23 Nov 2025 20:21:00
Edd, is there any reason why Nancy hasn't been announced as I have heard his season is over, or are we waiting on sum1 else mate ano bodo only have 1 more game to play and are sitting 2nd?.
{Ed007's Note - I can only hope that the reason Nancy hasn't been announced is because he isn't getting the job but I'm fearing the worst.}
23 Nov 2025 20:51:36
I hope he is not getting it as well.
{Ed007's Note - It's just so underwhelming imo and I'm not having any comparison with Ange. DD - and even throw the board in the mix - could at least make the fans take a step back with a top drawer appointment, whether it's Knutsen, McKenna or someone that's not even been mentioned but someone with a reputation to get the fans excited. There's other changes going on behind the scenes with guys like Lefevre etc leaving so it looks like the Tisdale is stepping up, imo he deserves a chance to see what he can actually do in the basic DOF role by the look/sounds of it but if Nancy is HIS choice and he's convinced DD to take that chance then if it does go wrong it's on Tisdale, it's just a weird on altogether for me Joe.
There was better CV's binned without Lawwell looking at them when NL got appointed in the Hampden showers.}
23 Nov 2025 21:25:23
My pal reckoned it's something to do with his back room staff for the hold up bit like the Howe scenario. with him not being in place already am thinking Knutson is waiting on season finishing before moving to us (ano ano am a dreamer) ?.
{Ed007's Note - But you're not the only one....? If our main rivals Hearts or even Aberdeen or TRIFC were appointing Nancy would we be worried or rolling in the aisles laughing?}
23 Nov 2025 21:28:55
I did notice Nancy was getting linked with tisdale and he was being promoted as being the one who will. be doing the recruitment. The cynic in me thought this was so the board had a fall guy if things go wrong.
{Ed007's Note - Tisdale worked with Nancy's assistant at Exeter a while back, it's a bit of a stretch imo. Nancy worked under Terry Henry ?
23 Nov 2025 21:44:28
Just read an article that says if we sign Nancy now there is a larger compensation due but if we wait until 1st December, the compensation reduces significantly. It does sound like something our board would do to save a few bob. ?
I have no idea how reliable the story is.
{Ed007's Note - Well if that's out there and he's such hot property I'm sure another club will "swoop in"....
23 Nov 2025 21:47:01
Nancy is the cheap option for me. Knutsen will want his own staff and will likely be too experienced and cunning to take guff from the board.
Ipswich would need paid out for Mckenna and i would doubt Mckenna would be interested in working under that board with them constraints.
Nancy is the cheap option that is inexperienced and will likely not have a clue what he will be getting himself in for.
There are murmurings that its been held up as Nancy wants his own staff.
Ill give the man a chance but i honestly can't see it ending well.
With this appointment it shows me the board are not interested in trying to change for the better. Same old strategy.
23 Nov 2025 21:48:28
Heard its to do with compensation come the 1st of December we pay less.
{Ed007's Note - It's going to be like an Advent calendar, every day something new & mental will come out ?
23 Nov 2025 22:25:31
Some people are comparing him to Ange. I think a more appropriate comparison would be Pedro caixinha. ?
Let's hope we do t see him standing in a bush arguing with fans.
23 Nov 2025 23:24:06
The only comparison he has with Ange is they were both unheard of. Don't get the hype about the Ipswich boss.
24 Nov 2025 09:40:28
It will be Nancy. Its in the stars that the board will take him. With all that is going on, that is the choice that the majority of the fans don't want, so our board will choose him.
If they take him, it confirms we are a club with no real ambition, no real drive to improve in Europe.
There is absolutely no comparison with Ange, as he had proven himself at a good level. This guy hasn't.
If he is one of the future premier level Managers as some are trying to say, we certainly wouldn't be the only club linked with him but we are.
We are not in a position to take a risk, his season is on a knife edge, our team have no confidence, the club is in turmoil, is a total unknown, with no real experience going to manage to come in and turn this all around.
I for one am really worried.
24 Nov 2025 10:22:38
What established, successful manager, would risk what they have achieved, by working under a board devoid of ambition? A recruitment model that has been exposed as not fit for FA. An owner, whose control is total, who slaughtered the last incumbent, showing borderline psychotic traits in his statement. They repeated again at the AGM they set up to fail, that we are keeping the tin mentality. I can't see any of the guys on the Fantasy Island wish list even giving it a second thought.
They succeed because they sork within a supportive and effective structure. We don't have that. So, unless they arrive with a bag of wands, robust team talks won't cut it.
Sort out the board, get more ambitious. Improve our recruitment, all of the better managers quoted would jump at it. Not now. I actually have a bit of confidence Nancy will be what we need. Time will tell.
24 Nov 2025 13:49:26
Why does it show no ambition Meada? Because you haven't heard of him?
24 Nov 2025 15:03:35
It shows no ambition and that is most fans opinions from what I've read firstly because he is lacking experience secondly because he will be a yes man and that has already been proven because he has agreed to work under the clubs transfer policies which are non existent the board want someone who will use the club as a platform and move on in 2 years time which means a whole new back room staff and set of players to fit a new managers formation and set up which shows no forward thinking or ambition at all and 3rd he is a very underwhelming appointment requiring compensation we could pay for a more established manager and one with more experience and proven track record in Europe he would not be one fans first pick because most wouldn't have even considered him for the job before he was mentioned for it.
25 Nov 2025 19:30:29
Bhoy has anyone heard of him.
We are a rubbish show just now, he isn't very experienced, what does he have to fall back on experience wise to sort this out.
His style of play is renound for being hard for players to pick up with suggestion it can take a season for some.
Do you think we have a season to fall behind, do you think we have time to give him a settling in period, let this season pass, especially with the coefficient dragging Scottish teams down to 3 qualifying games for CL and Conference.
We just don't have the time to take risks.
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