Duff linked to Swansea

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  1. Marc

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    I think plenty of people would agree with you.
     
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    It's called discussion isn't it?
     
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    Soon as Windarses header hit the back of the net at Wembley the timer to Duff leaving started to countdown. As soon as you put clauses in the contract you're making your Players/Managers available and you've given up control of the situation. Unless we get promoted within the first season of a successful manager's tenure we will lose them and even promotion only makes it slightly less likely. We all know the way the script goes a club wants our manager they find out theres a clause and a few days later the managers are gone and the board can do **** all to stop it happening even if they wanted to, but to be honest I think to the board the manager like the players are simply seen as assets which is why they allow the clauses to be iin the contracts in the first place.
    Same **** different summer. Ahh well the positive feeling was nice while it lasted but the periods of positivity seem to be getting shorter and shorter.
     
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    I think that's the key, we NEED to become established in the championship in order to stop this merry-go-round. Unless of course we then start finding premier league standard coaches
     
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    I’d look at lad at Notts County if we could get him
     
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    Swansea are established they've just had their coach poached by Southampton. It happens it is what it is.
     
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    If Duff goes after all he's said, he's not the man I thought he was.
     
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    What if he came back and said talking to them made what a great gig he had here?
     
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    Yep, it's just how it goes
     
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    I certainly wouldn't think any less of him, Swansea are at a different level to us at this moment in time, if it works for him and his family then it is what it is.
     
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    Nope. Not for me. Damage is done if that happens. We'd spend the whole of the season stressing about whether or not someone might come in. No one is bigger than the Club. On a personal level, it would be disappointing but not at all surprising. I expected it. When Hecky jumped ship, I vowed it would be the last time I emotionally invested in a manager. If he goes, he goes, and the next manager gets a season from me.
     
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    Well said this poster
     
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    I should point out that Swansea is still a two-hour drive from Cheltenham in quiet conditions. Much longer during rush hours. Plus if he wants to stick within an hour of Cheltenham he's going to have a pretty limited career. He will still go because all Barnsley coaches go after one season. But I don't think it will be down to distance.
     
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    Anyone know who is currently playing the high press in the Austrian League? It’ll be them.
     
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    Nah. They won't go that route again again time soon. Will be another lower league manager. Someone like Dave Challinor.
     
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    Had take the Lincoln manager Mark Kennedy, been impressed by them all season and also a former player who played at the highest level and should be respected by all the players.
     
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    No thanks. Draw specialist who plays a negative style.
     
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    But the end to that story was relegation.
     
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    If duff goes to get someone to show loyalty when a bigger club comes in we would have to promote from within maybe Martin devaney. Rumored 2million release clause for Duff if he goes.
     
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    Duff has spoken before about the difficult decision he made to join us, only his third professional club. Clearly something about the project and ambition at Barnsley helped him to see his future here, and I don't think anyone could say that he's taken us as far as he can. Reading his programme notes from Wembley, he didn't sound anything less than 100% committed, quite honestly based on the below, if he were to decide that after 12 months it was time to move on then my estimation of him as a person would go down. He doesn't strike me as a bullshitter, was it all just empty platitudes, or does he really feel the connection to this club?

     

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