eventually saw flourish and win promotion under Luke Williams. Burchnall does play the type of football that fits our identity, does have knowledge of several of the players, and did produce a team that won plenty of games, albeit not quite at the right time to win the play-offs. His biggest problem would be re-building a relationship with those fans who took his departure more personally than I did. I recognise that football's a business and there's not a great deal of room for sentiment.

In other words, I don't think your suggestion deserves 'flack'. On balance, I think it would be easier for the owners to make a fresh appointment without any previous baggage, but if the right 'new' candidate wasn't available, then it wouldn't be a ridiculous move to return to someone you know, and who knows us.

The PR around such a return would have to be handled very carefully, but everything's relative. It's not like we would be trying to sell "the second coming" of a manager whose first spell got us relegated in last place and delivered pug-ugly football, like Steve Thompson. That was one return journey that should NEVER have been taken!

[magpie_mania]

Brave!

But I do see your point.

As I said in response to a previous post by yourself, I don't resent/hate Ian Burchnall. I thought his decision to leave us for a club as lacking in stature as Forest Green was a strange one, but even he might now look back on that as a mistake and might be more loyal in future, having learned that the grass at a higher league club isn't always as green (indeed as forest green) as it looks.

If you disregard the discomfort around his departure, then you're looking at a Head Coach who played an important part in the transition of the team to what we eventually saw flourish and win promotion under Luke Williams. Burchnall does play the type of football that fits our identity, does have knowledge of several of the players, and did produce a team that won plenty of games, albeit not quite at the right time to win the play-offs. His biggest problem would be re-building a relationship with those fans who took his departure more personally than I did. I recognise that football's a business and there's not a great deal of room for sentiment.

In other words, I don't think your suggestion deserves 'flack'. On balance, I think it would be easier for the owners to make a fresh appointment without any previous baggage, but if the right 'new' candidate wasn't available, then it wouldn't be a ridiculous move to return to someone you know, and who knows us.

The PR around such a return would have to be handled very carefully, but everything's relative. It's not like we would be trying to sell "the second coming" of a manager whose first spell got us relegated in last place and delivered pug-ugly football, like Steve Thompson. That was one return journey that should NEVER have been taken!

I agree with this, although I think IB would start from a very low level with many fans and a couple of defeats would be very damaging.

I think he would be best for his sake staying as a coach at Wolves.