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Re: Mike Dodds
Welcome to the club Mike.
You are very lucky to have landed such great job with a great club who have in recent times treated players, management and staff with the utmost respect by our two previous managers and owners. What I read of your recent years you are from the same mold and well respected.
You take us on when we are having our greatest ever season and in second place in League One, if we finish second or third it will be our second highest League finish since 1887.
I hope the new owners give you time to implement your coaching ideas next season and you hit the ground running, we have the squad and first 11 to finish this season in 1st or 2nd place if things do not change to drastically.
Your first job will be to get Morley to sign or another significant player at his level who can play games immediately and in the same role as Morley.
Best of luck and I hope you get given time and support from fans and Dan Rice alike.
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
What gives you the sense that our owners are particularly interested in ‘the culture of the club’? I think it’s new broom time.
Re: Mike Dodds
I'm sure they'll have some communication, but the decision ultimately rests with the recruitment team.
Re: Mike Dodds
I am very excitied to see where MD can take us . The club have taken their time with this appointment and I believe Rice is far more informed and skilled in the matter of recruitment than people give him credit for . Recruitmrnt of head coaches probably included . Rice was a youth scout for Fulham , Everton and Aresenal and Chief youth scout for Southampton . He has been doing this since 2009 and been involved in the workings of some very large football clubs . With his history I would suggest it is doing him a diservice suggesting he just runs some software and it spits out a player for him to persue .
Understandably a few people probably feel a little uneasy because this is new territory for WWFC . The vision the owners have for the future of the academy,this football club . and the methods they use may well seem a little alien at times but football is changing , it is driven by huge finances and these guys understand this world .
I share the view that I have heard a few people express , which is that I would rather have someone like MD take the position than a journeyman manager . Football is evolving and someone like MD has come from a successful modern environment which will mean he understands how it works and where it is going .
The data model has been successful in a lot of clubs and allowed them to punch well above their weight . Bournmouth are a good example of this and who knows where we could be in 10 years . Before anyone says we don't have a big enough support , don't try and tell me we would not fill a 15000 seated stadium some where in south bucks , if we did end up copying Bournmouth and found ourselfves competing in the Premiership . Big ask for sure but if you told a Bournmouth fan 20 years ago where they would be they would have thought you were nuts .
Re: Other Football
Our mate Swanny might spontaneously combust if Ainsworth’s Shrewsbury stay up at the expense of Peterborough (and this forum would be rather happy I imagine)
Re: Loan watch
He’s rarely taken corners for Wycombe.
Taking some nice ones for Rovers today, I think we missed a trick there.
Re: Mike Dodds
Oh, I get it….
Dodds is “Just a puppet” then. Cool. There is no healing on the gasroom just yet then.
I wish the new man with limited experience as the first teams top dog the same good luck as I did the last two top dogs that took over the first team with limited expirence.
They did alright.