Give Dobbie the job

Voice of Reason said:
Sorry, shouldn't be dismissive.

Nothing against Dobbie, he might well go on to be a good prospect Manager wise, but this is not the time or place for him.

We (as a fan base) need to calm down and try and be a little more scientific that merely shouting out names of past managers, past players, dead legs (Fat Stinking Sam) or plain daft ideas (Dyche etc). There is not a lot going for the Blackpool job at the moment. Relegation form, toxic element in fan base with delusions of grandeur and no sense of finances whatsoever.

It's not an attractive job for anyone. I doubt even Evo would take it at the moment.
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Spot on and if I was Dobbie and offered the job I'd say "No thank you".
Next season if we are in League 1 I might however give a different answer.
 
Insider said:
Spot on and if I was Dobbie and offered the job I'd say "No thank you".
Next season if we are in League 1 I might however give a different answer.
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Yep. If we go down and you get the summer to rebuild it's a completely different proposition. The list of applications changes totally.
 
Voice of Reason said:
Sorry, shouldn't be dismissive.

Nothing against Dobbie, he might well go on to be a good prospect Manager wise, but this is not the time or place for him.

We (as a fan base) need to calm down and try and be a little more scientific that merely shouting out names of past managers, past players, dead legs (Fat Stinking Sam) or plain daft ideas (Dyche etc). There is not a lot going for the Blackpool job at the moment. Relegation form, toxic element in fan base with delusions of grandeur and no sense of finances whatsoever.

It's not an attractive job for anyone. I doubt even Evo would take it at the moment.
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Is there ever the ideal time or place for promising people or even youth players to come in.

If in the championship people will often say, well we need proven quality rather than take a calculated gamble.

The issue is, as with Evatt, you then miss out on such candidates. He started as a caretaker then did great with Barrow and got them playing unbelievable football for their level. When you've got it you've got it.

If there was someone with experience we can get then great, but as said anyone new stepping in might take time to learn the players, time we don't have. Also as you say it's not an attractive job right now, likely to go down in peoples eyes, who realistically would come. Also we don't go for experienced championship managers or pay that level, so it would be a gamble anyway with our lower league man or inexperienced number 2 or coach who we'd probably get.

Our best and only manager under SS that has done well was a complete novice, but a great motivator of players and fans. Dobbie seems to be that. Having fans back to their best is probably bigger than what any manager can do pointing and shouting from the sidelines whilst no one looks or can hear. As long as they pick sensible teams with balance, Dobbie should know all about that having played in many including our promotion winning side, it had the perfect balance.

At least Dobbie knows the club etc.

With an experienced number 2 I see no issue why it wouldn't work any more than the 'experienced managers' (or not so in our case) we'd look to bring in that have effectively failed us twice now.

As said previously it's a bit early and you'd want to give him a better chance than a rescue job, but at this stage the advantage he has is he knows the place, knows the players, no settling in which may count for something a brand new guy doesn't have.

Add in the lift it gives too. If Bloomfield was bouncing every week again that might be what gets the extra bit out of players to win some fine margin games.

Of course that can happen under another new guy too, just hope if they do go that route we don't have a trial and error of players as they learn them, as we can't afford that. There's no guarantee either way we go at this stage, even with an experienced new guy.
 
Is Dobbie the answer? Possibly not, but we don't know. Is Appleton the answer? 100% no. If Dobbie becomes the interim manager and he gets a new manager bounce and wins games then great. If things carry on as they are at the moment then we actually bring in someone else and it will look like that was the plan all along. Nothing to lose.
 
Why would you think of insulting Steve Thompson by offering him just the Number 2 position? Who do you think he would work under as the Number 1, if Appleton is sacked? Would he be asked? That’s putting the cart before the horse, isn’t it? Thommo first, then ask him which position he feels most comfortable in, then fit other people around him.

Thommo had done enough to step up, before Koko fecked him off when Ince was sacked, allegedly for talking out of turn to fans. That was Koko at his absolute arrogant revengeful worst, the clueless **. And we have struggled ever since.
 
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We know what happens when Appleton is in charge, we've seen it over the course of the season, there are few if any positives. My guess is anyone of us on here could be put in charge of team selection on a matchday and get the same win percentage or better.
On this basis Dobbie isn't really much of a gamble but we don't know that he is the answer.
Any new manager is a step into the unknown the board need to ask themselves if its worth sticking with Appleton on the basis of what we've already seen, if the answer is no then for the rest of this season Dobbie might be worth a go.
 
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