Maynard GONE [Official]

[matt_magpie]

He was useless and completely out of his depth. The trigger should have been pulled at the end of last season.. His uncertainty regarding team selection, tactics and substitutions have cost us promotion this season.

Absolute rubbish Durham, we have other threads basically saying only 4 or 5 players were consistently good all season. He was slow on subs to the eye but if I was him and looked around at our bench for the majority of the season I wouldn?t have been in a rush to bring them on. I didn?t not agree with many selections as basically 8 or 9 were fairly obvious the rest were like county bingo.

The DOF and owners recruited for 352, so he had no choice.

That said my gut feel is he isn?t to the level yet but he?s a way off useless.

[the_anticlough]

Well I'm certainly happy we paid a fee and have him for signed up for another three years. The way he can go past good EFL players is a mouth-watering prospect and he'll still be only 25 when his contract ends in 2028.

It's always a bad sign when there's a disconnect between coaches and recruitment, and it doesn't generally end well for the coaches as they're going against the main thing the likes of Montague and Gagliardi do...

Ardley not picking Rodrigues didn't work out well for him. Ditto Chicksen
Burchnall not playing Nemane, giving us a full year of DKE at RWB put him on track for failure and couldn't have gone down well
Two play-off semis where SM brings SA in from nowhere over Jarvis was head scratching to say the least. I dare anyone to watch those games back.

It's a point worth remembering IMO, whoever we bring in now has to work in sync with the the Head of Recruitment, Gagliardi.

[legs77]

I read it as saying that since he came back from injury Austin has offered next to nothing, while Jarvis has looked a genuine threat at times.

Maynard sees them train his head is on the block and as he is defensive he went with the experience in fairness quite alot of managers would too.

Austin is solid you know what you are getting from him Jarvis is differemt type but i'd have played him 2nd game too if honest too.

As he is now gone it makes no odds its done its what we do going forward I just hope there is no repeat of gambling on injury prone players ie Cundy/Ness that was stupid as both play CB.

[BigFatPie]

I had heard that LW was very much the driving force behind keeping the bulk of that team together and new deals for players like Slocombe, Chicksen and Rawlinson. Also that the goalkeeping coach at the time was the one behind Aidan Stone.

So maybe they gave some leeway to a successful coaching team that summer. But with how it went, both in terms of keeping some players who proved not to be up to it and LW leaving for a bigger job a few months later anyway, they probably won?t be doing it again.

Loyalty to Cameron, Rawlinson, Brindley etc seems the only plausible reason why we didnt sign a single defender after our promotion. It was an odd decision even before we kicked a ball last season. LW must have a hand in that, but hopefully both he and the owners have learned from that experience.

If Luke was coming back Id imagine it would be done by now.

[durhampie]

Loyalty to Cameron, Rawlinson, Brindley etc seems the only plausible reason why we didnt sign a single defender after our promotion. It was an odd decision even before we kicked a ball last season. LW must have a hand in that, but hopefully both he and the owners have learned from that experience.

If Luke was coming back Id imagine it would be done by now.

He is not coming back,. That bridge has been burnt. Why do some think we would take back an ar*ole like him, who even at Swansea tried to jump ship when things were going tits up.. The Bros are not that stupid to be done twice those by those sort of characters

[BigFatPie]

He is not coming back,. That bridge has been burnt. Why do some think we would take back an ar*ole like him, who even at Swansea tried to jump ship when things were going tits up.. The Bros are not that stupid to be done twice those by those sort of characters

Yeah right you are Durham, lets get a bloke in who no one wants, just like the one we just sacked.

[LaxtonLad]

Yeah right you are Durham, lets get a bloke in who no one wants, just like the one we just sacked.

Any manager we do sign on will be somebody no-one else wants, or they wouln't be available. And those that aren't available are not necessarily good 'uns. This leaves us in rather a quandary, do we pay compo to another club for their hero? Or take a chance on a
nobody's-ever-heard-of him, like...erm...let me think now.

[nw6pie]

Any manager we do sign on will be somebody no-one else wants, or they wouln't be available. And those that aren't available are not necessarily good 'uns. This leaves us in rather a quandary, do we pay compo to another club for their hero? Or take a chance on a
nobody's-ever-heard-of him, like...erm...let me think now.

Didn’t we pay compo to Wealdstone for SM and the Saunders bros?

[kill_the_drum]

He is not coming back,. That bridge has been burnt. Why do some think we would take back an ar*ole like him, who even at Swansea tried to jump ship when things were going tits up.. The Bros are not that stupid to be done twice those by those sort of characters

I also think William?s coming back would be a mistake but not because he left us for a much better offer.
Why do you take exception to a manager that doesn?t show blind loyalty to a club, when you?ve just spent most of the season wanting Maynard sacked. Where was your loyalty throughout last season? Surely it has to work both ways?
I find it bizarre that fans take such exception to a player/manager that leaves us for progression. It happens in every walk of life so of course it?s going to happen in one of the most cutthroat and short lived industries on the planet.

[durhampie]

I also think William?s coming back would be a mistake but not because he left us for a much better offer.
Why do you take exception to a manager that doesn?t show blind loyalty to a club, when you?ve just spent most of the season wanting Maynard sacked. Where was your loyalty throughout last season? Surely it has to work both ways?
I find it bizarre that fans take such exception to a player/manager that leaves us for progression. It happens in every walk of life so of course it?s going to happen in one of the most cutthroat and short lived industries on the planet.

My loyalty was going to over 46 matches supporting the team, Not Maynard. It was a huge gamble giving him the job, as it became very clear early doors that he just wasnt up to it.. Ive no idea who will be our next Head Coach, but i sincerely hope its not Mr bullsh*t short corner..