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I don't know this guy, so no point in saying if he is good or not, also no point having any preconceived ideas about how it might go with him.....All that said... If this goes tits up early in the season, given how long this search for the right guy has taken..there will no hiding place for the owner and KS.. He seriously needs backing to hilt by the Board, he needs to be given a chance to succeed. I'm aware there's small percentage of our fan base who will blindly accept anything from KLD/KS but the majority in the SOL will be watching and expecting from day one

I'm not going - had enough of these chancers.
 
Spot on. I've definitely over-reacted. Which I think is natural after such a wait.

Gets my full support.
Yep i understand some folk being concerned or a bit worried - the unknown is always like that.

To see folk calling him a yes man when they hadnt heard of him before is embarrassing imo

He wasnt who i was wanting but i can also see why they would appoint him
 
Ah so you can see into the future?

Just because the club are doing something different to what you want them to be doing, which by the way the thing you want them to be doing is what put us in league one, doesn't mean it's destined to fail.

I agree I want Speakman gone, but I want the model to remain, infact I want us to go further into it. Should be aiming to sell one or two players every summer to fund both of that seasons windows. Until we do that we won't improve, but then people will just say we are a selling club.
I just want a more balanced model..youngsters, prospects and experience...
 
And what model should we use then?
Our model is okay, if used correctly. It’s slightly changed recently with youngsters from abroad brung in making very little impact. Is there any model that can guarantee promotion? It’s getting harder each year imo.

Busy day today, just glad this managerial search looks to be over. I know very little about him so it’s hard to judge. He’ll need properly backing this summer but that can be discussed once he’s in place.
 
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I just want a more balanced model..youngsters, prospects and experience...
So do I, but that has nothing to do with Le Bris?

Plus it is changing. People may laugh but going for a 34y/o backup goalkeeper is a clear sign of it. Surely if Speakman was deadset on youth at all costs Young or a kid brought in would be the backup.

We need dressing room presences to allow the kids to flourish so we can sell them. We need to be a shop window club because thats the only way to function in this league without parachute payments.
 
Nice to see him being written off already and predicting he won’t make it to Christmas.

Let’s give the lad a chance and see where it gets us.

the whole process has been a shambles and fwiw I’m not happy with the appointment and the way this has been handled, but I wasn’t happy with Mowbray and that was deemed a massive success.

This is Speakman’s last roll of the dice.
 
I mean, we're signing 34 year old Moore by the looks of things...
Lets see...I hope im wrong..I just know Speakman is top dog its his way or no way...im just old school and frustrated...manager used to make all the decisions..(Also, Ive heard some really unproffesionals actions by Speakman...and im not a fan)
 
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A balanced recruitment model of youngsters, prospects and experince to give us a real chance.
Thats not guaranteed success either tho

We def need a balanced squad but we will have more success buying and selling youngsters than going for experienced players like we use too. This model has brought us experinced players to complimnet what we have, the issue was last summer we didnt bring in enough ready to play players. We did the 2 summers before so 66% of the time we have got the balance spot on

This model took us out of L1 and got us to the Championship playoffs, we then had a really poor window

That poor window can happen with any model. I remember one under bruce where we just seemed to sign slow CMs, but the windows before with him were good

There isnt 1 set model that guarantees you success

This model is the way we can be succesful long term