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Town board hope to appoint new boss before Saturday
           
           


  SWINDON Town’s new owners hope to appoint a replacement for Paolo Di Canio before the weekend trip to Coventry.

           

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 I'd imagine Newell would be available at very short notice.

Or Buckle....maybe both :hmmm:

Could be...unfortunately, you can't really argue against the deceision to get someone at such short notice, and that means they probably will be a dull retread.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't eh.

Tisdale for me still, can't see it maybe it would come down to compensation, how much does a grecian urn? :D

alan curbishley for me.

Swap for Venetian Blind/Maltese Cross/Cannon Ball

Avram Grant.

Paul Hart.

Sexy 4-3-3 attacking football.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Buckle given the job if I'm honest.

The man whose latest achievement was getting Luton to 10th place - and 14 points shy of the play off places - in the Conference?  The knives would be out almost immediately.

It would also be a strange move for a clearly passionate Luton fan to poach Luton's manager for his 'new' club.

Will be interesting to see if it is an appointment until the end of the season or if it is longer.

I think that will depend upon the candidates, if its MacDonald I feel it will be til the end of the season but if its an experienced manager it will be longer term IMO.

How much time will the new man have though before Saturday? If applications/interviews are today and an appointment tomorrow at some point then there is surely no time for a training session/get players in/study opposition tactics? I'd rather we somehow got through the weekend and made the right appointment Monday next week...that's me personally though.

I suspect a man will be identified and they will go get him.  I am not expecting a prolonged period of interviews with endless applicants.

If the man has been identified and contacted yesterday then talks/compensation could be ironed out today and he can get his arse on the training ground tomorrow!

Anyone looking to impress in the interview should probably turn up with a detailed plan on how to defeat Coventry on Saturday... that's what I'd do

Andy Thorn it is then :)

Dennis Wise

I thought Buckle had left Luton for personal reasons

That's my view, the board have said they won't be rushed into a decision, now they're looking to make a decision within 2 or 3 days.

I'd rather we wait till next week and interview 4 or 5 more to get a better idea.
Fair to say none of the board would have interviewed a football manager for a job before.

First thing i would have done is kept Nick Watkins for the management process as he's sat through enough of them.

He's still here isn't he? Certainly bloody hope so, thought this was one of the transitional things he was being kept on for

His farewell notes were in the programme on tuesday night, whether he has left not or end of season someone else will have to confirm this as i didn't read the piece. There also talk of him being 5 live somewhere else on the forum.