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IFA I don’t think their bans start until 7 days after being sent off in this hell hole of a league.
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Tamworth lost there earlier in the season.
Just saying!
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Will always go IRON win but with JD no one is optimistic these days. If he does not alter his negativity the gates will start to fall.
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IFA I don’t think their bans start until 7 days after being sent off in this hell hole of a league.
Correct, my theory on this being that at this level clubs have to carry smaller squads and so might need a bit of warning to cover gaps left by suspended players.
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Some good points in this discussion; for me it was obvious when he was appointed that the club owner back then (David WHAM) was taking a huge gamble as this was without a doubt, the biggest job in his career. I often wonder why he was appointed; was it because WHAM saw him as an up-and-coming manager who would do great things? Or was it because he was a cheap option? Or was it for some darker reason?
Whatever the reason, and whatever we think of JD, I feel that baring something crazy we are stuck with JD until the end of the season as a minimum. Despite what we think we want, the club’s main focus this season is stabilisation and securing it’s financial future. Unlike the Swann era, I do not think that the current board will be as quick to dismiss a manager and, I am not sure it makes financial sense for the club to do so right now.
We have to accept that baring a miracle of biblical proportions, this season’s automatic promotion belongs to Tamworth and Scunthorpe United are bound for the NLN play-offs. As to how we’ll fare in the play-offs, I dread to think. JD doesn’t seem to be able to return the club back to the electrifying performances we saw against Spennymore etc. and right now, despite having lots of the ball we seldom create a clear cut chance to score. If we take our current form into the play-offs I fear we will be doomed to stay in the NLN for another season, or longer.
In short, unless JD can develop a plan B, C and D on match day, we are all doomed!
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I think Dean’s contract is up at the end of the season. If so, I hope the end of the season is the limit, because whatever league we’re in next season, I don’t see him doing well. He shouldn’t get an extension in my opinion.
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I usually support any manager until I really can do so no longer.
I am distinctly unimpressed by his one dimensional, tactical thinking. Surely, we can do better.
If he does win us promotion – which I now consider improbable – then, we are morally obliged to give him a punt at the NL. But I would expect him to improve from where we are now.
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If Dean has requested an extension he needs to demonstrate he isn’t one dimensional and knows what he’s doing because at the minute he isn’t doing a great job and has no clue how to change things. Not a great advert for a contract extension. He’s Hilton’s man so maybe we need somebody with league experience and previous ties to the club……
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As said before in another thread we have 4x the budget of the normal club at this level with the best support in the history of NLN and still he’s finding a way to struggle.
Dean’s contract is definitely up come the end of season and if I was Michelle and Co I certainly wouldn’t be offering an extension. I think we need a manager with experience at this level or the one below who fully understands this level of football and what’s needed.
Sticking point comes if we do go up then it becomes difficult to axe him but can’t see him prospering higher up as he’s struggling with us now at this level.
Regarding the midfield, Dean needs to grow some balls and drop Butterfield for Pugh and when Flynn is fit drop Scales. If we had another fit midfielder I’d drop Clunan as well but we haven’t so he stays in by default.
Whitehall needs dropping as he looks like he can’t be bothered anymore.
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Stockport were averaging higher attendances than us in their final season in the NLN.
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A manager with experience at this level or the one below WG, That’s why Billy Jean was brought in wasn’t it and that’s not really working is it.
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Again, how much experience of managing in this league did Tamworth’s manager have at the start of this season ?
Rarely works out that a manager with no experienced at the level goes on to win the league in his first season in it but reading about him you can begin to understand why they’re doing as well as they are.
Vastly experienced player at that kind of level with over 200 games under his belt.
Holds a UEFA B coaching license.
First season in charge of Rushden and Diamonds he won a cup double.
He has since led the team to the end of season playoffs twice before winning promotion to Step 3 at the end of the 2017-18 season.I think it’s fair to say their manager understands this level and football in general better than Dean.
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