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[Made-in-Jericho]

You’d maybe take a punt on a lower league manager flying high with a strong record but not someone in 15th position, surely?

 

[BDJ]

Because:

A) The meeting was proposed and arranged before Cambridge, and therefore before they had actually decided he was going to be sacked at all. They couldn’t cancel it without there being uproar and leaving even more questions to answer, so they had to go through with it.

B) They were hoping he could limp on and pick up enough points to achieve safety before they parted ways. They had decided to move house (which they previously did not intend to do), but they hadn’t decided when to move or where to move to. They were hoping to spend the next month or two figuring that out, so that they looked as though it was all part of a master plan when the time came and they could essentially tell people they were daft for thinking they hadn’t been in control the whole time, but the Rovers game was too bad and the boos were too loud. The house fell down.

He also lost the senior players after Cambridge, hence Henry, Eastwood and Brannagan all contradicting him or refusing to back him after that match. I don’t think his little pisstake holiday helped in that regard. You don’t move stuff around for your own benefit, and put yourself and your desires above dozens of others while shrugging your shoulders, in the middle of a crisis. It showed everybody that his priority was himself and that he felt he was above the football club, even when things were on fire.

Was his little jaunt to Paris pre-planned or spur of the moment? If I'd pre-planned a short break with my teenage daughter, I think I'd still go rather than let her down, however s**t things were at work. Plenty of other sticks to beat him with.

 

[werthersoriginal]

Johnnie Jackson played for Swindon.
It's a no from me.

So did Joey

 

[MJB]

Steve is a really good communicator.

I've never told him how much this annoyed me, but he used to spell the Oxfordshire town of 'Witney' as 'Whitney' in text messages. I told him Witney isn't like the singer, there's no silent 'h'. He continued spelling it incorrectly for about six months. It was probably innocent on his part but it did annoy me at the time.

I still bear that grudge a bit.

Otherwise he's a really good guy.

Haha.

W(h)anker!

(Just jokes, love ya Stevie!)

 

[pidge]

Maybe a requirement of Tiger’s when the club is looking for a new manager is to have previously managed Charlton.

 

[Royalstandard74]

You’d maybe take a punt on a lower league manager flying high with a strong record but not someone in 15th position, surely?

I've little faith from the powers above, so anything is possible.

 

[greatunclekip]

Johnnie Jackson would be an absolutely ludicrous appointment.

 

[Ox4Eva]

Keep up, we've decided that one. It's B*****s

Job to keep up with the amount of bollo*x posted on here

 

[Yellows1]

I've little faith from the powers above, so anything is possible.

Some harsh stuff posted lately on here, what are you basing that on???????

 

[yellowbow]

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Indeed, seems odd coming in at 5s, without prior involvement? Watch this space.

Now 5/4 favourite

 

[Jimmy P]

Fowler?……are you for real? No thank you.

 

[BDJ]

If MAPP does get it please can we have a guarantee from the Board that he doesn’t have a holiday booked in Spain in the summer. I couldn’t stand another meltdown on this forum with everyone desperate to get a picture of KR on his phone sunbathing in his budgie smugglers.
The thought of MAPPs pecs……

 

[MJB]

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Thanks, I hate it.

 

[yellowbow]

Johnnie Jackson would be an absolutely ludicrous appointment.

There’ll be nothing in it. Just some false whispers. Why would we pay out compo for someone like him with the quality that are currently out of work?

 

[bazzer9461]

Because Michael Appleton is an entirely different person to Dennis Smith or Jim Smith?

And?

 

[Oxford84]

It's important to remember that it was the players who finally forced the club to act after the Bristol Rovers debacle
Simon Eastwood made it clear they thought we were fighting relegation prior to the game and Cam pointedly failed to back the manager in his interview afterwards
It looks like they decided that things couldn't carry on and they made it impossible for the club hierarchy to continue to ignore the elephant in the room
I suspect that whoever comes in will have 100% backing from the players, who have been as frustrated as the fans

just loved that Cam interview.

 

[spmox]

I disagree to a certain extent.
He took us down (having brought a lot if players in- some claim Patterson would have kept us up)
Then presumably with the biggest budget in the Conference (?), we were in a great position and threw it away a little. Then the defeat to Exeter.
Bringing in people like Eddie Hutchinson (on a huge salary from memory)
So the win ratios can be very misleading

I am among those who would claim that.

 

[Joey]

What about Dennis and Jim Smith it didn’t work for either of them so why would Mapp be any different. If he was reappointed and another club higher up come sniffing what’s to say he won’t do to use what he did the last time he was here.

Appleton is a completely different manager to the Smith's though, Jim especially was a bit of a dinosaur by the time he got here. Someone posted a few pages back a list of managers who returned and were successful, there are plenty who've done well.

Regarding your other point, if he comes back and we have as good a set up as last time I think he'd think long and hard about leaving now, he needs a good run at a club where he's supported. Also, it's not a bad position to be in when other teams higher up in the pyramid want your staff, otherwise we wouldn't have bothered signing the likes of Lundstram, Roofe, Ledson, Rothwell, Nelson etc. If a big Championship side wants him it's because he's done a very good job here, especially as I don't know how good his reputation is in the game now as he's only had success here and a season at Lincoln.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Johnnie Jackson 6/4
Michael Appleton 7/4
Grant McCann 3/1
Steve Morison 6/1
Mark Warbuton 10/1

 

[bdodwell]

If everyone else could put a couple of quid on the 66/1 shots, I will pile on MAPP and Fowler when they drift to 16's. Think it will be one if those.
Then again I might have to cover up on Des Buckingham.
More chance it will be Jessie Jackson than Johnnie.