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Caretaker Manager Appointed

8.56pm, Monday 23rd October

Swindon Town FC have appointed Head of Youth / Scouting Director Dave Tuttle as Caretaker Manager with immediate effect.

David Tuttle

Tuttle takes over Caretaker Manager role at The County Ground

The 34-year old will be in charge of first team affairs as the club look towards this weekend's home encounter with Lincoln City.

Tuttle had a spell in charge of Coca-Cola Championship side Millwall during the 2005-6 campaign and joined the backroom staff at The County Ground in the summer.

More information will follow on Tuesday morning.

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Not a surprise really. At least he should keep the same team mentality you would have thought.

surprise, surprise.....and thats the way it will stay....till he fucks off to Leeds as well

its going a bit iffy again

in all seriousness whats this bloke like?

No surprises there.  If he does well do we want him to get the job permanantly?  It would smack of a Roeder-eque appointment if we did

no - I dont want him as manager, simple as that.

even if he won 5-6 on the bounce?

yup, he did a truely terrible job at milwall...

I want an expirenced manager in, who knows what he is doing and knows how to get out of this shite division.

If I ever have to go to shewsbury again I'll kill myself

he was utterly abysmal at millwall...

I'd be underwhelmed and dissapointed if he stays as manager. But with our lack of cash it wouldn't be a total shock.

See on Saturday. I would like to see Paul Sturrock here. As i stated earlier.

If he wins 5-6 on the bounce it will because its "Wises team" in everyone perception.He would be daft to take it permantly its a lose/lose situation for him.It needs another big name in my opinion..whether we get that or not remains to be seen.

Swindon Town reminds me of a soap I predict our entire first team will die in a coach crash beore the end of the season.

Like others have said he was shite at Millwall.

I was thinking along the same lines Yeovil, but I'm hoping that after Lee Peacock gets shot we all wake up to find it was just a dream and we have infact spent the last 12 years cementing our place in the highest league.

that's Dream Team. Which returns on Sunday Night. On Sky One.

I'd tend to agree with you all, he was shite at Millwall an think we need another big (ish) name to unite the fanbase once more.

The likes of Sturrock or Megson would be ideal in my view but I'm very doubtful they would be interested in drpping to L2 standard, regardless of the money.

Its fair enough to put Tuttle in as caretaker, as he has a little experience and there's a game on Sat......but not long term please Mr Diamandis.

    The Board must be having a small celebration in Newbury tonight.....all the high earners off the wage bill....a bit of compo in the pocket....and no prospect of promotion bonuses at season's end.....Tuttle's a shoo in.

megson can fuck right off.

sturrock would be a good appointment, but won't happen.

tuttle will get the job whether we continue our form or not.

fingers crossed tuttle follows wise to leeds.....

Please not megson. He was pants at WBA and at forest. Him and Paul Evans do not get on.

Of course he will, he'll be appointed as manager for the exact same reasons Iffy was and that's for cost cutting reasons.

Why get a half decent manager in for a bit of money when you can get a hopeless one in for next to nothing?

reason?

board have set the precedent by appointing iffy last season.

furthermroe, as others have said, looking outside the club and spending big would by hypocritical after criticising devlin for the overspend.

But they did show some ambition in the summer by trying to appoint cunt and cunt and up until today it has proved succesful.

I would love to see Sturrock here as he knows these leagues and knows how to get out of them. And lets be fair. Who is going to try to poach him.

won't we have some money to spend on a manager's wages as part of this compensation deal? Two are going out, plus we get what we would have paid them for the rest of the year.

Big Ron might fancy some of that!

in theory

In principle yes, but i can see the board tightening the purse strings now.

true, knowing Sandy Gray she'll probably forget to pay the cheque in

sadly, we are also 750k in debt

They wont appoint Tuttle unless he does really well.

He may be a dark lord of the sith but I dont believe Diamandis is stupid enough to go down the cheap option road again.  Fans wont like it and will vote with their feet.

It seems I am the only one who thinks we will appoint externally. I may well be denial though.

And what is so wrong with Megson? did a cracking job at WBA before his fallout with theri board.  :oops:  just answered my own question there. i'll shut up now.

you watch dream team?  8)

 Sturrock is a big fan of Dundee United, and has always said he'd like to manage them, currently I believe they're struggling.....he might end up there.

and the rest. That's just forecast overspend for this year

and the rest

Fingers crossed Tuttle and Lee keep the Wise and Gus approach to training and match prep.

If we can't have Sturrock,

We want Andy king, say we want Andy Ki....no,no...err Singing I,I Iff....er no.....um...Help me out here guys.

Yes he is. I saw that in one of the Sunday Papers.

Wise was a luxury I guess.

If I was to guess a comprehensive shortlist for the full-time post - it would be: David Tuttle!

Forget Sturrock, McGhee, Penney, Shaun Taylor, Steve White, Mooney et al... This will be internal. I'm sure of it.

David Tuttle played for Sheffield United against Swindon in our first Premiership game. Nice little fact there.

 More or less all our internal appointments have resulted in relegation, or some disaster....Ken Beamish achieved the lowest gates and lowest position in our history, but relegation wasn't an option....I think Quinny would count as an internal...Johns Trollope and Gorman both took us down Iffy took us down. Les Allen produced possibly our worst ever side and took us down.

 The only exception to this sorry list was  :king: Will he come back and save us from Tuttle?

Well i wont ever be going again if he does

 Don't think many would miss you.

Charming!!

I may rant on at times- but i speak the truth.

With this board we will end up in the conference or worse out of business within 5 years

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

who are you ?

 We know mate....don't expect any support from me I've a long memory.

Id love to see Sturrock here. he'd be a great manager i reckon. won't happen though

taking out sturrock, that is probably the most depressing short list ive ever seen in my entire life. i think sturrocks the only manager that we could realisticly attain that would make me smile after all of this.

If Tuttle keeps the job we're probably screwed. I'm very upset right now.

right - Tuttle is the manager now him and the team get my support - Wisey is now the enemy!

so tuttle is in temory charge.i will support him as long as he is in charge be interesting to see how much he puts into though as there is a very good chance he will be off to leeds aswell

 If only....shades of Tony Galvin's legendary spell as caretaker after Ossie walked....when he spent the entire game leant on the dug out at the Hawthorns  soaking up the early springtime sun.

  Galviin unusually had a degree in Russian....which I don't think Tuttle does.

  Thinking about though Tuttle does have the requisite ex Tottenham player qualification to be an STFC manager.

he's got a degree in the paranormal

close, thats derrick accorah. almost the same tho... :P

I would be delighted to get Sturrock although it is unlikely.
I will get lynched and it will never happen, but I would like Andy King back until the end of the season.

But PLEASE NOT Iffy

Funny you should mention Galvin .. I went to his one off match as manager at the Hawthorns .. and it was going through my mind as I drove in .. well no surprise its Tuttle .. with his awful managerial record it was always going to be .. on the plus side he seems a nice bloke when ive chatted to him at the reserve games

If I got back to my car after a game to hear those words 'well Shaun' whined out by that arse I would take a hammer ot my own dashboard.

Why oh why are we the oly bloody club that would evn contemplate returning to THAT. Theres an absolute flood of managers out there, albeit not the best, but at least some with experience and with careers that Tuttle can only dream of.

Paul Hart? tough time at Rushden but better than Tuttle.
Worthin.....ok, pie in't sky
Sturrock - will wait for a bigger job
Brian Little? has he taken over at Darlo yet? if not, get him in
McGhee - arse, but better than Tuttle. Knows how to get a side up.
John Carver - better than Tuttle
Reeeeves - if he applied the board would consider him simply because he's one of the 3 people in football they've heard of and the one who hasn't had the job!
Megson - dream on, plus Paul Evans would be seen running down the hard shoulder of the M4 faster than Fola Onibuje
Kevin Summerfield - jobless and spent a short time in charge at Plymouth
i'm guessing now....

Think they should go for Ian Woan...

David Tuttle's managerial career

Team From To Games Won Lost Drawn
Millwall  21-12-2005  20-04-2006  P22 W4 D9 L9

taken from Soccerbase.com ..

Millwall did have about 4 different managers that season though.

thats a fair point ... but im sure the turmoil here is pretty big here too .. I wish him the best .. but long term I hope we get a top class manager in .. the board stated that they had made DW and GP an improved offer .. so does that mean the money is there for a replacement? I hope so .. I really dont want the cheap option ..

Totally agree, I don't want the cheap option either.  Reckon we need to give Tuttle the benefit of the doubt and wait and see if the board do actively look for a new manager or do the same as they did with Iffy

Fucking hell, it don't get any better does it.  I wish I had stayed in bed this morning, this club is a fucking shambles.

We gave Iffy too much benefit of the doubt when we should have taken a risk ... We will do the same with Tuttle most probably!

When considering what happened with Iffy - Tuttle has probably already got the job!

Adver headline

'Tuttle do nicely' :roll:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Jim

Rubbish  :roll:

ADVERTISER

"Tuttle will do Wisey."

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:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

If we have to go for the cheap option I'd rather see Ady Williams given the job. When he joined in the summer he said he was a great admirer of Wise's management methods etc - maybe he could carry on where Wise left off? He certainly seems to know what he's talking about in all the interviews he's given so far & all the players seem to respect him.

I think Tuttle would be a disaster, but if we win on saturday I can see it being made permanent. Remember all 'football' people on the board have now left (devlin/power), the rest of them don't have a clue so probably won't even bother looking at an outside appointment, they only know of king, reeves, woan, iffy.

Tuttle seems likely to follow.

You reckon? I can't see him wanting to uproot his family if he can potentially get the gig at Swindon.

Unless he does the scouting from London which obviously is conceivable.

I think so...

Reading the Adver article he doesn't seem exactly keen to stay, so IMO we should just sack him off too.

tuttle gone!!!

I've since read that article and agree with you. Tuttle hasn't exactly thrown his hat into the ring.

adi williams in charge for saturday!!!

Who would you have in charge today if Tutts turns it down to go with Wise ... Williams? Who would be in the dugout on Saturday?

Where does it say that?

Piss up in a brewery blah blah...paul evans, assistant caretaker coach...ticks all the boxes i) injured so not on pitch ii) over 25 iii) short, so even if it rains he can still stand up and stay dry under the dugout

Well following the probs at the wyvern, at least the kids DO get a pantomine this year!

Today....Adie Williams...but if I got a say in it we'd have a new manager by the game on Saturday. No point wasting time. Paul Sturrock is out of a job and would do nicely here. Worked wonders at Argyle and also got Sheffield Wednesday back out of league 1

As for the dugout, might as well be me or you....think we can safely write off saturdays games.

Plus the subs would be in the dugout saturday anyway!??!