Excited about getting someone who sees a real opportunity with us now - the calibre of manager available to us as a Championship club will be much higher.
Realistically we're going to have to go left field to find someone who can surprise people and overachieve with us. A trendy Scandi appointment would be good, or Barry from Bayern maybe, as long as they actually buy into the ethos of the club and don't just lie about it like Foster.
I don't think he lied. I genuinely think that he was just caught up in a whirlwind of change. Leaving Saudi then coming to Plymouth, trying to relocate his family down to the SW and not having any of his own 'men' in the back room team to support him. He made some really bad decisions, isolated himself from the squad (and the board it appears) then didn't really have the resilience to face it out on his own. He looked a well beaten man to me, he over estimated his ability to cope under really difficult circumstances and it just went down hill from there.
Any new man coming in really needs to bring the squad with them, so the likes of Joe, Morgan, Scarr, Houghton and Forshaw need to be allies and not enemies - even if his long term view is that he doesn't want them at the club.
Interesting times, the Foster experiment failed but I don't think we should rip up our process and start from scratch. As I've posted before on this thread, there needs to be some key learning from Foster's appointment which goes beyond how well they interview about football.
How can they evidence or deliver on the ethos of a geographically isolated club? What would this mean for your family if you were successful? How would family life work? I'm guessing that these are questions that would be asked? (There must be someone on here in the know who could reveal the types of questions asked at an interview for a football manager).