Quote Originally Posted by tommopie8 View Post
The owners left him pissing in the wind from January onwards starting with Crowley and ending with his coaching team leaving but he still had enough at his disposal in terms of players to get us over the line.

My honest opinion is he shouldn't have been given the chance if I'm honest - the writing was on the wall from January - May last season. Nothing changed massively and but for several McGoldrick / Abbott specials I don't think he'd have seen the season out.

Agree with the previous post about mindset / character. The BT engineer jibes were cheap and largely unnecessary because of the plethora of other reasons we'd seen week in and week out but let's be real - if Mansfield were in League Two and had appointed a part-time manager who installed smart meters for Eon or worked on the gas for Cadent we'd be filling our boots.

Like others have said the reality is it means he's an incredibly hard working man but footballers are shallow, vain boys / men and they absolutely will have had their heckles up once they heard that and he would have been up against it from the get go.

Wilshere has the playing experience but has always seemed too petulant and ratty to command a dressing room. He'll get some grace if he's appointed because of what he achieved before his injuries took their toll but they need an actual leader in there.

If it's Alves then the brothers have just Trojan Horsed their own man in there and I would be incredibly wary of how that would pan out.
Wiltshire is favourite for the Plymouth job according to the Sun.