Adver News: McCrory reveals hunt for new boss yet to begin

[News Monkey]

McCrory reveals hunt for new boss yet to begin
           
           


  SWINDON Town chairman Jed McCrory has confirmed that the club has yet to formally begin their search for a new manager.

           

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[Costanza]

If Town stick with Miller/Ward (or 'Wallerd') then I would hope that they bring in an old head to help out.

There's quite a lot of confidence in these two so I hope they get it right.

[Gnasher]

It would be a massive mistake to keep on Ward and Miller until the end of the season. We need experience to get us over the finishing line, and managing the team and playing would be too much for them.

I hope Jed isn't influenced by tonight's result as we'll have to be unbelievably shit to lose to Bury at home.

[pauld]

I think elsewhere yesterday (it may have been the Pat Sharp bloke interview) one of them said (and I'm paraphrasing here) "Look we've got two games in 3 days, no time to appoint someone so we just don't want to undermine the two guys who are in charge right now, we can talk about it after Tues". Which is fair enough - let's get tonight's game won first, Ward and Miller need to feel they have backing from the men at the top, not be looking over their shoulders.

[Ardiles]

...which is fine.  But what bothers me is that, in spite of the two home games, no one at the press conference yesterday even gave the impression that any thought had even been given to the matter.  It wasn't even 'Well, we wouldn't want to undermine Darren and Tommy over the next few days, but rest assured I have been making contact with various parties, sounding people out and getting the ball rolling.'  They gave the impression, basically, that the club had landed in their lap and that they were now scratching their heads and wondering what to do next (or, more likely, waiting for instructions.)

This has been a poor start.  Yesterday was an opportunity to at least give a hint of the direction that they wanted to take the Club in.  Key questions about their strategy - incl the type of manager they want to appoint, what we do with the ground etc - of course we're not going to get detail at this stage, but a flavour would have been good.  I remain completely unconvinced that any of this lot have the experience, ideas or qualifications to take the Club to the next level.

[pauld]

Oh I don't disagree Ardiles, I'm very worried by pretty much everything I've heard (and not heard) so far. I was just trying to be fair

[Peter Venkman]

I agree with you Ardiles, not the best initial press conference, but I hope they will build upon it.

It did indeed sound a bit like "oh fuck we got a club where did that come from?".

Probably doing them a diservice but thats the general impression I got from the press conference.

[Costanza]

Poor old Ardiles has been worried since seeing McCrory's Twitter profile 

All valid concerns, hopefully each one will be addressed in time.

[Ardiles]

I know.  I just hope they up their game pretty quickly.  I know I've been particularly critical and that most of our other fans are going to be more inclined to give them a little more time to prove themselves.  But we're ¾ of the way through the season, so the honeymoon period will not be a long one.  In fact, they are probably going to be OK until we get our first dodgy result - which could be (but I hope not) as early as this evening.  They need to up their game.

[Ardiles]

Poor old Ardiles has been worried since seeing McCrory's Twitter profile 

It's even worse now.  

JedMcCoy
@JedMcCoy
England
Proud to be part of Swindon Town FC, Luton Town fc & Banbury massive .. Roooaaarr... #grassroot football fan

I won't deny that the twitter thing set the alarm bells ringing.  But that was just a first impression.  It's what he does now (or doesn't do) that really matters.  The press conference yesterday did nothing to dispell the initial impression that we've probably taken a step backwards in terms of the calibre of the people at the top.

[Peter Venkman]

It's even worse now.   

JedMcCoy
@JedMcCoy
England
Proud to be part of Swindon Town FC, Luton Town fc & Banbury massive .. Roooaaarr... #grassroot football fan

I won't deny that the twitter thing set the alarm bells ringing.  But that was just a first impression.  It's what he does now (or doesn't do) that really matters.  The press conference yesterday did nothing to dispell the initial impression that we've probably taken a step backwards in terms of the calibre of the people at the top.

[Peter Venkman]

I am trying to stay positive about it all and see where it pans out before jumping to probably the wrong conclusions.

I think we will know much more of their intent after the meeting with MillWard tomorrow, this is a massive decision for them to take and they need to grab it by the balls and take us forward.

I hope they choose wisely.

[thepeoplesgame]

Fabio Cannavaro and Filippo Inzaghi should have their UEFA Pro licences from Coverciano by the summer, perhaps the new owners are waiting on one of them.

[RJack]

Personally I would rather they took their time over choosing a new manager.  When you look at what's available out there, ie Andy Thorne, Ian Dowie & all the other names the adver have linked they hardly inspire us do they?

The appointment for me is crucial to get right, it's unfortunate it's come at a time where we are in the top 7 but I don't want any old manager just bought in because of our league position on a whim we might get promoted.

[random_five]

Iain, it's Iain..