7 minutes ago, Feral Fox said:

I’ve spent a fair bit of time in last 24 hours chatting to my mate from Sweden. IB and Mo Ross come with a massive amount of respect over there.

The fans there are more ‘sensible’ about understanding the club and its issues as a whole rather than just the results. Ian has overseen some serious success, especially following on from Potter when half the team was sold out from under him to keep them afloat financially.

IB earned his stripes out there and they respect that. He also said the public issues the clubs had whilst he was managing were well known and he came out, not just with his head held high, but with all the fans behind him. No muttering about management at all.

He reckons, if we can let the pair develop over a couple of years, we’ll have a management team that will be on the radar of most clubs in the country, regardless of us being Non League at the moment.

IB also has a keenness to keep the youngsters from the academy type pathways in the club and sees them as the way forwards to complement bigger signings.

Basically, hopes it should be all good!

Thanks, I've been wondering what the fans there made of him - I usually trawl the forums to find out, but I couldn't find where they hang out and I'm not on Twitter. So I've only had the bare results and the odd newspaper report to go on, which isn't much. I really hope you're right and we're all singing his praises soon! On paper it all sounds very good, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

It's also worth pointing out that Maurice Ross has managed several clubs in Norway, too.

1 hour ago, Elite_pie said:

I can only speak as one of the (mildly) vocal 'Ardley out' lot, but I am full of optimism with this appointment.  It's obviously a long term project, so I wouldn't give him any target this season other than to make us look like a team that wants to win, rather than a team that wants to stop the opposition winning.  Since the day he was appointed I've never seen Neal Ardley as someone capable of getting the best out of his squad, hopefully Burchnall will do just that.

This. Although I’ll happily say my Ardley out was more vocal as in my opinion, and now obviously the owners as well, sort it now rather than wasting time. The elongated season means there will be no rest period between this season and the next so plans for next season, regardless of division, need to be underway now. Total respect for Ardley as a person. (Not so much Abbott as I think he didn’t bring anything apart from Steve Thompson esque jokes to the table.) but for me, we’d hit a brick wall. Neils obviously flat attitude was being passed to the players and the whole square pegs for round holes thing was coming back. Enzio needs the shackles taking off, like they did in the second half against Yeovil. Don’t be balling him or Ruben out every ten seconds telling them to get back and defend. The B Wood game I think it was where you could hear every word from the dugouts brought it home to me. He wasn’t encouraging at all. He was pulling them all over the place and Doyle did the same from the middle. 
No issue rollicking them, but if a player is on the field and you’ve chosen him to do a job for you, either back him or sub him. Don’t play him and then spend every minute shouting at them.

1 minute ago, DangerousSausage said:

Thanks, I've been wondering what the fans there made of him - I usually trawl the forums to find out, but I couldn't find where they hang out and I'm not on Twitter. So I've only had the bare results and the odd newspaper report to go on, which isn't much. I really hope you're right and we're all singing his praises soon! On paper it all sounds very good, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

It's also worth pointing out that Maurice Ross has managed several clubs in Norway, too.

To be honest, he was surprised that we had managed to combine the pair together as “they both deserve to be given a shot at much bigger clubs than Notts. They’ve been good individually, but together should make a brilliant foundation for a long term project.”

But...as you say...talk is cheap. Let’s see where we are end of season and more importantly, middle of next season when (hopefully) some of the older generation players have left the club ...Sorry Doyle, Turner, JoB as well. 
Reeves gets a second chance when he’s not got Doyle playing the same role as him.

All I can say is I hope that he's given the same chance as Neal Ardley to succeed, if Notts struggles or does not reach the playoffs this term than he needs to be given a chance to go again. With his own style of players, a few in key areas and I am sure the club will be pushing forward. If he can gain the experience needed to be a good robust manager, we can only hope for the best. I am more than prepared to give him my full backing.

On 26/03/2021 at 23:02, DangerousSausage said:

I'll be honest, I was hoping for someone with NL experience. Jim Gannon maybe. But that's no guarantee of success - Gudjon and John Sheridan were both experienced "safe" bets too.

I've watched the interviews and read up on his background (tried to find a Norwegian or Swedish forum, but didn't really know where to look).

To be honest, the naked numbers don't look inspiring. One season at Viking Stavenger, culminating in a first relegation since 1986 and a sacking. One good season at Östersund, then more relegation struggles and a termination due to "different visions for the club". That's quite a superficial way of looking at it though, like solely blaming Neal Ardley for our relegation, and a head coach can be on a hiding to nothing when there's chaos in the background. One interesting thing I found was an article about him signing players from Guiseley and Maidstone, so he's clearly kept a close eye on English football, even at non-league level.

I think the owners were looking for someone who bought into their ideas, who believes in attractive, passing football, but is more willing to play attacking football and take risks, and they clearly believe that's what he brings to the table. Obviously I really hope it works out!

The question is, what happens now, how will he approach things? I don't expect dramatic changes. According to Transfermarkt he tends to play a 4-3-3, but he's not forced to do the same with us. I hope he breaks up the Doyle-Reeves double act and starts leaving players up when we're defending corners. And we don't know how the players will respond - on the one hand, there are no guaranteed starting places any more, but on the other, there's always the chance that we've shot ourselves in the foot by firing a popular manager. We'll soon find out.

Oh not Jim Gannon - have you listened to his interviews? Terrible. 

Jumping the gun here..... After tonight's big win!!!!! He will have a win %of 50%.....He had better not let it slip below that....