The Saunders Depart & Alves Steps Up

[1955pie]

Has anybody checked the MK Dons' news? That's where everybody else from Notts is going!

[Chicken Balti Pie]

After Tom Weale and Ian Hutton left, someone at the club said that Jaoa Alves was the most important member of staff at the club and we ought to be worried if he left !
Make of that what you will.?

Not at all doubting his credentials, just saying he's zooming up the ladder and good on him

[tommopie8]

Not at all doubting his credentials, just saying he's zooming up the ladder and good on him

Wouldn't surprise me to see him end up as caretaker with a view to giving him the role permanently if he does well in the future if the opportunity arises.

Why take a gamble on the outside, if you can mould your own perfect coach from within? There's a lot of snobbery within football that you must have played to coach and manage which I don't imagine the Reedtz brothers subscribe to.

So as someone who doesn't have an inside scoop - are we suggesting Scott has had a bust up with Saunders or Maynard's been undermined to the players?

[matt_magpie]

Wouldn't surprise me to see him end up as caretaker with a view to giving him the role permanently if he does well in the future if the opportunity arises.

Why take a gamble on the outside, if you can mould your own perfect coach from within? There's a lot of snobbery within football that you must have played to coach and manage which I don't imagine the Reedtz brothers subscribe to.

So as someone who doesn't have an inside scoop - are we suggesting Scott has had a bust up with Saunders or Maynard's been undermined to the players?

Probably best to suggest no one knows a thing on here and it?s all rumours from rumours I think would be the best bet.

[BigFatPie]

Think the inverted wingbacks was part experiment, part forced due to injuries.

There is nothing wrong with swapping wingbacks from time to time, especially 'in game' if it causes the opposition problems. The biggest issues we had whilst doing this was having players who were obviously uncomfortable in an inverted role, Tsaroulla a key example.

Let's be right, everyone will now want both JJ and Tsaroulla to start games but if they both play as wing backs one of them will have to be inverted, JJ being the obvious choice.

I sometimes wonder whether my memory is completely failing me, but I?m sure Maynard expressed a preference for inverted wing backs on many occasions, not because of injuries but because he thought amongst other things that it made our defending more effective.

There were quite a few occasions when we had both Tsaroulla, Gordon and Austin fit and he picked them to play on their opposite side. It is only in the last 6 games where hes chucked all that out of the window apparently through choice.

[TSANHO]

Wouldn't surprise me to see him end up as caretaker with a view to giving him the role permanently if he does well in the future if the opportunity arises.

Why take a gamble on the outside, if you can mould your own perfect coach from within? There's a lot of snobbery within football that you must have played to coach and manage which I don't imagine the Reedtz brothers subscribe to.

So as someone who doesn't have an inside scoop - are we suggesting Scott has had a bust up with Saunders or Maynard's been undermined to the players?

His compatriot, Jose Mourinho, started off in a similar fashion?.he didn?t turn out too bad.

[nw6pie]

I sometimes wonder whether my memory is completely failing me, but I?m sure Maynard expressed a preference for inverted wing backs on many occasions, not because of injuries but because he thought amongst other things that it made our defending more effective.

There were quite a few occasions when we had both Tsaroulla, Gordon and Austin fit and he picked them to play on their opposite side. It is only in the last 6 games where hes chucked all that out of the window apparently through choice.

He definitely said that at the fans’ forum the other month - that it was easier to defend crosses because you would be attacking the ball with your better foot. Something like that, anyway.

[Lullapie]

Surely catastrophists and bedwetters share pretty much the same territory ?
Their Venn diagram is almost a perfect circle.

No the bedwetters worry about everything, the catastrophists just keep looking for the next end of the world - similar, but not the same .

[Lullapie]

Mo Ross was AM at Fleetwood before leaving for family reasons.
Charlie Adam was the boss before he was later sacked.

What about Mick Leonard?

[Pie-eyed&legless]

What about Mick Leonard?

What about him?