[Devongone]

Mark Cooper would be good.

John Coleman is a great Accrington manager, but does he do much elsewhere?

As the only way we have to reduce our debt is to develop and sell on players my answer would really be to bring Kevin Wilson and Steve Chettle back together as they were last season at Ilkeston. They know about developing young players and have a wide experience of the talent overlooked in non-league football. And they'd have something to prove.

My idea of building the club would be signing Daniel Lavercombe, Torquay's teenage keeper, and loaning him back to them this season. I'd be off to Whitehawk to persuade Danny Mills to give league football another go - he once cost the Posh £100,000 and scores 20 a season now at this lower level. But then as a club I'd like to see an attitude where, if we were a defender short, we wouldn't loan a guy from Rotherham, we'd play Laurence Maguire. Drafting in youngsters seems to be working for Tottenham. We waste talent by simply burying it. Okay we may end up scouring scrap heaps, but we've lots of evidence of buried treasure.

We won't clear our debt and grow by playing safe. We need to be creative and original.

[spireitematt]

Phil Neville has taken over at Valencia as Interim-manager. He becomes Assistant manager at United they turn to rubbish and he becomes Assistant manager at Valencia and the manager resigns. Bad Omen?

[Devongone]

We couldn't have afforded Phil could we?

As supporters we do also have to remember that part of the reason our debt exists and is not paid down is that it serves someone's interest. We are tied to our chairman ...... because he has money. Whether he is willing to use it or not is irrelevant - it is the source of his power. Who in their right mind would suggest getting rid of him?

He could give us Mark Cooper, Chris Turner and Rtchie Humphreys, or Elmer Fudd.

[spireitematt]

Mark Smith the youth team coach is the caretaker manager. Dean Smith has left Walsall to go manage Brentford so Saturday's game both teams will have manager less teams.

The club is £8 million in debt so can't afford to get rid of the chairman unless a rich oil baron buys DA out which I don't think will happen.

[bluepooch]

Smith is now 2/1 favourite .I guess because he is the only definite one to have come forward
By Sunday afternoon we had received 30 serious applications.

[spireitematt]

Lee Carsley has done well at Brentford as caretaker and did alright as caretaker at Coventry as well.

[Devongone]

Dean Smith, three years building a team to be proud of at Walsall ..... then he leaves for another non-entity team.

As the youth team don't seem either to have been pulling up any trees or planting them Mark Smith would be ideal for us if the selection of Dean Saunders is anything to go by. Hello Division 2.

Lee Carsley was a fairly depressing player.

This is an opportunity for us. If we were going to sack Dean Saunders 0-4 did us a favour. We did it whilst we've a chance to rebuild.

All we need to do now is make an imaginative choice. Mark Cooper would be good, or somebody showing potential outside the league ...... but not someone who has been round every block.

[Dancingwilldoit]

Keith Hill anybody? He could bring Donal McD with him.

[spireitematt]

Apparently we've interviewed Mark Cooper for the job but he's expressed interest in the Walsall job.

[spireitematt]

Sky have Deano down as 25/1 for both the Yeovil job and the Walsall job.