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All this “He’s passionate and loves the club” rubbish is annoying. I am also passionate and love the club but I wouldn’t expect to be given the manager’s job! I have yet to see anything that makes me think “wow, he’s a great manager”.
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“Will I chuck it in if Jimmy Dean is the manager next season?” – no, because I am a ‘ride or die’ supporter. Do I feel he is not the man to take us forward? Lets put it this way; he had two attempts at gaining promotion this season; the first was to win the league. He failed on that one. The second was to win the play-offs. He failed on that one too.
I honestly feel that just about any other football manager would have won the league with the squad we had at our disposal. He may be passionate about the club, but he is not the man for the job.
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Well done to Tamworth, they have been the most consistent team in the league and are deserved Champions.
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I said last April that this would all end in a car crash and here we find ourselves.
Take Saturday out of reckoning and we can see that performances have been poor since Farsley Celtic. Last night’s performance (if you can call it that) is unacceptable and for me and given we have been poor since the new year, this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. I listened to the post match interview, and it is clear that JD is out of his depth and does not know how to turn this poor form around. Oliver Turner asked some good questions, with JD admitting he chose the wrong team and has no answers.
Let us be clear; IMO this squad *is* the best squad in the whole NLN and we are one of the very few teams who are full-time in the division. With any competent manager at the helm we would be champions. I would take second place and promotion via the play-offs however, I suspect that unless JD suddenly becomes a managerial genius we will limp into the play-offs, get knocked out, and be doomed to spend another season in this god-awful league!
Someone please call a taxi for JD, it’s time for him to go.
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As I’ve said before, he’s a nice fella but unfortunately for all involved, was appointed into a role that exceeds his ability. He was never going to be the answer for us and I often wonder why Hilton appointed him just as Nelson was getting a tune out of the squad last season.
It is clear to all that he needs to go however, as many others have stated, finances may dictate the outcome of that. The club found itself in a very precarious position earlier this season, and it looked to all that the club was days, if not hours, from oblivion. Luckily the club was saved from the very brink of extinction. The board have worked tirelessly to get the club back on a stable financial footing however, there may not be enough coffers in the bank to support paying up Dean’s contract early.
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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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looking forward to this one…couldn’t get a ticket in the away end but managed to sneak one in the home end. Just need to pretend to be a neutral on the day and not get too excited if / when we score.
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