Please appoint Danny Wilson

[juddie]

agree with dazza... fair assesment.

[fatbury]

Money or Wilson .. id be happy

Gary MacAllister .. no thanks

[Crozzer]

Im off to slit my wrists - goodbye TEF'ers!

If you supported Oxford United, this would be a logical step.

[Barry Scott]

Why don't we just bring back King? He's a legend and sure to galvanize the squad and fans alike?

[Don Rogers Shop]

I would be happy with Wilson no worse in my opinion than the other names that have been mentioned.

[janaage]

Wilson, no thanks, don't want a failed ex-shit head in charge thanks.

[Don Rogers Shop]

Who do you want Jan

[janaage]

Everyone's favourite ex-gash-head, Mr Holloway!!  I don't hold gasheads in as much contempt as shit heads.

[herthab]

Danny Wilson would be a good choice.

As would nearly all of the names mentioned.

[Lumps]

Can anyone quote me an example from this clubs history of us getting success from appointing one of the list of usual suspects (by which I mean the journeymen lower league managers that never seem to be out of work for long, moving from club to club every couple of years without any really impressive results)?

I'd guess you'd have to go back as far as Danny Williams before you found a period of sustained success under a man with any history of managing elsewhere, although Reg might be able to tell us better; were we any good under Fred Ford, he had at least one decent league finish?

There is the promotion under Sturrock to consider, but that was just bringing us back out of a league a club of our size should never have dropped into, was given a head start by Wise, and seemed to do it playin a fairly prosaic style of football that didn't seem to excite many people.

In my Swindon supporting life we've had a manager that seemed to transform the team radically four times, under Macari, Ardiles, Hoddle and Wise. To a lesser extent there was also Macmahon, who I didn't like as a man or in terms of his footballing philosophy, but who got us out of this league at the first time of asking using players like Mark Seagraves and Steve Finney who've never played as well for anyone else either before or since.

Anyway a bunch of high profile players in their first jobs in management. Each was a risk, and it doesn't always work out, as it didn't with Dave Mackay or with Les Allen, but when it does work it really works. It does excite people, it gets the crowds in, but most importantly it's our only chance of getting someone who's actually good at the job.

Look at the list that were picking through here otherwise. Blokes that have spent 10 years being mediocre in Leagues 2 and 3, on the back of having had one season of sucess with one club back in the 90's; others that have spent a season here, half a season there with a few championship clubs. Danny fucking Wilson.

Fuck I'm depressed

[Colin Todd]

danny fucking wlison indeed.

[Dozno9]

The cold light of day is that we are league one club. Some fans still think we are a Championship club, we are far from it. No doubt given the right backing and investments there is a good potential here to be a Championship club and therefore we will only attract the mediocre managers or ones starting off, sometimes we will get lucky with those (Macari et al) and sometimes not (Iffy).

I think Danny Wilson is a manager who is within the upper bracket of what we could expect to get here. He has managed in the Premiership with big clubs with high expectation and large fan bases. He has promotions and relegations under his belt and I do not see that a manager with relegation experience is a bad thing.

At this stage we do not need a nother punt at an unexperienced manager. You want examples of managers being appointed from the usual lit who have had success but you dismiss Sturrock, who was on that list you mention and that is the only success this club has had in the past 10 years.

To have success you need consitancy, both in players and/or managers and those most successful have either one or both of those qualities. Danny Wilson in my opinion, along with some others will bring that to this club alongside Fitton. This isn't a time for inexperience.

[Reg Smeeton]

 I didn't think you're a Wilson man.

 A couple of points....Fred Ford, was reasonable, we did win the Anglo Italian Cup, and nearly made it up to the top flight....had there been playoffs, who knows as we were a cracking cup side then. But he inherited a great team, certainly in the top 3 of all time STFC sides.

 At the moment we're between a rock and hard place....the available evidence suggests that to move forward, you need someone with drive and ambition, the sort of thing that gets knocked out of you after years of journeyman kicking around the lower leagues. Can you really see a Wilson putting in the hours?
 
 Against that with a poor squad, we need someone who immediately knows what they're doing, energy and enthusiasm wont be enough to get us out of this mess.

 The best way forward might be something like the Hockaday/Birkenshaw double act.

[Dozno9]

IMO I think that the manager situation here is only 10% of the problem the other 90% is the shit that turns up every week to play.

[janaage]

So what your saying is maybe the players come on here and have  taken the tef tag line a little far.  I mean 25% football and 80% bollocks on the pitch isn't really gonna get us very far is it?