MApp to Pompey???...... Just a thought
MApp to Pompey???...... Just a thought
I was getting grief for backing MApp in the early days when he had almost as many outers as Robbo has now! He's a good manager, and arguably his best season was the playoff finish with Lincoln who had one of the smallest league one budgets at the time (our league two promotion season was with the biggest budget). But he's good, not great and I think that we should be setting our sights much higher for an established manager, or go for a young, up and coming manager with new and innovative coaching ideas.
You have spoken for thousands in that sentence @ManorloungerI think a lot of folk forget that Mappy came here with Ashton as the CEO and Eales doing what he was told. When Ashton and Eales fell out, things went down. Eales was then under the cosh to unload the football club and pulled all the finance. Mappy walked because he could see there was no future under Eales.
Would I welcome him back? I don't know. He has had a lean period and was ill for some of that time. Is the same hungry, astute and football wise manager? Would I take him over KR? In a flash.
Its frightening thinking about Mapps with a massive budget.
KR with a large budget, waste of space!
Are you putting KR under the positive bus?I was getting grief for backing MApp in the early days when he had almost as many outers as Robbo has now! He's a good manager, and arguably his best season was the playoff finish with Lincoln who had one of the smallest league one budgets at the time (our league two promotion season was with the biggest budget). But he's good, not great and I think that we should be setting our sights much higher for an established manager, or go for a young, up and coming manager with new and innovative coaching ideas.
Ah who cares what they do, they’ll get some grizzled northerner in for eighteen months.I really can’t see Blackpool or any championship side going for Robinson at the moment, it’s a hard sell to appoint a manager whose team are in the bottom half of league one, I reckon they will go back down the route of a young, Critchley like coach again.
No. League 1 is his limit and he knows it.Anyone know/believe the board to be genuinely keeping their eyes open for opportunities with other coaches? Or are they doubling down on what we have with tunnel vision for the end of the season? Think I know the answer but just curious what might make them alter their stance and Appleton is surely circulating in their Watsapp group today....
PS.... Might Karl throw his hat in the ring for Blackpool?????
Ah who cares what they do, they’ll get some grizzled northerner in for eighteen months.
What less than a grand for Cam or is it for JonesAnd their first task will be asking the Board to sanction a four-figure bid for Cameron Brannagan.
It would be a very short thread.I can already visualise the thread on here in 8 years time discussing the pros and cons of rehiring KR.
It would be the best thread on the forum if we could get it going.It would be a very short thread.
2031…. I can just see the national press interview now…I can already visualise the thread on here in 8 years time discussing the pros and cons of rehiring KR.
I was getting grief for backing MApp in the early days when he had almost as many outers as Robbo has now! He's a good manager, and arguably his best season was the playoff finish with Lincoln who had one of the smallest league one budgets at the time (our league two promotion season was with the biggest budget). But he's good, not great and I think that we should be setting our sights much higher for an established manager, or go for a young, up and coming manager with new and innovative coaching ideas.
Great post.MApp deserved the pelters he got from August to December 2014. Trying to watch Hunt, Newey and Raynes play tika-taka was playing into the hands of our opponents. He made a host of crap/average signings that he himself binned (Junior Brown, Brian Howard, George Long, Joe Riley) and only in January did we really turn things around. Remember that things were touch and go into early 2015 for a while. We were just six points above the drop zone in late and a late Kyle Vassell goal against Carlisle, a team one place below us at the time, saw us go on and secure our status.
I maintain that without (Jellied) Eales and MAsh, MApp would have really struggled with us. He was allowed to pay off contracts for Wilder’s functional League 2 fodder and his own duds whilst bringing in players who must’ve been on pretty good wages – Roofe, Baldock, Skarz etc. The main man who saved us that season wasn’t even one of his signings either since Danny Hylton was Waddock’s one and only addition before he was sacked. Whilst the season that followed is in the top two seasons for me in watching us, I do think how lucky he was that he had the financial support to truly take a sledgehammer to the squad to rid himself of players who weren’t up to it including how own mistakes.
It's why I said Blackpool needed to be patient. MApp is an empire builder, not a quick fixer and that hasn’t happened there. It’s a League where no one is patient. They want to get up out in terms of the of it or to stay up it and will panic at the first opportunity that either of those looks like it won’t happen. It’s why 14 of the 24 teams in the second tier have changed their manager. Madness …
As for having him back here, it’s all about what’s above him as to whether I’d have him back. Working to a buy-develop-sell model with a DoF above him doing the contract work and I’d be keen. Working to the format that KR has with OUFC as his personal fiefdom where he runs around with his phone to his ear. No way. MApp is in many ways very similar to KR – plays easy-on-the-eye football and has good runs in the cups but are both tactically rigid and have approaches that can be divisive (KR overbearing and MApp cold and distant). I’m not sure on a return myself.
Very good postMApp deserved the pelters he got from August to December 2014. Trying to watch Hunt, Newey and Raynes play tika-taka was playing into the hands of our opponents. He made a host of crap/average signings that he himself binned (Junior Brown, Brian Howard, George Long, Joe Riley) and only in January did we really turn things around. Remember that things were touch and go into early 2015 for a while. We were just six points above the drop zone in late and a late Kyle Vassell goal against Carlisle, a team one place below us at the time, saw us go on and secure our status.
I maintain that without (Jellied) Eales and MAsh, MApp would have really struggled with us. He was allowed to pay off contracts for Wilder’s functional League 2 fodder and his own duds whilst bringing in players who must’ve been on pretty good wages – Roofe, Baldock, Skarz etc. The main man who saved us that season wasn’t even one of his signings either since Danny Hylton was Waddock’s one and only addition before he was sacked. Whilst the season that followed is in the top two seasons for me in watching us, I do think how lucky he was that he had the financial support to truly take a sledgehammer to the squad to rid himself of players who weren’t up to it including how own mistakes.
It's why I said Blackpool needed to be patient. MApp is an empire builder, not a quick fixer and that hasn’t happened there. It’s a League where no one is patient. They want to get up out in terms of the of it or to stay up it and will panic at the first opportunity that either of those looks like it won’t happen. It’s why 14 of the 24 teams in the second tier have changed their manager. Madness …
As for having him back here, it’s all about what’s above him as to whether I’d have him back. Working to a buy-develop-sell model with a DoF above him doing the contract work and I’d be keen. Working to the format that KR has with OUFC as his personal fiefdom where he runs around with his phone to his ear. No way. MApp is in many ways very similar to KR – plays easy-on-the-eye football and has good runs in the cups but are both tactically rigid and have approaches that can be divisive (KR overbearing and MApp cold and distant). I’m not sure on a return myself.
Yes after seven months here lots wanted him out, 'tippy tappy football' and all that.MApp deserved the pelters he got from August to December 2014. Trying to watch Hunt, Newey and Raynes play tika-taka was playing into the hands of our opponents. He made a host of crap/average signings that he himself binned (Junior Brown, Brian Howard, George Long, Joe Riley) and only in January did we really turn things around. Remember that things were touch and go into early 2015 for a while. We were just six points above the drop zone in late and a late Kyle Vassell goal against Carlisle, a team one place below us at the time, saw us go on and secure our status.
I maintain that without (Jellied) Eales and MAsh, MApp would have really struggled with us. He was allowed to pay off contracts for Wilder’s functional League 2 fodder and his own duds whilst bringing in players who must’ve been on pretty good wages – Roofe, Baldock, Skarz etc. The main man who saved us that season wasn’t even one of his signings either since Danny Hylton was Waddock’s one and only addition before he was sacked. Whilst the season that followed is in the top two seasons for me in watching us, I do think how lucky he was that he had the financial support to truly take a sledgehammer to the squad to rid himself of players who weren’t up to it including how own mistakes.
It's why I said Blackpool needed to be patient. MApp is an empire builder, not a quick fixer and that hasn’t happened there. It’s a League where no one is patient. They want to get up out in terms of the of it or to stay up it and will panic at the first opportunity that either of those looks like it won’t happen. It’s why 14 of the 24 teams in the second tier have changed their manager. Madness …
As for having him back here, it’s all about what’s above him as to whether I’d have him back. Working to a buy-develop-sell model with a DoF above him doing the contract work and I’d be keen. Working to the format that KR has with OUFC as his personal fiefdom where he runs around with his phone to his ear. No way. MApp is in many ways very similar to KR – plays easy-on-the-eye football and has good runs in the cups but are both tactically rigid and have approaches that can be divisive (KR overbearing and MApp cold and distant). I’m not sure on a return myself.
The vast majority wanted him out. I would bet that included Kip!!Yes after seven months here lots wanted him out, 'tippy tappy football' and all that.
He does come over as an unemotional tough guy, but I have no idea what he's really like.
I understood itGreat post.
Apart from the third paragraph that you must have sub-contracted out to Bazzer![]()
Keeping the seat warm for KRMcCarthy it is then, to the end of the season at least