Appleton may be appointed as Lincoln manager, ahead of our game. Noooooooo.
Appleton to Lincoln
- Thread starter Grumpy Git
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If his tenure here is any indicator, itll take more than a few matches for a MApp Lincoln to play in style of play
if hes appointed tomorrow ( as currently seems likely?) he wont have had any time to work with the players
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
It will be interesting.
I would imagine that his style of play is a long way away from how Lincoln play.
They are clearly on a real roll, but I wonder if, like at Oxford, it will take them a while to play the way he wants?
I would imagine that his style of play is a long way away from how Lincoln play.
They are clearly on a real roll, but I wonder if, like at Oxford, it will take them a while to play the way he wants?
wonder how long itll be before MApp discovers its a 2 day tractor ride there & 2 day tractor ride back across Lincolnshire to the nearest tattooist ?
Northernyellow
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
Pretty much a case study in how to job hop and ruin a career. If he'd stayed one more season, he'd have got us in the play offs at least, and then would have got a #1 role at a decent Championship club. The Cowleys will be a very tough act to follow. Lincoln are not a big club..... Kitson got a lot wrong, but he did say that Appleton kept chasing the money. The Leicester move may have earned him a few bob, but it put him right down the management ladder again....
TailsWeWin
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
So they won’t have time to ‘gel’. Oh .... hold on...
Manorlounger
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
So he left OUFC to chase money? I think not. Money certainly played a role in his leaving but not, I would suggest, in his pay.
MJB
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
A big reduction of investment from our previous owner and the big uncertainty of the new ownership (which dragged on for six months) were big factors in him leaving I imagine.
Appleton was sold a vision by MA when he arrived - our ambition backed that up in the first two seasons but the tide had turned at the time Appleton left.
iambungle
Level: Jamie Brooks
(53 Apps, 13 Gls)
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Leicester were reigning PL champions when he went there weren't they? That was surely a better opportunity than hanging about with us for another season with Slippery's ever tightening wallet, hoping that a job at a Championship club might come up. If the Leicester job went well then he would probably be in the frame for EPL jobs now if he wasn't already in one.
As it is, he's back in the same league with a comparable club, but having trousered several hundred thousand pounds in the meantime. Hardly a career in tatters is it.
I think he had a suspicion that Shakespeare wouldn't last long and that would give him a shot at the Leicester job or (at least) to boost his profile enough to get a Championship job. Didn't work though.
He'll probably bottle it at the last moment and rule himself out of the job as usual...
southcoastyellow
Level: Jack Midson
(68 Apps, 15 Gls)
Hopefully Tiger is trying a late bid to get Map’s in to replace KR..or make him Director of football ??
Northernyellow
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
He absolutely left for the money. It was widely reported at the time that he was going for x2+ OUFC money. Tbh, I'm not really that bothered. He did a great job for us, but to move from #1 to #2 role is a pretty daft thing to do unless your primary motivation is money. The Lincoln job will be a really tough gig. They are a smaller club than we are and Appleton will be following a manager who has done a fantastic job in the last three years. So, if he gets Lincoln to mid table L1, he'll be viewed as a failure there as expectations are now so high. Appleton's career is starting to look very much like Mark McGee many years ago. Lots of early management promise ruined by constantly switching clubs.
Northernyellow
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
It wasn't hindsight. I thought it was a stupid move at the time. The team that beat Millwall 3-0 at The Den would have made top six (at least) had he stayed the following season And Eales didn't pull the plug immediately. He allowed Clotet to make all those brilliant foreign signings.....
Manorlounger
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
He got the going rate.
What he didn't get at OUFC was backing by the chairman who, by that time, was looking for an exit without losing too much. Funding was pulled, and any prospect of getting a budget that would allow him to continue went as well. Ashton was already going (or gone) and it was clear that the future under Eales was not an attractive prospect.
Talk about Lincoln being a "smaller club" is silly. The fact is that the driving force behind the success of Lincoln is an ambitious chairman who is prepared to put his money into the club. They appear to be operating under sound financial targets. That the Cowley's have had a lot of success on the pitch is certainly a reflection on their abilities as a management team but, without the backing they have enjoyed, would they have been as successful?
Appleton's early career was unfortunately blighted by clubs that were financially troubled and he had little option but to move on. To say that a mid table finish at Lincoln would be viewed as a failure is very short sighted. By those standards KR is an abject catastrophe. (ah, hold on. . . )
TailsWeWin
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
Weren’t Lincoln one of the pre-season favourites to get promoted?
gpalner1
Level: Billy Beechers
(7 Apps)
West Oxon U’s
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
Appleton : fans’ verdict.
werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
2-0 home win
He could carry on their momentum and get them promoted, or fail and get sacked, leaving him back at square one. Bit of a risky strategy as their success is so founded on the Cowleys
He could carry on their momentum and get them promoted, or fail and get sacked, leaving him back at square one. Bit of a risky strategy as their success is so founded on the Cowleys
ubermeistervonmeat
Level: Andy Crosby
(122 Apps, 13 Gls)
Talk about Lincoln being "smaller" is arrogant - currently riding higher than us with more momentum and larger attendances - what we undoubtedly have over them is FAR greater past successes but they are very much in the past at the moment
At the present time, which club is more likely to get into the Championship - clue - it isn't us
As has also been said, would far rather have MAPP at the helm than KR but that ain't gonna happen
Let's be honest many of would be gutted if he goes there hence many of the snide remarks about Lincoln
RO report that Mapp has cancelled all of his media commitments. Local media in Lincolnshire believe that the club and he are in advanced talks although it might not be completed until early next week. He’ll probably be watching from the stands on Saturday though which will give the Lincoln players an added incentive to put a shift in.
Steve Gilbert
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For people saying Lincoln is a smaller club than Oxford, their lowest home league attendance this season is 8361. Their highest is 9016. Yes they have had a lot of success in a short space of time but in the season back in league 1 after promotion we had an average home crowd of 7403. Whether we like it or not, Oxfordshire isn't that interested in their local football club and you have places such as Lincoln where there is much more interest meaning there is great potential to build a club like Lincoln.
They also have a state of the art training ground too.
They also have a state of the art training ground too.
Mellowyellow
RIP
RyanioBirdio
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
Eales put the budget up by nearly a million quid on the previous season when Appleton left. Clotet merely spunked it all, but it was VERY good. Appleton left because yes, he did get a very good pay rise, but more than that the club had been ripped apart. Craig Dean was crucial to our scouting and recruitment and had left for Leeds, and that was pretty much the end of the line once he moved on. Believe me or not, doesn’t matter, it’s true on all fronts. I’ve got nothing to gain by making it up, especially when my identity is freely known. Eales yanked the playing budget up as a final gamble at getting us into the Championship so that the sale was more valuable, but it didn’t really matter as he was off either way, and was going to get his money no matter what while the club foot the wage bill. Unfortunately by the time he did this Appleton was gone and Clotet had set about doing his own thing and paying a fortune for duds, leaving us right in the s**t, but anyone suggesting Appleton left solely for money is wrong. It wouldn’t have hurt, but he saw he’d gone as far as he could with the club being wound down and sold to god knows who. He left while his stock was high.
And as for the comments about Lincoln being a small club, behave. They sold out of season tickets in 48 hours back in June - almost 6,500 of them, which is more than our total attendance v Tranmere including over 600 away fans - and sell out the home ends most games. Their attendance was over 8,700 when we had 6,200 last weekend and they’ve won trophies every year for the last three seasons. Their backroom staff is set up nicely, especially recruitment wise, and they’ve got a brand new training facility. Live in the now, not in the past. They’re on the up however long that lasts, and while that’s the case they’re at least equally as attractive as a club like ours. Probably more so - they’ve got everything we have just with bigger crowds in a stadium not owned by Firoz Kassam.
And as for the comments about Lincoln being a small club, behave. They sold out of season tickets in 48 hours back in June - almost 6,500 of them, which is more than our total attendance v Tranmere including over 600 away fans - and sell out the home ends most games. Their attendance was over 8,700 when we had 6,200 last weekend and they’ve won trophies every year for the last three seasons. Their backroom staff is set up nicely, especially recruitment wise, and they’ve got a brand new training facility. Live in the now, not in the past. They’re on the up however long that lasts, and while that’s the case they’re at least equally as attractive as a club like ours. Probably more so - they’ve got everything we have just with bigger crowds in a stadium not owned by Firoz Kassam.
Paul Cannell
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
Will ye no come back again?
uptheus
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
He’d (MApp) would still prefer it here though!!
TailsWeWin
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
Presume that’s ironic arrogance following the previous posts?
