Recurring theme of the season that we struggle against organised defensive sides. Granted not having a fit striker that wasn't a geriatric Billy Sharp for a while didn't help. Only two home wins since January a side effect of that. Mark Robins' name is in the frame. I don't see that happening.
Looks like it will be Tim Walter. He is described as an all attacking manager. Our record with foreign appointments is, suffice to say, rather poor. Molby, Silva, Slutsky, Arveladze. Silva did good before weaseling out of here, but the less said about Molby and Arveladze, the better. Slutsky also had us playing end of end football. While entertaining, wasn't going to work out long-term. Hopefully not an appointment that ends the same way, although Walter will have better backing. He has division 2 experience somewhere at least. But we'll see if he even is appointed...we've made this assumption with a bloke called Martins before.
We sacked our CEO, COO and Head of Recruitment yesterday, at the end of a week which saw Lewisham council grant us a 999 year lease on the land for our stadium and surrounding areas. The latter news might seem fairly dull to outsiders, but it's the end of a near 20 year saga which, at one point, looked likely that we'd have to leave Bermondsey, our home since 1910, and move to Kent. This deal allows the club to redevelop the stadium (to 35k capacity) and the surrounding area in a regen scheme which could transform us into fairly big club. I'm fairly ambivalent about these plans and the effect it will have on our identity, but the plans do look pretty impressive.
I'd normally roll my eyes at things like this but being a London club there is always the scope to attract more fans if you can make yourselves 'fashionable'. It's far easier to gentrify a London club than anywhere else. A Netflix documentary always helps . I suppose it's quite easy to do a rags to riches narrative with you. You can riff on the rough and ready reputation, the old Den, the hooligans etc. If a club as unfashionable and backwater as Wrexham can do it with a crumbling wreck of a ground then a newly gentrified Millwall could do it. Although as you say, whether that sort of future is appealing to traditional Millwall supporters is a very different question!
Actually nothing’s confirmed. Got hooked by a wind-up fan Tweet. No clue what’s going on. His 1 season contract has ended but no news.
I think so. I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner, honestly, given Bermondsey's proximity to the City. There is a lot of money to be made for our owners, investors and the club, ultimately, with this deal. Extrremely lucrative.
This is it in a nutshell, basically. I want us to progress, but I've seen what's happened to the likes of West Ham and others over the past 10-15 years and I don't like it.
Millwall's highest average attendance since 1970 was 16,262 in 1972. Where are these 35,000 fans coming from?
Our average has been steadily rising for the past few years. That stat is out of date. We have frequently sold out home games in a season where we have been shit for the most part. It's been very strange, as until a couple of years ago we were struggling to break that 13k barrier even when challenging for play-offs. The regen will inevitably attract tourists and middle class fans, as we have seen already at the Den, but also with other clubs like Palace and West Ham (albeit the latter on a bigger scale). Thirty five K doesn't seem unrealistic at all. As I said I'm not exactly flying the flag for that sort of transformation, but we are 2 miles from London Bridge in a fashionable part of London -- the potential for the club is pretty big, but has always depended on us extending the lease on the land.
I'm surprised Millwall has never pulled in some Yank investor who likes all the hooligan/ casual shit and had Green Street on Blu Ray.
Steve Cooper and Liam Rosenior rumours in our managerial search. Surely not true re: Cooper but adds a little excitement to the early days of pre-season I suppose.
I'd be surprised if Rosenior goes to Plymouth or drops down to League One like many seem to suggest. I would think his stock is high enough to hold off for a club that's more established at this level.
