Player Manager

[DV]

although he is a cunt....selling Fjortoft for 1.3million....

[sonicyouth]

we were doing alright until mcmahon flogged fjortoft because he didn't like his style of play.

that said, i was about 9 years old and more interested in riding my bike around my village and learning to ride with no hands.

[my-velocity]

Peacock would be a good one

[Stef Troll]

Steve Claridge ?

[Amir]

we were doing alright until mcmahon flogged fjortoft because he didn't like his style of play.

It was a strange season that one.  We started well until Kevin Morris' suicide, when we dropped at an incredible rate of knots.  Gorman's reign came to an end after a 3-2 loss at Ashton Gate where we sang, 'We're shit, and we're going down'.

McMoan was brought in and it seemed got them playing with a bit more fight, although we had more luck in the cup than the league.  Then after Bolton came from 3-1 down to win 4-3 on that cold night in Lancashire, Fjortoft was supposed to have jokingly sung 'take me away' or something in that vein, and that was effectively the end of him at the club.  I remember going to the Baseball Ground just before transfer deadline day and realising he was off as he didn't make the team.

Then listening to a personal stereo at school and finding out we'd got £1.3 million and a left-back called Jason Drysdale.  The club obviously figured with Thorne scoring they didn't need another striker, and after Chris Hamon was left out in the cold(supposedly for taking loads of pain killers before the pompey match and being in no fit state to play), we played one up front and he was kicked all over the place every game.

In the final game of the season we beat Notts County 3-0 at home in front of a crowd of about 6,500, and I remember thinking how terribly empty the ground looked

[DV]

I remember the first home game after we sold him, the 9. shirt on the back of the program was empty...no one knew he was going to play

announcer: number 9...Martin Ling

Some guy a few rows in front got up and shouted 'I didnt come all the way from burney to watch martin fucking ling play upfront' then he walked off.....but came back and watched the game

[Dazzza]

Can't see it happening to be honest.

Has to be the right calibre of player sufficient to punch well above their weight on the pitch and still have the right manager’s personality for the job.  

The ideal candidate has to be someone with recent top flight experience who is going to still cut the mustard yet at that age where they’re looking to hang up their boots in a season or two.  Ideally I’d say that has to be someone coming from a Premiership/Championship club and willing to take a massive pay cut and potentially lose out on a year or two of salary they could have earned by carrying on playing at that level.

Because of the financial gulf the chances of tempting someone to drop down of the right calibre is virtually nil nowadays.  

Take Garry Speed at Bolton.  Fits the profile of intelligent, hard working, committed and coming to perhaps his last season or two in the top flight.  Yet one more season at Bolton is going to earn him the equivalent of 15 years salary that he’d get managing ourselves, Sheringham would likely be closer to 20.

[Reg Smeeton]

we were doing alright until mcmahon flogged fjortoft because he didn't like his style of play.

It was a strange season that one.  We started well until Kevin Morris' suicide, when we dropped at an incredible rate of knots.  Gorman's reign came to an end after a 3-2 loss at Ashton Gate where we sang, 'We're shit, and we're going down'.

McMoan was brought in and it seemed got them playing with a bit more fight, although we had more luck in the cup than the league.  Then after Bolton came from 3-1 down to win 4-3 on that cold night in Lancashire, Fjortoft was supposed to have jokingly sung 'take me away' or something in that vein, and that was effectively the end of him at the club.  I remember going to the Baseball Ground just before transfer deadline day and realising he was off as he didn't make the team.

Then listening to a personal stereo at school and finding out we'd got £1.3 million and a left-back called Jason Drysdale.  The club obviously figured with Thorne scoring they didn't need another striker, and after Chris Hamon was left out in the cold(supposedly for taking loads of pain killers before the pompey match and being in no fit state to play), we played one up front and he was kicked all over the place every game.

In the final game of the season we beat Notts County 3-0 at home in front of a crowd of about 6,500, and I remember thinking how terribly empty the ground looked

 When JAF left, Mcmahon had set up a deal to sign Ian Marshall as a front man....it fell through, over some wrangle, probably to do with money.

 Marshall at the time cut a bit of a comical figure, so it didn't seem so bad, in fact he went on to play effectively at a high level.

 Gorman's 2nd season time was ruined by the loss of Ross McClaren....he brought him back for that Shitty game bit like Iffy yesterday with Paul Smith, when clearly unfit , just in the hope they might be able to influence a game by organisation.

[Bennett]

i remember us trying to sign marshall! i also remember him scoring a few that season as well

[dogs]

Well if we were to get a different manager, we need someone who is a disciplinarian (kinky) but yeah someone who will make sure the players are fit as hell and will give 110%. Of course that is what you hope any manager would want, but saying it and actually getting the players to do so is a totally different matter.

In fact I think we'd do well to get someone in with knowledge of the lower leagues, who knows the kind of players we will need, like bruisers in central defence. I think it was Michael Bridges who said the work done by Paul Simpson was so impressive because the commitment of the his players and the levels of fitness at the club.

[SwindonTownFC]

Mooney player manager would be mint!

[Dorset Red]

It seems there's quite a lot of support for the idea of getting Paul Ince in as Manager.

Might be nice if the bedget could stretch that far and if he was interested. What does everyone else think?

[Bedford Red]

It seems there's quite a lot of support for the idea of getting Paul Ince in as Manager.

Might be nice if the bedget could stretch that far and if he was interested. What does everyone else think?

http://home.skysports.com/list.asp?hlid=381507&plid=1853&clid=39&cpid=

From this it appears he's playing on for another season with Wolves so not going to happen, even if the board etc were interested.

[Reg Smeeton]

It seems there's quite a lot of support for the idea of getting Paul Ince in as Manager.

Might be nice if the bedget could stretch that far and if he was interested. What does everyone else think?

 Sorry, but its just thisis looneys at their worst

[Dazzza]

How much is Ince on?  

Got to around the 15k a week mark it's the equivalent of asking a teacher to give up their job and  do a paper round.  

As committed as I'd be to shuffling papers through letter boxes and reading the Sport in a hedge would someone taking such a huge drop in salary have the right commitment?