| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be 15:36 - Mar 4 with 10672 views | ColchesterBlue1985 |
To take over assuming it’s in the summer and Warnock retires as he said he would (realistic choices obviously):-
1. Karl Robinson
2. Nigel Adkins
3. Neil Thompson u23 manager Sheff wed
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:22 - Mar 4 with 4559 views | itfcjoe |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:21 - Mar 4 by ITFC_Forever |
They're one point outside the POs, and while I don't know it for a fact, I suspect their budget is one of the smaller ones in the league.
Jones, Robinson and Wellens probably ahead of him in the order of preference thinking about it. |
Will they have a small budget at that level? I imagine they are about a midtable budget on players - but big spenders on the academy so swings and roundabouts.
They aren't minnows at that level |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:23 - Mar 4 with 4553 views | patrickswell |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:17 - Mar 4 by ColchesterBlue1985 |
Luke chambers would be a shocking move. More than ever we need some experience to handle some of the fragility around the place not add to it by appointing a player. Remember it took Magilton some time to get used to management and he was a good couple of years older and had helped with the coaching aspects. |
Leaving aside the obvious cynicism of “Evans will take the cheap route”, there is a lot of potential good that could come with Chambers as boss or player-boss. Not least, the route from the Academy to the first-team might open up a little more freely than it’s done under recent managers. |  | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:26 - Mar 4 with 4540 views | itfcjoe |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:23 - Mar 4 by patrickswell |
Leaving aside the obvious cynicism of “Evans will take the cheap route”, there is a lot of potential good that could come with Chambers as boss or player-boss. Not least, the route from the Academy to the first-team might open up a little more freely than it’s done under recent managers. |
I go to a lot of U23 and u18 games an you always see Skuse there with the other coaches watching the game and (literally) taking notes, he is also doing some coaching at Woodbridge Town
Chambers isn't as far as I am aware.
If anything was to happen Chambers would be the motivator and man manager with Skuse as the 'brains' behind things.
I personally don't see it happening, there is no need to take that risk - but then I thought that when we appointed Jim | |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:43 - Mar 4 with 4503 views | strikalite |
Nathan Jones or Mowbray |  | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:44 - Mar 4 with 4502 views | Harry_Palmer |
1) Mark Robins ( I believe he would come, money talks! )
2) Nathan Jones
3) Dave Artell |  | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:50 - Mar 4 with 4482 views | TheTrueBlue1878 |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:22 - Mar 4 by itfcjoe |
Will they have a small budget at that level? I imagine they are about a midtable budget on players - but big spenders on the academy so swings and roundabouts.
They aren't minnows at that level |
Think they hang around 10th-12th mark in that division, I am pretty sure I read that earlier in the year somewhere.
In fairness to them, Cowling wants Colchester to be a self funding club and aren't too far from it.
Like you say, they rarely invest heavily in the first team acquisitions, but he has put a lot of money into the development of the academy.
Similar to Evans in that respect, looking for year on dividends though with a cycle of players coming through. |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 17:00 - Mar 4 with 4459 views | StNeotsBlue |
Tisdale for me. Only because his right hand man is the brother of one of my mates. |  | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 17:04 - Mar 4 with 4450 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:04 - Mar 4 by SpruceMoose |
1) Treacle
2) Dyer
3) Fishers (mainly so he can be on the receiving end for once!) |
Someone knows how to get an upvote
1. Kieron Dyer
If people like Lampard and Gerrard can walk into management roles at a higher level, why can't Dyer with his youth experience? |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 17:14 - Mar 4 with 4432 views | Tonytown |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:22 - Mar 4 by WarkTheWarkITFC |
Nathan Jones
Nigel Adkins
Karl Robinson (who would definitely jump ship for a pay rise but wouldn't work for an owner like Evans not willing to spend).
So put me down Jones, Adkins and Ainsworth. |
Paul Hurst
Paul Lambert
Paul Jewell
No more Pauls please | | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 17:28 - Mar 4 with 4411 views | tractordownsouth |
Nigel Adkins
Richie Wellens
Someone from a youth team somewhere |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 17:34 - Mar 4 with 4397 views | TractorCam |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 17:14 - Mar 4 by Tonytown |
Paul Hurst
Paul Lambert
Paul Jewell
No more Pauls please |
Paul Ince incoming. |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 17:44 - Mar 4 with 4386 views | happybeingblue |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 15:39 - Mar 4 by Parky |
1) Mark Robbins (Probably not realistic)
2) Gus Poyet (Probably not realistic either)
3) Chris Hughton (Yeah, f'ck this League One mid-table business is sh!t) |
i think we have had a gutful of ex norwich ,so for me that rules robbins and hughton out |  | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:09 - Mar 4 with 4355 views | Moriarty |
1. George Burley (contingent on succession plan);
2. Carlos Corberan;
3. Nathan Jones. |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:14 - Mar 4 with 4343 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 16:21 - Mar 4 by ITFC_Forever |
They're one point outside the POs, and while I don't know it for a fact, I suspect their budget is one of the smaller ones in the league.
Jones, Robinson and Wellens probably ahead of him in the order of preference thinking about it. |
I don’t understand the interest in Nathan Jones. He was totally incapable of addressing the issues at a recently relegated team in transition at Stoke, which is similar to the stage we’re at. |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:25 - Mar 4 with 4319 views | itfcjoe |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:14 - Mar 4 by Swansea_Blue |
I don’t understand the interest in Nathan Jones. He was totally incapable of addressing the issues at a recently relegated team in transition at Stoke, which is similar to the stage we’re at. |
I think that’s a fair point, but think Stoke a much tougher job than here with regards to the disparity in wages there and the egos in the dressing room. Is a very, very difficult rebuild and a total one required.
It’s not easy here, but reality is there isn’t anyone hanging about on mega money who isn’t going to be playing. Bart was an issue last season but not a massive one as managed to shift him.
Basing him on Luton and previous things I’ve heard about him - but is a risk of course | |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:33 - Mar 4 with 4299 views | textbackup |
If he goes in the summer I honestly can’t see beyond Skuse/chambers taking it on.
Not what I want I might add, but can’t see anything but this |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:53 - Mar 4 with 4267 views | Bluearmy71 |
1.Dyer (cutting his cloth with Ipswich at this level is ideal for him imo, maybe teamed up with GB in some capacity for a year or two))
2. Karl Robinson
3. Luke Chambers (my heart would love this ( as is with KD's) he has a passion for this club that is as deep as our own, he knows what we want from the team and after all "there's only one f*cking Chambers") |  | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:55 - Mar 4 with 4264 views | BloomBlue |
At least you didnt say Jones, he blew it at Stoke no better than Hurst at Town completely out of his depth at Stoke and Ipswich is a bigger club than Stoke.
1) Phil Parkinson
2) Mich McCarthy
3) Sam Allardyce |  | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:01 - Mar 4 with 4245 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Doesn't matter.
Whoever it is will be told to do it with our kids and with frees and we'll finish 16th. |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:10 - Mar 4 with 4228 views | BloomBlue |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:01 - Mar 4 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Doesn't matter.
Whoever it is will be told to do it with our kids and with frees and we'll finish 16th. |
Playing the youngsters and building a team around the youngsters is the Ipswich way | | | |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:13 - Mar 4 with 4217 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 18:25 - Mar 4 by itfcjoe |
I think that’s a fair point, but think Stoke a much tougher job than here with regards to the disparity in wages there and the egos in the dressing room. Is a very, very difficult rebuild and a total one required.
It’s not easy here, but reality is there isn’t anyone hanging about on mega money who isn’t going to be playing. Bart was an issue last season but not a massive one as managed to shift him.
Basing him on Luton and previous things I’ve heard about him - but is a risk of course |
Ok cheers. I’m not that familiar with what he/his team were like at Luton, so interesting to hear views on him. | |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:17 - Mar 4 with 4210 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:10 - Mar 4 by BloomBlue |
Playing the youngsters and building a team around the youngsters is the Ipswich way |
No, it WAS the Ipswich way, we haven't been that way for a very very long time.
Our youngsters, whilst here, at any rate, are nowhere as good as we think they are.
We don't develop players correctly and typically, when they leave, they flourish.
And now we are about to do the same with Dozzell who will become a Premier League footballer, given 2 years as a first team starting player somewhere else. | |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:18 - Mar 4 with 4207 views | Churchman |
Shefki Kuqi, not least because he might just be mad enough to take the job. He’d be fun and I want to see him do that phenomenal best ever celebration if we win a game.
Kieron Dyer with Klug assisting
Chambers/Skuse [Post edited 4 Mar 2020 20:40]
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 19:53 - Mar 4 with 4170 views | FPL_Tractor |
1. Nathan Jones
2. John McGreal
3. Mauricio Taricco |  |
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| Excluding Warnock who would your top 3 choices be on 20:14 - Mar 4 with 4155 views | bazgammon |
McGreal
Nigel Clough
Mariner/Butcher (sentimental) | |
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