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Re: Parkinson
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2022, 12:34:56 PM »

Without wishing to sound patronising, this is a very sensible and realistic post.
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« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2022, 01:31:35 PM »

I agree with practically all of your post Andrew. However, while changing the management would unarguably weaken our progress, getting relegated would be far worse.

Losing to Woking on Saturday is a chilling prospect. If we come back empty-handed from Norfolk the following week I believe we will be In serious danger of the trapdoor opening.

However, if we were to part company with our management team, who is there out there that is an improvement, and is available ?

We are truly between a rock and a hard place.
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« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2022, 01:42:52 PM »

I agree with practically all of your post Andrew. However, while changing the management would unarguably weaken our progress, getting relegated would be far worse.

Losing to Woking on Saturday is a chilling prospect. If we come back empty-handed from Norfolk the following week I believe we will be In serious danger of the trapdoor opening.

However, if we were to part company with our management team, who is there out there that is an improvement, and is available ?

We are truly between a rock and a hard place.


I'm struggling to think of anyone  with National League level experience who would be available
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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2022, 01:46:26 PM »

For what its worth I think we should stick with him until end of season. I truly believe we owe him that much.

Next season is a totally different ball game no matter what league we're in.

There's no escaping that the season on the whole and the recruitment has been abysmal.

Do Parkinson and Sorvell come as a pair ?
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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2022, 02:04:27 PM »

PP leaving is not an option at this stage. That would simply be suicidal.

For what it's worth, I think we'll beat Woking on Saturday and then hopefully we'll be having a different conversation.
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« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2022, 02:41:02 PM »

PP leaving is not an option at this stage. That would simply be suicidal.

For what it's worth, I think we'll beat Woking on Saturday and then hopefully we'll be having a different conversation.
totally agree apart from the win Saturday I will be amazed if we get a point
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« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2022, 02:41:52 PM »

I agree with practically all of your post Andrew. However, while changing the management would unarguably weaken our progress, getting relegated would be far worse.

Losing to Woking on Saturday is a chilling prospect. If we come back empty-handed from Norfolk the following week I believe we will be In serious danger of the trapdoor opening.

However, if we were to part company with our management team, who is there out there that is an improvement, and is available ?

We are truly between a rock and a hard place.


I'm struggling to think of anyone  with National League level experience who would be available
Jim Harvey ?
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Re: Parkinson
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2022, 02:51:45 PM »

PP leaving is not an option at this stage. That would simply be suicidal.

For what it's worth, I think we'll beat Woking on Saturday and then hopefully we'll be having a different conversation.

In what sense suicidal?

We lose every single week and have won one game in months. Even if a new manager came in a had the same run of form as PP, that still wouldn’t be worse than what we’re doing currently.

He’s a legend at this club and always will be, the way he lead us back from the Unibond onto the North and then the National has been nothing short of heroic and actually doing it whilst being pleasing on the eye.

However, we’ve hit rock bottom again, the free flowing confident football has disappeared and the recruitment, even recently has been horrific. The only way he should stay on is if the board think he is the best single person to turn it around, but what would they base that opinion on?

Our form is worse than most in the whole country in the last half of a season, and we had a couple of torrid runs last year too.
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« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2022, 03:08:22 PM »

PP leaving is not an option at this stage. That would simply be suicidal.

For what it's worth, I think we'll beat Woking on Saturday and then hopefully we'll be having a different conversation.

In what sense suicidal?


It would most likely cripple us, financially, I suspect.
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« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2022, 03:10:19 PM »

PP leaving is not an option at this stage. That would simply be suicidal.

For what it's worth, I think we'll beat Woking on Saturday and then hopefully we'll be having a different conversation.

In what sense suicidal?

We lose every single week and have won one game in months. Even if a new manager came in a had the same run of form as PP, that still wouldn’t be worse than what we’re doing currently.

He’s a legend at this club and always will be, the way he lead us back from the Unibond onto the North and then the National has been nothing short of heroic and actually doing it whilst being pleasing on the eye.

However, we’ve hit rock bottom again, the free flowing confident football has disappeared and the recruitment, even recently has been horrific. The only way he should stay on is if the board think he is the best single person to turn it around, but what would they base that opinion on?

Our form is worse than most in the whole country in the last half of a season, and we had a couple of torrid runs last year too.

Spot on. The trajectory of this club is downward. Uncomfortable  and difficult decisions need to be made by those than run football clubs sometimes. To shy away from those can be equally catastrophic. I guess we’ll have to see how we get on Saturday. There absolutely has to be a huge improvement and a minimum of 3 points to convince me we are capable of staying up.
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« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2022, 03:46:26 PM »

I tend to generally agree with Andrew Flynn’s post

If things don’t get better I’m not sure replacing Parky and Sorvs would help in the clubs plight for the rest of this season  to be honest.

I said on a different post. The key to our future in this league is getting positive results against those three teams who are in the bottom 3. If that happens, then we are safe.

Also, I’m not convinced we are going to go full time any time soon. The reason I say this is, who is on the horizon to finance that project? It would be nice but…..
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« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2022, 05:47:55 PM »

PP leaving is not an option at this stage. That would simply be suicidal.

For what it's worth, I think we'll beat Woking on Saturday and then hopefully we'll be having a different conversation.

In what sense suicidal?


It would most likely cripple us, financially, I suspect.

Almost. Like a 3 year contract was a stupid idea.
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« Reply #27 on: January 30, 2022, 06:12:53 PM »

I mean, there are so many reasons why it would be suicidal, but the most obvious one would be the need to pay off a couple of 3-year contracts!!!
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« Reply #28 on: January 30, 2022, 06:22:17 PM »

I mean, there are so many reasons why it would be suicidal, but the most obvious one would be the need to pay off a couple of 3-year contracts!!!


This is what I mean about having the financial backing, if people are worried about having to pay off a couple of severance payments then there is no way we will be going full time.
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« Reply #29 on: January 30, 2022, 06:49:19 PM »

I agree with practically all of your post Andrew. However, while changing the management would unarguably weaken our progress, getting relegated would be far worse.

Losing to Woking on Saturday is a chilling prospect. If we come back empty-handed from Norfolk the following week I believe we will be In serious danger of the trapdoor opening.

However, if we were to part company with our management team, who is there out there that is an improvement, and is available ?

We are truly between a rock and a hard place.


I'm struggling to think of anyone  with National League level experience who would be available

Rowe at Chesterfield could be available soon......not that I would want him.....and not that I think we are at the point yet to replace PP
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