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Reginald74 · 09/4/2022 10:29 PM

Wellard wrote:
Reginald74 wrote:
Mutual consent, we all know what it really means.
And what is that?
I think you are wrong in thinking he was sacked.
About as accurate as your score and gate predictions 🤣

Well he has either been sacked or resigned, on reflection looks as though he has resigned. I expect us to win a Dorking with a crowd of 605

Reginald74 · 09/4/2022 10:34 PM

Anonymous wrote:
Mike has resigned ….The budget was not forthcoming this or next season , only a few players away from having a top seven finish this season and Mike had higher aspirations for next season but vision was not reciprocated. Just different ambition …⚽️

From Mikes wife on Facebook

Not on a contract by the way.

Richard · 09/4/2022 10:34 PM

Sad to see Mike go but we all now have to get behind Neil. Managers come and go as supporters we only have one team and it doesn’t matter whose in charge. Let’s get behind the team and a big crowd bank holiday Monday.
All the best Mike and Thank you

Dauntsey Boys · 09/4/2022 11:21 PM

It's difficult to fathom what exactly is going on here. The timing is bizarre from both the club's and Mike's perspective.

Dauntsey Boys · 09/4/2022 11:45 PM

I've just watched Simon's post-match interview with Mike and can't detect the slightest hint of what was later to follow. Mike mentioned training on Tuesday evening and Good Friday's game at Dorking. It doesn't sound as if he had any plans to resign. I can only assume he was spoken to afterwards by the Chairman, and that conversation resulted in the 'mutual consent' conclusion.

Eden · 10/4/2022 12:30 AM

Bit concerned about what it means for next season. Clearly a smaller budget and a potential exodus of players brought in under Cook.

Insideleft · 10/4/2022 8:16 AM

Wouldn’t worry too much about a smaller budget - most clubs will be in the same boat. The gravy train for non-league footballers is chugging to a halt, and maybe not before time.

swayne close · 10/4/2022 10:10 AM

He did a reasonable job, although in a lot of supporters eyes he didn’t make much effort to communicate with the fans. We were very poor in the cups, the loan signings saved our season. Seemed we had more backroom staff than permanent players, surely they were included in his budget?
We have to be realistic, 707 there yesterday, 300 from Maidstone. If the board can’t afford a bigger budget I’d rather they say no and not jeopardise the future of the club.

Jono · 10/4/2022 10:27 AM

Mangers and players will come and go. But what’s important now is the stay away fans who witnessed really poor home performance earlier in the season. Come back and give there support to our fabulous chairman Neil Blackmore and the board. Mikes reign is over. But our great club must live on. There are some fabulous players out there on far smaller wages than a lot of our so called better players most of which have now left the club. We just need the manager with the contacts to bring them here next season. And the Chippenham people more than ever to get behind the team. It’s a huge town now. New people moving here every week. Lots of huge new estates. But the message hasn’t got through to them there’s a National league South football team in the town. Come down and have a look. I’d like to see Gary Horgan take the reigns till the end of the season. He always seemed a little bit of an outsider in Mike’s team of People. If he’s half as good at running the team as he was a player he’ll do well. Come on Chippenham. Our great club goes on. 😁

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hobgoblin · 10/4/2022 10:50 AM

To me this was not unexpected, just the timing a bit strange as I thought it would happen during the closed season. Cook must have been an expensive package with all his hangers on, I have said this previously on this forum. After reading a post on Facebook by the Dover Chairman I did a few sums prior to yesterday's match and worked out that we earn about £100,000 a season from gate recites and according to the Dover chairman it costs between 4 and 5 hundred to run a team in this league, so the other three hundred must be coming from the pockets of the chairman and board which aren't bottomless. As a club to survive in this league we must budget carefully and have realistic expectations, yes we would all like to get in the playoff's but promotion would kill this club as the travel costs and lack of support would surely be too much. I expect Cook is more ambitious and would love to work at a higher level so had different expectations than the Board. Good luck Mike in the future, you did a good job with what you had to work with. My money is on Horgan to get the job . By the way stone wall penalty was stood no more than 15 ft away and he was pulled down. Ref had a shocker their 18 was holding and bullying Mo all the time and nothing was done.

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