Cobblers appoint Keith Curle

[EricSabin]

We've replaced Austin with Curle, our FIFTH manager in 2 and a bit years.

What's he like?

 

[jacobncfc]

He’s okay. Did a great job at Notts with someone else’s team but all went a bit south when he was given a big budget to sign his own players, still harshly sacked. I’m not sure I can ever see him getting a team promoted, but he’ll stabilise you.

Pros:-

Can organise a team to get results away from home.
Football is reasonably pleasing on the eye if a bit dull.
Seems to be able to come in and get an instant impact.

Cons:-

No idea how to get a team playing on the front foot at home.
Bad at signings.

 

[Carver]

A great appointment I think considering where you are in the league, exactly the sort of manger you need and he could do a lot more, I think he would of got us promoted 2 years ago if he had more money to spend in that January, but he didn't get enough financial backing and it wasn't to be.

He left us on good terms, so I hope he does well for you.

The one downside though while he was manager was that the football at home was usually boring to watch especially in his last season with us, if he has you at the right end of the table then it doesn't really matter about the style so much, however we were mid table and had nothing to play for.

He is a defensive manager, but he get's good away results as he knows the division and usually get's the best out of his players.

 

[hellogregory]

He managed to keep one of the worst CUFC squads I’ve seen in the football league. He then took us to mid table the following season and then playoffs the next. Went downhill after that but overall did a good job, just stayed a season too long I’d say.

 

[hellogregory]

He’s okay. Did a great job at Notts with someone else’s team but all went a bit south when he was given a big budget to sign his own players, still harshly sacked. I’m not sure I can ever see him getting a team promoted, but he’ll stabilise you.

Pros:-

Can organise a team to get results away from home.
Football is reasonably pleasing on the eye if a bit dull.
Seems to be able to come in and get an instant impact.

Cons:-

No idea how to get a team playing on the front foot at home.
Bad at signings.

Pretty much agree with those pros and cons apart from bad at signings. He made plenty of excellent signings for us.

One thing I’d add is he’ll spend a preseason and the first few months of a season getting the team playing out from the back and and through midfield, then in about December he'll Completely scrap those principles over night and turn into a one dimensional long ball hoof team for the rest of the season.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Curle got pretty much the worst reception ever for a new manager at Notts when he was appointed but he did well. We played some great football at the end of 2011/12, and missed out on the play offs in League 1 on goal difference, which I’m still convinced we would have won if we’d made them boo hoo.

Went a bit pear shaped the next season, not a bad league position but it was very very boring. I would imagine he’d improve Northampton cos by all accounts you’re a poor team at the moment.

 

[jacobncfc]

Pretty much agree with those pros and cons apart from bad at signings. He made plenty of excellent signings for us.

One thing I’d add is he’ll spend a preseason and the first few months of a season getting the team playing out from the back and and through midfield, then in about December he'll Completely scrap those principles over night and turn into a one dimensional long ball hoof team for the rest of the season.

Aye I would maybe qualify it by saying that he made some really good loan and leftfield signings for us, it was when he was given money to bring in ‘marquee’ type players that it didn’t work out.

 

[shoddycollins]

Derek Asamoah began his career at Northampton didn't he? Expect him to rock up sooner or later, though he'll be 37 now and you don't appear to need any help scoring goals.

 

[shoddycollins]

Aye I would maybe qualify it by saying that he made some really good loan and leftfield signings for us, it was when he was given money to bring in ‘marquee’ type players that it didn’t work out.

He was at Notts during the stupid money era wasn't he? (or should that be one of the several stupid money eras). He never had all that much with us and so he did bring in decent players such as Jabo, Devitt, Adams, Kennedy, Hill etc. he can sell the idea of a club to potential signings well I think, as well as get a lot from players who others would see as being standard journeymen (like Jabo).

 

[jacobncfc]

He was at Notts during the stupid money era wasn't he? (or should that be one of the several stupid money eras). He never had all that much with us and so he did bring in decent players such as Jabo, Devitt, Adams, Kennedy, Hill etc. he can sell the idea of a club to potential signings well I think, as well as get a lot from players who others would see as being standard journeymen (like Jabo).

Nah, Trew era. Had a good budget for League One though and largely blew it - he inherited Alan Judge as well which was always going to be a big help. Zoko was his big signing and that never really worked out (Gary Liddle was pretty good though - amount of players who’ve been at both Notts and Carlisle recently is.. a lot).

He went something absurd like eleven months without losing an away game from his appointment, but too many tedious draws at home held us back.

 

[Luke Imp]

Derek Asamoah began his career at Northampton didn't he? Expect him to rock up sooner or later, though he'll be 37 now and you don't appear to need any help scoring goals.

DU DU DUUUU, DEREK ASAMOAH!

 

[Carver]

Oh no I really hope Northampton don't try and sign Ritchie Bennett off us in January, he is such a good striker and Keith Curle signed him when he was still our manager, so please please please Northampton don't take him off of us!

Noooooo!

 

[shoddycollins]

Nah, Trew era. Had a good budget for League One though and largely blew it - he inherited Alan Judge as well which was always going to be a big help. Zoko was his big signing and that never really worked out (Gary Liddle was pretty good though - amount of players who’ve been at both Notts and Carlisle recently is.. a lot).

He went something absurd like eleven months without losing an away game from his appointment, but too many tedious draws at home held us back.

Aye we had that season a couple years ago where we didn't lose a match until mid-November and didn't lose a second until January, were second in the league, but again, too many draws.

However I think the season before that we went on a 25 or 26 game run without a single draw, so swings and roundabouts, there was always some record or another being broken when Curle was in charge.

 

[Carver]

We were a joke before he was our manager and he came and made us a notable club again and also created a bit of a buzz around the place for a time.

 

[gijsbert_bos]

How does he keep getting jobs? Literally the most 'meh' manager in the lower leagues.

 

[Conker]

I remember Mansfield nicking Asamoah from Northampton, he was unreal against them at the mill - so much that all the cobblers gave him a standing ovation.

Did fuck all other than that like.

Curle is a good appointment at this level, Northampton certain to improve a lot now IMO.

 

[EricSabin]

How does he keep getting jobs? Literally the most 'meh' manager in the lower leagues.

A 'meh' managerial stint would be a roaring success here after the last 2 years

 

[jacobncfc]

How does he keep getting jobs? Literally the most 'meh' manager in the lower leagues.

There’s far worse than Curle about. Admittedly far better as well, but for a club in Northampton’s position who just need someone to stabilise things for a bit it’s not a bad appointment.

 

[EricSabin]

I remember Mansfield nicking Asamoah from Northampton, he was unreal against them at the mill - so much that all the cobbler fans gave him a standing ovation.

Did fuck all other than that like.

Curle is a good appointment at this level, Northampton certain to improve a lot now IMO.

Loved Derek Asamoah, first player I properly idolised as a nipper

 

[Conker]

Loved Derek Asamoah, first player I properly idolised as a nipper

I had this sort of false memory that he was a unreal player, but he only scored 5 in 30 for Mansfield and went to Lincoln next and did naff all!!

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Overall I liked Curle, the away win at Wycombe on final day of season with A Judge above the head shirt waving half length of the pitch celebration when in the home end will never be forgotten. That was a very entertaining Notts side
Good appointment

 

[Youpies]

Mysterious Curle, I wanna play 352

 

[hellogregory]

How does he keep getting jobs? Literally the most 'meh' manager in the lower leagues.

Not literally

 

[Luke Imp]

I had this sort of false memory that he was a unreal player, but he only scored 5 in 30 for Mansfield and went to Lincoln next and did naff all!!

He was the master at getting into goal scoring positions with his blistering pace and then not being able to strike a football. He was just a bit of a glorified sprinter here, but a popular player from what I can recall.

One of those players who isn't great but you're just willing him to do well because at least he cared and tried.

He ended up going all over place when he left us. France, Russia, China, Korea, Scotland...Shrewsbury.

 

[hellogregory]

Asamoah was a decent finisher for us. Can’t recall him wasting many easy chances.

 

[gijsbert_bos]

Not literally

Alright, not literally (that's one of my pet peeves, actually, the use of 'literally all the time by the 'yoot') but it's a bloody dull appointment.

 

[Carver]

Alright, not literally (that's one of my pet peeves, actually, the use of 'literally all the time by the 'yoot') but it's a bloody dull appointment.

Is he fuck. At least when he gets a job he lasts a while.

The most 'meh' manager is Mark Yates at Macclesfield, he's literally done fuck all as a manager and for some reason is managing a football league club.

Why who else should they have appointed as their manager like? Who is an exciting successful manager that they could attract?

 

[gijsbert_bos]

Is he fuck. At least when he gets a job he lasts a while.

The most 'meh' manager is Mark Yates at Macclesfield, he's literally done fuck all as a manager and for some reason is managing a football league club.

Why who else should they have appointed as their manager like? Who is an exciting successful manager that they could attract?

Well Macclesfield have no ambition other than to 'battle bravely against relegation', as Championship Manager would have put it. Northampton should be aiming to bounce back to League One, or at least not going for someone whose sole purpose seems to be 'steadying the ship' and keeping them in League Two. They could have been a bit more ambitious and appointed someone like Luke Garrard at Boreham Wood.

 

[Davidimp]

A meh appointment imho too.

 

[Conker]

Lincoln are so lucky you see guys.