Lurks- We had players in loan that made 1 or two appearances and were never seen again. Ablade, Osei Yawn, Barnsley winger, Kaja not to mention the army of coaches we were paying. Slim down the over inflated backroom as well.

Changing problem is that’s less players in a squad where one of our problems was lack of depth and options. And even some one with good contacts is going to struggle to find us good players for little or no money.

The last time we had expert advisors helping us choose a new manager we ended up appointing our “loans manager” / ex youth coach and didn’t give him a fucking assistant

I seem to recall Euall is or was viewed as high potential but the surely Charlton will try to keep hold of him anyway.

Tudor Williams in New Malden recently shut down. Their manager is probably looking for a new gig...

4 x £500 loans is another £100k on the managers salary

As the salary will undoubtedly be an issue for decent establishex league 1 or 2 managers how about looking at recently retired prem players who are minte, looking for a chance to break into management and not bothered about the salary. At least they'll have contacts etc and experience of receiving top class coaching. Noble from West Ham as an example

From the sound of it the loans were shit because we weren’t paying much for them. We got what we could afford (as usual).

Bob - no, I think the main priority will be to appoint someone who won't rock the boat.

The new boss will be somebody we've not heard of before

We could if we paid a realistic salary instead of spunking money on shit loans and a backroom team that looks the size of a Prem Club.

Does anyone in here think we will appoint a manager that will do a half decent job for us?

Pardew may have recommended Woodman to us though. Got to say he would be very uninspiring given Bromley fans' comments. Would rather Euell as at least we can be sentimental for 5 minutes before everything goes downhill.

Pardew is manager of CSKA Sofia now, and they're in the Bulgarian cup final this weekend. So not sure if he'll be the experienced advisor.

Changing man, Pardew just took up a job with CSK Sofia so doubt he is involved this time

Just hope Pardew isn't the experienced adviser they are consulting because if he is then that Woodman story stacks up unfortunately. Woodman, who plays Trotter, Chris Bush and who the Bromley fans don't seem to rate.

Oxford - pretty sure Bassey is not in the running, I don't know why.

This is looking like a fuck up as each hour goes by. Bowen fitted the JD and we've fucked about again. Just waiting for Slade or Derry to turn up.

Bassey isn't a manager. He's a fat little cabbie.

Must be about time for Nigel to tell us how the number of people in hospital with Covid is skyrocketing towards 50,000 a day and the number of unvaccinated dying has breeched a 1,000 day.

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Bassey is probably getting a decent wedge at Pompey in a lower pressure role

Trigger - Not vert good quality, as I said [Link]

Lurker - yep, he had the perfect chance to show how different he was, and he just proved to be a carbon copy of Ardley

REPD his own fault, he persisted with the same players that had got us into the shit, especially Trotter. Telling that Downes basically came down, hooked the useless wardrobe off the pitch and put the end to the continuation of the same shit that got us into that problem.