Pre-season doesn't start until November 18th, and the club said today that it anticipates having the new coach named by then.

That's three weeks today!

Seems like a reasonable plan to me

If they appoint quick they’ve rushed it, if they take their time it’s too long, can’t win!

Brian Noble!!!!??

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I'd personally be happy with that. Think it would split opinion though.

I would be happy for Nobby to take the reins again, did nothing wrong in his first stint as coach.
Knows the club inside out, loves the club, knows the players, makes a lot of sense in many ways, needs an up and coming assistant to take up the reins in the future.

Taking the emotion of him being a club legend out of the equation, it would be a smart appointment. We don't need to rebuild, we just need to carry on improving. Appointing the guy who's been involved in the coaching/training of the last two years gives us that continuity.

Did a great job with Greenwood in 2023.

Well as I alluded to a week or two ago, Noble is clearly a dominant figure at the club which might limit the options for employing an experienced head coach. So perhaps it might make sense for him to actually be the head coach - however it is a big commitment for a Nobby who I assume wasn't putting in the hours that EOC did. He would be a popular choice amongst the majority of the fan base though and is clearly committed to not jumping ship halfway through the job.

Wonder if they will still bring somebody else in to assist? Or are we well stocked with Greenwood and Morrison already at the club?

Morrison been replaced by Jonathan Schofield as head pathways coach

Must have missed that, assume he has left the club then?

The academy struggled a bit last year and we didn't bring anyone new through (not really counting Bateman's single appearance).

Taking a step back it makes sense to give the job to Noble at the moment. Of the coaches that we know are available only Lingard looks to me like he'd do a good job. There's no way I'd want to recruit Grix.

Wonder if McNamara fancies getting the band back together as well?

Hey McBanana!

As far as I know, Glen was finding it difficult to fit his role with the Bulls in alongside his post at Bradford Grammar School.