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With us having a game tomorrow I wasn't convinced we would have new manager today as no time to work with players so kinda pointless. I hope today the club privately get it all wrapped up and then announce it Tuesday night after the match or Wednesday morning

divingbboy wrote: ↑02 Sep 2017, 22:40 I'm just trying to come up with a rational explanation for the continued absence of a manager. It seems to me that they've either been let down by someone who they thought was signing on the dotted line, they're trying to see if Herrera's up to the job or they're completely incompetent. It does seem very, very odd that it's been two weeks now.

My gut instinct is it's done already. And my theory is that the selected manager didn't want to take over until Monday to have a full week to work with the players. The board had a deadline meeting Tuesday. Say that took most of day to thrash it out which it could have with 4 seriously good candidates on the table. They would then have to negotiate salary and budgets (unless was covered in interview) and appoint the manager. This could easily be Wednesday afternoon/evening by now. Which leaves you as a manager with 1 training session as traditionally you rest day before a match. You then run the risk of confusing players with mixed instructions or you go in with RHs tactics and a poor result reflects badly on start of your tenure. I think the way Gray reacted when he 'scored' suggests that the players know was RHs last game too. Cynically maybe that's why they pulled fingers out to impress a new manager.

merse btpir wrote: ↑31 Aug 2017, 17:11 You can write Marcus Bignot out of the equation as he's taken the Barrow job where he will link up with his former assistant at Solihull and Grimsby; Mickey Moore........didn't make them long did it!

No we don't want the first bull shitter that walks through the door ~ Thea Bristow fell for that with Farcegreaves and Dave Phillips & Co with Nicholson.
As for believing that if he was still here the team would suddenly have started winning are deluded.

So it takes TUFC 2/3 weeks and Barrow 4 days.
One poorly ran club and one well run club.

CP Gull wrote: ↑31 Aug 2017, 08:48 Not sure that Alex Bruce has ever worked under Ronnie Moore - think he left his loan spell at Oldham just before Moore was appointed.

Furthermore, don't think there is much prospect of him (Bruce) coming here either, he was only at Bury on non contract anyway as a favour to the management team and is now free to " negotiate with other clubs" according to his own Twitter account.

Was using Wikipedia and it looks like could be a slight overlap. I have seen the Bruce tweet but tbh that doesn't rule him out completely. Things like that I always look beyond what they want you to take as so much smoke and mirror stuff now. He would only have left with a purpose otherwise he could sign non-contract and still move to another club without a problem.

And Merse could well be right. With a little digging I'm pretty sure that Alex Bruce played under Ronnie Moore at Oldham. This partnership would be well worth the wait. Particularly if Alex Bruce comes in as player/assistant manager.

Milner33 wrote: ↑30 Aug 2017, 21:59 Alex Bruce has left Bury today after playing for 17 days. Maybe he wants to go into management like his father also, used to play in the prem so could be who they were talking about??

Much more likely to be Guiseley. Particularly with and his father spending chunk of their careers at Hull. Likely to have a house up that way which he and his family can move straight back into

merse btpir wrote: ↑30 Aug 2017, 15:43 You're chucking (throwaway) clichéd stuff in because you have nothing better to say but want to be saying something aren't you?

I very much doubt you have any experience or first hand account as to just how Steve Bould does his job, the parameters of his role or indeed the manner in which he carries it out.

One National League assistant manager I know (indeed we were talking last week) and who has a lifetime of working in the game; has never harboured any ambition to be a number one but that does not take anything away from his quiet intellectual observations of players and teams alike; game management required as a match progresses and the strengths and weaknesses of opponents to say nothing of his encyclopaedic knowledge of talent both emerging and available in the lower levels of the game. Out at one game or another almost every single day or night and a priceless asset to his club's management structure and yet when he was at his last two clubs there were Internet boards questioning what the hell he did all week.

Had his CV not got TWO promotions to the Football League on it, then they might well be justified in asking those questions; but seeing as he was head hunted this summer to move from one club to another, I would suggest that those people (like you) are basing their opinions on anecdotal belief rather than hard knowledge.

Everyone be calm. Maybe today is the day we pick who we want as manager but won't be announced until we agree terms with selected person. This could mean announced later today or tomorrow. If the man lives up north he might not arrive until early evening. Then they have to negotiate terms and get it signed.