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So, we require a new manager, will the board give the job to Iffy, Reeves or Woan, or can we look forward to an external appointment that isn't Barry Fry or Gould?

Exciting times? :roll:

Ian Woan

If it is Wise, as some people think it may be surely he won't be able to play until January? :|

Steve White .. I said it last week .. tho hes also up for the Rovers job

BRING BACK LOU!!!!!

Doubtful IMO, more likely to be Woan as Ash says. Ed Hadwin is on radio Swindon in a few minutes talking about Town. We have to wait until they talk about a coffee morning!

if its an internal appointment I'd like to see woan get it over iffy or reeves. reeves would be a disaster IMO.

if the board are actually gonna be brave and appoint someone else, stan ternant might be good. but would prefer a player-manager like dennis wise, tony adams etc. not sure who would be available to us at the moment though.

as long as its not tinnion I'm happy!

Tony Adams - PLAYER-manager???

Iffy has been given the nod......

Hadwin says still no official announcement has been made but he expects King and the club have come to mutual agreement and that Iffy is going to be caretaker manager. He also said that it will be an interim appointment on the short term and if that doesn't work out, the board will look for an external manager.

ok not exactly a player manager, but a youngish manager who has just finished his playing career, if you get what i mean.

how about les ferdinand??

Whats wrong with hiring Jose Mourinho?? :D  has Brain fookin Tinman got another club yet?? i bet it will be him if he hasnt

I dont want Iffy!!! OR Woan!!! Or Reeves!!!

SACK THE BOARD!!

Is it seriously Iffy? I need a drink...

Please God no...not Barry Fry-the only manager less suitable than the current incumbent!!

Who is to say that Iffy wouldn't make a good manager? He is highly intelligent, which doesn't automatically make him a good manager, but surely he would be intelligent enough to play players in their best positions and not be a stubborn twat (David Duke as a left back par example). He is a likeble guy and the players may want to play for him.

If it is Iffy, lets at least give the guy a chance.

 8)

Les would be nice, but I doubt it.  

Think the best future manager still playing is Teddy - whoever manages to bag him will be laughing I reckon.

Fella's it's gonna be Iffy for a while so all this external people coming in.

100% behind the bloke, seems a likeable, intelligent guy.  I don't think he'll be one to try and get the fans' backs up.  

Now is the time to put aside all this board out shit and get behind the lads.

Come on you reds!!!

retracted!

If we get tinnion I will not be happy :x AT ALL!

I like iffy,he seems like he's got a brain on him and he knows the players ,plus our set up.I really believe the board want to appoint from within anyway.

That ain't gonna help, now is the time to get behind whoever is in charge. King has gone, face it, lets move on and get behind the lads. The fans can have no excuses now if we start losing. King Out is not an option any more.

Yes but I dont want Iffy in the job

2 good performances away from home, perhaps 4 points - could be looking at an attendance of 6000 against Vale - even if England are playing after us.

That is fair enough, but at least give the guy a chance before judging eh? If he is to be new manager, we'll just have to get on with it. Chances are if it doesn't work out short term, The board will get someone else in.  :roll:

Agreed, lets all give Iffy our ful support, regardless of wether we wanted King to leave/King to stay/a new manager in.

Trouble is tho if we win under Iffy he will get the job .. and I know he isnt the long term answer

I agree with the Jambo, it's our duty as fans to get right behind the lads, and stop all this anti-board, and anti-manager shit.

This is the hand we've been dealt lets make the most of it,

We are Iffy's red and white army!!!

Definitely the right man for the job at the moment.  There’s no need to rush into an external appointment and out of the three amigos I always thought Iffy would be the best of the bunch.

Nothing against Reeves but I don’t think he’s quite at that stage where he’s ready to take control while Woan does give the impression that he still enjoys being one of the lads.

No denying that he’s got a massive job on his hands and he’s going to have to hit the ground running to get things turned around.  

I do think that an external appointment may be the best in the long term.  Whoever comes in is going to be delivering some short sharp shocks after King’s era.

Yep but I was happier under King

Now im discontented  :(

Was King the long term answer?

Would Lou be a long term answer, would Sir Clive be a long term answer?

Many at Old Trafford were sure Fergie wasn't the long term answer, 10 years on he's still there.....

Well IM the long term answer but I cant see me getting the job!!

There are no long term answers in football any more.

I'm all for Iffy getting a shot with Woany taking care of cone gathering duties.
From what I've seen, Iffy is everything the smoking chimp was not.  Intelligent, personable and a good communicator.
There's no reason why they can't do a bloody good job for us.





FACT!

I'm with you.

I'd like to see Colin Calderwood back here, but he's obviously under contract still.  So Lou Macari it must be.  
Certainly get those lazy bastards working again!!

If you like losing and being at the bottom of the league that your choice, to me its not acceptable....but if you like being a loser then so be it...

Well Cobblers fans want rid, so he must be doing something wrong...

Calderwood is an unrealistic suggestion that I have heard too many times recently!
(not a dig at any one person!)
-He is at a league 2 club with lots of money and has gone nowhere
-He is under contract
-He is likely to be on more money there than we can offer
-HE SIGNED SABIN!!!

I think Iffy is fine for now. I would love to see Reeves as manager in the future but that is not gonna happen now because of his leg and because he isn't quite experienced enough

Iffy gained some experience as an outsider at Walsall which may prove vital, plus he is a top bloke.

what about lennie lawrence? he has a reasonable track record and it currently out of work... is Iffy the permanent manager or is he just going to be a temporary?

lennie lawrence is a decent shout.

I think Iffy Onoura is a very decent shout myself.

Only time will tell of course.

We were rarely at the bottom of the league under King and won more games than we lost, I doubt that will be the case from now on.

But before King left we were as good as bottom? you cant relate what King did 2 years ago, to what he did two weeks ago. Different players and different backroom staff

After a while it wouldn't have been the case under King either if he'd stayed.

No idea what you're talking about.

Ben how long are you going to carry on being King's apologist for?
I have to admire your tenacity in defending one of the worst managers we've ever had but life goes on.
He's gone - move on, get behind Iffy and his team, they are the new regime and I for one wish them the best of luck.

Apart from Gorman, McMahon, Quinn, Todd, etc. etc. who were all far worse and that's just the last 10 years.

For all his failings McMaon got us promoted as champions....

KT McMahon's failings far out weigh his acheivements I am disgusted that you almost defended the scouse fucking shit head.  Please retract that statement before I speak to Pauld about taking legal action.

With a multi million pound team, most of whom had only two years previously played in the premiership and he also got us relegated. There is no question as to whether any of those managers were worse. They were all far worse. FACT!

Did you see that I cunningly used the word 'ONE'  in my description of him.
Still doesn't disguise the fact he was crap, one relatively good season out of five? Doesn't make him Arsene Wenger does it - And this tired old excuse of no money doesn't wash either - most of the clubs in the lower two divisions don't have any either......
If you want to go in to specific managers:-
Gorman - No manager would have kept us in the premiership that season not even Glen Hoddle if he'd stayed.
McMahon - At least we got promoted under him, alright it went down hill after, but he still got us promoted unlike a certain Mr King.
Quinn - Inherited a very poor squad and how long was he given to try and turn it around?
Todd - Lasted five minutes so how can you compare.

And also ripped out the very soul of "our" club.  Wanker.

who had played in the premiership 2 years previously not most of them at all....

McMahon was worse than King.  I'm with BWB on this one.  Fucking hell lads, King may have come up short this season but he wasn't the anti-christ.

Yes he was Jan, I saw King burning kittens and crucifying babies  :x

Ala we did well when Crosby was here, we've been shit since he hasnt?! read into that what you will.....

You may recall that summer we lost Crosby Mooney and Devlin all, three represented some kind of loss......King needs to judged against the circumstances he was asked to work under.....which are the set up of a decent Conference outfit...this realisation may be brought home by the game v Stevenage.

But so have most of the other teams in the lower divisions with a few exceptions - You can't gloss over his bizarre team selections, playing players out of position, alienating the fans etc by saying he didn't have any money.....

I know this is probably a wild suggestion and im not sure if anyone has previously stated this but personally i would like to see Chris Kamara the new manager at the club!

Big morale boost and will bring the fans in as well as sorting out the club!

Let me know your feelings!

Kamara was linked in the press to the post a while back but I doubt he'd give up the cushy number on Sky Sports he's got.

To be honest I'd rather give Iffy a go.

Only playing devil's advocate.

The problems at the club can all be traced back to his time in charge, as you say he ripped the heart out of the club.

HE IS BOLD,
HE'S SCOUSE,
HE'LL ROB YOUR FUCKING HOUSE!
STEVE MCMAHON
STEVE MCMAHON

I can't beleive what I am hearing..... some people actually defending Steve "The biggest wanker alive" McMahon.

Yeah he got us promoted but with the squad that he had my grandmother would have got us promoted easilly.

I have often thought that one thing that we are really missing now is that there is no true town legend in the team. For example, Ooh Shaun Taylor and Fraser Digby both left because of the scouse prick and he sold Fjortoft for a ridiculously low price. For so many years as a town fan i remember that the club always had a legend or two in the squad, such as: Calderwood, Duncan Shearer, Micky Hazard, and Chalky to mention a few plus the others previously mentioned.

After a 5+ year absence from Swindon, please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but how many true town "Legends" are in the squad now??? My "educated" guess is a big fat ZERO. King did well in bringing players in but even SSP would not qualify as a legend purely because he was not here long enough.

The current lack of a current hero(s) in the squad is something that I blame firmly at the feet of Steve "What an almighty cunt I am" McMahon.

Get a grip please those of you defending the scouse scrotum, Ok things ain't that good at the moment but.............. (Bangkok red signs off lost for words)

Taylor, Digby, Gooden, Horlock, Ling, Bodin.

That's the core of a hell of a team there.