Mark Molesley

[Billy Bests boot laces]

You could apply your arguement too:

Steve Tilson
Dave Webb
Dave Smith

They all got us promoted but didn't realy do much after.

I'm sure Plymouth fans would disagree with you about Dave Smith?.

 

[Zeuss]

I've got no idea if he's a good coach or a bad one , but for whatever reason you care to believe , he worked with probably the weakest squad of players I can think of in recent years.
As I say , no idea on his skill set , but he had very little to work with.

With extremely limited resources,he created a strong defence and with any sort of central striker present,we’d have been comfortably mid-table.He did his utmost eg Akinde was coming to us up till 11-45 on deadline day,he got in Akinola,then found he wasn’t allowed to play him.
There was absolutely no-one : a hopelessly unready Emile Acquah played in 31 games,a hopelessly past-it Greg Halford 16 games.
Ron Martin panicked—praying for new manager bounce,he brought back Brown,which settled our fate for the next season as well.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

Aldershot have won 2 games since he took his process out of their club .....

how or why we kept him beyond 6 weeks is completely beyond me - but of course some people might say relegation from the EFL did allow the chairman to implement severe cost cutting ...

 

[Kris]

He didn’t relegate us.

 

[Strykr]

He didn’t relegate us.

He did.

 

[Kris]

Not officially. PB was given the job to keep us up and he didn’t. Tough job of course but his lack of preparation for the Col Ewe game ultimately cost us.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

He did.

No, when he left us we were in a relegation fight but far from sunk. But if apportioning blame we should start with the chairman rather than the five(?) managers during our double relegation.

 

[Strykr]

No, when he left us we were in a relegation fight but far from sunk. But if apportioning blame we should start with the chairman rather than the five(?) managers during our double relegation.

Many to blame, many mitigating circumstances,

But he did.

I watched every game under him and it was disgraceful, do people really have such short memories?

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

My tuppence is that MM didn't sink us, a combination of covid and Ron Umbongo made it too hard for any mortal.
The move to PB was bonkers.
MM is, a pleasant, thinking bloke, maybe a better no2 than head honcho.
Good luck to him.

 

[mfurok]

No, when he left us we were in a relegation fight but far from sunk. But if apportioning blame we should start with the chairman rather than the five(?) managers during our double relegation.

‘far from sunk’???!!!???

 

[mfurok]

My tuppence is that MM didn't sink us, a combination of covid and Ron Umbongo made it too hard for any mortal.
The move to PB was bonkers.
MM is, a pleasant, thinking bloke, maybe a better no2 than head honcho.
Good luck to him.

I was rather hoping that he would get the Col U gig.

Perhaps next time?

 

[pottster]

I had a lot of time for him, until Oldham away. Totally dominated the game on the attack and takes off a striker for a defensive midfielder. Was happy to walk away with a draw. It was then I knew he lost the plot.

 

[Tribal Chief]

More revisionist history. **** Ron Martin and **** Mark Molesley. Both blights on SUFC.

 

[Chrisb]

Not officially. PB was given the job to keep us up and he didn’t. Tough job of course but his lack of preparation for the Col Ewe game ultimately cost us.

Why do people keep on saying the ColU match is the one that relegated us - numerous points just ebbed away earlier in the season, game after game, while MM persisted with his idealistic project and refusing to play to the strengths of the players available. PB was a strange appointment but change was made too late. When was a team's relegation decided on one game ?

 

[brigg blue]

The frustrating thing with his time with us is that at one point he found a formula that worked then inexplicably changed everything and we carried on losing.

Utterly baffling

 

[Zeuss]

Why do people keep on saying the ColU match is the one that relegated us - numerous points just ebbed away earlier in the season, game after game, while MM persisted with his idealistic project and refusing to play to the strengths of the players available. PB was a strange appointment but change was made too late. When was a team's relegation decided on one game ?

Against all the odds,MM had instigated a slow but steady improvement and there was at least a slim hope that he could still save us by overhauling a clueless Col U.
Brown’s new manager bounce was very low and short-lived and the abject surrender at the sheep pen did indeed seal our fate.

 

[blueblueblue]

Why do people keep on saying the ColU match is the one that relegated us - numerous points just ebbed away earlier in the season, game after game, while MM persisted with his idealistic project and refusing to play to the strengths of the players available. PB was a strange appointment but change was made too late. When was a team's relegation decided on one game ?

I agree. I've never fallen asleep watching Southend play on the box but, that season I did a few times. It was dreadful football, nearly every game without a shot on target.

I'm actually thinking about starting up a streaming service for people who suffer from Insomnia and stream games from MM time in charge. I'd make a killing :)

The season wasn't lost in the last 8 games, it was over after the first 15.

 

[WestStandBlue]

Worst manager ever

 

[Dubai]

So strange how people defend one of the worst managers in our recent history. Is he related to some of our fans or something?

He was so good, he managed to only get his next job with Aldershot who he so kindly did the exact same as he did with us and put them near the bottom of the table.

The only good thing to come out of molesley was Hobson and even then he only became good once he had a proper coach around him.

Waste of space and if he wasn’t considered so “cool” by our fan base, we might have got him out earlier and had a chance of staying up.

Any proper football manager would’ve kept us up that year.

 

[Shrimper]

So strange how people defend one of the worst managers in our recent history. Is he related to some of our fans or something?

He was so good, he managed to only get his next job with Aldershot who he so kindly did the exact same as he did with us and put them near the bottom of the table.

The only good thing to come out of molesley was Hobson and even then he only became good once he had a proper coach around him.

Waste of space and if he wasn’t considered so “cool” by our fan base, we might have got him out earlier and had a chance of staying up.

Any proper football manager would’ve kept us up that year.

It's not about defending him

It's about being realistic and recognising that his job was made much harder due to Ron Martin