Manager of the year award

[Spiderpig]

The nominations for the manger of the year award are out, and there is no place for JBA which i find a bit surprising.

McInnes, McGlynn & Naysmith vie for manager award - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c072ne3499yo

[ropy]

All valid nominations, JBA was probably fourth in the vote.

[MJC]

Pretty reasonable nominations. It’s impossible to see past McInnes this season for the job he has done at Hearts - taking them from bottom six last season to a few wins away from being League Champions - and I don’t see how there can be any reasonable argument against that.

With McGlynn and Falkirk they have had a superb season and reached the SF of the Scottish Cup. For a side just promoted that’s pretty good going.

Naysmith at Stenhousemuir is a bit of an outsider but he’s got them in a great position for promotion against the odds.

And then on to our manager JBA. He has been fantastic for us and surpassed all expectations but I’m personally quite pleased he has been overlooked for this award as it might just keep his stock low enough to keep him here for a bit longer. Wishful thinking perhaps but anything that gives us an advantage as a club then I’ll take it. The reality is that Jens May very well not be with us next season but I still think there is a chance that he will be, and the less folk shouting about his credentials the better for Motherwell FC.

[Kmcalpin]

East Kilbride manager should have been a stick on nomination. 

[mio]

Voted by their peers. So it may be a confident foreign manager playing better football than everyone else, on a much smaller budget, isn’t particularly liked by certain old school managers throughout the country.

Not a massive surprise.

[Kmcalpin]

1 hour ago, mio said:

Voted by their peers. So it may be a confident foreign manager playing better football than everyone else, on a much smaller budget, isn’t particularly liked by certain old school managers throughout the country.

Not a massive surprise.

I think thats it. Scottish football is a pretty small and parochial system and anything which upsets the apple cart isn't welcomed. 

[MJC]

Or it could simply just be that McInnes taking Hearts from bottom six to the brink of the League title in his first season, McGlynn getting Falkirk promotion, top six AND a Scottish Cup Semi Final and lastly Naysmith defying the odds with Stenhousemuir are all seen as more deserving of the award than JBA? There doesn’t need to be any kind of underlying resentment or anything like that I’d say it’s more that the other three have achieved more tangible feats.

[bobbybingo]

If JBA and the players feel he's been hard done by, the shortlist couldn't have come out at a better time.

[David]

3 hours ago, MJC said:

Or it could simply just be that McInnes taking Hearts from bottom six to the brink of the League title in his first season, McGlynn getting Falkirk promotion, top six AND a Scottish Cup Semi Final and lastly Naysmith defying the odds with Stenhousemuir are all seen as more deserving of the award than JBA? There doesn’t need to be any kind of underlying resentment or anything like that I’d say it’s more that the other three have achieved more tangible feats.

It could be. 

But it probably isn't.

[weeyin]

There's probably a combination of reasons, but there's no doubt in my mind that a segment of the voters chose McGlynn over JBA because they wanted to nominate a Scottish manager rather than some upstart foreigner trying to modernise the Scottish game.

You don't need to go too far back in the season to find all the criticism doled out at the start of our project.

McInnes will win it anyway, and JBA will be on the sportswriters' nominations no doubt.

[naudywell]

All valid nominations, but I know who I want as MFC manager next season, and it’s none of the above