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Town have no specific candidate in mind for top job, says Wray
           


  SWINDON Town interim chairman Jeremy Wray has suggested the club will not be actively pursuing managerial targets and instead will be looking for those interested to submit applications themselves.

           

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 I wonder if this is a smokescreen and in reality they have someone lined up...I fucking hope so.

A bit contrary to yesterday's remarks regarding having a new man in by the end of May, so I would hope this is a smokescreen...

I would imagine that it will not be the manager of any club thats is involved in the play off then which would certainly rule out Mellon at Fleetwood and possibly Buckle at Torquay too.

Eh? We've got a whole month before that end of May target (without the hassles of a football season too).

Plenty of time even when starting from scratch.

It was Mr. Fitton that took an eternity to appoint a manager plus (unless there's a change from the norm) no compensation packages to work out.

Jeremy Wray just said that he did not want it to be a 'protracted process' and that he hoped to have someone in place as close to the end of the season as possible.

I wouldn't be too disappointed if it was Bodin. He certainly talks a lot of sense.

I wonder if we'll go for Gary Johnson once he takes Northampton into Non-League :)

That's the second interview I've heard from Bodin since he took over. I like him.

I definitely want him to get the job.

Don't see why not, he clearly loves the club and sometimes passion can be more important than experience

Exactly. At the end of the day, no one has any idea how any potential new manager is going to do so why not get someone in who actually cares about the club? I just like the way Bodin carries himself and puts himself accross. As I said, he talks a lot of sense.

It will of course be interesting to see what sort of response he gets from the players today (not to mention the fans).

Rubbish.
My Dad loves the club. I don't want him as our new manager.
Now more than ever we need somebody with proven experience, who can inspire the players and preferably has a few contacts.

Bodin is a no. As is Trollope.

And we literally haven't kicked a ball in anger yet!

Agreed...although I'd like to see my Dad get the job.

Bodin should definitely have a role in the future direction of the club - especially if he does well over the next two games - but we need someone with experience but is still at least involved in football management at this level, has contacts and is someone the fans can unite behind. Bodin does tick some of those boxes but not enough for me.

Well no, it's not fucking rubbish. It's my opinion.

Does your dad have over 20 years of professional playing and coaching experience?

No.

Thought not.

My Dad, random_five's Dad and Bodin are very similar in the respect that none of them have experience in managing the first team of a football league team that requires extensive rebuilding.

That's the point I was making at least.

I agree that the idea of appointing Paul Bodin is not rubbish, it's a quite plausible appointment.

However, these are dead rubber fixtures which will be hard to judge a Bodin on. This is a very important appointment for the club.

And another thing. What's this thing that people have about 'contacts'?

How does anyone know exactly who Paul Bodin, Paul Trollope or anyone else have in the game? How can you possibly know?

King got us some cracking players on loan through his contacts. Fair point that none of us know who knows who but I would suggest that having spent recent years coaching the youth team, Bodin isn't in the position to know what players are out there etc

And yet there are those (I'm not saying you are one of them) who are advocating a player manager along the lines of Ardiles, Hoddle, McMahon etc. All of whom had ZERO experience. Far less coaching experience in fact than Bodin - How ironic.

I don't know of course, but I reckon he had a pretty good idea of who is out there.

Regardless of experience/contacts/age/nationality/dick size, I think everyone would agree that this is a vital appointment for the club in order to stop the rot before it sets in further. It is for this reason that I think Bodin (and Trollope for what it's worth) would be too much of a gamble, we cannot judge Bodin on these next two meaningless games with a team that will barely resemble what we have come August.

Completely agree, Sonic

We don't have the luxury of risking a club legend with no managerial experience, it's been a rotten season and people are emmotional, I understand that, but Bodin in my view would be a massive gamble and simply not worth the risk.

Norwich tried it with Bryan Gunn in remarkably similar circumstances, culminating in a 7-1 home defeat to Colchester.