[bluepooch]

If we win on Saturday the decision makers should seriously think about giving Evo the job on a years contract. Ive been impressed by the way he has conducted himself and his substitutions tonight changed the game .
Discuss.

[Dancingwilldoit]

No need to discuss Blue. Both Dev and I have said we think he should be the man with Llera. I wasn't there but liked his team selections and just giving a youth teamer a place on the bench last night is more than JL did in 4+ months. I have no doubt he would make a good manager and could eventually do the same as Dyche.

[Devongone]

My worry FOR Evo is that he can't possibly know much about non-league and as a Wrexham fan on Bob's has testified, next season is going to come as a shock. They've spent eleven seasons trying to get up and fell out of the play-offs again this time round. Someone behind the scenes with us is going to need the non-league experience to raise an influential voice to which everyone including Evo will listen, otherwise we can look at finishing between 17th and 24th next season.

If Evo is our man he is going to have to listen, evaluate that information and become a sponge soaking up knowledge about the new environment to which the club has consigned itself. AND he is going to be learning how to manage at the same time. He'll need knowledgeable people he can trust around him.

I have to say team selection has made more sense to me, though Jack Holmes stunned me. I wondered if someone came up injured in the dressing room and he was the only body available.

[bluepooch]

I think a manager should be mainly be judged on a few things ;
1,Organisation and motivation of the team.
2,Making tactical changes and substitutions to improve in-game situations.
3,Good recruitment within the constraints of a budget -having an eye for a good player.

All these would lead to the team punching above its weigh no matter what league it is in .
One thing that was striking last night and I dont think I've seen many managers do this was when Evo saw that things weren't right at half time and was brave enough to make two substitutions which meant that all 3 had been used.The gamble paid off as the two subs made an immediate impact on the game and definitely contributed to us winning .

[Devongone]

Good recruitment is very hard if you are in a foreign land of players ........ and that's where Evo will be. Most successful managers have voices around them they can trust. Cowley and Cowley for instant. Klopp has two trusted lieutenants. Evo would hopefully have Llera ......... but I'm guessing neither of them know much more than me about the leagues they'll almost inevitably be recruiting from.

If we fill our team with EFL-rejects we'll be paying bigger wages than we should to players who may well find this division a struggle. Take a look at the team Justin Edinburgh was putting out for Orient, I don't think it would have been in the bottom six of Division Two, but they were just 13th in the Van. We'll need a team appreciably better than this season at much reduced cost from a smaller squad to succeed next season. That's a big ask from a manager new to management.

BY the way I think there are many more managerial skills needed than those you list needed to succeed at Chesterfield. This will be particularly the case if the ownership and administration of the club do not change. None of us really know the extent of the constraints under which Lester, Caldwell and Wilson worked and the frustration that created. Evo is doing the easy part at the moment, much as I like the man.

[Devongone]

One positive for us this afternoon - The Daily Telegraph did an article on Barnet, Mad Dog and his miraculous attempt to save them. The other week I said prediction makes fools of us all, well The Telegraph, when it chooses to feature someone or a team coming up to a big sporting event / crossroads is almost uniquely inaccurate. They must run at about 80% off piste. The other week when Millwall hadn't lost in 17 games was it, they were about to play Fulham ........ The Telegraph did a double page on Millwall and their hopes of reaching the Premiership; they were taken apart 3-0 and I don't think they've won since. That's typical Telegraph. I reckon they are Morecambe's best hope! They could even get Evo a job.