[moondog]

A decent article on Macclesfield's fantastic achievement, a manager worth poaching?

https://www.thetimes...6b899cf76dcb1e8

[azul]

moondog, on 30 April 2018 - 09:45 PM, said:

A decent article on Macclesfield's fantastic achievement, a manager worth poaching?

https://www.thetimes...6b899cf76dcb1e8

Having already arrived in the league would he like to take step down

I suspect he will be in demand anyway

[Wooden Spoon]

moondog, on 30 April 2018 - 09:45 PM, said:

A decent article on Macclesfield's fantastic achievement, a manager worth poaching?

https://www.thetimes...6b899cf76dcb1e8

There will be clubs in leagues one and two looking in his direction- why would he join a shambolic outfit on a downward spiral?

[Westbars Spireite]

moondog, on 30 April 2018 - 09:45 PM, said:

A decent article on Macclesfield's fantastic achievement, a manager worth poaching?

https://www.thetimes...6b899cf76dcb1e8

I would say so without question but he’d be mad to take it for anything but financial reasons.

Evidence suggests he’d leave relatively soon with a tarnished image and a pay-off.

[SpireiteFitzy]

I don’t like mondays, on 30 April 2018 - 10:12 PM, said:

There will be clubs in leagues one and two looking in his direction- why would he join a shambolic outfit on a downward spiral?

Exactly. Put the Two clubs side by side and even if they are in a higher league a manager would maybe choose us due to facilities and potential to go higher but over a longer time frame. But our spiral is so severe that it's a no brainer now and it isn't in our favour. Shows just how much this club has been screwed. He and any self respecting manager should steer well clear until we have competent owners.

[martatcross]

Don't get this we should go and get such and such. We will be lucky to get Staveley miners welfares manager

[Exharboroughspireite]

Lovely article and fair play to them. Hope they stay up.

[Paul stanley]

Went there to see gateshead last season as its the only midweek game i can get to by train. Was a really friendly club. Away fans were allowed in the clubhouse/function suite where they had a comedian/compare guy on. Rather them than a southern team like sutton with there 3g pitch

[moondog]

martatcross, on 01 May 2018 - 05:22 AM, said:

Don't get this we should go and get such and such. We will be lucky to get Staveley miners welfares manager

What we see isn't necessarily what a new manager would, it worked with Cook and given his long service with Macc he wouldn't want to be seen to have applied

[dim view]

moondog, on 30 April 2018 - 09:45 PM, said:

A decent article on Macclesfield's fantastic achievement, a manager worth poaching?

https://www.thetimes...6b899cf76dcb1e8

Reading that, it's obvious that his success blossoms from a potion of ability but, much more powerful, a genuine love of his club. He wouldn't be able to transfer that to CFC just as Allen, Carson, Turner couldn't. I think he'd fail, take the payoff, then go back home as a volunteer if necessary.

To replicate that, you've got to look at folk with an identical mindset.

[60s 70s Spireite]

Amazing story, well done to them.
Reading this and watching the Football Focus on Wycombe last weekend, it’s noticeable how both teams have fielded a large number of over 30s.
Perhaps time to recruit more old uns with a bit of nouse.

[azul]

60s 70s Spireite, on 01 May 2018 - 08:25 AM, said:

Amazing story, well done to them.
Reading this and watching the Football Focus on Wycombe last weekend, it’s noticeable how both teams have fielded a large number of over 30s.
Perhaps time to recruit more old uns with a bit of nouse.

We went down the young hungry player path - what a lot of bull that was

You're hungry or you're not

This post has been edited by azul: 01 May 2018 - 09:33 AM

[Siberian Spireite]

azul, on 01 May 2018 - 09:31 AM, said:

We went down the young hungry player path - what a lot of bull that was

You're hungry or you're not

The 'young hungry' path was just the 'young cheap' path, really.

[moondog]

My Altrincham supporting mate who knows a lot about Macclesfield says they are like them, a team with a 20 man squad who are on 40 week contracts

[Zytok]

Shows again what can be done on very little money if you have the right mix of players and a desire to actually win occasionally.
They would probably play us off the park with a wage bill that's 7x theirs. Hell, we spend £250K/yr on CoG!!!

[Skywalker]

moondog, on 30 April 2018 - 09:45 PM, said:

A decent article on Macclesfield's fantastic achievement, a manager worth poaching?

https://www.thetimes...6b899cf76dcb1e8

Clearly done well this year but it's taken 5 years to get that success. There is no way we would wait that long without getting rid of the manager.