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3 minutes ago, Joe B said:

Garlick an interesting listen. No surprise there's been a load of applications.

It's good that there are underlying 'principles and a philosophy' behind the process. It's all been a bit scattergun before. 

An open-mind regarding who it will be; not definitely going for experience. 

Didn't he say they would also have to buy in to carols ideas as well?

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8 minutes ago, Joe B said:

Garlick an interesting listen. No surprise there's been a load of applications.

It's good that there are underlying 'principles and a philosophy' behind the process. It's all been a bit scattergun before. 

An open-mind regarding who it will be; not definitely going for experience. 

Not going for experience would be extremely risky and has backfired time after time.

experience to me is someone who has at least managed to a relative degree of success in the last few seasons, at a league club.

Emile Heskey, wow, just wow.

Don’t think outside the box, pick the most obvious pedigree and standout resume - can’t go far wrong at least in the short term.

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42 minutes ago, Jacko51 said:

Re Joey Barton - just read a story about why he left Fleetwood.

"It has been claimed that dressing room discord followed an attempt by Barton to impose fines on Fleetwood players for wearing gloves - only for the players to produce photos of Barton wearing the same garments during his playing days."

barton-joey-nufc-gloves-m.jpg

Would be pretty remarkable if he left the club for trying to crack down on gloves considering they stood by him after he chinned an opposition manager and was arrested and sent to trial for it.

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Looking for our 6th Manager in less than 5 years.

23 months ago most posters on here were saying that the club needs stability.

Now it's a finger in the air job again.

Askey did a good job at Vale and approx 2 months ago we were comfortably in the play offs.

Then the bubble bursts big style. A batch of key player injuries, senior players sent off, Covid, conceding late goals, a left field coaching appointment

Whatever, it has all added up to ditching over 20 months of steady progress by the Management team and putting us back to where we were before Askey was appointed.

What a shame this wasn't all nipped in the bud.

Someone has let Carol down whilst her attention had been deflected from her primary responsibility.

I am not convinced it was Askey.

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Just now, Wrex said:

Would be pretty remarkable if he left the club for trying to crack down on gloves considering they stood by him after he chinned an opposition manager and was arrested and sent to trial for it.

You’re right, but I think Barton as a manager is finished. How can he command respect with his antics while a manager? Imagine Legge gets sent off...what could Barton say without being a total hypocrite? 
 

He had 1 job at Fleetwood because he was golfing buddies with the owner. Can you really see him getting along with Carol and the whole cuddly, family values, community sandwich delivery ethos of the club? I can’t. 

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7 minutes ago, andy jones said:

Looking for our 6th Manager in less than 5 years.

23 months ago most posters on here were saying that the club needs stability.

Now it's a finger in the air job again.

Askey did a good job at Vale and approx 2 months ago we were comfortably in the play offs.

Then the bubble bursts big style. A batch of key player injuries, senior players sent off, Covid, conceding late goals, a left field coaching appointment

Whatever, it has all added up to ditching over 20 months of steady progress by the Management team and putting us back to where we were before Askey was appointed.

What a shame this wasn't all nipped in the bud.

Someone has let Carol down whilst her attention had been deflected from her primary responsibility.

I am not convinced it was Askey.
 

Some fairly serious accusations there, Dave.

Not only do you seem to suggest Carol has acted in a rash manner and not considered this decision very, very carefully and acted in the best interests of Port Vale, but you also seem to suggest someone else in the club has undermined Askey.

Askey did do a good job, but the cold hard facts are that we are currently in no better league position than we were when he arrived, with a much older squad and a litany of poor transfer decisions leaving us lumbered with inadequate players with contracts to run. To argue that this sacking has set us back, and not Askey's mismanagement/recruitment, is circling the issue. We're in this bad position because Askey underperformed after superb backing, not because Carol watched the capitulation on Saturday and knew she had to act.

Stability for stability's sake is not the best move; stability with a good manager is preferable. I have confidence in Port Vale, and confidence in Carol, to appoint a manager who can extract more from these players than Askey did this season. You seem to be putting more blame on Carol for having her 'eye off the ball' than you do for the manager who wasted her money in a pandemic on Whitehead, McKirdy, Robinson, and Mills.

I back Carol on this one. 

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5 minutes ago, andy jones said:

Looking for our 6th Manager in less than 5 years.

23 months ago most posters on here were saying that the club needs stability.

Now it's a finger in the air job again.

Askey did a good job at Vale and approx 2 months ago we were comfortably in the play offs.

Then the bubble bursts big style. A batch of key player injuries, senior players sent off, Covid, conceding late goals, a left field coaching appointment

Whatever, it has all added up to ditching over 20 months of steady progress by the Management team and putting us back to where we were before Askey was appointed.

What a shame this wasn't all nipped in the bud.

Someone has let Carol down whilst her attention had been deflected from her primary responsibility.

I am not convinced it was Askey.
 

Askey would have taken us down. Carol has made the correct decision. I’m convinced she will get the next appointment right. 

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8 minutes ago, Wrex said:

Would be pretty remarkable if he left the club for trying to crack down on gloves considering they stood by him after he chinned an opposition manager and was arrested and sent to trial for it.

Didn’t say it was true!!

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2 minutes ago, andy jones said:
Someone has let Carol down whilst her attention had been deflected from her primary responsibility.

I am not convinced it was Askey.
 

While Carol and Kevin are the owners, it would be a folly to suggest they will succeed as a “one man band”. Smurfwaite appeared to have nothing else to do, even serving drinks in the sales kiosks (even in the Lorne Street until a public lynching was on the cards). 
 

Our current owners, solid as they have been in making the right call to get rid of Askey, cannot run a club on their own when they have the demands of Synetics and most meetings will likely be taking place over Zoom etc. 

We need to look beyond them for the problems. The board looks light on actual knowledge of running football clubs and our scouting network is dire, a sad hangover from Smurfwaite cost cutting. 
 

If he was happy feeding the squad old pies, I dread to think what else got culled. 

 

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"He had 1 job at Fleetwood because he was golfing buddies with the owner. Can you really see him getting along with Carol and the whole cuddly, family values, community sandwich delivery ethos of the club? I can’t."

Can't understand why the club community efforts keep getting mentioned by fans. It's not a weakness, it's a strength, and the right thing to do. Our present owners will attract managers to apply because they are solid sensible business people.  And Joey Barton shouldn't be allowed near the Vale for reasons beyond our being "cuddly family values" - he's a thug, as his record shows.  Can dish it, but doesn't like taking it, and players soon see through that.

 

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Not accusing Carol of anything other than she was recently quoted as saying she needed to re-focus on the primary role.

She has acted by sacking the Manager. That is her decision and one that probably took a lot of heart searching. Hopefully it all works out great.

So definitely not criticising our superb owner.

My thoughts are simply that Askey is a very experienced Manager and a good Manager doesn't become s bad one overnight. A couple of months is not overnight, but something has gone on to change a team from a closely bonded one, to one in complete disarray.

Any road up a new Manager it is and I personally would still go for Rob Page because he turned us into s footballing possession side rather than Mickey's more direct style.
Additionally he was Mickey's recommendation to Smurthwsite wasn't he?

The fact he kept us in a good position in league 1 whilst having to put up with Smurthwaite's antics. Jealousy and eventual hatred has to be congratulated. He refused to defer to Smurthwsite throughout his time at the club probably knowing it could only end up with him leaving.

His subsequent coaching with Wales has a similar feel to the guy currently doing so well at our near neighbours.

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