by gillsfan1066 » Sat Jan 15, 2022 11:04 am
The Gillingham Job is a great job for anyone that is the manager of a team in the National League ,with maybe the exception of the top six or so teams who are fighting for promotion, so that leaves about 17 managers,and I am sure every one of the managers in the National League North and South would jump at the chance at the Gills job ,so if we were looking for a " new manager" who has never been in "top flight football" and by that I mean the top four divisions of the pyramid then that's where I would be looking If Lovell can keep us up , then at the end of the season, I would look at the managers of the three or four teams that just missed promotion into the Second Division and offer the job to one of them.
As for giving the job to an ex Premier Division player ,I think really good players make pretty bad managers, Paul Ince, Alan Shearer, Tony Adams, they just don't seem to be able to understand why everyone can not be as good as they were. I find that in my life the best guys at anything seem to make the worst trainers, or whatever.
Foreign players or foreign managers looking to break in the English football, maybe someone from Scotland or Wales, or even Ireland might be interested, they don't need a passport to get here , I just don't see it. I hardly think the manager of the Tasmanian Tailwaggers of the South Australian League is likely to uproot his family and travel to the UK to take the Gills job on.
The Gills are in a mess, I find it such a shame that after 27 years of owning GFC , this idiot owner still doesn't understand the basics of running a professional football club, what's the saying a Leopard never changes it spots , how true that is ?