10 hours ago, tkonion said:

I'm surprised that Gareth Ainsworth hasn't had a mention. His teams not only play attacking football, but are tough. Something that we've been missing for a while.

it's because he only took the Shrewsbury job 2 months ago

1 hour ago, Blondi said:

Would everyone agree that Schumacher seems to be firmly in the driving seat?

I'd rather not, be a skiing crash of an appointment for me

Des Buckingham now 2/1, not sure about him tbh.

3 minutes ago, Blondi said:

Des Buckingham now 2/1, not sure about him tbh.

That'd be a dreadful appointment. Football he played is dire, effective in his set up against us, but that isn't much of an achievement. 

52 minutes ago, Zico said:

it's because he only took the Shrewsbury job 2 months ago

To be fair I did mention him previously and I’m sure if he was the one wanted a deal could be done with the Shrews, who for me he’s wasted at. I suspect though it will be one of the list we’ve seen but Ainsworth would be just the kind of experienced character we need.

18 minutes ago, Blondi said:

Des Buckingham now 2/1, not sure about him tbh.

Definite no from me too.

not sure we should be reading too much into these odds

2 minutes ago, mattbwfc19 said:

not sure we should be reading too much into these odds

Exactly. Odds are just a reflection of where folk are chucking their money. Means fuck all

Time to read into it is, ironically, when they close the book 

Edited January 23, 20251 yr by jmjhb

Buckingham changed the way Oxford played because of the spanking they got from us. He recognised what he had couldn’t do what he wanted. Might be novel to the majority of us after watching the last 4yrs of rigidness but adaptability is something we have cried out for. It doesn’t mean that approach is his default. 

21 minutes ago, mattbwfc19 said:

not sure we should be reading too much into these odds

Posted elsewhere that the only gambling system that I have seen that returns good regular profit is to lay the favourites in any next manager market. 

7 minutes ago, Ani said:

Posted elsewhere that the only gambling system that I have seen that returns good regular profit is to lay the favourites in any next manager market. 

You can make good ‘regular’ profit laying a specials market with about 50 quid liquidity?

Nonsense.

1 hour ago, Blondi said:

Des Buckingham now 2/1, not sure about him tbh.

awful manager

14 minutes ago, Ani said:

Posted elsewhere that the only gambling system that I have seen that returns good regular profit is to lay the favourites in any next manager market. 

I remember Giggs being 1/7 at one stage 😁

I think it was the time we appointed Lennon

38 minutes ago, mattbwfc19 said:

not sure we should be reading too much into these odds

It’s the only bit of excitement we have Matt. Let us gossip

Seems we have some ‘next manager odds fluctuation experts’ amongst us in the parish. 
 

codswallop. The bookies know how to manage hearsay and careless whispers. 
cut the crap and just appoint an unknown entity. Andy tut done a good job why is he not given a chance?
 

managers come and go but Bolton wanderers will be forever. I feel the knee jerk reaction of getting shut of Evatt could come back to bite us on the bottom. 
 

take care Mut - have a good day 

10 minutes ago, Mutley said:

Seems we have some ‘next manager odds fluctuation experts’ amongst us in the parish. 
 

codswallop. The bookies know how to manage hearsay and careless whispers. 
cut the crap and just appoint an unknown entity. Andy tut done a good job why is he not given a chance?
 

managers come and go but Bolton wanderers will be forever. I feel the knee jerk reaction of getting shut of Evatt could come back to bite us on the bottom. 
 

take care Mut - have a good day 

Fuck off

1 hour ago, meanderson93 said:

That'd be a dreadful appointment. Football he played is dire, effective in his set up against us, but that isn't much of an achievement. 

Tbh after 4 years of everything being about the tippy tappy style of football, I quite fancy a bit of aggressive, attacking stuff. Whether this lot are capable of it is another matter, of course. 

1 hour ago, Ani said:

Posted elsewhere that the only gambling system that I have seen that returns good regular profit is to lay the favourites in any next manager market. 

I once made a decent amount laying Harry Redknapp to be Newcastle Manager, he went to about 1/10  -  one of my work colleagues told me that he was 100% going to change his mind and stay with Portsmouth (I think) so I just stuck £25 on it - which was nice.

The same bloke did also give me some other bits of "insider" knowledge after that, none of which ever happened, and probably ensured that I ended up well out of pocket

Edited January 23, 20251 yr by Sweep

28 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Tbh after 4 years of everything being about the tippy tappy style of football, I quite fancy a bit of aggressive, attacking stuff. Whether this lot are capable of it is another matter, of course. 

I fancy some fast aggressive attacking, but not having Buckingham based on one game

i would go for a big name 

Ex England  manager 

Mike Basset

442 

1 minute ago, little whitt said:

i would go for a big name 

Ex England  manager 

Mike Basset

442 

I think the correct formation is 4 4 fucking 2. 

1 hour ago, PeterCauston69 said:

You can make good ‘regular’ profit laying a specials market with about 50 quid liquidity?

Nonsense.

Yet below people have posted examples of having done it. Can you make millions ? No But can you make profit yes. Can you do it regularly ? Yes when the markets are available.

 

Good first post. 

 

 

Edited January 23, 20251 yr by Ani

2 hours ago, meanderson93 said:

That'd be a dreadful appointment

 

1 hour ago, Whitesince63 said:

Definite no from me too.

 

1 hour ago, VividDreamer said:

awful manager

Some good knowledgable insight into Des Buckingham there, I can clearly see why you want us to stay away. 😁

Don’t know if anyone listened to him on five live with Colin Murray prior to play-off final, cracking interview and a really interesting character. The way he’s developed his coaching and management skills, both in this country and abroad is testament to his perseverance in becoming a professional manager.

Went up too early with Oxford. But clearly there was a good foundation to build from for Rowett, he’s clearly hit the ground running.

Again not my first choice, lower down the list for me, but nothing that would fall into the category of awful, dreadful or being so definitively NO

17 minutes ago, superkev said:

I fancy some fast aggressive attacking, but not having Buckingham based on one game

I don’t think we’ll go down this route and I think there are better candidates out there.

But do you really think if he was appointed, it would be just based on 1 game? Get that fella in who was Aston Villa u-21s manager, they played well against us. 

Do you not think they’d look into history, look into his character, question him and look at evidence on a whole load of scenarios? 

Sharon isn’t cancelling bond meetings and working 24/7 to appoint someone on the back of 1 game.