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Post by ballboy on Feb 17, 2024 18:37:07 GMT
Has left the club
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Post by hantslondoner on Feb 17, 2024 18:40:00 GMT
By 'mutual consent'. Inevitable after recent results, including today's.
Will be interesting to see what happens next, if Jason's still here presumably he'll take over for the moment.
Whatever people think about RH, a sad day for the club.
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Post by tom on Feb 17, 2024 18:41:40 GMT
I think a new manager has to be in for Saturday.
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Post by eastleighnumber9 on Feb 17, 2024 19:11:16 GMT
At last….did great work 10 years ago on a big budget, hopefully we can move forward with a plan and let the new management team get on with building a squad without interference.
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Post by boyatthood on Feb 17, 2024 19:37:20 GMT
He never should have been reappointed and this should have happened weeks ago. A needless delay based on sentiment and a FA cup run papering over the cracks. The club are run really poorly at the moment and relegation is a very real prospect.
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Post by back4more on Feb 17, 2024 19:52:36 GMT
Eastleigh FC were heading for the Southern League when I started following them around 2010. The then owners had let their best players go and were declaring that they would now favour younger (cheaper) players. The club's fortunes were gradually but dramatically reversed when Stewart Donald arrived and his subsequent appointment of Richard Hill as manager was followed within a couple of seasons by promotion as Conference South Champions and reaching the National League play offs in our first year in that division. Ups and downs have followed. But,with the exception of Ben Strevens, no other management appointment has resulted in progress and we have had very poor runs at times. I don't think Richard Hill has ever really wanted to take back the management reins but, on the two occasions when he has been asked to do that, he has done enough to stop the rot. The challenges are different now though, with a Football League standard stadium, a 2000 plus regular attendance and the usual social media persecution which comes with that. Pompey celebrated a win against Reading today. Not that long ago we knocked a full strength Reading team out of the FA cup. That doesn't count once we go on to lose points in a few successive weeks. I recall that in Richard's first spell as manager he went through some turbulent times including a lengthy spell when we couldn't get a point out of an away game but, given time, he turned things around and took us up to where we are now. Would he do that again given time? Whatever we think, even in 'Division 5' a manager isn't given time. We just have to hope that Stewart's next decision leads to results more like the Strevens era than the Martin Allen tenure.
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Post by halifax08 on Feb 17, 2024 20:04:07 GMT
Hill has been out of his depth for years. Good riddance. I think the next manager will be Chris Hargreaves...
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Post by davep on Feb 17, 2024 20:08:09 GMT
Hill has been out of his depth for years. Good riddance. I think the next manager will be Chris Hargreaves... Didn't do particularly well at Yeovil. So I don't know if that's a great move tbh. I guess he is available, we can't spend long waiting around though.
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Post by halifax08 on Feb 17, 2024 20:10:53 GMT
Hill has been out of his depth for years. Good riddance. I think the next manager will be Chris Hargreaves... Didn't do particularly well at Yeovil. So I don't know if that's a great move tbh. I guess he is available, we can't spend long waiting around though. I agree, it was just a thought. He is available. I'm sure he'd take the job.
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Post by tenacres on Feb 17, 2024 20:12:42 GMT
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Post by davep on Feb 17, 2024 20:39:16 GMT
Didn't do particularly well at Yeovil. So I don't know if that's a great move tbh. I guess he is available, we can't spend long waiting around though. I agree, it was just a thought. He is available. I'm sure he'd take the job. I would prefer him to Bristow as a temporary stop gap for remainder of season but I'm not sure if he's the man to take us forward
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Post by maysie on Feb 17, 2024 20:58:17 GMT
Gutted for Richard Hill, no matter what some will think after a poor run of results he loves the club and will always have Eastleigh FC best interests at heart. Back in his first reign at the club he built a successful side and worked wonders.
Really hope you at Eastleigh get the manager you want and see your fortunes change.
Some good options out there
Darren Sarll Michael Flynn Neil Harris Mark Bonner
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Post by unknownquantity on Feb 17, 2024 22:34:38 GMT
I would question backmore's analysis of Eastleigh's history. At the end of the 2010/11 season we obtained 72 points from 32 league games, but fail4d to reach the playoffs. At the end of that season we released some of our higher earning players, but still retained Gareth Barfoot, Andy Forbes, Ross Bottomley, Tom Jordan, Danny Smith, Jamie Brown, Jamie Slabber and Richard Gillespie who were all good clubmen as well as players with Conference South experience. We tried yo supplement the squad by introducing a ne3w youth policy, but when this produced fewer first team players than had hoped we bought in some loan players with Ian Herring, Michael Green, Graeme Montgomerie and Chris Flood coming coming in. I would regard a team of Barfoot, Herring, Green, Forbes, Jordan, Brown, Flood, Smith, Slabber, Gillespie, Montgomerie sub Bottomley as a decent Conference South te4am and some off these players have also played successfully in this competition for other clubs.
I think that Bridle's takeover was announced before our F A trophy match with Chippenham in November 2011 and by that stage of the season I had witnessed at least 5 of the 15 league wins Eastleigh achieved that season (it could have been more), but I am certain that when bridle took over we were not in a relegation position. In fact I think we had gone from a top half of the table not good enough to be promoted, to a bottom half of the table yoo good to be relegated.
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Post by sattsy on Feb 18, 2024 9:16:23 GMT
A sad day, whether you are in the Hilly in or Hilly out camp. The guy deserves respect for what he has done with us in 4 spells as manager. I felt he would walk if he didn't believe he could turn it around and there is no shame in doing that. Thank you for your service, Hilly.
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Post by blackie on Feb 18, 2024 10:21:23 GMT
RH is a decent guy, a great servant to EFC and it was sad to see it end that way yesterday. I had a feeling when he didn’t come over to the fans yesterday that he was going to step down. He had a mountain to climb to turn this around. Poor recruitment in which he had to take some of the blame, poor tactics and players making basic schoolboys errors and lack of effort have all contributed to our current situation. Yesterday half of the team were taking the p**s with that performance. It will be a rough ride to the end of April and whoever comes in has a really difficult task. Hopefully we can stop the slide and keep our status.
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