You have no idea what the shortlist is tho, none of us do Hate the term happy clappers - think its pathetic when its thrown out there
Agree with your post except for the last sentence. We as a club should always be aiming to be in the top flight, we have big advantages with gate revenue and top training facilities a lot of teams in this league dont have. Clubs like Norwich (who we finished above in 22/23) have sacked a manager who finished in the playoffs and went and took a manger who finished 2nd in the Danish top flight last season within a couple of weeks of their sacking. If we take 3+ months to go for Stockports manager who was managing in the conference 2 years ago, I'd be massively disappointed. If our goal is actually to achieve promotion (the club suggests it is) then surely we can aim higher than Challinor.
This was just passed on to me, but this Stockport based reporter reckons Challinor hasn't even had talks with us... https://x.com/_sbyrne/status/1798713030395744497?s=46&t=i3MyN_1pR9mAT_1SrkjnBA please log in to view this image
If Challinor was ten years younger and hadn’t been such a stodgy, almost novelty player, more people would give him the benefit of the doubt. That and if he clearly wasn’t about 15th choice.
Challinor has succeed at every job he has done and deserves credit. However, his playing career has all been a small clubs at a lower level as is his management. He will have a job on his hands to impress players, the players he has got moving will have been lower league players whereas many of our player have totally different aspirations. We say we want promotion but Challinor smacks of desperation. If he came he may do well but I think, as with Beale, most fans would see disaster written all over it. I think the vast majority of fans would see such an appointment would be further proof that KLD and Speakman have lost their way and the club is just too big for them.
That’s my worry would he be a big enough name for rigg for example to sign his pro contract? I’m not so sure, can’t wait for this whole saga to be over with, got me demented now haha
Obviously the club can't make such a decision based on the demands or aspirations of a 16 year old but appointing someone like Challinor suggest the club's ambitions are way below the 40k+ fanbase and the players. To me it would spell the start of the end for KLD. The appointment of Jansen, however, would have the opposite effect, not that he would guarantee success, but he would command a bit of respect due to his background and would be closer to what KLD/Speakman's fabled model. Challinor would suggest they are chancers in the mould of Stewart Donald.
Hard to argue with you there mate, Challinor POTENTIALLY could be a very shrewd appointment but I think we need to aim higher to turn the negatives of last season around and get everyone on board, Jansen does that
SAFC twitter is awfully active today, after no tweets for like 5 days. 6pm announcement? please log in to view this image
