Worrying thing, looking at the latest odds, is that Appleton has shortened with most of the bookies listed. Danny Wilson has also lengthened with most of them, although he is still odds on with most of them and evens at worst. My thinking now is that Wilson is still the favourite outsider, and If I was to guess whether the club were talking to an outsider, and if so who, then I would guess Wilson. But it is probably true that it is Mellon's to lose. Hence the reason that there will be no further comment from the club until Wednesday. If they don't even talk to Wilson then I would have to assume that Cryne is one of the "Never go Back" crowd, and I don't then think it would ever happen that Wilson would come back - not while Cryne was owner at any rate.
Not good. I agree we don't live in the past. We live in the here and now, and that means picking a manager that is the best suited to the role of those that are credible candidates, and picking a manager that has a great record. In other words, Danny Wilson.
I cannot believe for one minute, that Mellon will get the job. The next communication by BFC will be Wednesday 4th Dec, but assuming we win on the 3rd, this does not make Mellon a Messiah. Of course we needed somebody to take charge of the team for Tues game and I'm sure Mellon will be professional about the job, but for me, he ain't the future.
For me neither. I can see that he's got a decent win record and all that jazz, but it was non league - we all rail against picking up another League 2 gamble because we've been there and got the t-shirt (well a drawer full of them), and yet we may be serious about giving it to Mellon, who has a decent record at conference level, just because he happens to be already in the building? If Mellon wasn't already on the staff, and someone suggested "Here's a name to consider - this Micky Mellon chap - got a great record in the conference", would the replies all be along the lines of "so fecking what....no thanks"? - I think so. Nowt against the chap but I'm going to be seriously underwhelmed and pretty disillusioned if they give it to Mellon. He'll get my full backing if he got it of course, for as long as I carry on being arsed to go.
You have to keep it in context though. He got them into league 2 but they were the money bags of non league. They turned down a bid of a million quid for Jamie vardy if am not mistaken in the January of their promotion from the conference and they got shut as soon as they stopped winning every week when they got in the league. It's one thing winning games with money available in the conference and the other end of the scale trying to win games in the Championship without a pot to piss in!!
