New Manager

[The Crowing Cockerel]

Is there any news?

 

Have the board advertised for applications?

 

Was there already a successor lined-up?

 

Are they interviewing any time soon?

[andyetfc]

Big Sam?

[4wembleyfinals]

Don't worry, haven't we been told by those in the know that managers will be lining up to get in???!!!!

[The Crowing Cockerel]

Don't worry, haven't we been told by those in the know that managers will be lining up to get in???!!!!

 

To be fair, Brad has had nothing but praise for the ETFC job. He even said that he had turned-down previous approaches from Braintree and others higher up the pyramid. So the ETFC job can't be the worst going in the Ryman Prem.

 

I might drive past the Donkey Dome later and see just how long the queue of prospective managers is.

[MbrunoB]

I'm there now and some interesting news coming out.

[4wembleyfinals]

I am sure you are write CC, I don't expect to told minute by minute but it would

be nice to be kept in the loop occasionally. After all to coin a well known

political phrase, " We are all supposed to be in this together ".

[lovely stuff]

We appoint the board and i trust them to find the right person for the job.Giving anything away before the deal is done could hinder that appointment.

[andyetfc]

So will we be told the interesting news?

[lovely stuff]

If the appointment has been made.The supporters should be told.

[vauxhallman]

Big sam is in a taxi on his way.?

[vauxhallman]

Getting near.??

[lovely stuff]

As rumours are flying about.And those 'in the know' seem to know..I think an announcement as soon as possible would be very welcome.

[vauxhallman]

Maybe tomorrow hopefully.??

Think the board want to make sure everything is 100% correct for all parties

But what do i know.!!!

[vauxhallman]

I know it seems like ages but last Friday Brad resigned and thanks to the tireless efforts of Mr Chairman i believe the club may be in a posistion just 7 days later to announce a new manager.

Credit where its due to Paul and the board.

Lets hope the official club announcements happen tomorrow.

[lovely stuff]

Just a shame that a percentage of the fans seem to know who it is,and the rest of us are being told to sit tight and wait and see.

[Steph1]

What would you rather a premature announcement and the thing fail or all the I's dotted and t's crossed and then an announcement.

[lovely stuff]

Would rather had it kept solely within the board and everyone told together.

[Steph1]

In the days of Facebook, snap chat, twitter, email and all other forms of communication it is extremely difficult to stop information leaking. In former times someone may have chatted innocently to a mate but now that is public knowledge. Consider how we have discussed Nathan`s perceived weakness now, as it is in a public forum, our opinions are in the public realm. We have reinvented the Babel Tower.

[andyetfc]

I don't mind who ETFC has as a new manager so long as they try their best and there are not more coaches in the dugout than players on the pitch.

[behind-the-goal]

Whilst mulling over the routes down which we have gone with various managers since promotion to the Ryman Prem. I came across an interesting piece of research undertaken by visiting professor Tim E. W. Aster of the Dept. of Functional Semantics at Nonesuch University in Maryland. Disclosing himself to be a Town fan, Dr. Aster undertook a detailed computational analysis of the fortunes of each of Town’s managers in the division. Using a sophisticated algorithm he discovered to his surprise that tactics, formation and team selection had little to do with the success or otherwise of each manager. Instead, he discovered that it was the syllabic nature of each manager’s name that pointed to success.

 

Wondering why this could be, Aster discovered that two disyllabic names scanned perfectly in terms of the managerial-related songs sung behind the goal. Using ‘Willy Wonka’ as an example Aster pointed out that such a name scanned perfectly in the ‘Blue and white army’, ‘And that is why we like him’ and ‘Give us a wave’ songs. Steve Newing survived for a while, thanks to the two syllables of ‘Newing’ and the cheeky attempt to turn ‘Steve’ into ‘Stevie’, but the footballing Gods soon became aware of such chicanery and decided he had to go. Either of Peter Hammett or Bryan Hammatt could have tasted success, but the decision to go with both left the Enfield choir in a profound quandary: how the heck were you supposed to make ‘Peter and Bryan Hammatt’s blue and white army’ scan? You couldn’t, of course, and they were quickly replaced by George Borg. The choir were now left with a different challenge: how to expand, rather than reduce, the syllabic nature of his name. ‘George’ could become ‘Georgie’ (but the ‘Steve’ into ‘Stevie’ fiasco had already shown that that was unlikely to work). And, frankly, turning ‘Borg’ into ‘Borgie’ just sounded silly. The next appointment, however, was inspired: ‘Bradley Quinton’ ticked all the syllable requirement boxes perfectly and he took the club to its highest ever league position. Clearly no coincidence.

 

The message to the Board is clear: ensure that you choose a manager whose name scans easily in our behind-the-goal songs. Two disyllabic names please. You know it makes sense.