How attractive is the job?

But if someone comes in and turns it around then that's going to look good on their cv. Let's look at the positives.....

Proud history
Good stadium/pitch for this level
An unbalanced squad but on paper should be performing better, so there is potential to squeeze something out of them
Passionate fan base who will love you if you do well. If we're doing ok we should get gates over 2k which not many can say in this league
Community stuff is in the best shape its been in for a while
Calls for McGuire to be sacked are ridiculous - he's got loads of sponsorship in and does seem to be trying to make us more professional but its a slow process.
Patient board, so you're likely to get a good crack at this job rather than the Southport policy
The finances aren't the best but then again we have no debt so whatever we manage to generate can go into the budget. A good cup run would help massively! I'd prefer to look positively and advertise it as a challenge, taking a low budget and doing well with it.

We have had over 100 serious applications for the job apparently. It can't be tgat bad.

It's a fantastic opportunity, the squad is small but infrastructure is in place as mentioned above. Our volunteers are amazing and work wonders behind the scenes.
As co owners if the CFU asked all exisiting members to put an extra contribution per month say 10 pound on average we could assist in getting a couple of decent players in on loan or give our new manager extra funds.

I have been the club this morning and picked up Seals lottery and CFU forms if each member could introduce a minimum of 1 member and a lottery subscriber we can make a huge difference, even if the people who bet on the football at the weekend use our my club betting it can make a difference and not forgetting the easy fundraising when shopping online.

It's our club let's play our part and give what we can in order to compete and grow again stronger.

One voice one passion our club needs us to make this happen people.

Thanks for your contributions to this topic. Am feeling much happier now, thank you.

Cmon you Blues!

What is pleasantly surprising is how the potential short list is shaping up, and that the overall quality of candidates this time around is far superior to last time. Certainly a contributor factor for why we ended up with calamity Jon in charge, although I do seem to remember he actually won a couple of games at the time of his job interview , albeit with the help of Mr Sharps. What if we had appointed Sharps as manager instead? And, imagine where we might have been now, had we been able to appoint a Money or Bignot or even GB back then ? Oh well, onwards and upwards.

Be interesting to be a fly on the wall when the subject of salary comes up. Might be that a couple (or more) of the candidates want more money than we'd expect, or want, to pay out.

That might answer your question of how attractive the job is?

You'd have thought Ronnie Moore would ask for too much. He comes across as that sort of character. The younger options may be prepared to work for less, or a shorter contract, to get themselves established. Looking at the rumoured shortlist there aren't many of those though.

Looks a competitive list of names. As many others have said it's a lot stronger than the previous times. Suppose that shows it is an attractive job.