oldweststander wrote:I think Cox to Notts would be a good appointment, if they fail to win the play offs.
Didn't Coxy once say he would never go to Chesterfield?
Tippy Tappy Football wrote:Darrell Clarke signs a 5 year contract at Port Vale
Manager Darrell Clarke said “This was such an easy decision for me. The support my team and I have received has been second to none and we are building something very special at Port Vale. My focus, as always, remains on continuing to improve – match by match, season by season. And I’m so grateful for this opportunity to work with such incredible people. I love working for this club, the owners and Dave Flitcroft. We have such an honest and upfront relationship. The support I have received from day one has been fantastic. We constantly challenge each other because we are all obsessed with football and are driven to create a culture of improvement and success for Port Vale. The togetherness throughout the entire club has been shown on the pitch with the season we have had so far. I want more. We all want more. This appetite is needed to drive the club forward. Building a winning culture is what we are all about.”
Clarke was appointed in February 2021, guided the club to mid-table safety last season and has now led the club to within one game of a return to League One after a five-year exile. Director of football David Flitcroft, who recruited Clarke and then worked closely with him to rebuild the squad, said: “Darrell is a credit to the club with his passion, his drive and his enthusiasm. I knew that was a part of who he was when we brought him to the club but now I’ve seen it and felt it. What we know now, a year on, is that Darrell has developed fantastic relationships with the chair and the owners, with myself, with the chief executive, the board and everyone around the club. With regard to players, Darrell wins their hearts and minds. They would run through a brick wall for him. He cultivates a very good dressing room environment and passes on to players the values of the club from the top – from Carol. If you want to build anything strong you need a really strong foundation. The decision on a five-year deal is to keep everyone settled and make sure that everyone knows that for the next five years we are working towards something we all believe in as a club. Even during very testing times with Covid, problems with injuries and unprecedented personal challenges, Darrell has come through it with unbelievable strength of character. You look at someone’s qualities through adversity and the truth is that he dealt with all those challenges brilliantly.
“Darrell also takes a keen interest in the Academy. Darrell watches the players and has them training with him. He’s not an isolated manager who just wants to focus on the First Team and nothing else. And that’s really important to us as a club. Ultimately, we believe Darrell Clarke takes us forward to where we want to get to. He’s got the ability to do that and he’s certainly got the passion.”
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/f ... ct-7133120
The One wrote:Notts are out of play offs !!!!!
Tippy Tappy Football wrote:Is Pete Wild off to Barrow?
Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
eggy wrote:Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
She sees Wimbledon/Crawley as a step down from Chelsea, you mean.
broomo wrote:
I can't see a club above League 2 being brave enough to take the punt.
eggy wrote:Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
She sees Wimbledon/Crawley as a step down from Chelsea, you mean.
Sedgwick wrote:eggy wrote:Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
She sees Wimbledon/Crawley as a step down from Chelsea, you mean.
Not Chelsea, Chelsea women's.
I think she doesn't think she's up to the task deep down, imagine it will be incredibly hard to become the first female manager of an EFL mens team, but it will happen. And she probably thinks its a way of refusing the idea the mens game is above the women's game, which in truth it is.
I think its sad she sees it as a step down, its really not. Certainly think the awareness and coverage of the women's game over the last few years is a good thing, but the constant forced narrative that they're on the same playing field is nonsense. Where are the actual women's clubs? theres very few, and without mens clubs most wouldn't exist. People simply aren't interested bar cup finals. I think it would grow if they could somehow breakaway and form their own clubs, with their own badges colours kits grounds etc... it would feel more genuine and authentic rather than just going to watch Man City Women. For starters stop calling it the women's super league, its not the FA Mens premier league is it. Theres little history in their game and I think they should start building some. London city lionesses are the only one I can think of, who I think broke away from Milwall
Sedgwick wrote:eggy wrote:Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
She sees Wimbledon/Crawley as a step down from Chelsea, you mean.
Not Chelsea, Chelsea women's.
I think she doesn't think she's up to the task deep down, imagine it will be incredibly hard to become the first female manager of an EFL mens team, but it will happen. And she probably thinks its a way of refusing the idea the mens game is above the women's game, which in truth it is.
I think its sad she sees it as a step down, its really not. Certainly think the awareness and coverage of the women's game over the last few years is a good thing, but the constant forced narrative that they're on the same playing field is nonsense. Where are the actual women's clubs? theres very few, and without mens clubs most wouldn't exist. People simply aren't interested bar cup finals. I think it would grow if they could somehow breakaway and form their own clubs, with their own badges colours kits grounds etc... it would feel more genuine and authentic rather than just going to watch Man City Women. For starters stop calling it the women's super league, its not the FA Mens premier league is it. Theres little history in their game and I think they should start building some. London city lionesses are the only one I can think of, who I think broke away from Milwall
Rob wrote:Sedgwick wrote:eggy wrote:Sedgwick wrote:She sees mens football as a step down
She sees Wimbledon/Crawley as a step down from Chelsea, you mean.
Not Chelsea, Chelsea women's.
I think she doesn't think she's up to the task deep down, imagine it will be incredibly hard to become the first female manager of an EFL mens team, but it will happen. And she probably thinks its a way of refusing the idea the mens game is above the women's game, which in truth it is.
I think its sad she sees it as a step down, its really not. Certainly think the awareness and coverage of the women's game over the last few years is a good thing, but the constant forced narrative that they're on the same playing field is nonsense. Where are the actual women's clubs? theres very few, and without mens clubs most wouldn't exist. People simply aren't interested bar cup finals. I think it would grow if they could somehow breakaway and form their own clubs, with their own badges colours kits grounds etc... it would feel more genuine and authentic rather than just going to watch Man City Women. For starters stop calling it the women's super league, its not the FA Mens premier league is it. Theres little history in their game and I think they should start building some. London city lionesses are the only one I can think of, who I think broke away from Milwall
I agree with that, especially the forced narrative. Chelsea women averaged 3,000 this season, they were league champions. The WSL regularly had attendances lower than 1,000. To equate it in any way with the men's professional game is wrong and actually does the women's game a disservice. They need to grow their own sport, it will continue to grow but only if they don't alienate a high number male supporters, which I am afraid they are doing at the moment. I think the only way a woman can, in the short term, realistically become manager of a men's team is if she comes through the ranks of a men's club, ie has been coaching men's football - it really is so very different. As for Hayes, in effect by saying she should manage a men's team higher than League 2 (something repeated by a Sky reporter on Talksports White & Jordan earlier today) means they think she is better qualified than the likes of Nigel Clough? It's nonsense, is there a single football fan out there who would appoint Hayes ahead of Clough?
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