Would you be happy if Duff was re-apppinted?

Yes but not even worth discussing. Not a snowball’s chance in hell of it happening.

 

I'd do a little jig and a sex wee. All the more so if it upset the 'Micky Long Haul' divs on here.

 

I`d be happy but, if it were up to me he wouldn`t be even thought of and wouldn`t trust anything he said

 

Aye!!, he's not daft mind, thats why I reckon he'll give this shitshow a wide berth this time...........sithi.

 

No. I think he's gone downhill.as a manager with what went off at Swansea, was very dismissive of fans there and seemed to turn leads into draws/losses plus I wasn't convinced about his tactics at Wembley. All in all he failed to get us promoted.

 

Duff? No, no trust in him after what happened.

Someone following the tactical plan he had for most of last season, yes!

 

I would have thought it’s highly unrealistic that he’d want to come back tbh. As much I liked him while he was here, he’d be off as soon as the next best offer came along. Wouldn’t trust a word he said after the #Long haul debacle. In order to get some stability we need a HC who actually stays longer than 1 season, that’s something we seem to struggle with. The whole strategy from top to bottom is a mess IMO.

 

I guess there are some synergies with Nathan Jones when he returned to Luton after failing at Stoke. He reinstated his philosophy on Luton and they went on to make progress.

From that point of view, I wouldn’t be against Duff returning. He could have a free hit at the play offs and then rebuild in the summer for likely another crack at league one.

Whether he would want to return is entirely another matter though .

 

Just out of interest, what did you not agree with at Wembley, Helen? If you ignore the fact that the game was obviously rigged, we were deservedly winning when Phillips was sent off had we been correctly awarded the blatant penalty, and then even after the sending off we matched them for the remainder of the 120 odd minutes. The only thing i can see that its possible to be critical of is the fact he brought Russell into the game which ultimately cost us, but he had to bring in some sort of fresh legs and there weren't really any other options.

 

He ought to have had us promoted lst year with the squad he had. Plus the division was poor in terms of quality, apart from Ipswich. No thanks. Poor manager and a BS'er

 

Spot on. There were lots of reasons why we lost at Wembley, but I don't believe that Duff was one of them.

 

For me, the positives are that he knows the club, and the league and is shown to be capable of getting the us playing positively and with success. He is out of a job, so no compensation to pay and he needs a new role this summer or he will start being in danger of being forgotten. He is someone who we can get behind knowing that, with a bit of time, he is likely to do a job, rather than being handed yet another never heard of before unknown that smacks of a punt in the dark.

Negatives, yes he lives in the South West, and yes, that means if the Bristol City job came up we can expect him to want to apply for it. But that doesn't mean he will get it and to be honest, if it came up right now, I wouldn't expect him to be in the running because his last outing was a failure at Swansea and that won't go down well with the BCFC fans. He needs another success on his CV.

All academic though if the rumours are true because the club have already seemingly gone in a different direction.

 

I voted Yes, but only if he's in for the long haul....

 

So would literally any head coach we could appoint though

 

So would anybody else.

Literally anyone.

I was royally pissed off when he went after what he’d said - but it was only what he’d said in advance that was the issue.

Nobody hated Val for going. We just knew it would happen. With Duff it was the long haul comments when he joined that hurt when he went. But take the emotion of that out - if he’d not said that shi.te in the first place and had left, we’d be clamouring to get him back now as well.

Any manager/head coach that is a success here, just as any player, will go up the food chain quite quickly.

Hammill came back as a player successfully. Wilson mk2 wasn’t a huge success of course but it wasn’t as terrible as some make out - he laid the foundations and also signed some of the players that went on to be a fantastic league one side.

I don’t buy into the ‘never go back’ theory.

This time around we wouldn’t be fooled into thinking we were getting unparalleled loyalty. But we know the strengths of MD as a coach and he fits the bill of what we need.

Why not? Nobody else would be any more loyal and I’d rate his chances of success as higher than any other candidate mentioned.

 

He would’ve had to get over 100 points to take us up in the league season & we were robbed blind at Wembley so you’re basically saying that it was a failure not to get to 100 points.

 

If he was willing to move up to this neck of the woods, he'd have got the Huddersfield Town job - that was one of the conditions their owner laid out when MLH was linked

 

Has anybody thought Duff might not want to come back.

 

Yes from me, i'm sure it wont be cos he's in the mix an it'll be someone off the radar.

 

it’s a tough one. I don’t buy the whole “he betrayed us” stuff as we would have been looking to “sell him” just like Val or Struber but I think on balance despite acknowledging what you’d say I’d have him back.