The Proper Manager Thread - Sponsored by Audrey

[dphunt88]

Have we ever had an internal appointment that was even remotely successful? I can't think of one.

Has to be Mark Cooper. Was assistant manager to Kevin MacDonald, went from caretaker to permenant manager. Took us all the way to a play-off final in the 3rd tier. Under his management, we ended up receiving massive fees for Luongo, Gladwin and Byrne. Even managed to receive £150k for Will Randall!

And following Martin Ling, we gave Luke Williams the top-job, which briefly went well in his first season (Ajose and Obika scored plenty, entertaining side, few 4-3 and 4-2 wins chucked in). Then un-ravelled in 16/17.

[Bob's Orange]

Sounds like a man who has been told he has not been successful

Everyone's favourite journo confirmed he had applied but indeed had not been successful.

[Power to people]

I got to thinking last night, if we was to poach a realistic manager for the job, who would it be ?

I was actually thinking of Paul Simpson done a good job a Carlisle, into his 2nd season there and doing well so may want to move on to a bigger club

[Quagmire]

Everyone's favourite journo confirmed he had applied but indeed had not been successful.

Is Piers Morgan covering Swindon now?

[Bob's Orange]

I got to thinking last night, if we was to poach a realistic manager for the job, who would it be ?

I was actually thinking of Paul Simpson done a good job a Carlisle, into his 2nd season there and doing well so may want to move on to a bigger club

Hugely unpopular and a disgusting person but you can't really ignore what Steve Evans has done at Stevenage. Has the ability to get clubs out of this league, it's the one above that he struggles in but to get us out of league 2, you'd fancy him to do it.

I know Clem is a big fan of Wellens, I doubt we would have tried to get him back and a lot of fans don't like the idea of going backwards but it was good when he was here before.

[Bob's Orange]

Is Piers Morgan covering Swindon now?

I think he's too busy sniffing Christiano Ronaldo's rear end.

[Bogus Dave]

Evans is a weird one, because I was under the same impression RE: his record, but he has only been promoted twice in the football league, both with Rotherham (from league one and league two)

[Bob's Orange]

Evans is a weird one, because I was under the same impression RE: his record, but he has only been promoted twice in the football league, both with Rotherham (from league one and league two)

I'm just going to have a look at Wiki now but didn't he get Crawley or Boston United promoted? Certainly Crawley were punching above their weight when we were pissing the league with Di Canio weren't we?

Edit - 2010/11 he got Crawley promoted from non-league and to the 5th round of the FA Cup (they beat us in that run) where they lost 1-0 at Old Trafford earning £1 million quid along the way. He left Crawley in a good position in league 2 to go to Rotherham where they did the double promotion.

Hi career hit the skids a bit after getting the Leeds job but his CV overall isn't to be sniffed at.

[Nemo]

Evans punching above his weight would be pretty impressive tbf.

[Bogus Dave]

Yeah sorry, I wasn’t clear. I thought his league record specifically was more impressive than it is

[horlock07]

Yeah sorry, I wasn’t clear. I thought his league record specifically was more impressive than it is

I got what you meant  , plus the promotion of Boston from the conference needs a fucking great big * next to it!

[Bob's Orange]

Yeah sorry, I wasn’t clear. I thought his league record specifically was more impressive than it is

No I did get what you meant also. I guess once he had his sucess at Rov'rum his career peaked by going to Leeds where I guess he was 'found out', although "Evans took charge of a Leeds side one point off the relegation zone, however, he managed to guide Leeds to a 13th-place finish at the end of the 2015–16 season with Leeds finishing 15 points behind the playoff positions." and was then fired by a trigger happy Massimo Cellino. 

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Evans punching above his weight would be pretty impressive tbf.

Very good

[Exiled Bob]

The Crawley players loved Steve Evans.

[Posh Red]

Didn't do such a great job for Boston, where the fat crook screwed them over good & proper.

In some ways I do wish we would appoint him, would save me a small fortune