Gorman To Manage Wycombe

[overseas shrimper]

Gillingham caretaker manager John Gorman has left the club and is set to become the new Wycombe Wanderers boss.

http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.as....WYCOMBE (http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.asp?hlid=240857&cpid=10&CLID=&lid=6&title=GORMAN+SET+FOR+WYCOMBE)

[Matt the Shrimp]

Blimey! Who's in charge at Priestfield, then...?

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It has to be said, the Gills are looking pretty screwed at the moment - along with Rotherham. In a sense, it's something I find sad... they're basically two "Southend Uniteds" in the Championship - two clubs with histories and of a size no bigger or more glamorous than ours - who have lived the dream for the last few years, but whose honeymoon in the second tier of English football appears as if it will soon be over.

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Matt

[Andy_S]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Nov. 30 2004,13:43)]Blimey! *Who's in charge at Priestfield, then...?
Nobody. http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif


Seems a strange choice when you think that it was seemingly either him or Danny Wilson. I would've thought any club would've gone for Wilson everytime.

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Andy_S @ Nov. 30 2004,15:25)]Seems a strange choice when you think that it was seemingly either him or Danny Wilson. I would've thought any club would've gone for Wilson everytime.
I know. Unfortunately for Danny Wilson, it seems he's getting a bit of a "damaged goods" reputation lately.

After Barnsley, he's not had a bucket-load of success - certainly not at Sheffield Wednesday (although, arguably, the problems there were more deep-rooted - and at board level).

At Bristol City, it seems, promotion from League 1 is seen pretty much as a minimum requirement - so he was a failure for not achieving that... although it's very harsh to class him as a failure, given his win-draw-loss percentage at the Ashton Gate helm was:

47.4% - 24.3% - 28.3%

Anyone with a win rate of almost every other game is, on any normal measure, a roaring success... but not at Ashton Gate, apparently. His record at City equates to 77 points in an average season - play-off material certainly, but not enough for automatic promotion. And I guess that that's what they were after...

As for Gorman - the two main things in his favour were:

*He has been in the Causeway / Adams Park hotseat before, albeit for only 8 games last season - so he's a familiar face, if nothing else.

*He has more experience of smaller clubs - notably at Swindon and Gillingham. Does Wilson's experience - which has only been at Barnsely, Sheffield Wednesday and Bristol City, all big clubs in terms of their off-the-pitch operations and indeed their stadium sizes - qualify him to cope with the much smaller-scale operation in High Wycombe?

Given the above, Gorman isn't such a strange choice, I guess...

Matt