Manager/Coach Des Buckingham

[Northstandboy]

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[ECYellow]

I think Des can deal with the fitness and the data analysis side , yes.

If you say so, bud .

While we’re at it, we might as well do away with the medical & ticket office staff, too. Just let Des manage the lot.

It’s impossible to debate it with you when you appear to not know the difference between the two jobs.

Besides, I don’t want to come across as poisonous.

 

[Colin B]

Some of our fans need to get real, reset their expectations, and give Des time. Given our current infrastructure and revenue, being 5th in L1 is punching above our weight. Yes, we have potential to be higher which will come if we keep our owners and get a stadium. Said fans should be careful what they wish for. Oxford as a City needs the Universities but will function quite happily without a league football club, it's only the fans that would really suffer without one.
We could have got a higher profile manager in, we know how that would have played out.
We've got Des, for goodness sake get behind him - life is too short.
We are called United for a reason.

Nobody has picked you up on this, so I will.

Our playing budget is 2nd in this division. We ARE NOT punching above our weight.

Our owners are putting a lot of money into the playing and non playing sides of the club. In my opinion, those people charged with managing it are not doing a good job with it (this is senior management, and not aimed at Des) so please stop this nonsensical "we're only little Oxford, and should be grateful to be here" rubbish.

I'm grateful that our owners are putting the money in, but very concerned at how it's being squandered.

 

[tatabanya]

Not director of football - we have one of those

Still can't believe this was in reference to Des

 

[werthersoriginal]

Nobody has picked you up on this, so I will.

Our playing budget is 2nd in this division. We ARE NOT punching above our weight.

Our owners are putting a lot of money into the playing and non playing sides of the club. In my opinion, those people charged with managing it are not doing a good job with it (this is senior management, and not aimed at Des) so please stop this nonsensical "we're only little Oxford, and should be grateful to be here" rubbish.

I'm grateful that our owners are putting the money in, but very concerned at how it's being squandered.

Our playing budget is 2nd? Someone recently showed a list that put it at eighth. I don't know which is true but we could barely field a team last night!

 

[Osei Yaw]

Our playing budget is 2nd? Someone recently showed a list that put it at eighth. I don't know which is true but we could barely field a team last night!

Maybe because so much of it is tied up in certain players who we are not getting value for money from.

 

[Colin B]

Our playing budget is 2nd? Someone recently showed a list that put it at eighth. I don't know which is true but we could barely field a team last night!

That list was wrong, it was full of errors. You'll have to trust me on this, as I obviously won't divulge how I know, but I hope my track record on here counts for something.

 

[chromeyellow]

We currently don't have a director of football so yes Buckingham appears to be doing the two jobs.

he is trained to a higher level than the majroty of coaches and I imagine his role in the New Zealand national set up meant that he was dealing with data and scouting reports.

I was saying that the greater need was for someone who can improve communication internally and externally and take on project mamangement . Neither of those roles come under the ambit of the Director of Football.

 

[Joey]

No reason to doubt our budget is that high but it's also probably pretty safe to say we're currently wasting a good chunk of it. Brannagan is excellent but I suspect he's being overpaid, then we had Henry's contract to match that and I'm sure we're paying a good chunk to Murphy and Browne who will be long term sick. Speculation from me but I would imagine after Kilmarnock's contribution what we're paying Findlay each month is probably still a good wage for a centre back at this level. Of course every team has injuries and players on deals that don't provide value but I doubt there are many who do so to the extreme that we have for the last couple of years and it's still crippling us. Even then the current board aren't blameless as Grant was in place to oversee the window last summer where plenty of these issues came about and now Des is hamstrung by them.

 

[tatabanya]

We currently don't have a director of football so yes Buckingham appears to be doing the two jobs.

Does this not suggest to you that we need someone to come in and fill that void? Someone with experience in, I don't know, Assistant Manager recruitment processes for example.

 

[yellowbow]

That list was wrong, it was full of errors. You'll have to trust me on this, as I obviously won't divulge how I know, but I hope my track record on here counts for something.

We have the second biggest budget and yet Des pretty much put his hands up last night and said he wasn’t that bothered about losing because the game has come at the wrong time and we don’t have enough players..?

10 days in to the window.. surely with such a competitive budget and a recruitment team who I assume had done its planning before January, I would have expected a bit more news by now than a player who is already here extending his contract?

It’s all a bit frustrating at the moment..

 

[Carpy]

Brannagan is excellent but I suspect he's being overpaid

If the 10-12k a week that has been widely reported is true, he's paid a considerable wedge for League One.

 

[Sharp Edges]

I meant that Des Buckingham as well as Head Coach is to all intents and purposes Director of Football.
this place is poisonous at times

That will be when you suggest others are "dead inside" for having an opinion different to you.

Keep digging, you are starting to become very entertaining.

 

[unification]

Maybe because so much of it is tied up in certain players who we are not getting value for money from.

This was the point I was going to make.

The budget may be high but that could and probably does stem from decisions made before DB or Manning got here. We know there are some very well paid players here on silly contracts and who don’t offer much of a return on their wages.

Any rumour that James Henry rides a slide down into his cellar which is filled with gold coins and jewels like Scrooge McDuck?

 

[chromeyellow]

Does this not suggest to you that we need someone to come in and fill that void? Someone with experience in, I don't know, Assistant Manager recruitment processes for example.

As I've said I do think we need assistance- but I don't think you necessarily need a Director of Football to cover Assistant Manager recruitment processes.

And i think calling the team you support "lackluster" when winning away with one of the best goals scored in the UK that day does show remarkable negativity.

 

[ThatSlopesATwelfthMan]

Obviously a brilliant goal but you cant rely on someone doing that every week to win you games? Just felt completely flat like majority of games have under Des.

We were pretty much winning games that way under Manning too. Our numbers throughout the season have shown us overperforming versus clear chances created. Largely thanks to our left back no less. There are lots of ways to succeed in L1 but when you strip it all back it usually comes down to teams who are set up and effective at feeding a top predatory striker or, like Plymouth last year, having a very pacy, sharp and well drilled front 3/4 who interchange. We're between two camps and it shows even before it was all amplified by recent injuries.

 

[Osei Yaw]

This was the point I was going to make.

The budget may be high but that could and probably does stem from decisions made before DB or Manning got here. We know there are some very well paid players here on silly contracts and who don’t offer much of a return on their wages.

Any rumour that James Henry rides a slide down into his cellar which is filled with gold coins and jewels like Scrooge McDuck?

I believe the slide was actually originally for Marcus Browne. He used it once and injured himself. It was passed over to Josh Murphy who injured himself installing it, and now it's with Henry.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

This was the point I was going to make.

The budget may be high but that could and probably does stem from decisions made before DB or Manning got here. We know there are some very well paid players here on silly contracts and who don’t offer much of a return on their wages.

Any rumour that James Henry rides a slide down into his cellar which is filled with gold coins and jewels like Scrooge McDuck?

Yep - It's how he initially sustained his injury that has kept him out all this time.

The reason he no longer looks like he can run is also because his boots are made of solid gold....

 

[Manorlounger]

Not so long ago, under the auspices of one D Eales (Ol' Slippery to you and I) we enjoyed the services of Mark Ashton. Perhaps folk would do well to recall the recruitment of that era when declining the need for a DOF?

 

[Joey]

We currently don't have a director of football so yes Buckingham appears to be doing the two jobs.

he is trained to a higher level than the majroty of coaches and I imagine his role in the New Zealand national set up meant that he was dealing with data and scouting reports.

I was saying that the greater need was for someone who can improve communication internally and externally and take on project mamangement . Neither of those roles come under the ambit of the Director of Football.

Being trained to a higher level, which in itself might not be true and would be almost impossible to prove, doesn't give you more hours in the day. The fact the manager is having to do two jobs is unfair and can only have a negative impact. He needs help, be it an assistant manager (who knows what Hackett is), a DoF or a Head of Performance to manage the fitness side of things. Perhaps we'll end up with a different assistant as hinted yesterday by Des himself and I wouldn't be shocked if one of the other roles was filled as well but it has still taken a hell of a long time.

 

[Colin B]

I believe the slide was actually originally for Marcus Browne. He used it once and injured himself. It was passed over to Josh Murphy who injured himself installing it, and now it's with Henry.

Jamie Hanson is looking for a slide I hear...............