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Who thinks that Paul Sturrock will be appointed as the new manager of STFC next week sometime?

Some fool on the thisis site thinks Big Ron is going to be appointed next week, somehow i can't really see this happening, we don't want him as our new manager!!!

Most fans want Sturrock with Nijholt a close second, i would love Sturrock to come here, he has the knowledge of the lower leagues and has done it before and knows what is required to get a team up out of this league and league one!!

Seton Wills wants experience and i think it's got to be either Sturrock or Nijholt, i would definitley go for Sturrock over Nijholt!!

No disrespect to Ady Williams, he is a top bloke and a good player but i don't think he's the right man for the job at the moment, maybe in 3-5 years after he has done some coaching with us then maybe but the time is not right for him at this moment in time!

We don't want idiots like Rix, Mcallister, Little, Worthington etc taking over!!!

Well if we cant have the dream pairing of Rix /King I suppose he will have to do.

 most fans dont want sturrock followed by nijholt.and theres a name at the bottom of your post i hadn't thought about and he's no idiot.mcallister.
reckon he will make a fine boss.he only jacked in his last job as his wife was terminally ill.time to get back into the game?

I've heard that Gary Mcallister, Ron Atkinson and Brian Little have applied but i'd rather have Sturrock than all of those!!

Yes they do?

The Poll set up in this site has Sturrock ahead by miles.

While all this talk of Sturrocks and Nijholts is great, lets not get carried away and lets think of the money.

The board will not gamble, last year we needed to bring in a strong expirenced manager to turn Kings shower of shite round, we ended up with Iffy Onuora.

Again, we need a good strong manager to keep the players going and to get us promoted, but for purely money reasons we will get Adie Williams BECAUSE he is the cheapest options.

Dont fool yourselves into thinking we're going to get anyone different, yes Martin whatsisface is making all the right noises and saying the right thing but thats his job.

It'll be Adie....

pessimism from DV! :shock:  who'd have thought it?

Not because he was the most obvious choice then? Very few clubs appoint an external caretaker boss DV, if we'd done that, the job would have been as good as theirs.

Obviously, they had to make the right noises regarding Adi, they were hardly going to say, "We're not going to give Adi a chance to impress, we know he's shit".

To my mind, Williams is a caretaker manager. But i've been duped by this board before :|

Most obvious choice as caretaker yes, but I'm on about permenant manager.

Say we win the next 5 what does that prove about Adie's management....nothing?

It just proves that our player are too good to be playing in this fucking awful league and we already know that.

We should be expecting to win all our games, anything else isnt good enough with the players we have....

To me, even 4th place isnt good enough. We need a manager who will get us to top spot and keep us there. Adie Williams will not do that because he isnt a manager.

I'm sure sometime in the future he will make a great manager I really do, but we cant afford to give him this season as a learning curve.

Us fans are all expecting promotion and I wont accept anything else. This isnt a season for changes, or learning curves. This is a season for winning games....

if we appoint Sturrock i expect us to go up automatically. if we appoint Williams we will struggle to reach the play-offs and thats not what we want

I totally agree with the fact that we need an experienced external appointment.

I totally disagree that our players are too good for this league. A few of our players are too good for this league, maybe 4 or 5. The main difference between us and the rest of the league, is we're fitter and more organised than most.

Apart from Wrexham in the second half, when they played some good football. Wycombe in the first half half and Hartlepool.

The teams have been shite

Jack Smith, Jerel Ifil, Andy Nicholas, Adie Williams, Jamie Vincent, Paul Evans, Aaron Brown, Lee Peacock & Christian Roberts have all decent seasons in higher leagues, some of which we've seen first hand

We shouldnt be struggling to beat anyone

Do you think Sturrock will be appointed next week


nonono yes

I still can't help but feel the club will go for the cheap appointment in Williams and Hunter, especially if we win today. The board will hear a few chants of 'Aidy's barmy army' and assume we all want him.

im going to be pissed off if Adi gets the job. take nothing away from the bloke i think he could be a decent manager and will be in a few years time. but its not right for the club. it will be like the whole Iffy thing was last year and it could cost us promotion

i'd only say that smith, ifil and evans are capable of playing at a higher level succesfully. the others could do a job but they're nothing special.

we're not the best team in the league and we've not got some godgiven right to promotion.

Nicholas was bloody good in our play off season
Williams was playing in the Championship only last season
Brown, Peacock and Roberts all played for a very good Bristol City side, that lets be honest should have go out of League One on more than one occasions.

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I think we're the best team in this league, and I've seen NOTHING  to suggest otherwise.

I'd agree that we are one of the best teams in the league, we wouldn't be up there and challenging if we weren't. Like i say, that's more down to good organisation and fitness than individual brilliance (Paul Evans wonder-goals aside).

Brown, Vincent and Roberts have all been shit this season so far

Quite right SY....Barry Hunter's Barmy Army.

Some Owl over on MOS just posted this



Seems a bit quick if you ask me, we'll see.....

Paul Sturrock will be an excellent appointment in my opinion.

Then all we need is the board to fuck off and get Power back and we're laughing  8)

Sturrock to be appointed next week, it's a done deal so i've heard!!!

Never heard of him..is he black?

You have to realise chaps that we probably have the most impotent strike force of the whole top half of this table-that is the problem-the persistent selection of Onibuje/Roberts/Peacock is our downfall.We need to change it,either by picking Caton and Jutkiewicz when both fit or get Parkin in on loan!

or the forgotten man royce brownlie!

Plymouth won this league with Mickey Evans and Marino Keith up front who both couldn't score for shit. Sturrock will sort them out if he get's the job.

nicho's form since 03/04 has been patchy to say the least, his form has peaked of late but troughed badly prior.

williams isn't going to get any better.

brown is not even our best left-winger.

peacock and roberts are decent strikers, nothing special.

i've seen us outplayed many times this season, lincoln last week in particular. that would suggest we're not the best team in the division. the fact we're 4th and not 1st would also support the above statement.

we were never out played by Lincoln....not even close to it

yes we were. our inability to score a goal confirms that.

no it doesnt?

it shows they beat us...but we were the better side, we had more possession and we created more chances and we should have been 2-0 up before they even had a shot at goal.

Daniel, can you change your Location to League 2 please, it's been bugging me.

Thanks x

they outplayed us all over the pitch, we spurned our chances and only have ourselves to blame.

i really don't know why you think we've got a godgiven right to promotion. we're not a big club.

the man who cannot pass a football?
awful!

Very true.
Although i thought Lincoln were fairly well organised, we were the better team, there's no denying that. We had plenty of chances in that game, but once again were unable to finish in the final third....Definetly 6 points dropped in the last two games, due to poor finishing - Time for Lukas and Brownlie to be given a go, although Peacock's work rate is top notch and i feel we definetly need him in the side.

as opposed to the rest of our team who are footballing passing brazillian genius'

yeah thought not.

Sonic, Lincoln in no way, shape or form out played us. They beat us, they took their chance....but out play us....no chance. Not even the Lincoln fans think they out played us.

Out playing someone is different from getting a result. Hartlepool battered opening day, but got nothing for it because we took one of our chances and they didnt. I wouldnt even dream of claiming we out played Hartlepool because we didnt, they battered us.

I think we should go up because we've got better players than most in this division, the first 6 games show this. We won them all, why now all of a sudden have we stopped winning? plus the standard so far this season has been horrendus....most of the teams in this league makes our relegation team of last season look decent

we didn't deserve to lose last week.didn't got today so cannot comment .but brownlie cannot pass a football!

...and who in our team can?

On a side note Brownlie can finish one on ones and score 25 yard screamers.

That sounds like a good enough reason to give him a chance up top to me.

has Brownlie actually played up front this season?

one screamer.fuck all else have i seen from him!

not since pre-season, his only run in the first team came out on the right-wing.

scored a lovely goal against wycombe, marvellous one-on-one finish and we all know about the goal against barnet.

i maintain he's the best finisher we've got at the club. given the chance up front i'm fairly confident he'd put some of the chances away we've wasted of late.

how many times have you watched him play though?

thats my point exactly he hasnt been given a chance upfront, in his actual position for longer than 5 minutes in a game.....that why he hasnt done anything of note yet

one screamer.....one more screamer than the rest have scored.

Obviously you didnt see him cooly, and calmly tuck in his one on one at Wycombe, just the kinda of cool head in front of goal we lack.

very true. why not try him? im baffled as to why he hasn't been played there in the league this season. he scored a great goal against Barnet but has struggled to get into that positon. whats so great about Fola? he doesn't score goals and would be better off on the right as opposed to Brownlie who is useless out wide

Well, 1 possibly 2 less than Evo, but meh..... you were probably just referring to strikers

more than most then! which is what I wanted to say because I'm obviously well aware of Evans screamers

aint been away at all but his touchand passing in every home game i have seen has been awful.missed first home game today!

i think you're spot on james

give him a go up top and he'll flourish i reckon. i hope so anyway. he's the closest thing to a parkin since parkin.

hope we can get sturrock in

We've lost the last 2 games due to shoddy defensive errors and a lack of goals. If we sort out one of those things we'll be back to winning ways.

I thought Roberts was our best player, he needs to start the next game too.

Yeah, looked really 'up for it'

I just hope he can keep it up though. Seems to take it easy once his place in the team is assured.

Agreed, yet someone on here thought Roberts was one of the worst players yesterday.  :shock:

Thought Roberts started a bit slowly, but got better as the game went on. Peacock & Roberts, when fit and on form are our best strikeforce.

Roberts was our best player on saturday no doubt about that. looked a lot sharper and did a lot more running