Spiderpig Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago All valid nominations, JBA was probably fourth in the vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC Posted 17 hours ago Report Share Posted 17 hours ago 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted 16 hours ago Report Share Posted 16 hours ago East Kilbride manager should have been a stick on nomination. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mio Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago 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. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted 7 hours ago Report Share Posted 7 hours ago 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbybingo Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago If JBA and the players feel he's been hard done by, the shortlist couldn't have come out at a better time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naudywell Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago All valid nominations, but I know who I want as MFC manager next season, and it’s none of the above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spit_It_Out Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago It does seem a tad cliquey but it is what is plus they are saving giving him the manager of the year award for next season when JBA guides us to a league title. Up the Well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texanwellfan Posted 26 minutes ago Report Share Posted 26 minutes ago The managers selected all have good reason to be there so I’m fine with that. they can pick JBA next year when we win the league!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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