Jonty Castle

Filling the void is AFC Fylde’s former chief executive Jonty Castle, who officially becomes the club’s chief revenue officer.
Castle has previously worked at both Oxford United and Wigan Athletic.
 
“I was Head of Football Operations at Oxford United meaning I had responsibility player recruitment, analysis, medical and sports science as well as football logistics and operations, so everything football related that wasn’t coaching. We successively achieved automatic promotion and got to the Football League Trophy final as a League Two side which was a success”

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A Q & A WITH JONTY CASTLE | AFC Fylde

AFC Fylde welcomed Chief Executive, Jonty Castle to his position last week. Having began his role, the Coasters’ new CEO gave an insight into his remit at Mill Farm. Jonty, welcome to the club. Can you tell us a bit about your background in football to date? Firstly I would like to thank David […]
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Two things helped me to turn things around at Oxford. First: I read the book Legacy about the reasons behind the All Blacks’ success. I brought a lot of their thinking into the way I managed, and the way I dealt with players and people.

The second one was the Masters I did in Sport Directorship. It was a three-year course that took me out of my comfort zone – I was never particularly academic – and gave me some of the tools I went on to use. It also led to me meeting Jonty Castle, who I ended up bringing into the club as head of football logistics.

He was from a recruitment background in the army. I felt that, from a discipline and organisational point of view, he would be fantastic.

We did something called a SWOT analysis on the whole football department at the club: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

It started with getting all the staff in a room and talking through it. What are the strengths of this place? The weaknesses? And so on.

Then Jonty interviewed all the staff, which made more sense than me doing it, in case they wanted to bring up anything I was doing or not doing.”
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So we’ve replaced Appleton’s former agent with Appleton’s mate. Jury is out.
 
tommytwojags said:
At Fylde, he never tired of telling people how good he is and how highly qualified. It's a no from me.
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There's nothing like giving a man a reasonable chance to show what he can do, is there? And this is nothing like it...... Give the man a break, for God's sake.
 
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Seaside Aggro said:
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Two things helped me to turn things around at Oxford. First: I read the book Legacy about the reasons behind the All Blacks’ success. I brought a lot of their thinking into the way I managed, and the way I dealt with players and people.

The second one was the Masters I did in Sport Directorship. It was a three-year course that took me out of my comfort zone – I was never particularly academic – and gave me some of the tools I went on to use. It also led to me meeting Jonty Castle, who I ended up bringing into the club as head of football logistics.

He was from a recruitment background in the army. I felt that, from a discipline and organisational point of view, he would be fantastic.

We did something called a SWOT analysis on the whole football department at the club: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

It started with getting all the staff in a room and talking through it. What are the strengths of this place? The weaknesses? And so on.

Then Jonty interviewed all the staff, which made more sense than me doing it, in case they wanted to bring up anything I was doing or not doing.”
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So we’ve replaced Appleton’s former agent with Appleton’s mate. Jury is out.
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So what, he's got experience there and at Fylde, clearly is a capable guy who must have impressed whilst with us.

So what if he's worked with an ex manager.
 
What a peculiar name.
Sounds like the sort of nickname given to someone who went to Eton 🤣

Is Jonty short for Jonathan or something?🤔
 
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tommytwojags said:
At Fylde, he never tired of telling people how good he is and how highly qualified. It's a no from me.
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Am amazed anyone wants to come to the positivity of Blackpool fans!

Guardiola is coming to be manager ‘can’t understand the bloke and looks a bit shifty and full of himself’ 🙄
 
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