| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview 12:50 - May 27 with 3117 views | Illinoisblue |
It will be brief, there’ll be talk of wishing KM well, and then will quickly pivot to adversity, how we embrace that, how the club is more important than any individual. Process. Oxygen. Belief.
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 12:51 - May 27 with 3079 views | jampow1 |
While it feels like it's heading in that direction, there's been a lot of movement so it could so easily not happen.
Just a few days ago McKenna was out and out favourite for Chelsea and then that's clearly not happened. |  | | |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 12:54 - May 27 with 3013 views | mrshallisfit |
The longer it goes on the more I have similar feelings that we are going to be moving on. | | | |
| Nothing can get Ashton down mate..... on 13:00 - May 27 with 2925 views | Bloots |
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| "He's been a really positive influence on my life, I think he's a great man" - TWTD User (May 2025) |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:00 - May 27 with 2914 views | burnbudgiesburn |
In fairness he's the CEO. I don't expect him to act like an over emotional jilted lover.
I reckon he'll be a little dissapointed in McK though, they've struck up a decent relationship the last couple of years.
Once he goes, I couldn't care less and don't wish to hear any more about McKenna. All about moving forward for me now. | | | |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:09 - May 27 with 2825 views | Lord_Lucan |
It's not really worth worrying about too much anymore. What will be will be.
At least we have someone like Ashton to sort it out and we have the yanks to back him......
.....although to be honest I'm not sure KM will go and I have never really thought he would.
If he goes he goes and best wishes, Brighton would annoy me though.
We never had all this palava on the occasions SBR nearly left but then again we are different gravy.. |  |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:10 - May 27 with 2796 views | fabian_illness |
F**k it.
We've got a spot in the premier league to look forward to.
He's done an immense job here. But he's not an Ipswich fan is he.
If he wanted to stay, it would have been done and sorted by now, rumours quashed. So what, he's still a legend for the back to back promotions.
We've waited long enough to get back to the Prem, the people in charge aren't mucking about, if the rumours of a £5 mil salary are true, they are prepared to throw everything at giving us the chance to stay up. They'll find the right person and we'll move on.
Can't be doing with all this negativity. |  | | |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:15 - May 27 with 2716 views | MK1 |
Would you rather he said McKenna has gone so we might as well shut up shop as without McKenna there is no club? |  |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:16 - May 27 with 2695 views | RichOBlue |
And at times like these “our calmness is our superpower”!! |  |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:22 - May 27 with 2636 views | midastouch |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:09 - May 27 by Lord_Lucan |
It's not really worth worrying about too much anymore. What will be will be.
At least we have someone like Ashton to sort it out and we have the yanks to back him......
.....although to be honest I'm not sure KM will go and I have never really thought he would.
If he goes he goes and best wishes, Brighton would annoy me though.
We never had all this palava on the occasions SBR nearly left but then again we are different gravy.. |
Compare Brighton to Derby, worlds apart.
It provides insights into what Brighton expects from a manager.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f5yd3n
In the fourth episode of Outside the Box, Jermain heads to Brighton and Hove Albion to speak to Chief Executive Paul Barber and technical director David Weir to find out how they work with managers and what the expectation is when they bring in a new leader of the football club. After being told by Derby manager Paul Warne that he needs to become more acquainted with the men and women who do the hiring and firing at football clubs, Defoe sits down to find out what they do, how they do it, and what he needs to do to make himself a legitimate contender for a top job in the game. Barber tells him that he needs to begin to prepare a serious presentation for when he has an interview, whilst Weir says that if he ends up working at a club with a director of football or a technical director, that their job is very much more long term, whilst the manager may only be thinking of the next game.
He then hears from Rotherham United owner Tony Stewart on how different life is in the Football League in regards to dealing with chairmen. Stewart tells him that he needs more experience if he’s to be taken seriously, and that being a great player and being a manager don’t necessarily equate. Stewart tells him that he wouldn't employ him at the moment because of that lack of experience, but that could change depending on what he does in the game over the next couple of years.
And the previous one too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f363hs
In Episode 3 of Outside the Box, Jermain travels to Derby County to meet the management team of Paul Warne, Richie Barker and Matt Hamshaw as he seeks to discover more about what it takes to be a manager, especially in the lower leagues. Leaning on Warne's experience as a player in the Football League - and his six seasons in charge of Rotherham United - he seeks an answer to the question about whether he's ready for a top job. He talks to First Team Coach Hamshaw about why he wants the role, how he feels he would like to play tactically should he become a manager, and why ex-pros like Steven Gerrard were always set to become managers. Then Jermain picks Warne's brain about the stresses of the position, about what he will need in a number two, how much an analysis and nutrition team will have to gel with him, and the importance of a coaching staff all being on the same page. Before he departs, Defoe finds out from Warne about the nuanced relationship between managers and chairmen, with Warne telling him that he needs to go and meet some chairmen to ask them what they're looking for. After Jermain heads home, Warne reflects on their afternoon together, concluding that whilst he believes Defoe will get a job, it's his belief that at the moment, he wouldn't be ready. |  |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:27 - May 27 with 2549 views | joepublic |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:10 - May 27 by fabian_illness |
F**k it.
We've got a spot in the premier league to look forward to.
He's done an immense job here. But he's not an Ipswich fan is he.
If he wanted to stay, it would have been done and sorted by now, rumours quashed. So what, he's still a legend for the back to back promotions.
We've waited long enough to get back to the Prem, the people in charge aren't mucking about, if the rumours of a £5 mil salary are true, they are prepared to throw everything at giving us the chance to stay up. They'll find the right person and we'll move on.
Can't be doing with all this negativity. |
100% right.
Another couple of weeks and it's time to get all over excited about transfers.
It will make a wonderful change from feeling down about a manager maybe leaving. |  |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:31 - May 27 with 2493 views | Ace_High1 |
Although 2 weeks ago it was a shock to see KM linked to all of these jobs, I think the most unsettling aspect of it all for me now is the really lack of credible options I can see out there. Of course like last time hopefully MA pulls about an unknown and it is clear early on we have struck gold, but it is sad KM is leaving after what he has done, but more sad I feel like we will end up with a much less able manager, and therefore waste an incredible chance to kick on and really build a new era for the club. |  | | |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:40 - May 27 with 2380 views | le2blue |
Or, Ashton pulls a master class, and we hit him with the biggest pay deal he will get anywhere apart from ManU and the recruitment budget he needs....
Then the club tweet..."The Journey Continues..." |  | | |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 15:05 - May 27 with 2113 views | Illinoisblue |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:16 - May 27 by RichOBlue |
And at times like these “our calmness is our superpower”!! |
Those superpowers feel more like SuperGran than SuperMan right now | |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 15:08 - May 27 with 2076 views | Illinoisblue |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:22 - May 27 by midastouch |
Compare Brighton to Derby, worlds apart.
It provides insights into what Brighton expects from a manager.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f5yd3n
In the fourth episode of Outside the Box, Jermain heads to Brighton and Hove Albion to speak to Chief Executive Paul Barber and technical director David Weir to find out how they work with managers and what the expectation is when they bring in a new leader of the football club. After being told by Derby manager Paul Warne that he needs to become more acquainted with the men and women who do the hiring and firing at football clubs, Defoe sits down to find out what they do, how they do it, and what he needs to do to make himself a legitimate contender for a top job in the game. Barber tells him that he needs to begin to prepare a serious presentation for when he has an interview, whilst Weir says that if he ends up working at a club with a director of football or a technical director, that their job is very much more long term, whilst the manager may only be thinking of the next game.
He then hears from Rotherham United owner Tony Stewart on how different life is in the Football League in regards to dealing with chairmen. Stewart tells him that he needs more experience if he’s to be taken seriously, and that being a great player and being a manager don’t necessarily equate. Stewart tells him that he wouldn't employ him at the moment because of that lack of experience, but that could change depending on what he does in the game over the next couple of years.
And the previous one too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f363hs
In Episode 3 of Outside the Box, Jermain travels to Derby County to meet the management team of Paul Warne, Richie Barker and Matt Hamshaw as he seeks to discover more about what it takes to be a manager, especially in the lower leagues. Leaning on Warne's experience as a player in the Football League - and his six seasons in charge of Rotherham United - he seeks an answer to the question about whether he's ready for a top job. He talks to First Team Coach Hamshaw about why he wants the role, how he feels he would like to play tactically should he become a manager, and why ex-pros like Steven Gerrard were always set to become managers. Then Jermain picks Warne's brain about the stresses of the position, about what he will need in a number two, how much an analysis and nutrition team will have to gel with him, and the importance of a coaching staff all being on the same page. Before he departs, Defoe finds out from Warne about the nuanced relationship between managers and chairmen, with Warne telling him that he needs to go and meet some chairmen to ask them what they're looking for. After Jermain heads home, Warne reflects on their afternoon together, concluding that whilst he believes Defoe will get a job, it's his belief that at the moment, he wouldn't be ready. |
That’s an odd comparison. Of course well established prem club will do things differently to a (then) L1 club not far removed from the brink of extinction. | |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 15:13 - May 27 with 2019 views | midastouch |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 15:08 - May 27 by Illinoisblue |
That’s an odd comparison. Of course well established prem club will do things differently to a (then) L1 club not far removed from the brink of extinction. |
That aside, it provides good insight into what Brighton looks for in a manager. | |
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| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 15:21 - May 27 with 1961 views | OldFart71 |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 13:00 - May 27 by burnbudgiesburn |
In fairness he's the CEO. I don't expect him to act like an over emotional jilted lover.
I reckon he'll be a little dissapointed in McK though, they've struck up a decent relationship the last couple of years.
Once he goes, I couldn't care less and don't wish to hear any more about McKenna. All about moving forward for me now. |
I would imagine there will be no shortage of people putting themselves forward to manage Town. Great support, excellent CEO, fantastic owners, what more could a manager want ? I shall be saddened if McKenna goes, but this episode has certainly taken the gloss off promotion even if he stays. We don't know the full picture regarding this situation there are so many rumours and counter rumours and the longer it goes on the more things will circulate and I don't see it being in the interests of the club when such an important season is coming up. | | | |
| Feels like we’re just days away from an Ashton Town TV interview on 15:44 - May 27 with 1806 views | ParisBlue |
"The King is dead, long live the King"
This football club has been around for more than 2.5 years. |  |
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