Williams is Favourite [New Head Coach speculation thread]

[Glad2BeAPie]

Anyone know anything about Solberg

Have you heard of Google by any chance

[matt_magpie]

That's not the whole story though is it. Des Buckingham is Oxford born and bred and had worked his way up at Oxford United before gaining more experience abroad, including NZ U23s manager before returning home.

I know that but still no actual EFL senior management experience let alone promotions in the EFL. In an ideal world I?d want that but there will be people out there here and abroad with all the qualities we need but obviously will be seen as a risk, that?s the owners challenge.

[jackal2]

We need to get this appointment right. Ive never heard of this guy, and from the outside it would look to be a very underwhelming appointment, if thats the case. Division 2 is not the place for these type of guys.. As SM found out...

Like I said when Joao Alves was favourite, this isn't the time for an experimental appointment.

Fans were generally tolerant and gave the comparatively unknown Stuart Maynard every chance because the comparatively unknown Luke Williams had previously proven to be a great call, but the outcome of the Maynard experiment was disappointing, as proven by his dismissal, so now is a time to select a recognised name with a solid record.

We're not in Trew/Fullarton territory by any means - the owners still have plenty of credit in the bank with most fans - but putting an Alves or a Solberg in charge at this moment would indeed be underwhelming, to say the least, and would put either of them under pressure from day one. It's a moment to go with an appointment that's sensible and demonstrably sound.

[Could'vebeenacontender]

I fear that the appointment will provoke more questions than answers

[theadissey]

We need to get this appointment right. Ive never heard of this guy, and from the outside it would look to be a very underwhelming appointment, if thats the case. Division 2 is not the place for these type of guys.. As SM found out...

So you want a successful manager, that's been heard of, that's willing to be a manager of a league 2 club that's "right" for the league? Were these the characteristics of Williams and Burchnall?

[matt_magpie]

The issue we have is we all probably ideally want a leader with ability and fairly recent league promotions, the issue with that there?s very few from a statistically point of view and also probably most of them have are working a level or two above now.

If we want a manager with more success than failure on their CV then like any other club we will have to look down not up and there?s the issue, below is non league or foreign leagues and there?s the issue for many fans.

[Could'vebeenacontender]

The issue we have is we all probably ideally want a leader with ability and fairly recent league promotions, the issue with that there?s very few from a statistically point of view and also probably most of them have are working a level or two above now.

If we want a manager with more success than failure on their CV then like any other club we will have to look down not up and there?s the issue, below is non league or foreign leagues and there?s the issue for many fans.

I doubt we will bring in anyone with a strong enough personality to challenge the way the club has done things in the last few years

[matt_magpie]

I doubt we will bring in anyone with a strong enough personality to challenge the way the club has done things in the last few years

Why do they need to challenge the club? I get recruitment wasn?t great at all in Jan as we didn?t get what we needed at the time but overall it?s been good and why would they challenge trying to play more attractive football if that?s their mantra too?

I just want them to be strong enough to lead the team and of course they should challenge the owners on recruitment at times but it?s hardly been broken over their tenure.

[SwalePie]

I doubt we will bring in anyone with a strong enough personality to challenge the way the club has done things in the last few years

I hope you're right. Not in terms of having a strong personality of course, but in terms of challenging their employer.

[irishpete]

I doubt we will bring in anyone with a strong enough personality to challenge the way the club has done things in the last few years

A "yes" boss then. These are your tools, get on with it
I'd say this is why an appointment is taking so long. Not too many Coaches like to be told what to do. Some will buy in to it, others will say fcuk that after the interview