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Post by CowshedJack on May 13, 2024 17:36:18 GMT 1
“If Duff chooses to travel from Cheltenham, he will not be going up and down the motorway every day; like his predecessors, he will instead have accommodation arranged for him to stay in Yorkshire throughout the working week.”
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Post by mallyb on May 13, 2024 17:36:48 GMT 1
Credit to KN and the club. Moved quickly with what could be an excellent appointment. Young but already some success.
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Post by BlueValour on May 13, 2024 17:37:10 GMT 1
The past seasons before we didn’t play primarily non league pub teams, as I’ve demonstrated. But you can keep burying your head in the sand and pretend Neil Warnock can’t make any mistakes possibly. Moot point. Warnock has made mistakes. Show me someone who has made no mistakes and you'll show me someone who has never done anything! |
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Post by htafcokay on May 13, 2024 17:39:38 GMT 1
I do have to chuckle about all the positivity around this appointment.
This is the same manager that was linked with us in February and there was a complete meltdown on here, Twitter and Facebook.
He would have been a steady appointment then and is a steady appointment now. Hopefully he lasts longer than three months.
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Post by itsgeorge on May 13, 2024 17:43:44 GMT 1
Can't be optimistic about this, i know we are now in league 1 so options for manager were limited but it is very uninsipiring. Naturally i hope im wrong and he goes on to be succesful, but that will be dependant on the degree of investment into the squad.
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Post by drewden on May 13, 2024 17:45:34 GMT 1
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Post by Jack on May 13, 2024 17:48:02 GMT 1
You can only be up the Duff for 9 months. That gives him until February.
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Post by londoncowling on May 13, 2024 17:48:04 GMT 1
delighted with Michael Duff coming to
Town
he has the right credentials to take the club forward from here on
wishing him the very best as our new manager
doubt we’d be where we are now had he come in first time round
next season looks a much better prospect all of a sudden
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Post by Gag_N_Bone_Man (Destabiliser) on May 13, 2024 17:48:24 GMT 1
I'm quite pleased. Good record at this level, and it's massively reassuring that we've acted quickly as we dragged our heels last summer and I think it impacted on preparations massively. To lose a manager Friday and replace him Monday is not like us. Hopefully he stays a while so we can shake our "northern Watford" tag.
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Post by Maynardblue on May 13, 2024 17:48:45 GMT 1
I do have to chuckle about all the positivity around this appointment. This is the same manager that was linked with us in February and there was a complete meltdown on here, Twitter and Facebook. He would have been a steady appointment then and is a steady appointment now. Hopefully he lasts longer than three months. We're in a very different place as club now than we were in Feb. |
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Post by stevvy on May 13, 2024 17:50:17 GMT 1
Nothing really wrong with this appointment.
Think most people always expect Cheltenham to be a struggling L2 team so to get them up was impressive.
A matter of seconds from a shootout that could have had us playing Barnsley this season just gone, so clearly did ok there.
Yeah OK not so great at Swansea, but they want possession based football, that isn't his thing.
No real reason to be negative though. Just got to make a positive start in the league, get rid of as many bad eggs as possible, and bring in players that are committed and willing to play his style of football.
The fact he has good experience at this level is a big help. We couldn't afford another risk on a rookie or a foreigner
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Post by londoncowling on May 13, 2024 17:50:32 GMT 1
You can only be up the Duff for 9 months. That gives him until February. tell that to an Elephant |
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Post by htafcokay on May 13, 2024 17:50:54 GMT 1
I do have to chuckle about all the positivity around this appointment. This is the same manager that was linked with us in February and there was a complete meltdown on here, Twitter and Facebook. He would have been a steady appointment then and is a steady appointment now. Hopefully he lasts longer than three months. We're in a very different place as club now than we were in Feb. Sadly true, but perhaps we wouldn't have been if we'd appointed him in February. |
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Post by teddytheterrier on May 13, 2024 17:51:24 GMT 1
Great appointment. Better than Moore and mr brilliant cv. Two god awful appointments.
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Post by buckers on May 13, 2024 17:52:32 GMT 1
Good luck to you Michael, whoever was appointed we all need to get behind them as a club.
From what I’ve been told by a Barnsley mate he’s 3-5-2 man and that’s it, if it works happy days. If it doesn’t there’s no plan B.
BUT he’s a bit gutted he’d rather have him back at Barnsley.
Also he was class on championship manager 99/00 or was it 00/01? Either way he was bloody ace on that game.
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Post by teddytheterrier on May 13, 2024 17:52:50 GMT 1
I do have to chuckle about all the positivity around this appointment. This is the same manager that was linked with us in February and there was a complete meltdown on here, Twitter and Facebook. He would have been a steady appointment then and is a steady appointment now. Hopefully he lasts longer than three months. We are in league one though. He’s about as good as we could have got. Good luck to him, I’d certainly rather have him than that German joker running things next season. |
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Post by incognito on May 13, 2024 17:54:19 GMT 1
Very happy with this, just four months too late! It does make you wonder what might have been. Could Duff's pragmatism and familiarity with English football have helped us scrape over the line? Had we still ultimately gone down we would have at least been four months further on in our reset. I can't pretend I wasn't enthusiastic about AB's appointment at the time, however... |
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Post by htafcokay on May 13, 2024 17:54:22 GMT 1
I do have to chuckle about all the positivity around this appointment. This is the same manager that was linked with us in February and there was a complete meltdown on here, Twitter and Facebook. He would have been a steady appointment then and is a steady appointment now. Hopefully he lasts longer than three months. We are in league one though. He’s about as good as we could have got. Good luck to him, I’d certainly rather have him than that German joker running things next season. That's true, much better than your suggestion of Michael Hefele. |
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Post by theterrier42 on May 13, 2024 17:54:55 GMT 1
Maybe has a say in the retained list now it’s been sorted so quickly
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Post by townarentbest on May 13, 2024 17:55:47 GMT 1
I presume we'll need to cash in on Helik to help fund next season. Why? |
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Post by Maynardblue on May 13, 2024 17:56:37 GMT 1
We're in a very different place as club now than we were in Feb. Sadly true, but perhaps we wouldn't have been if we'd appointed him in February. That is also true |
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Post by DuffMan on May 13, 2024 17:56:37 GMT 1
I presume we'll need to cash in on Helik to help fund next season. Why? Because season tickets prices are low 😜 |
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Post by Miss Spentyouth on May 13, 2024 17:57:01 GMT 1
He’s in with plenty of time to do some summer dealings.. so fingers crossed.
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Post by teddytheterrier on May 13, 2024 17:57:18 GMT 1
We are in league one though. He’s about as good as we could have got. Good luck to him, I’d certainly rather have him than that German joker running things next season. That's true, much better than your suggestion of Michael Hefele. Hef would do better than the great AB. |
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Post by Big Ern on May 13, 2024 17:57:31 GMT 1
Good look to you Michael, whoever was appointed we all need to get behind them as a club. From what I’ve been told by a Barnsley mate he’s 3-5-2 man and that’s it, if it works happy days. If it doesn’t there’s no plan B. BUT he’s a bit gutted he’d rather have him back at Barnsley. Also he was class on championship manager 99/00 or was it 00/01? Either way he was bloody ace on that game. Yes! I said exactly the same. He was a cracking free transfer |
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Post by Dan on May 13, 2024 17:57:57 GMT 1
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Post by ldr on May 13, 2024 17:58:51 GMT 1
A quick appointment and he knows the league. Time to crack on and rebuild. Good luck and welcome Michael!
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Post by dezzly on May 13, 2024 17:59:20 GMT 1
I do have to chuckle about all the positivity around this appointment. This is the same manager that was linked with us in February and there was a complete meltdown on here, Twitter and Facebook. He would have been a steady appointment then and is a steady appointment now. Hopefully he lasts longer than three months. Yeh I did think this to an extent to be honest.even my own feelings on it have changed. Think in Feb got carried away after watching Moore football with this notion of having to have attacking football.I think the general consensus was that duff would not provide this,probably incorrectly. I think the positivity stems from a few factors.We’re a level down,we should be able to attract better players for the level,we’ve managed to get it done quickly(a manager out and one in inside 10 days from last game of season) and therefore he has the opportunity to have a full summer rebuild and pre season.The last point is something we haven’t had the last two seasons,we’ve constantly been fire fighting be that on a manager front or player front or both. Like you say it’s a steady appointment which let’s face it is something we desperately require. We aren’t going to be prime Barcelona but I don’t know why we should ever think we will be even if relative to the level. Focus is now on summer recruitment,get that right we should have a very capable pair of hands managing them….we hope 😀 |
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Post by soapystevens on May 13, 2024 17:59:21 GMT 1
Yet another very poor appointment i really can't see what people see in this fella at all.
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Post by htfcterry on May 13, 2024 18:01:26 GMT 1
Yet another very poor appointment i really can't see what people see in this fella at all. He's only had 1 bad spell as a manager. |
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