Wanted: Swindon Town Manager
Adie Williams takes over as caretaker-boss, at the County Ground, following Dennis Wise's departure....
Swindon Town will not be rushed into appointing a new manager...
Following David Tuttle's decision not to take temporary charge of team-affairs, Club captain Adie Williams has taken over as caretaker-boss at the County Ground.
But acting chief-executive Martyn Starnes says the search is underway for a permanent successor to Dennis Wise:2
"We have no fixed view on whether it's going to be a young dynamic manager or whether it's going to be someone with an established track record. We're inviting applications and we will see who does apply and we'll make decisions based on that.
"I think we could easily run for four to six weeks with the staff that we've got. We've still got a very strong staff within the club, on the football side, and I think the important thing is for us to get the right manager. If that takes a little bit longer to achieve, than we would perhaps like, than so be it."
Wise has been joined at Leeds by assistant Gus Poyet and goal keeping coach Andy Beesley.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/10/25/stfc_251006_feature.shtmlHeh,
that's been cut and paste word for word from the press release that followed King's departure last season.
Expect another to follow shortly regarding the quantity and quality of some of the applications as the process continues in a week or so. Provided Williams doesn’t make an absolute shambles of it he’ll no doubt be announced as the next manager in a couple of weeks.
Not that I’m picking holes, I’ve no problem with Williams, in fact I believe I mentioned over three months ago (come on anyone beat that then
) that he came across as having the credentials to make a future Town manager.
The main worry as ever is with some of the comics behind the scenes running the circus.
Williams like Iffy doesn’t have the same sway and swagger that Wise and Poyet had and while they were clearly disgruntled with the shenanigans to some degree they came across as having a degree of leeway in dealing with those with no name. Star performers shipped in January little or no transfer funds (well less than ever) for squad strengthening, staff cutbacks the usual sort of stunts to ‘balance the books’ that I got the impression Wise wouldn’t have stood for and by recent events didn’t!
