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Well this guy was right about Maurice's sacking so....... could it be?

Great appointment if it were to happen.


http://forum.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4828

No thanks.

steve white was there.i dont think he has a chance in hell mind

I thought Boothroyd has gone to Oz to learn how to skin kangaroos?

If it were to happen, excellent.

Unfortunately i dont think it will

why not?

Just don't like his style of play. Not convinced he'd do a great job either despite him getting Watford promoted.

It's bollocks anyway he's down in Australia as you said.

I think he'd be good imo, it wont happen though.

Holloway it is!

I used to like Adi Boothroyd but he seems to have been a bit of a one season wonder.

Watford has gone backwards at a pretty fast pace since the Premiership

True but having to sell players etc does not help.

These comments are very interesting that i've just come accross from Boothroyd;

"To prove I am any good as a manager there must be consolidation and progression over a long period of time and that is the aim."

Boothroyd has swiftly earned a reputation for getting the best out of players who might otherwise be categorised as moderate or holding limited potential and he explains: "Sometimes it is the personality and the attitude of an individual that counts above his natural ability. I hold great store by getting into the psyche of players and knowing what makes them tick and their weak spots.

"Their mental fortitude and willingness to get into the trenches can pay bigger dividends for a club than someone who can make a football dance and sing. It's the type of person rather than the type of player which counts for me, always bearing in mind that it is the team, rather than the individual, which counts."

No thanks. Holloway all the way.

i'd prefer boothroyd to holloway.but would be happy with either.dowie will get it imo anyway

It's my understanding that Fitton is looking for 2 things from any potential candidate.

1) He must be a motivator.

2) Fitton must be able to work with him.(Trust is a 2 way thing)

I dont want Dowie, agains like Boothroyd one good season with Crystal Palace and its all been downhill since - Charlton, Coventry, QPR!

This sounds feasible to me. I thought I heard them say on Talk Sport earlier that he was at the game today. I would like Holloway but I think Boothroyd would also be an excellent appointment.

I want Byrne and Williams to be our managerial dream team. Certainly more than Dowie, Boothroyd or Holloway. I must admit i was more worried about Byrne potentially leaving with Malpas' appointment, than i was with Malpas's appointment.

I know that sounds strange, but i felt Byrne and Williams had done enough of a job prior to Malpas coming in that i thought they'd get the job. Apart from those first few teething troubles, football deteriorated once they stopped managing. The team looked better than under Sturrock, but then i never liked Sturrock's brand of football, or the man himself in fact.

Look at us talking about the likes of Boothroyd, Dowie and Holloway. Some say "I don't want him etc etc" but let's be fucking honest. You would take any one of those 3 wouldn't you?

i would gladly.today showed what a cloud malpas had over the club.it lifted!

Agreed. It has to be said that there are some decent coaches currently unemployed at the moment.

Why didnt you like Sturrock as a man?..seems a nice guy to me,and Plymouth won at Coventry today,Plymouth in the top ten...i wish he was still here,as for Byrne hes got no chance of getting it....a good back up for a proper mnager maybe,Dowie is on mega bucks on gardening leave,would need a bundle to get him,its odds on Holloway and i would welcome that.

You can wave goodbye to Byrne and Williams if Holloway comes in.

I think you can wave goodbye to them anyway tbh.

No, No, Yes.

Today was like a dress rehearsal for a Boothroyd team.  If it wins games, then so be it.

Explain Robert.

the style of football leefer

Fair enough...cept we didnt win!

Of course, i'm just being a cock. I'm easily pleased to be fair, i'd be exstatic if either came in, both for temporarily lifting the fans and for what they could do. I just worry that the expectation levels go through the roof when you have a name, and therefore can unrest the miserable amongst our fan base with relative ease.


Didn't really mean it in that way, just found him to be someone i wouldn't enjoy speaking too or become friends with - far to fucking grumpy. He could well have been a truly lovable chap, but he never said or did anything that i found endearing or warming.

I know, but if that style wins then it won't bother me having to watch it.  If it loses games then it's painful viewing at times.

Know what your saying Rob,i liked Sturrock but each to there own.

Doesn't really matter though does it? It's like the stuff about people saying they didn't like Malpas cos he was dour or Byrne cos he waves his arms round. If they can inspire the team and get performances and results, that's what we pay to watch

Aidy Boothroyd would be amazing but cant see him coming, bit unfair to call him a one season wonder, he done brilliantly then had to sell Ashley Young £9.5m, Marlon King £5/6m and Bouazza £4/5m with hardly any of that money being made available to replace 3 big players for them, was only a year or so ago he was being touted as england manager

Not even slightly, just something i mentioned and then justified. Like you say, who cares what their personality is like, but i do kinda like people that show they care. :)

Disagree PAULD....MM got some good results,he was unbeaten in the last 3 LGE matches against good teams....but he had no passion and alot(not all) fans dont want to see there manager standing like a lemon not appearing to care,like King he wasnt liked because of his demeanour.

People would not have given a shit had we not lost the number of games before that, especially at home.

True. It's like the Eriksson/England situation. No one gave a monkey's that he didn't show much passion or indeed that he wasn't English when we were tonking the Nazis 5-1 but it suddenly became an issue when the results started to dip.

Well, King was hardly passionless was he? If King had got us promoted, he'd have been liked well enough, whatever his demeanour; likewise MM if he'd got us into the play-offs we'd have been talking about a quiet cerebral manager who thought his way to the top, a kind of low-rent Tartan Wenger. If you get the results, demeanour doesn't matter, it's only when results go against you and performances dip that things like that come into play

 It's a funny old game....I suspect AF had made MM aware of the fact about need to progress in the FAC, which is why he took the negative "lets try and get a 0-0 draw approach.

 Had we achieved that he'd still be in a job now...whoever the new man is, there will be those against him from the outset.  If we appointed the recently reincarnated Jesus Christ....there would be those who'd argue he wasn't really the son of God, and only Brian Clough could walk on water.

Rightly so reg. Jews are rubbish football managers.

 It's a fair point, look at Avram Grant...BTW why hasn't he been mentioned as a possible?

Boothroyd all the way for me, I think he'd a be a great appointment, failing that Poyet.

What about Curbishley - would he drop to this level for a job, done wonders at Charlton over the years, done ok at West Ham until he had interferance - I suspect though he'd want too much money to even consider this level ?

IMO Boothroyd...not bad..Poyet...unproven as a manager...Curbishley..good manager proven record...Dowie...a few good and a few bad seasons.

We are Swindon....a (mostly) unapealling club, a pretty unapealling job, few funds and little financial reward offered, in a very unapealling division......why the hell would any of those 4 want to come to us?

Lets get our sights set on ACHIEVABLE managerial possibilities and a lot less pie in the sky options like these.

The 4 WILL NOT EVER come to us at the moment.

Ward, Holloway and possibly Cotterill could come to us as they all have links in the West country and probably would be willing to work at this level.

Kings downfall at Swindon was his arrogance towards us fans,which culminated in players doing the same...notably at Cheltenham,after Cheltenham it was only a matter of when he left.

Didn't the Cheltenham incident happen the year before the playoffs? King lasted a good couple of seasons after that including our most successful for a while.

But it was inevetable that one day andy king would leave swindon town

Why don't we show ambition and tryand get one of these guys, why settle for 2nd best ?

Swindon is a well run club, decent owners who are willing to help the manager with a little money, debt free, ambition to be a well run championship club in the future.

We are not the poor club we were once seen as, a manager could come here and do his reputation no end of good.

I'd disagree about any of the 4 not being interested, I think we are a better prospect than a lot of clubs at our level now

Wise? Poyet? Sturrock?

And we're in a better state than when any of them joined.

Mug.

Yeah jog on u mug.

Wise was only here because of Power and Sturrock takes the first job he's offered.

Someone told me to job on this morning at football, he was a right stupid fucking prick. Needs a good smack in the mouth.

I'd like him here to be fair, but would be just as pleased if we got Holloway or Dowie.

But the point is they still came. We also had Lou Macari, Ossie Ardiles, Glenn Hoddle, Steve McMahon all big names as footballers.

If you can pay them what they want and they're eager to get back in the game then they'll always be interested.

The whole going down to manage at the lower leagues thing is becoming quite popular aswell.

It's more a case of P.L clubs bringing in Foreign managers etc so the only real choice they have is to drop down, not always the case but...  That said The european style of management has failed at a few clubs and now teams may be looking at english/british managers again.

Only 4 foreign managers in the prem Gaz

was it DMR?

i'm convinced it'll be someone none of us have mentioned on here. an appointment completely out of the leftfield again.

Not counting Jocks (2), Taffs (1) and Paddies (2) as foreign I take it?

Obviously not Lumps but well spotted you clearly are a fucking genius.

I like the cut of Fitton's jib. By all means let go for a bigger name but let's try and go for someone who will at very least build something and leave a legacy. A nice little repeat of the Macari era would be preferable but perhaps unlikely in this day and age. I'd take a tidy little three year stint from Olly thanks very much.

I liked you on the radio the other day!  :-[

Didnt Boothroyd get rid of MacNamee, dismissing him as a 'inconsistent luxury player'?

So I'm sure Anthony will relish Ady coming in....

 Remember when Ardiles was apppointed, we'd gone through the usual list of candidates for the time, in the Adver, Radio Swindon and in the pub.

 Then I see the Adver headline that it was Ardiles....don't think my gob had been so smacked...

 At the time, I think there'd only been a couple of other foreign managers....probably Danny Bergera, who was a You Are Gayan and Dr Jo Vengloss...a Czech.

Our next manager will be Reg.

Didnt Danny Bergera manage someone like Stockport?

 Yep.....I applied when Macari go the job....I don't go back. >:(

Dr Jo was a Slovak.  Sorry I should've just let that go. :(

I want Fjortoft to be manager...we could run on to the pitch to the theme from Airplane.

Not sure you can argue with the statement though.

Seconded, not so far from the truth.

The difference in divisions would probably mean McNamee would be safe. Some said Peacock was a goner after Sturrock came in.

An inconsistent luxury player in League 1 is quite good. Most of them are just plain old inconsistent players!

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