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Post by Wortleyblue on Nov 14, 2017 9:25:37 GMT
Just our luck before we go there from the BBC website
National League club Leyton Orient have sacked head coach Steve Davis.
The former Crewe manager, 52, took charge of the O's in July following their relegation from League Two at the end of last season.
However, the London club have won only five of their 19 league matches in 2017-18 and are 19th in the table, three points above the relegation zone.
Ross Embleton and Dean Brill will take charge on an interim basis while a successor is found.
"There is no doubt results haven't been up to the required levels over the last two months," said chairman Nigel Travis, who completed a takeover of the club in June.
"We showed a lot of promise in the early part of the season and unfortunately that hasn't been sustained, so we felt it was time to make a change in order to give us the best chance of turning our fortunes around for the second half of the season.
"Steve came in at a difficult time with a shortened pre-season and a complete squad and staff rebuilding process under way. He worked tirelessly and professionally and we know from the players how much they enjoyed his training ground work.
"However, ultimately football is a results-based business and whilst we knew this was going to be a challenging season, we did not expect to be so close to the bottom four at this stage."
Former Burnley defender Davis managed Crewe for more than five years until his departure in January.
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Post by devadiva on Nov 14, 2017 12:27:30 GMT
Shame really - we may have stood a chance against a team managed by a snooker player 😉
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Post by Hannibal on Nov 14, 2017 13:11:22 GMT
What dreadful timing.
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Post by g1 on Nov 14, 2017 16:37:08 GMT
Hearing macca is in line for the job my faith in comedy has been restored
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Post by Wortleyblue on Nov 14, 2017 17:39:50 GMT
John Askey is the early favourite 6/1 betvictor
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Post by Hannibal on Nov 14, 2017 18:10:35 GMT
Hearing macca is in line for the job my faith in comedy has been restored I would be flabbergasted if dear Jon ever got another job above Step 3. |
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Post by Al on Nov 14, 2017 19:47:27 GMT
Alan Alger on twitter earlier reckoned the Cowley brothers would be interested.. LOL!!
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Post by southernblue on Nov 14, 2017 21:39:38 GMT
That's really interesting.
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Post by g1 on Nov 14, 2017 23:33:03 GMT
Alan Alger on twitter earlier reckoned the Cowley brothers would be interested.. LOL!! I was at Crewe Lincoln Saturday the only way they will get out of Lincoln is league 1 he's happy there Lincoln have money |
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Post by Anders on Nov 14, 2017 23:43:15 GMT
Alan Alger on twitter earlier reckoned the Cowley brothers would be interested.. LOL!! Alger doesn't help himself at times, his twitter got bombarded this morning. He slowly realised that the Cowley's are sitting on a 4 year contract with a huge buyout clause. |
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Post by eyeswideopen on Nov 15, 2017 11:54:13 GMT
Alan Alger always reminds me of the type of betting man that if he throws enough darts, one day he will hit the bullseye.
Problem is when he does hit it, his wall is full of holes around the dartboard.
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Post by Hannibal on Nov 15, 2017 14:14:15 GMT
Alan Alger on twitter earlier reckoned the Cowley brothers would be interested.. LOL!! I was at Crewe Lincoln Saturday the only way they will get out of Lincoln is league 1 he's happy there Lincoln have money Lincoln City are averaging around 8,500. I'm so envious. Our best ever average in this Subuteo ground was around 3,100 when we won this league. |
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Post by lincolnexile on Nov 15, 2017 19:30:15 GMT
I was at Crewe Lincoln Saturday the only way they will get out of Lincoln is league 1 he's happy there Lincoln have money Lincoln City are averaging around 8,500. I'm so envious. Our best ever average in this Subuteo ground was around 3,100 when we won this league. It's not long ago that Lincoln were averaging 2000. The season tickets were sold on the back of their cup run. A few seasons in League 2 and the novelty will wear off. |
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Post by Hannibal on Nov 15, 2017 20:25:24 GMT
Lincoln City are averaging around 8,500. I'm so envious. Our best ever average in this Subuteo ground was around 3,100 when we won this league. It's not long ago that Lincoln were averaging 2000. The season tickets were sold on the back of their cup run. A few seasons in League 2 and the novelty will wear off. There's no reason why they can't get promoted to L1. They have a good management team, a decent ground and money in the bank. What's to stop them? |
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Post by rjshbdhmtrm on Nov 15, 2017 20:32:18 GMT
Twenty three other teams 😀
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Post by lincolnexile on Nov 15, 2017 23:14:37 GMT
It's not long ago that Lincoln were averaging 2000. The season tickets were sold on the back of their cup run. A few seasons in League 2 and the novelty will wear off. There's no reason why they can't get promoted to L1. They have a good management team, a decent ground and money in the bank. What's to stop them? They're not that good and their supporters expectations are way too high based on a good cup run. |
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Post by Hannibal on Nov 16, 2017 8:29:35 GMT
There's no reason why they can't get promoted to L1. They have a good management team, a decent ground and money in the bank. What's to stop them? They're not that good and their supporters expectations are way too high based on a good cup run. Their expectations were to return to the football league and they did it in one. Anything else is a bonus. You can't argue with the size of their crowds. Have you got some kind of resentment towards them? |
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Post by Dodge on Nov 16, 2017 12:26:08 GMT
They're not that good and their supporters expectations are way too high based on a good cup run. Their expectations were to return to the football league and they did it in one. Anything else is a bonus. You can't argue with the size of their crowds. Have you got some kind of resentment towards them? I see on social media quite regularly that hardcore/original Lincoln fans have a lot of resentment towards the FA Cup bandwagon fans whose expectations quite largely exceed theirs. As has previously been stated a couple of season in League 2 with no fairytale cup run will see their gates return back to the 3,000 mark. |
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