PortandSud wrote:After yesterdays result I would keep Hats until the end of the season

Hats knows the club and the players better than anyone else. I would see how he gets on over the next 5 or 6 games whilst potential candidates are investigated. Of course we don't know if Wayne wants the job.

PortandSud wrote:After yesterdays result I would keep Hats until the end of the season

One result against the team that now occupies 24th place. And if we should lose 0-3 next weekend?

Would rather Rowberry than a journeyman who has failed elsewhere

It’s all about opinions,Rowberry is untried and a big gamble.Better to pick someone with a track record.

Percy plunkett wrote:It’s all about opinions,Rowberry is untried and a big gamble.Better to pick someone with a track record.

And Flynn’s track record before taking over was.......?

Rowberry now favourite according to Skybet.

Blackandamber wrote:

PortandSud wrote:After yesterdays result I would keep Hats until the end of the season

Hats knows the club and the players better than anyone else. I would see how he gets on over the next 5 or 6 games whilst potential candidates are investigated. Of course we don't know if Wayne wants the job.

Given his comments in the SWA, Hats seems likely to follow MF and so may not be an option.

Rowberry is a coach, if director of football is doing the management side of the game then we need a head coach and that could work. Being a manager would be difficult for a coach to transition into.

excessbee wrote:

Percy plunkett wrote:It’s all about opinions,Rowberry is untried and a big gamble.Better to pick someone with a track record.

And Flynn’s track record before taking over was.......?

Flynny took it on and we will be forever grateful but,he had some fortunate moments which helped us.He took on a job that seemed doomed that probably would end in relegation.He motivated the players and was able to wing it on occasions and was a bit green in the Plymouth game.We don’t need to take a chance now like we did with Hudson,who was a bit green then also.

Will throw one more name into the mix, someone who is very talented and probably interested in applying - Scott Lindsay, number 2 at FGR

What about Ball who was caretaker at the vegans

UPTHEPORT wrote:What about Ball who was caretaker at the vegans

Good shout,I thought he would get the job,he has since left them.He had them well organised in the run in and unlucky not to get offered it.

excessbee wrote:

Percy plunkett wrote:It’s all about opinions,Rowberry is untried and a big gamble.Better to pick someone with a track record.

And Flynn’s track record before taking over was.......?

..........he was already here, he knew the place inside out and we were doomed. He wasn't a considered choice, he was keeping the seat warm for non-league.

Interesting read about James Rowberry,

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/foo ... s-17788231

Percy plunkett wrote:It’s all about opinions,Rowberry is untried and a big gamble.Better to pick someone with a track record.

I wouldn't hold that against him. We are not Man U. He will certainly know a lot of people in the game in England and that could be a good start. I don't put much store by coaching badges. He was very young to get them but he wasn't a player so that gave him time to do it while others were playing. I would want to know that he wants to be a manager and see what impression he makes when talked with at length. He should know better than most that management is a precarious occupation and that, in the end, most managers fail. There are loads of questions but in the end it is the feeling that the board get for the man that counts rather than coaching badges. If Hats is staying, which I hope he is, I wouldn't employ Rowberry but rather a more senior manager who would fit in better with Hats' immense experience as a player and a coach. I wouldn't try to make up a manager from bits of two people, say Rowberry as head coach and a more business man managerial type. That won't work for us. We need a clear and unchallenged gaffer.