📺Summer Catch Up with Stuart Maynard

[queenslandpie]

Last two home games under LW we won 5-0 and 3-0. The away form was troubling us a bit but our home form was keeping us above the water. Maynard came in, made "tweaks" and both home and away from just went away, we were not playing entertaining football and it was just turgid. Yes we had problems but Maynard seemingly made them worse. I think the board were being kind when they said we were lucky in the first half of the season and unlucky in the second half, we make our own "luck".

This season he has no excuses, we have two defenders that are deemed some of the best in the division and one of the best keepers now, serving up turgid, boring and slow football will see him gone by November

It's a results business. If we are there or there abouts it won't and these owners will be more patient than any you will find.

[irishpete]

It's a results business. If we are there or there abouts it won't and these owners will be more patient than any you will find.

Do you think so? They are at the end of the day, businessmen, who want to see their investment working. Last season, they probably gave him the benefit of the doubt

[OldBanksy]

The elephant in the room is his lack of leadership qualities. It might be possible to negate that with a team of L2 Galacticos.

[upthemaggies]

The elephant in the room is his lack of leadership qualities. It might be possible to negate that with a team of L2 Galacticos.

It does look like a topsy-turvy set up on paper, now that we've got L2 quality and experience on the field but not off it. It might loosely be akin to the McP situation during Munto where it ultimately needed Cotterill to come in to get a talented squad playing to their full potential. McP wasn't doing badly but it wasn't convincing in terms of looking assured for top 3.

The bar will be a bit lower than 2010 as the owners will probably accept play offs, but this team won't be as good as the Munto one. Some might argue it is, but how many of those people would be prepared to bet a large sum at this stage on Maynard overseeing a title winning promotion? We'd all take 3rd of course, but the point is that this squad is unlikely to steamroll their way to promotion and will need sound guidance to navigate the humps that a promotion challenge entails.

[slack_pie]

The elephant in the room is his lack of leadership qualities. It might be possible to negate that with a team of L2 Galacticos.

True. Having a decent squad and getting recruitment right is just one factor. The teams that go on to get promotion have a winning mentality instilled in them from the manager. I think Maynard is probably a decent coach, but I'm not sure he's a born leader. Time will tell.

[matt_magpie]

True. Having a decent squad and getting recruitment right is just one factor. The teams that go on to get promotion have a winning mentality instilled in them from the manager. I think Maynard is probably a decent coach, but I'm not sure he's a born leader. Time will tell.

That’s exactly my fear. I don’t give a monkeys he’s not managed in the league or was a BT engineer and I said that at the start as long as he had leadership qualities. There’s plenty of managers with EFL experience that aren’t really that good leaders or coaches but somehow manage to land jobs till they’re eventually found out.

[tied_up_in_notts]

That’s exactly my fear. I don’t give a monkeys he’s not managed in the league or was a BT engineer and I said that at the start as long as he had leadership qualities. There’s plenty of managers with EFL experience that aren’t really that good leaders or coaches but somehow manage to land jobs till they’re eventually found out.

Yeah I don't know why people go on so much about him working as a BT engineer whilst at Wealdstone. I seem to remember we once appointed someone who had his own chiropody practice and did football management part time

[Chicken Balti Pie]

It's a results business. If we are there or there abouts it won't and these owners will be more patient than any you will find.

Other way around actually. They don't look at results, they look at how we play

[OP67]

Yeah I don't know why people go on so much about him working as a BT engineer whilst at Wealdstone. I seem to remember we once appointed someone who had his own chiropody practice and did football management part time

He didn't turn out too bad I seem to remember. I wonder what happened to him after Notts

[tied_up_in_notts]

He didn't turn out too bad I seem to remember. I wonder what happened to him after Notts

Probably took up chiropody again