cowdenbeath Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 No one apart from the directors know who the other candidates for the job were so no one can say if we could have done better than Gary Locke. At this time of the season and the job being to the end of the season no one would leave anything else for a short term contract. As I said earlier I would imagine there would have been worse folk who have applied. At the end of the day when appointing a manager you either get a rookie, which we've been through, or someone who has failed at another club. In our position not a lot of folk would want to take it on. I'm willing to give the guy a chance, if we go to the play offs and the worse happens, its what most folk have been predicting anyway. If he somehow turns things around and we get out of our current position he will be a hero. Good luck to him anyway and lets get behind him for the last 11 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big al Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 7 minutes ago, cowdenbeath said: No one apart from the directors know who the other candidates for the job were so no one can say if we could have done better than Gary Locke. At this time of the season and the job being to the end of the season no one would leave anything else for a short term contract. As I said earlier I would imagine there would have been worse folk who have applied. At the end of the day when appointing a manager you either get a rookie, which we've been through, or someone who has failed at another club. In our position not a lot of folk would want to take it on. I'm willing to give the guy a chance, if we go to the play offs and the worse happens, its what most folk have been predicting anyway. If he somehow turns things around and we get out of our current position he will be a hero. Good luck to him anyway and lets get behind him for the last 11 games. Exactly, it's a free swing for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 15 minutes ago, big al said: Exactly, it's a free swing for him. How exactly? Being relegated from the bottom tier would surely completely kill his career Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 How exactly? Being relegated from the bottom tier would surely completely kill his career Not so sure to be fair, they're pretty much fucked already and regardless of what their fans tell you they've got an awful squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 4 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said: Not so sure to be fair, they're pretty much fucked already and regardless of what their fans tell you they've got an awful squad. Aye, but he'll end this season with his CV showing four horrendous jobs, including one relegation from the bottom tier. Where does he go from that? Really, he should've held off until next season and taken a less damaging job, I get the impression he loves football too much to not be involved in it, so has just jumped at the first opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only coo in the village Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 35 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Aye, but he'll end this season with his CV showing four horrendous jobs, including one relegation from the bottom tier. Where does he go from that? Really, he should've held off until next season and taken a less damaging job, I get the impression he loves football too much to not be involved in it, so has just jumped at the first opportunity. Management jobs aren't that easy to come by though. He may well see this as the last fling of the dice in terms of trying to build some form of reputation in football management. If he does prevent us from being relegated from the position we are in then it would certainly be seen as an achievement. What makes you think that a team at a higher level would be interested in him anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeSAFC Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Cowden will regret not hiring #BinoFeet enjoy the Lowland League diddies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Locke is, by all accounts a decent guy and was well liked by the board and the players at Rovers. Unfortunately, this doesn't make him any less of a catastrophic failure who couldn't win us a game between October to the end of his tenure. We didn't panic in the slightest in getting rid of him. The fans weren't backing him, we weren't getting results, and we'd laid down to teams like Dunfermline, Falkirk and Dumbarton since New Year. Hughes now faces a challenge of rebuilding the confidence of the team, but I'm confident he can keep us where we're at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierkegaard Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 3 hours ago, big al said: A lot of mocking from others about the appointment. Fair enough, some guys just love to laugh at others. didnt realise there are so many management recruitment experts floating around the internet. Maybe Locke was simply the best available candidate?or the only 1? were bottom of the bottom, the trapdoor is swinging open as we speak. Hardly going to attract managers at the top of the tree. couldnt give a f**k if he signed dross for raith, he can't sign anyone. All we need is someone to come in and give the place a lift. Get the players believing we can stay up and that they are decent players. Time to finish a few chances and start taking points off others again as let's be honest, the standard ain't that good. Yes, Al. Fact: we are a small club with a small fan base. We don't own our own ground, which is a tip. In the last few years, we have had some amazing success. It's been a good time to be a Cowden supporter. The great Mixu helped us win our first title in 67 years. We've been in the Championship, punching well above our weight. We picked up Greg Stewart from the amateur leagues and turned him into a top class player. Dundee got him for £0.0 pence. We got Kane Hemmings on a free from Rangers and turned him into a top player . Dundee got him for £0.0 pence, because the system is rigged in favour of the wealthy clubs, of course. Dundee got a substantial fee for both players. Cowden, of course, got nothing. We're now looking into an abyss. If we go through the trap door, it may be the end of Cowdenbeath FC. By the nature of the current circumstances, any manager we sign, any player we sign, will be flawed. If they weren't, they wouldn't be signing for Cowdenbeath FC. Frankly, I couldn't care less about the opinions of fans of other clubs. We're in a battle for survival, and we know it. Will Gary Locke keep us up? Who knows. Let's get behind him. He's a decent man, a popular guy in Scottish football. It's brave of him to put his future on the line by committing himself to Cowden with only 11 games to go. Failure could end his management career. Let's get behind him. Stuff the critics. They may be right, they may be wrong. But let's give it our best shot - manager, backroom staff, players, chairman, board, fans. It's the last throw of the dice. Maybe, just maybe, we can do it. Juner01.rtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Anthony Fitzgerald Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 This appointment could single handedly kill your club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Pit_Owns Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 6 hours ago, Kierkegaard said: We got Kane Hemmings on a free from Rangers and turned him into a top player . Dundee got him for £0.0 pence, because the system is rigged in favour of the wealthy clubs, of course. The reason we got nothing is because Hemmings went to Barnsley before Dundee. Had he gone straight to Dundee then we would have got a fee but then perhaps Dundee wouldn't have signed him because they would have had to pay compensation. There isn't a lot of money in Scottish football outwith the Old Firm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 17 hours ago, The Minertaur said: It's outwith the transfer window so he's not going to be bringing in anybody. Again this is just til the end of the season so he has to work with what he has. Unless you have used them all he could bring in emergency loans in the next three weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Unless you have used them all he could bring in emergency loans in the next three weeks. If Stevenson is still registered he could bring him in that way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Just now, parsforlife said: If Stevenson is still registered he could bring him in that way? He could but he wouldnt be allowed to play anyway as he already played for two clubs so it would be pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 It wouldn't stop lockeSent from my SM-T520 using Pie and Bovril mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Judge Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Surely there are lots of examples of players who started out at top division clubs but were deemed not good enough then slowly worked their way 'down' via Championship/League 1 clubs before finding their level at League 2 and being considered good. Maybe the same thing can happen for managers/coaches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Surely there are lots of examples of players who started out at top division clubs but were deemed not good enough then slowly worked their way 'down' via Championship/League 1 clubs before finding their level at League 2 and being considered good. Maybe the same thing can happen for managers/coaches? Think it's totally different to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 "give the guy a chance" and "I'll judge him by what he does at our club" Comments that guarantee this is a good decision, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 8 hours ago, Kierkegaard said: because the system is rigged in favour of the wealthy clubs How do you work that one out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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