Mark Maguire - Straight talking interview

Basically backing McCarthy to come good.

Everyone's happy, everyone's positive.

"We're not afraid to make a strong decision as a board"

If that's the case why's he still in charge? 3 points from 42 at home says all you need to know.

"Everyone was pleased with the battling performance against Fylde"

First half I was quite happy, it was an entertaining half until we came out second half and reverted to lumping the ball forward and sitting deep.

"Second half against Sutton was fantastic until that sucker punch in the last minute"

30min of the second half was good until we sat back and tried to see out the draw by hoofing it long and sitting deep.

And then the usual guff about "we're on the verge of something special here" etc etc etc.

Very much a "corporate" type of interview saying a lot without saying a lot.

Big thing for me is MM's real difficulty in acknowledging that it's not just the results it's the MANNER of the results especially at home where quality performances are crucial to our very being.

My fear that not much will happen in the coming days and weeks is growing.
I think we'll come to regret our indecision

Basically, we are going to have to sit tight and see what happens over 'the next few weeks' and then it will be taken from there. I'm assuming there must be 'objectives' linked to potential points scores at intervals during the season. Very much the impression I get is that last season doesn't really matter and there will be no knee jerk reactions off the back of a handful of bad results this season. If the players are happy, the back room staff are happy and the manager wins so much confidence, why have results been so diabolical for so long, under two different squads? That has to be the question being asked. If everything is so rosy in the garden, why hasn't it 'clicked' for so long and why was it 'clicking' last Autumn? At the end of the day there be 1500 there for the Ebbsfleet and Maidenhead games, unless there is a major turnaround, and crowds aren't going to recover to a level that keeps us financially viable until this manager turns around the perception of 90% of the fanbase. It's going to take a hell of a run to do that!

The interview scirts around something called "measured objectives" without ever disclosing what they are. Another 13 minutes im not going to get back to add to the 90 from Monday.

At the back end of last season it was obvious to me that Jon McCarthy was not the man to manager the first team, Chris I. should have been shown the door, and an experienced first team manager/coach appointed. Would have been more than happy for Jon to have been moved sideways to a role more suited to his talents. I expressed my thoughts directly to the club. What happened, JM still manager, CI still around, and a player/coach with zero experience appointed. We seem to have millstone around our neck. Would like to see action taken now, however suspect that JM has been given a certain number of games to demonstrate that he can turn things round. You would realistically expect that poor results and performances in the next 2 games will seal his fate, but will it?

Come on Mark, this has to end, surely?

I hate to say it, but I'm almost dreading the fact that we might actually scrape 4-6 points from these two upcoming away games against weakish sides, thus delaying the inevitable even further. Long term, it might actually be for the best if we lose them.

I'd never hope for us to lose - my hope is that we pick up points at Torquay and Solihull, then Macca suddenly turns round the home form and we all look back and laugh at how we were all calling for his head. My fear is that he'll just be buying himself more time before the inevitable, and it's back to the usual home dross against Ebbsfleet.

Long and short of it, MM knows F.All about why the squad can't win at home. But makes apologies for everyone...

Pointless interview.

Get rid of both

I'd be interested in standing near some fellow DC'ers at Solihull just to see if we are all on the same page! I THINK WE ARE

The players are happy, the backroom staff are happy, the manager is happy - Well Mr MaGuire we poor sods who put money in and own the club are not happy. When we get relegated at the end of the season, will you still be happy when you are down at the Job centre.

Much as I expected from MM. To be fair to him you cannot expect him to say 'JM is a terrible manager and we are as disappointed as 90% of the fans and should never have offered him a contract extension'
However it would appear that the board/MM have been shocked (as I was tbh) at how vocal many in the crowd were on Monday, all making the point of clearly blaming McCarthy and then clapping the players (incidentally Turnbull was fuming at being taken off when there were others eg Mahon who were having terrible games - I doubt if the board/MM spoke to him he'd say everything was positive!!)

I would guess that the board have spoken to McCarthy (possibly before the Aldershot game) and made it clear that performances (particularly at home) must improve and giving him a measurable target (minimum number of points) and at least a home win by mid September. That way the compensation they would have to pay would be minimal.

I personally would sack him now and get somebody else in immediately (& get Shaw back playing!! Jees the guy is only 30-younger than Hannah & McCombe!!!) but none of us know how much that would cost, so the decision may have already made and we are just trying to save our club quite a lot of money!!!

Not even seen it yet and am not sure I want to. It will be full of crap and buzzwords trying to brainwash us all in to believing the manager is the next Fergie.

I am sick of all this interviews from him, the manager and even players talking a good game but showing no action. I feel for the players, probably scared to speak out in case they get Johnny shunt or Durrell treatment for caring. No way are them players happy playing this way.

i reckon next 2 games lose both he's gone draw both then severe under pressure win and draw keeps him going for another week or 2 win win gives him extra time

As a fan owned club, why does it feel like the situation is being taken out of our hands? We've made our point clear. If the board were not listen to us, our hands are tied. Won't be long before the fans could turn on the board. We don't want that to happen but how else can we actually get our point across without going to CFU meetings?
Maguire doesn't fill me with confidence to be brutally honest. Yes, he's done ok commercially but I have my lingering doubts when it comes to the playing side of things. Back McCarthy all you like, it'll end in relegation & then we really are in the brown stuff.