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Post by bluboy79 on May 29, 2017 18:53:50 GMT
Graham Barrow left Wigan today in a big staff clearout, however unlikely it is we should try and get him at our club in maybe a director of football role. This would show ambition and boost ticket sales. I know he has been around higher levels of football for many years now but he is Chester through and through serving us well as player and manager !
If he was young enough to play he would be very suited to the conference, must be one of the strongest and determined players to ever pull on our shirt.
I feel he could be tempted back to us ?
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2017 18:58:12 GMT
Rather see him back as manager. Any other role would be a waste of money.
That said, he'd do a better job in the middle than Luke George, even now
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Post by jb on May 29, 2017 19:11:14 GMT
If this club want to shift season tickets then get Barrow in as manager and place McCarthy on gardening leave.
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Post by whopper1 on May 29, 2017 19:14:09 GMT
If this club want to shift season tickets then get Barrow in as manager and place McCarthy on gardening leave. totally agree with this |
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Post by bairn on May 29, 2017 19:18:26 GMT
Agree that he'd be a better signing as a player than Luke George.
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Post by Johnnybling on May 29, 2017 20:06:30 GMT
Bring him home and I don't mean Alfie Boe
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Post by jb on May 29, 2017 20:23:33 GMT
"Graham Barrow's Blue and White army". Has a nice sound to it.
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Post by sqzl on May 29, 2017 20:47:11 GMT
Oh here we go, the old gardening leave shouts!
Smart business sense paying someone for not going to work.
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Post by rcb on May 29, 2017 21:23:10 GMT
Is that the same smart business sense where we've paid Burr not to work for us these last 12 months, and will no doubt end up the same way with McCarthy due to the savvy business sense shown by Maguire in extending his contract?
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Post by finno on May 29, 2017 21:37:35 GMT
If Barrow became manager I would 100% get a season ticket.
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Post by finno on May 29, 2017 21:39:51 GMT
If it was McCarthy it would be a season ticket in the pipeline
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Post by dmcnally on May 29, 2017 22:52:38 GMT
If Barrow became manager I would 100% get a season ticket. Great, that will recoup all the costs of sacking McCarthy and bringing in someone with no experience of working on such a small budget. |
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Post by finno on May 30, 2017 1:40:45 GMT
If Barrow became manager I would 100% get a season ticket. Great, that will recoup all the costs of sacking McCarthy and bringing in someone with no experience of working on such a small budget. bringing in someone who doesn't know in how to work with a smaller budget like GB 😢😂😂 did you ever see him manager us in the 90's early 00's he had fuck all then |
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Post by jb on May 30, 2017 7:10:16 GMT
If Barrow became manager I would 100% get a season ticket. Great, that will recoup all the costs of sacking McCarthy and bringing in someone with no experience of working on such a small budget. I suggest you do some research about the great man. He was this club promotion from League Two with no budget yet played some expansive and attacking football which got me hooked on football and Chester FC. In his second spell the club finished in the top seven and 3rd round of the cup all with a complete clown as an owner. Following on from the season ticket announcement I just can't get excited knowing we have "At least we are not York" in charge. With him and his dazzling signings such as Joyce and Davies I can't justify paying over 300 to watch a repetition of last season. If the Legend came home I'd be first in the queue! |
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Post by sqzl on May 30, 2017 7:33:20 GMT
Great, that will recoup all the costs of sacking McCarthy and bringing in someone with no experience of working on such a small budget. I suggest you do some research about the great man. He was this club promotion from League Two with no budget yet played some expansive and attacking football which got me hooked on football and Chester FC. In his second spell the club finished in the top seven and 3rd round of the cup all with a complete clown as an owner. Following on from the season ticket announcement I just can't get excited knowing we have "At least we are not York" in charge. With him and his dazzling signings such as Joyce and Davies I can't justify paying over 300 to watch a repetition of last season. If the Legend came home I'd be first in the queue! Problem is, your talking 20 years ago. Times and football have changed a hell of a lot since then. You can't get quality players at a cheap price any more, the price of football has changed dramatically. |
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Post by superman on May 30, 2017 9:03:59 GMT
Graham is one of my all time favourites, however although he had a good early managerial spell at Chester, and took us on a great cup run (oh for one of those) finishing seventh in what was a piss poor conference was disappointing even allowing for Coco. If you look at Grahams stats as a manager other than at Chester they are pretty poor. So is he a hero of mine, yes, would he sell a few extra season tickets, probably, but to sack JMc just because Graham has himself been sacked is both nonsensical from a financial point of view and questions able at best from a managerial record point of view. I fully understand the emotional pull however, Blackburn still a wonderful memory.
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Post by Captain Duff on May 30, 2017 9:17:57 GMT
I wonder what he wants to do next, at 62 and having had a steady employment at Wigan would he be considering retirement? If so then it may not be far-fetched to see him being persuaded to take on a director of football type role (even a p/t one) with us for a season. His coaching abilities and contacts in the game are fantastic and when combined with his status with fans here it would be a no brainer in terms of giving our club a massive boost if the stars really could align here - certainly I hope the board are speaking to him right now.
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Post by Rio Doherty on May 30, 2017 9:30:50 GMT
I wasn't even alive when Graham Barrow was here, but I do know how special he is to our club. However, we can't sack Jon McCarthy for him, but couldn't we give him a role of joint-assistant manager or sporting director? It would be good to see him return which could boost season tickets!
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Post by Firestick Frank on May 30, 2017 11:46:36 GMT
If Barrow became manager I would 100% get a season ticket. Great, that will recoup all the costs of sacking McCarthy and bringing in someone with no experience of working on such a small budget. Your blind ultra-positivity makes you look silly at times. Barrow has pretty much ONLY ever worked on such a small budget as a manager. |
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Post by dmcnally on May 30, 2017 11:54:38 GMT
Great, that will recoup all the costs of sacking McCarthy and bringing in someone with no experience of working on such a small budget. Your blind ultra-positivity makes you look silly at times. Barrow has pretty much ONLY ever worked on such a small budget as a manager. £300k? |
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Post by jb on May 30, 2017 12:32:29 GMT
I wasn't even alive when Graham Barrow was here, but I do know how special he is to our club. However, we can't sack Jon McCarthy for him, but couldn't we give him a role of joint-assistant manager or sporting director? It would be good to see him return which could boost season tickets! If you could get rid of McCarthy would you? If you would not get rid, why wouldn't you? I'm just interested to hear people's reasons for wanting him to stay |
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Post by EddieBishopsquiff on May 30, 2017 12:43:58 GMT
Unfortunately there's no way the legend will return,
but if he did then I firmly believe we could add another 2/300 on the season ticket sales and a boost to morale which the place desperately needs.
It may have been 25 years ago but the 93/94 season was by far the most entertaining team of my generation, admittedly times change, but one things for sure with GB in charge there would be no bull c**p interviews with the same excuses week after week, and no lack of fight in the players on the pitch.
Says alot that I can remember virtually every game in that season, whereas I couldn't even tell you how many wins we had the season just gone (although that could be because I'm becoming an old timer now)
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Post by amnesia on May 30, 2017 12:53:49 GMT
Quite interestingly, spoke to Graham Barrow at Manchester airport whilst boarding a plane a couple of weeks. He did mention that he had a meeting with the Chairman on his return and that he wasn't sure how it would go. He was very interested in the circumstances of Chester and was asking quite pointed questions about whether we were sticking with the Manager. He did say, probably tongue in cheek, that he may be ringing Chester to offer his services if things didn't go well with his Chairman!
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Post by Rio Doherty on May 30, 2017 14:02:38 GMT
I wasn't even alive when Graham Barrow was here, but I do know how special he is to our club. However, we can't sack Jon McCarthy for him, but couldn't we give him a role of joint-assistant manager or sporting director? It would be good to see him return which could boost season tickets! If you could get rid of McCarthy would you? If you would not get rid, why wouldn't you? I'm just interested to hear people's reasons for wanting him to stay I do respect your question, and I wouldn't get rid for now. Maybe if the team are in a bad position towards December I would think about it, but for the time being he is trying to build a stronger squad and we can't afford to pay him off. Putting that aside, I would like Graham Barrow to come back, maybe as a director of football or he could help Tom Shaw out possibly. |
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Post by sqzl on May 30, 2017 14:08:45 GMT
If you could get rid of McCarthy would you? If you would not get rid, why wouldn't you? I'm just interested to hear people's reasons for wanting him to stay I do respect your question, and I wouldn't get rid for now. Maybe if the team are in a bad position towards December I would think about it, but for the time being he is trying to build a stronger squad and we can't afford to pay him off. Putting that aside, I would like Graham Barrow to come back, maybe as a director of football or he could help Tom Shaw out possibly. Simplest reason for wanting JM to stay, finances. We struggle enough in this league to attract players, let's not forget we've already thrown money away paying off one manager. You want the club to learn from it's mistakes not make them all over again. Personally if Barrow came back as any form of paid staff, i'd find it a disgrace. I think what he did for the club in his time, was brilliant. Now we're 20 years on and struggle to sign players to keep us in this division, paying another member of staff wouldn't help us there. |
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Post by bluesince72 on May 30, 2017 15:50:45 GMT
Club have given Macca a contract and so must let him start the season in charge, however, if we are bottom four come October, and Barrow is not back in football we would be mad not to get rid and invite the legend back. Sod the cost, relegation would cost a whole lot more!
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Post by soulseal on May 30, 2017 16:05:36 GMT
Graham Barrow a real hall of fame legend. If we had a vacancy for a manager however I would not automatically assume he would be the right man for the job.
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Post by Manchester Blue on Jun 6, 2017 12:19:55 GMT
On paper JM's signed up a strong squad so far so credit where its due in that department. on the flip side if it goes wrong then he has no where to hide these season.
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Post by everhopeful on Jun 6, 2017 15:35:21 GMT
On paper JM's signed up a strong squad so far so credit where its due in that department. on the flip side if it goes wrong then he has no where to hide these season. Errr - what's the connection with Graham Barrow? |
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Post by oldnotdecrepit on Jun 7, 2017 9:52:36 GMT
I'd even buy a season ticket for the Mrs as well if Graham was manager.
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