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- 17 Aug 2017, 21:16
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Management options
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Management options
Lee Mansell, inexperienced manager but a great leader
- 16 Jul 2017, 14:57
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Tiverton Town v Torquay United.
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Tiverton Town v Torquay United.
Hello all, I am a Bristol Rovers fan of 30+ years who has just moved to Newton Abbott. Whilst I will still travel to Bristol when the Gas are home I am hoping to adopt TUFC as my second team. I have been spoilt having Darrell Clark as a manager but having watched with interest preseason friendliest at Newton Spurs, Stoke Gabriel, Bristol City and now Tivvy I would suggest unless we want another season of struggling the club need to bring someone of experience in to help Nicho.
Nicho seems a genuinely nice person and he wants to be successful but he appears nieve and to be making some grave errors of judgement, firstly I found the Newton Spurs & Stoke Gabriel games pointless, at NS the stand out players were Fondrop and Malpas (confirmed by our own Twitter feed), Fondrop has not been seen since and Malpas got 45 minutes at SG with a number of 16 year olds, note we were 1:0 up when he went off there and Nicho we lost 5:2 after chosing to play our kit man and Assistant Manager which as posted by many was disrespectful to fans, opposition and the serious trialists who are trying to earn a contract.
Why not play the full squad in these games, it's clearly a new squad which needs game time, why not respect the trialists and allow them to play with the full squad, that's what Darrell and all other clubs seem to do, in all fairness what will you learn and how fair is it to 'trial' lads playing alongside a team made up of 16 year olds playing their first every senior game. Some of these same schoolboys were on the bench at Tivvy, again why not allow some serious trialists to play, we are a few weeks from ok and clearly need more strength in depth.
I saw a similar niavity with Darrell when he first arrived but some experienced older heads helped him, I think Nicho, who clearly cares about TUFC, would benefit from some similar support.
I look forward to meeting other posters at the games and look forward to the season ahead.
Nicho seems a genuinely nice person and he wants to be successful but he appears nieve and to be making some grave errors of judgement, firstly I found the Newton Spurs & Stoke Gabriel games pointless, at NS the stand out players were Fondrop and Malpas (confirmed by our own Twitter feed), Fondrop has not been seen since and Malpas got 45 minutes at SG with a number of 16 year olds, note we were 1:0 up when he went off there and Nicho we lost 5:2 after chosing to play our kit man and Assistant Manager which as posted by many was disrespectful to fans, opposition and the serious trialists who are trying to earn a contract.
Why not play the full squad in these games, it's clearly a new squad which needs game time, why not respect the trialists and allow them to play with the full squad, that's what Darrell and all other clubs seem to do, in all fairness what will you learn and how fair is it to 'trial' lads playing alongside a team made up of 16 year olds playing their first every senior game. Some of these same schoolboys were on the bench at Tivvy, again why not allow some serious trialists to play, we are a few weeks from ok and clearly need more strength in depth.
I saw a similar niavity with Darrell when he first arrived but some experienced older heads helped him, I think Nicho, who clearly cares about TUFC, would benefit from some similar support.
I look forward to meeting other posters at the games and look forward to the season ahead.
