[Devongone]

You couldn't have a more appropriate surname to be in charge of the Chesterfield of the last few seasons could you? It would be nice if he could win every game, but he's my generation and that begs the question, what would you really like instead?

I daren't even look at Bob's Board. The sheer vituperation expressed towards a man who saved us from relegation last season had to be seen to be believed. Pemberton certainly didn't deserve it. He obviously cared and hated failure. Perhaps he isn't a nasty enough man to be management material, but it doesn't say much for an industry if the way to succeed is to seek out a nasty piece of work, with an incipient gut and a borderline anger management issue to get somewhere.

People will do more for love than hate or fear. Very few people will choose to let a good man down, and fewer still refuse to pull their weight when they see their friends doing their absolute best.

I'm betting Bob's is having an orgasm over Nicky Law as our next manager. Matt will have the odds at his fingertips too.

I was hoping the Trust would be something different. I was hoping that the knee-jerk response of sacking the manager wouldn't be its response of first resort. I'm left wondering if anything has changed.

What I'd like to see is the Trust to prove it is different, to make a long-term appointment, to stress that in five years time ideally the club would be rebuilt and challenging in the top half of EFL Division One. I'd like them to stress the present contract would not be that lucrative, but a promotion back to the EFL would see a considerable rise and that the future contracts of playing staff would follow a similar pattern. I'd like the contract to be long-term and that only relegation or unacceptable behaviour would be sufficient grounds for sacking, whatever the fickle opinion of the fans. I'd also make it clear that the manager and development staff would receive a small percentage of the transfer fee of any player developed by us, brought to the club. I'd also make regular interactive contact with the fans via the club website a priority for the manager, because we all share in the team's success or current persistent failure.

I'd be looking for something like the Cowley Brothers who would welcome a project, who saw that the aim was to build a club and a team worthy of the ground and to fill that stadium with fans who felt themselves to be part of the club, rather than bystanders swearing from the touchline or behind a keyboard.

I'd like young, enthusiastic with a reasonably encyclopaedic knowledge of the non-league scene. I'd want them to know the absolute truth about the financial position so they could pitch their search for first team players, developmental players and contractual promises in the right areas. And I like the Trust to be happy with the manager/s revealing why and where they were starting the building process. For too long managers have either not known, or been wary of revealing the truth and result has been verbiage without any meaning and ultimate failure. The club has to start trusting its manager, so that its manager can himself begin to feel secure and trusted. And that feeling has to percolate through the club, or it will be the same old same old until we are no more.

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Blimey, I steeled myself to look at Bob's.

I said something like the Cowley Brothers, because I didn't think we could get them, but Bob's treat them as a serious proposition ......... and they don't seem to have noticed Donald Trump will soon be seeking employment, probably out of the everyday reach of the US justice system.

I can't even imagine us getting half a Cowley, carved up by Damien Hurst, but I'd love it to come true. I do want it to be someone with a view of the future, a long-term appointment, because our current approach is like shelling peas.

[Devongone]

My suggestion for next manager is James Rowe.

Manager of Gloucester City.

He once upon a time played for Ilkeston. He has a Masters in Sports Science from Nottingham Trent University. In football he was assistant to Gary Waddock, who knows his business, at Aldershot. He has worked for Birmingham City in the past. He is currently at Gloucester City who are suddenly having their best season in absolute ages.

He's 37 and looks as though he could be on the way up. will certainly have modern ideas and might just be a breath of fresh air. And if he's been at Ilkeston and Nottingham he must know where Chesterfield is at least

And nobody's heard of him, better still. We won't need to pay a mint for a spent reputation. And we don't need to get head hunters in to find him.

So should we fix the interview?

[spireitematt]

Paul Cook won't come back and I very much doubt we would be able to afford him. The Cowley Brothers are very good managers but think they will be go to a League club.

I can't find the betting odds but I suspect that Sol Campbell's name will be there with Graham Alexander. Fans on Bob's Board keep talking about Nicky Law.

Pete Wilde would be a good fit, did an ok job at Oldham and did a very good job at Halifax. Curtis Woodhouse the manager of Gainsborough is someone who would be another good fit for the job.

Would joint managers be a good idea?

[Devongone]

There are a few vacancies with EFL clubs that some of the bigger names might go for, and hold out for.

Taking the bloke at the top of National North seems like an obvious and good idea to me. As we won't do that, maybe Tim Flowers might like us. I don't like Graham Alexander but I don't see why Salford think Richie Wellens is better either.

Darren Currie would be a good choice. And you might take an off-the-wall punt on John McGrath and Ricky Ravenhill from down the road at Mickleover.

But I'll stick with stealing poor old Gloucester's first hint of success this century. James Rowe might just be a star. He says that as long as you score more than the opposition you win. He said in the Non-League Paper, "Football is about entertainment." Gloucester play attacking football! He walks the walk.

[Dancingwilldoit]

God knows which way our new owners will go but I really do hope they have learned lessons over the last few years. Ex league managers will struggle at our level. We need somebody who is keen to prove themselves.
I see we may have a new Chinese connection, hope it brings some finance with it.

[Devongone]

If we do have a Chinese connection the money is irrelevant, after less than six months the myth of it being our club will have died once more. Going down would be a better option .........

[Dancingwilldoit]

James Rowe it is then. Looks good on paper lets hope it works on a football pitch.

[Devongone]

Nobody seemed to be mentioning him when I wrote my little piece. He seemed the obvious man to go for. Let's hope that our impatient fans settle down and give him time. Keeping us out of the bottom three now would be brilliant, then let him start making us into what he thinks a football club should be like.

Certainly he is all for playing attacking football and entertaining the supporters. He was a striker himself.

If this is Kevin Davies's influence, more power to you Kev'. James Rowe will either be a revelation or a disaster. I'm thinking revelation.

Nobody seemed to be mentioning him on Bob's until yesterday. They hadn't really heard of him and I first mentioned him on the 19th. I feel like a prophet and that's not Colin. And they are all wondering on Bob's if he can fix our defence. I could fix it tomorrow, sign a goalkeeper and let him get a relationship with a regular centre back pairing. That'll do it.

And by the way assuming we have got our man, WELL DONE THE TRUST, for seeking advice and avoiding the obvious choices to come up with the exciting answer. I'm still in shock. Mind you, you only have to look at my predictions to see I have very little experience of being right. I wonder which of Gloucester's strikers, McClure or Asante, he'll bring with him. Apparently Gloucester's fans see Chesterfield as a not very nice place. Having lived for 14 years in Cheltenham here are Gloucester's assets :- Cathedral, Docks, Rugby Club - the centre of the city is a monstrosity. Trains don't even stop there very often.