Newcastle used to employ Paul Mitchell, I suspect someone made a rookie error and incorrectly confused the two - Oxford only confirmed his departure today
Scott has never been employed by Newcastle.
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Good work Hercule.
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As is leaving Wycombe to become Luton manager.
Please, please, please let’s not go back there. Some of us, including the ancient and decrepit, prefer to look to the future with hope in our hearts, however unjustified those hopes may turn out to have been.
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Also known as chicken shit canyon
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I hope we can hear some positive news soon about Fred’s ongoing contract discussions.
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No, no dear boy, you are very UNusual.
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I fear the next thing we hear about Fred will be via the media team of our local L1 rivals.
So am I, to be honest, but there are a few people, particularly on Dave Gardner’s Friends page, that I’ve known for decades and it’s the nearest I can get to exchanging thoughts and pleasantries with them these days.
When it comes to largely thoughtful, balanced discussion about all things Wanderers and the EFL generally, the Gasroom is usually the place to be. Less so, unfortunately, during the close season.
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A card if ever there was one!
You guys have probably made history there. Certainly the first time I can remember three “Blues” coming together on the Gasroom.
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I’m exhausted. May return later.
Probably Dan Rices fault again
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I know you’re joking, but it isn’t a great look when someone you sacked gets a substantial promotion a year and a half later.
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While he has got a promotion, its not a great look or questions commitment when he doesn’t stay at a project to see it through.
Isn’t this obvious nonsense? I wouldn’t criticise Dan Rice for leaving Everton for a promotion at Wycombe.
Thing is, no one knows what exactly happened. Even ITK will only have one side of a story told from the point of view of the person leaking information. It will rarely have both sides of the coin and so always subject to bias.
But Mitchel is obviously a very ambitious person. With Rice and the ownership coming in and a structure they wanted to put in place, seems to me, to have slapped a de facto large glass ceiling above Mitchels head.
Both sides of that would have had decisions to be made - continue employment as originally agreed under previous contracts, offer a new contact or fire the guy.
I suspect they chose the latter because of the plans already in place to get a new person put in position for the structure they wanted to put in.
You could (rightly imo) argue that Mitchel could have been promoted into Stockwells position but I rather suspect what was happening around MB around that time probably put question marks over the whole management structure - no matter how successful it was in that half of the season - and went with a clean slate approach.
There are obviously a lot of questions marks regarding Stockwell. He himself has shielded himself behind the data model.
But in the case of Mikki Van Sas there was only limited data. He had only played 12 senior games of football, in the Dutch 2nd flight. So someone in the scouting system must have highly recommended him, for us to shell out a hefty fee for an untested and inexperienced keeper.
Dodds went public and suggested we could have a real gem on our hands, but on what we’ve witnessed so far, suggests Dodds knowledge on keeping matched his ability of attacking coaching in the final third.
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“ letting him go as they were going in a different direction.”
So exactly as I mused then.
Thanks for the article to highlight what I was saying.