Toby Loveland & James Oliver-Pearce

[Swinton Blade]

Both worked with Ruben at Reading and Hull so easy to assume they would be joining him here.

 

[Bladesthorpe]

Both worked with Ruben at Reading and Hull so easy to assume they would be joining him here.

Can't wait.

 

[McDonagh Blade]

Both worked with Ruben at Reading and Hull so easy to assume they would be joining him here.

Good shout, will Jack Lester be involved as nothing mentioned about him leaving ?

 

[DifferentClass]

Jamie Oliver you say?

There goes the turkey twizzlers in canteen...

 

[DeanLearner'sCat]

They sound posh. Selles out.

 

[Foxy]

Both worked with Ruben at Reading and Hull so easy to assume they would be joining him here.

They will.

 

[Houston_Blade]

 

[blade_ben]

Said in his interview they’ll be joining and also wanting an experienced coach too

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Sound like an Olympic rowing pair.

 

[mattbianco1]

Both worked with Ruben at Reading and Hull so easy to assume they would be joining him here.

He says they are just before 10mins in the interview

 

[bertieblade]

Impressive interview.
Lots of drive, very matter of fact and confident of his ability to provide what our owners and subsequently the fans want

 

[Norwood's 6 iron]

Can anyone explain why managers seem to stick with the same backroom staff.
I could understand it if they had been successful, but most managers move around because they have failed.
Wilder seems to take Knill with him wherever he goes, Hecky and McCall are a pair, and now Selles is bringing his same team in for the third time.
Is it because they lack the confidence to try something new or are they so blinkered that they don't see that there is an alternative.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Can anyone explain why managers seem to stick with the same backroom staff.
I could understand it if they had been successful, but most managers move around because they have failed.
Wilder seems to take Knill with him wherever he goes, Hecky and McCall are a pair, and now Selles is bringing his same team in for the third time.
Is it because they lack the confidence to try something new or are they so blinkered that they don't see that there is an alternative.

They tend to have a core but either use staff already at the club or get other voices in. Wilder kept jack Lester brought in Keith Andrews while it seems a experienced coach is being brought into the new set up.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Toby, or not Toby, that is the question.

 

[robbiez666]

Can anyone explain why managers seem to stick with the same backroom staff.
I could understand it if they had been successful, but most managers move around because they have failed.
Wilder seems to take Knill with him wherever he goes, Hecky and McCall are a pair, and now Selles is bringing his same team in for the third time.
Is it because they lack the confidence to try something new or are they so blinkered that they don't see that there is an alternative.

Like any job it's trust. Football or managing in any sector. You bring in people who know what you're about and who you can rely on to do what you want. I think that stability becomes even more important when you're in a foreign country.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Surely as a modern club there will be more than one coach ie Defence Attack etc?

 

[wak1889]

They sound posh. Selles out.

His name is actually Tobias Loveland, I wish he'd been in my class at school

 

[Nick Jansky]

Good shout, will Jack Lester be involved as nothing mentioned about him leaving ?

Doesn’t he still have a role in the academy? That’s where his strength is, anyway.

 

[Foxy]

Surely as a modern club there will be more than one coach ie Defence Attack etc?

If Casper sees a player trying hard, he notes his name and writes it down.

 

[Norwood's 6 iron]

Like any job it's trust. Football or managing in any sector. You bring in people who know what you're about and who you can rely on to do what you want. I think that stability becomes even more important when you're in a foreign country.

I get that, but when you keep failing at something then surely you start to look at both yourself and those around you.
I'm not having a go at our new management team by the way, it's more in general.

 

[robbiez666]

I get that, but when you keep failing at something then surely you start to look at both yourself and those around you.
I'm not having a go at our new management team by the way, it's more in general.

Where has he failed?

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Can anyone explain why managers seem to stick with the same backroom staff.
I could understand it if they had been successful, but most managers move around because they have failed.
Wilder seems to take Knill with him wherever he goes, Hecky and McCall are a pair, and now Selles is bringing his same team in for the third time.
Is it because they lack the confidence to try something new or are they so blinkered that they don't see that there is an alternative.

Like any management position the key is to get cohesion and instilling your ways of working and beliefs running through the team. Unlike most management positions you have no time in football to build this, so you bring in people you know and trust who already share your beliefs and values. Identifying what you have from an existing team, deciding who has ability or potential to succeed and then removing or developing them takes ages. Football managers don’t have that luxury, and in fact a lot of senior roles in the standard workplace don’t either, which is why you’ll see plenty of execs following other senior C suite around from roles to roles too.

 

[Norwood's 6 iron]

Where has he failed?

My comments aren't aimed directly at Selles, but at managers in general.
So take Wilder for example. He's kept Alan Knill as his assistant for as long as I can remember. His time at Middlesbrough, Watford and then us haven't delivered the results that he wanted. The game keeps changing and different styles of football become the norm. I don't think that the Wilder/Knill partnership is now working as well as it did.
So I just asked the question as to why managers don't look at bringing different assistants in with new ideas and skill sets.

 

[robbiez666]

My comments aren't aimed directly at Selles, but at managers in general.
So take Wilder for example. He's kept Alan Knill as his assistant for as long as I can remember. His time at Middlesbrough, Watford and then us haven't delivered the results that he wanted. The game keeps changing and different styles of football become the norm. I don't think that the Wilder/Knill partnership is now working as well as it did.
So I just asked the question as to why managers don't look at bringing different assistants in with new ideas and skill sets.

I suspect Wilder relies on Knill much more than most people would think.

 

[blade_ben]

My comments aren't aimed directly at Selles, but at managers in general.
So take Wilder for example. He's kept Alan Knill as his assistant for as long as I can remember. His time at Middlesbrough, Watford and then us haven't delivered the results that he wanted. The game keeps changing and different styles of football become the norm. I don't think that the Wilder/Knill partnership is now working as well as it did.
So I just asked the question as to why managers don't look at bringing different assistants in with new ideas and skill sets.

Could argue the 2 coming in are young and he’s stated in his interview he’s gonna bring in someone with more experience so that’s changing his set up no?

 

[Norwood's 6 iron]

I suspect Wilder relies on Knill much more than most people would think.

I'm sure you're right, perhaps Knill should look at replacing Wilder.

 

[Norwood's 6 iron]

Could argue the 2 coming in are young and he’s stated in his interview he’s gonna bring in someone with more experience so that’s changing his set up no?

I hadn't seen the bit about him bringing someone else in.
As I said earlier I'm not having a go at Selles, in fact I'm happy with his appointment and whilst our owners have made a real horlicks of the way Wilder has departed, the fact that they have appointed a new manager so quickly has to be applauded.

 

[S40BLADE]

I suspect Wilder relies on Knill much more than most people would think.

Knill was single handedly responsible for the overlapping CB system and was our ingenious setpiece coach 2016-19 Serious footy noggin on his shoulders saw so little of his influence this time around though.

 

[McDonagh Blade]

My comments aren't aimed directly at Selles, but at managers in general.
So take Wilder for example. He's kept Alan Knill as his assistant for as long as I can remember. His time at Middlesbrough, Watford and then us haven't delivered the results that he wanted. The game keeps changing and different styles of football become the norm. I don't think that the Wilder/Knill partnership is now working as well as it did.
So I just asked the question as to why managers don't look at bringing different assistants in with new ideas and skill sets.

I think Wilder x 2 did with Keith Andrews, who he seemed to then ignore during matches including huddles with Knill, Pestridge and Lester after we scored. Andrews was possibly looking at data but it wasn't a good look. The same Keith Andrews who's now favourite for the Brentford chief coach position in the Premiership

 

[Champagneblade]

I'm sure you're right, perhaps Knill should look at replacing Wilder.

The Wilder/Knill dynamic feels very similar to the Brian Clough and Peter Taylor one.