[theo_luddite]

Many in the "revolving door" club of out of work managers all say the same thing.

What are the ambitions of the club and what is available to spend?

That 2nd bit of that question put's most of them, regardless of the flavour (or lack of) football they like to offer up as "entertainment", out of the running immediately because the 2nd bit also answers the first bit, regardless of the bollox given in the answer.

Most of them are also hopeless at getting teams to score goals - Allardyce said as much when we were at the foot of the Prima Donna League - not that we'd be in the running for him anyway. There's a reason why most of them are members of the out of work club, and none of them ever got sacked for developing a system of scoring too many goals.

[Lord Snooty]

We should get Hudlin back from Wimbledon. His height and Simpson's pace would make a peach of a partnership in the mould of Wayne Allison and Marcus Stewart.

Oh and we need Jacko and Taff back as well.

[Devongone]

A Hudlin would be A way to score. Unfortunately the Hudlin can't actually play football too well, and lacks both balance and strength despite the appearance of being useful in the garden if you grow Sweet Peas. The truth is he wouldn't get a game at Chesterfield and struggled for a place anywhere but the bench at Solihull. Though I think there are loads of players from non-league to Division One who could step up to the Championship I can't see him doing it. You need either another bit of pace alongside Simpson or a football brain.

Theo is so right about managers. They all seem to have a plan to stop goals, but few of them talk much about how actually to score them. They'll talk 'ollocks about playing the right way and playing out from the back, but it as if getting it in the onion bag at the other end happens wholly by accident. Take Wolves they've had some really good talent, much of it attacking talent, couldn't score, because they had no consistent plan for how to go about it. Instead with a better attack than defence on paper, on grass they stopped conceding as readily as they stopped scoring.

You win at football when you score more goals than you concede. So conceding 0 seems like perfect safety. But achieving that isn't easy anyway, and if you carry no threat up front teams will simply be all over you until the ball ends up in your net. Having an attack is a vital defence .........

And every Huddersfield fan has grasped that, as has every Chesterfield fan. Only the desperate pressure of management seems to delete that basic knowledge.

[theo_luddite]

Still say the bloke at Barrow that was down The Shay is the guy we should have gone for and we should still go for. It will cost us more now because we fanny around when the obvious is on our door step and we let others pinch the milk while we piss around and put the kettle on first and sit and watch it boil. Then we let someone else drink the tea/coffee while we go looking for the milk and a teaspoon for the sugar and complain that ours come from Aldi while they buy theirs at Selfridges. We should still go for him over the (expletives deleted) bloke we have now. What else could go wrong?

I've not seen Hudlin, but he looks like a tall version of Crouch, and having seen him play for England at Old Trafford, he certainly couldn't play. How the feck Crouch made a living at football is beyond me, then again how Fotheringham is making one is also beyond me, even if it's far less than Crouch ever made.

[Lord Snooty]

Hudlin scored twice for Wimbledon tonight.

[WakeyTerrier]

I saw a bit of it, I wouldn’t be calling Hudlin back any time soon

[Devongone]

Hudlin is Crouch minus the football. Maybe a super clever coach or psychologist could make something of him, but he needs Akinfenwa to get him on the weights for a start because he isn't strong enough to make his vast height an advantage. Unless it's improved since last season, his control is only modest too.

The reason you got him is that over the last couple of years a number of big clubs have taken a look at him and all of them walked away. He'd been remaindered.

Like Theo I think Pete Wild might have been the answer managerially for you, still could be. But Theo makes your approach sound very Chesterfield. Usually we make our move too late, and if not we dive in too early without engaging any brains at all. When we did engage brains recently we came up with a good manager, but we hadn't checked his sexual tendencies. If it can go wrong, we'll usually find a way to make it happen.

It might also be worth noting that Hudlin is permanently in the bench for Wimbledon in their recent successes in the league. And last night he was playing against a largely Plymouth Reserve side. However Hudlin does occasionally score a good goal and that spark does then interest people briefly. Oh yes and it might be worth remembering Chesterfield cruised past Wimbledon in the FA Cup ....... which suggests he'd be making a huge leap to a Championship debut.