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arcadia wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 15:10 My thought are not to have an ex-player with no experience of management as it takes a few years to learn more about the game and how to handle people. We need experience we have seen our team ripped apart in two of the games with no reaction from the dugout.

Another ex manager with loads of experience is Musker and perhaps team up with one of the others still in the game as these are top managers at the level. If there is no money for players.

OllieGull wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 14:50 Andrew Whing, Oxford's youth team manager has been linked to the job by a sports journalist on Twitter.

cider gull wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 12:13 Very dissappointed in the Clubs behaviour on this one. If Nico was sailing that close to the wind then this should have been sorted in the close season and not FOUR GAMES IN! Allowing him to assemble a squad and then giving it four games to gell is beyond belief, especially as key members are injured. It matters not whether Nico was a very fine man (which he is and that's rare in football) or a right so and so this is poor directorship from above.
The club is now in danger of moving even farther down the laughing stock ladder and if Geoff Harrop manages for any spell of time as far as i'm concerned we'll be at absolute rock bottom. I await in despondent expectation for the words of wisdom from the directors when a statement emerges.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 21:59 Brilliant post and echoes my feelings.

The fat bastard will be loving his chance to pick the team. Robbie won't be no matter what the Obese one says.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 22:16 Tell him I said hello...............and [highlight=yellow]throw a pie at the **** [/highlight]

hector wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 21:19 I can't work out why you are obsessed with ex-players/local managers. What use is local knowledge? We don't need local players unless we are going to be playing in the Western League. We are playing in a national division. Rogers, Musker, Joyce? Next you'll be suggesting Tony Bowker or some other such SDL manager.

arcadia wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 14:53

Depending on money Tivertons Rogers would be on my list along with Joyce of Bideford as they are both experienced at the level and have local knowledge.

arcadia wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 22:27
I would sooner have a local manager with experience at the level than a manager you do not know, a lot of the managers can manage with money but not with a small budget. The managers that I have mentioned can manage on small budgets. If you can come up with a manager who lives in the midlands or up north and willing to move down here, that can manage on the budget that Nicholson had then say so. Why are you so obsessed with managers out of Devon we are as good as them.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 22:27 The club may be looking to put more money into the budget but if they are not you are not left with many options and they would be the best. Both Rogers and Joyce have years of experience and produced very good sides. I am suggesting this only if there is no money left in the budget. Both are far more experienced than our last two managers. Both managers have experience at a higher level.


How are they experienced at National League level?

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 22:27
How are they experienced at National League level?

arcadia wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 22:27 I would sooner have a local manager with experience at the level than a manager you do not know, a lot of the managers can manage with money but not with a small budget. The managers that I have mentioned can manage on small budgets. If you can come up with a manager who lives in the midlands or up north and willing to move down here, that can manage on the budget that Nicholson had then say so. Why are you so obsessed with managers out of Devon we are as good as them.

brucie wrote: ↑17 Aug 2017, 23:04 You cannot really lay the blame for Nicholsons dismissal at Harrop's door. As general manager he has clearly reported back to Osborne.

Are you seriously suggesting that Harrop is rubbing his hands with glee at the thought of picking Saturdays team. I would venture to suggest that this is probably nonsense given that Harrop probably has a job at the club that suits him.

As sad as it is that Nicholson has gone its really nobodies fault other than the manager himself. The performances against Gateshead and Boreham Wood have done for him. Its as simple as that.

In fact if Harrop did pick the team it may not be a bad idea. On his only other occasion in charge he came up with an excellent compact formation which was far in advance of the shambles that Nicholson came up with on Tuesday night.

In the circumstances calling him a "Fat Bastard" seems a bit pointless really - its hardly his fault the team has been a laughing stock so far this season.

Arcadia - how on earth can you highlight Joyce or Rogers as credible candidates. Whats the point of having local knowledge if that knowledge amounts to basically Western League standard.

We simply have to do better than some local oik who is in charge of a bunch of farmers, builders and unemployed labourers once a week on a Saturday afternoon. If we go down that road we might as well give up now.