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Post by Cale Green Hatter on Jan 24, 2024 10:36:38 GMT
Since 2016 we have had 2 permanent Managers. Charlton have had 10, QPR 9 (plus 5! in 2015) and Watford 13. Alan Curbishley was Manager at Charlton for 15 years (first 4 with Steve Gritt) and brought them relative success. Since his departure in 2006 they have had 19 permanent Managers. I wonder if any of their previous Managers have uprooted their families for a job which after all can hardly be described as permanent. We’ve had four since 2016. Young (did the first few weeks of Jan16), Gannon, Rusk and Challinor. Arrggh. Forgot about Rusk. How the hell can anyone forget about him. Should have read "Since Gannon's arrival in January 2016" as that is what the stats are based on.
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Post by timberwolf on Jan 24, 2024 10:45:58 GMT
Tragic. What really is the point? I’m sure the long term fans would be happier in the Northern Prem, having a pint and meeting the players in the clubhouse etc like they used to. Failed experiment. Must be on borrowed time. Especially when you consider the massively overblown amount of free publicity they've had! They might have done better for fan numbers if the club was in some part of the country with less clubs as close to them. How many clubs are there within a 20 mile radius of their ground who have been around for much longer. They are not exactly going to draw in glory hunters.
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Post by hedleyverity on Jan 24, 2024 10:54:49 GMT
Especially when you consider the massively overblown amount of free publicity they've had! They might have done better for fan numbers if the club was in some part of the country with less clubs as close to them. How many clubs are there within a 20 mile radius of their ground who have been around for much longer. They are not exactly going to draw in glory hunters. Classic example of how people work in football for decades but don’t have the first idea about fans, significant numbers of people in Salford were never going to change club just because someone they’d heard of had taken over and thrown some money about.
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Post by timberwolf on Jan 24, 2024 11:00:52 GMT
They might have done better for fan numbers if the club was in some part of the country with less clubs as close to them. How many clubs are there within a 20 mile radius of their ground who have been around for much longer. They are not exactly going to draw in glory hunters. Classic example of how people work in football for decades but don’t have the first idea about fans, significant numbers of people in Salford were never going to change club just because someone they’d heard of had taken over and thrown some money about. Really would we have deserted County even if a number of our favourite players of the past had taken over a non league club close to us and threw money at it.
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Post by atmosphere on Jan 24, 2024 11:08:22 GMT
We’ve had four since 2016. Young (did the first few weeks of Jan16), Gannon, Rusk and Challinor. Arrggh. Forgot about Rusk. How the hell can anyone forget about him. We try our best.
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Post by suedehead on Jan 24, 2024 11:39:24 GMT
Simon Edward Rusk will live on forever. He'll always be a byword for room temperature tap water football. For being the figurehead for the wilful destruction of everything we'd poured our hopes and hearts into over five years as Jim took us from bottom half of NLN to fighting for Football League again. For playing Ben Barclay at left back. For getting players back on the grass. It is what it is. Mark McGhee. Ash Palmer as a striker.
He did give us Kenan Dunnwald-Turan though so we should be grateful for that.
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Post by nelly on Jan 24, 2024 12:12:45 GMT
Simon Edward Rusk will live on forever. He'll always be a byword for room temperature tap water football. For being the figurehead for the wilful destruction of everything we'd poured our hopes and hearts into over five years as Jim took us from bottom half of NLN to fighting for Football League again. For playing Ben Barclay at left back. For getting players back on the grass. It is what it is. Mark McGhee. Ash Palmer as a striker. He did give us Kenan Dunnwald-Turan though so we should be grateful for that. I think that's Farleys true about Rusk.
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Post by nelly on Jan 24, 2024 12:13:50 GMT
Arrggh. Forgot about Rusk. How the hell can anyone forget about him. We try our best. It's Farley easy.
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Post by timberwolf on Jan 24, 2024 12:19:56 GMT
Any sort of rusks will be off the menu for County fans young kids.
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Post by HTC on Jan 24, 2024 12:20:04 GMT
Especially when you consider the massively overblown amount of free publicity they've had! They might have done better for fan numbers if the club was in some part of the country with less clubs as close to them. How many clubs are there within a 20 mile radius of their ground who have been around for much longer. They are not exactly going to draw in glory hunters.
Exactly. Much as some aren't fans of the ethos, FGR come from an area where the nearest competition is 45 minutes away, with Gloucester rugby the only side that could be considered top level.
Very different to having two of the biggest football clubs in the world, the most successful current English club and something like 10 other league clubs within the same radius.
'Build it and they will come' can work to an extent in places like Stroud / Boston / Crawley, but it's not really going to happen in a more urban environment. It's notable that the NL clubs from London who have made it to the league were always biggish non-league clubs anyway - Barnet / Dagenham / Sutton, not someone like Hendon who would probably be the London equivalent of Salford.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Jan 24, 2024 12:21:42 GMT
Simon Edward Rusk will live on forever. He'll always be a byword for room temperature tap water football. For being the figurehead for the wilful destruction of everything we'd poured our hopes and hearts into over five years as Jim took us from bottom half of NLN to fighting for Football League again. For playing Ben Barclay at left back. For getting players back on the grass. It is what it is. Mark McGhee. Ash Palmer as a striker. He did give us Kenan Dunnwald-Turan though so we should be grateful for that. I’m sure I saw a Tweet from the club saying that KDT was a mass hallucination, and that the water supply to EP was being tested for contamination.
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Post by nelly on Jan 24, 2024 12:22:20 GMT
They might have done better for fan numbers if the club was in some part of the country with less clubs as close to them. How many clubs are there within a 20 mile radius of their ground who have been around for much longer. They are not exactly going to draw in glory hunters. Classic example of how people work in football for decades but don’t have the first idea about fans, significant numbers of people in Salford were never going to change club just because someone they’d heard of had taken over and thrown some money about. Man U are the biggest club in Salford and glory Hunters don't usually down grade, do they. More Man U fans will have jumped ship to Citeh. Fact.
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Post by mat1scfc on Jan 24, 2024 12:29:51 GMT
I saw in the shop the other day some cake called "cake rusk" they looked as dry as his football
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Post by timberwolf on Jan 24, 2024 12:45:40 GMT
Classic example of how people work in football for decades but don’t have the first idea about fans, significant numbers of people in Salford were never going to change club just because someone they’d heard of had taken over and thrown some money about. Man U are the biggest club in Salford and glory Hunters don't usually down grade, do they. More Man U fans will have jumped ship to Citeh. Fact. Would actually like to know what long time fans of man.u who live in salford actually think of the salford team itself and the whole situation that surrounds that club. Or if the class of 92 involved in it have gone down in their estimation. Pick your own ex players from Countyyou loved from any era i think how you,d feel about them taking the reigns at stalybridge or hyde in the hope of competing with us with their own my money bags lurking in the background.
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Post by muddywaters on Jan 24, 2024 13:05:43 GMT
That comment could be applied to any of the seasons they have been in the EFL. The class of 92 must have expected more support and the 'project' has stalled IMO. If he had his time again I'm sure Gary Neville regrets not sorting out Bury rather than trying to perform a miracle at Salford.
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