Town go full time!!!

Big Lundy wrote:Stalybridge brought in young players last season who trained full time!
They struggled to start with so a bit of experience was added through the season which helped them improve!
They have obviously benefited from it this season!
If you can bring in the right quality of players & train with them full time it will definitely benefit you at this level!
It might take a couple of season to be challenging for the title!
A very big step up for the club this!!!!

stalyvegas wrote:
You also need a good Manager we have that in Jim Harvey what you have is a clueless bellend waving a cheque book around.having a full time squad will be difficult to sustain on crowds of 350 our fans are only just responding and
gates are going up.No disrespect to your Ground but it is not an attractive place where people would want to go and
watch Football. Most of our players are young Jim Harvey is good at improving these players and turning them into a team could Weaver do the same? If he can't buy his way out of Conference north and he has tried what chance at coaching a team out of BSN like I said earlier he is clueless.

paulstreet wrote:Despite the sour grapes from our Stalybridge visitor, this is exciting news for Town fans. Things did rather stagnate under Bill Fotherby, and our new owner is clearly moving things on on various fronts. Most Town fans would acknowledge that the owner/manager relationship is not ideal, but lets give Simon the chance to coach full time and see. A few questions: where will we train? wetherby Road pitch presumably couldn't take 5 days a week on it. Will John McDermott go full time as well? Will we appoint a full time coach?
I don't think we will be expecting instant success, but its a positive step forward, and I, for one, think its great

Dan_Gleebitz wrote:

stalyvegas wrote:
You also need a good Manager we have that in Jim Harvey what you have is a clueless bellend waving a cheque book around.having a full time squad will be difficult to sustain on crowds of 350 our fans are only just responding and
gates are going up.No disrespect to your Ground but it is not an attractive place where people would want to go and
watch Football. Most of our players are young Jim Harvey is good at improving these players and turning them into a team could Weaver do the same? If he can't buy his way out of Conference north and he has tried what chance at coaching a team out of BSN like I said earlier he is clueless.

Ignoring the manager situation, there are ground improvements planned for next season which should make Wetherby Road a better place to be. At last someone has taken a realistic view of what we have and what we can achieve in the short/medium term and is working with it.

The improvements though largely need the approval of the Council as planning is involved. So the ball will be very firmly in their court. I wonder if any plans have actually been submitted yet?

I suspect that if we do go full time,there will be a fair few of the squad who won't want to stay so I expect next seasons team to be somewhat different from this one - mind you, this seasons is different from the last one anyway so we're used to that

Shame it's been reported first on the Advertiser site and not aon the Club one.

stalyvegas wrote:

paulstreet wrote:Despite the sour grapes from our Stalybridge visitor, this is exciting news for Town fans. Things did rather stagnate under Bill Fotherby, and our new owner is clearly moving things on on various fronts. Most Town fans would acknowledge that the owner/manager relationship is not ideal, but lets give Simon the chance to coach full time and see. A few questions: where will we train? wetherby Road pitch presumably couldn't take 5 days a week on it. Will John McDermott go full time as well? Will we appoint a full time coach?
I don't think we will be expecting instant success, but its a positive step forward, and I, for one, think its great

What sour Grapes we are full time just making some points and your right about instant success we're in our second season of full time football and the benefits on going full time are just starting to show we're in December and we've only lost one league game this season. when we went full time most of our players left the club not wanting full time football only three players remain from our part time days Connor Jennings Greg Wilkinson and Craig Hobson. So you might have to sign a new team of young hungry players instead of more established players most established players have day jobs and full time football doesn't Guarantee success.

stalyvegas wrote:

Dan_Gleebitz wrote:

stalyvegas wrote:
You also need a good Manager we have that in Jim Harvey what you have is a clueless bellend waving a cheque book around.having a full time squad will be difficult to sustain on crowds of 350 our fans are only just responding and
gates are going up.No disrespect to your Ground but it is not an attractive place where people would want to go and
watch Football. Most of our players are young Jim Harvey is good at improving these players and turning them into a team could Weaver do the same? If he can't buy his way out of Conference north and he has tried what chance at coaching a team out of BSN like I said earlier he is clueless.

Ignoring the manager situation, there are ground improvements planned for next season which should make Wetherby Road a better place to be. At last someone has taken a realistic view of what we have and what we can achieve in the short/medium term and is working with it.

The improvements though largely need the approval of the Council as planning is involved. So the ball will be very firmly in their court. I wonder if any plans have actually been submitted yet?

I suspect that if we do go full time,there will be a fair few of the squad who won't want to stay so I expect next seasons team to be somewhat different from this one - mind you, this seasons is different from the last one anyway so we're used to that

Shame it's been reported first on the Advertiser site and not aon the Club one.

Where at your Ground can you make improvements I didn't think there was alot of room one side of the ground you have Wetherby Road behind one Goal you have the Health Centre and Health centre Car Park opposite Wetherby Road Terrace you have I think the best part of the ground a nice looking stand and behind the other goal where the social club is you have a small Terraced area. A couple of years ago you were looking to purchase some land I thought that was because your ground was unsuitable to redevelop.

stalyvegas wrote:

Dan_Gleebitz wrote:

stalyvegas wrote:
You also need a good Manager we have that in Jim Harvey what you have is a clueless bellend waving a cheque book around.having a full time squad will be difficult to sustain on crowds of 350 our fans are only just responding and
gates are going up.No disrespect to your Ground but it is not an attractive place where people would want to go and
watch Football. Most of our players are young Jim Harvey is good at improving these players and turning them into a team could Weaver do the same? If he can't buy his way out of Conference north and he has tried what chance at coaching a team out of BSN like I said earlier he is clueless.

Ignoring the manager situation, there are ground improvements planned for next season which should make Wetherby Road a better place to be. At last someone has taken a realistic view of what we have and what we can achieve in the short/medium term and is working with it.

The improvements though largely need the approval of the Council as planning is involved. So the ball will be very firmly in their court. I wonder if any plans have actually been submitted yet?

I suspect that if we do go full time,there will be a fair few of the squad who won't want to stay so I expect next seasons team to be somewhat different from this one - mind you, this seasons is different from the last one anyway so we're used to that

Shame it's been reported first on the Advertiser site and not aon the Club one.

Where at your Ground can you make improvements I didn't think there was alot of room one side of the ground you have Weatherby Road behind one Goal you have the Health Centre and Health centre Car Park opposite Weatherby Road Terrace you have I think the best part of the ground a nice looking stand and behind the other goal where the social club is you have a small Terraced area. A couple of years ago you were looking to purchase some land I thought that was because your ground was unsuitable to redevelop.