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Post by swampy on Jun 20, 2020 7:53:43 GMT
If we are talking about a former stone returning, with experience of getting promoted from this league with a part time team. There is only one candidate, step forward Chris Kinnear?
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Post by daveu on Jun 20, 2020 8:30:28 GMT
If we are talking about a former stone returning, with experience of getting promoted from this league with a part time team. There is only one candidate, step forward Chris Kinnear? I'd check out the Dover forum from a couple of years ago before getting too hung up on getting him in. Their comments actually made the clowns brand of hoofball sound not too bad in comparison. Hak will almost certainly be the manager when the season starts, and even if he isn't, the club really doesn't need an aging former legend in charge. It didn't really work last season and there's no reason why next will be any different. If it's not Hak we need someone like JS1 but without the issues that clouded his last season and a half.
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Post by Stonethecrow on Jun 20, 2020 9:13:32 GMT
Not convinced you are correct dave about Hak being "almost certainly" our manager when the season starts.
Anyway, I hope you are wrong, maybe just wishful thinking.
You mention we need someone like Jay Saunders.
I agree, somebody with his track record, somebody with his background and somebody with his abilities.
Damn I can't think of anybody
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Post by jackster on Jun 20, 2020 9:14:51 GMT
It doesn't have to be Jay Saunders, we just need somebody that looks like him
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Post by steveh21 on Jun 20, 2020 9:19:12 GMT
Jay would add amazing feelgood factor to the club after two poor years of football and the pandemic. Not unusual for bosses to return... Kinnear to Dover, John Still to Daggers about 12 times etc.
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Post by daveu on Jun 20, 2020 9:32:02 GMT
I didn't say we needed Jay, just someone relatively young and hungry, with a certain amount of experience, and without the issues that clouded his last year and a half in charge.
Jay is a huge part of the club's history, but that's exactly what he is, at least for the time being. We may see him back sometime in the future but it's not gonna be any time soon.
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Post by Nick on Jun 20, 2020 9:32:55 GMT
Too true Steve
I cannot help but think the return of Hak will do nothing to boost morale amongst supporters. The people I hang around with are 100% Jay Saunders supporters and I get the impression he would be far and away the supporters choice. OK he is not everybody's choice after failing to get the club promoted to the EFL. Indeed life was a struggle in the National League when he was in charge, but I strongly suspect he didn't have the resources and support of the management regimes that followed.
It's not that Jay is the only man for the job, but I'm 100% think he would do a much better job than Hak. Any potential manager should be able to point out a record at least as good as JS1.
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Post by steveh21 on Jun 20, 2020 9:36:59 GMT
One fact people cannot argue with is that since the day Jay left the club has gone backwards. Ending bottom of form table in NLS!!
Hak would be the safe choice for the Board who will want to avoid another Wheeler fiasco.
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Post by Harry on Jun 20, 2020 9:37:44 GMT
I seem to remember that a certain manager (Hak) returned to Braintree after an unsuccessful spell as manager. Maybe not a great example of a manager returning, cause he wasn't great 2nd time round either.
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Post by Rob on Jun 20, 2020 9:40:23 GMT
Hak as a safe pair of hands ? Tbh not convinced myself. I think we can do better, hopefully a lot better
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Post by steveh21 on Jun 20, 2020 9:42:46 GMT
Hak as a safe pair of hands ? Tbh not convinced myself. I think we can do better, hopefully a lot better Absolutely. But it might be a time to play it ultra safe and ask Hak to carry on where he left off........
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Post by jackster on Jun 20, 2020 9:45:01 GMT
But he left us bottom of the form league and in a nose dive.
It would be a mistake to offer him a new contract imo
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Post by Dan on Jun 20, 2020 9:48:55 GMT
The season didn't end a moment too soon for the Stones.
To pick up where we left off with Hakan in charge would be wheelerish in the extreme
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Post by pedant on Jun 20, 2020 11:16:15 GMT
One fact people cannot argue with is that since the day Jay left the club has gone backwards. Ending bottom of form table in NLS!! Hak would be the safe choice for the Board who will want to avoid another Wheeler fiasco. never one to resist a challenge like that ....
however, I'll restrict myself to adding that 'the club going backwards' didn't start the day Jay left the club. We'd been on that slope a while by then.
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Post by steveh21 on Jun 20, 2020 12:27:53 GMT
I didnt say it started the day he left but We had started the season ok. I'd swap that for today's position of being worst current team in NLS..you'd need an odd definition of progress to claim we have not gone backwards. :-)
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