The English Lower League thread

[HajdukSplit]

Paunovic is the new Reading manager, won the U20 World Cup with Serbia and recently managed Chicago Fire They plan on being ambitious with signings this summer

 

[robertmac43]

Wigan crowd funding page if you want to support the club. Would suck to see them financially destroyed from being used as a gambling pawn.

Save Wigan Athletic

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Paunovic is the new Reading manager, won the U20 World Cup with Serbia and recently managed Chicago Fire They plan on being ambitious with signings this summer

Weird hiring. Not like he won anything in MLS.

 

[HajdukSplit]

What’s going on with Derby, not even 20 minutes in and down three goals to Blackburn, only Wycombe so far is worse than them

 

[Stray Wasp]

Weird hiring. Not like he won anything in MLS.

The choice who preceded Paunovic was weird too. Reading hired Mark Bowen as director of football in August 2019. Two months later, when the owners decided to sack their manager, they naturally asked Bowen to draw up a shortlist of potential successors.

Bowen, then 56 and never a full-time manager before in his life, put his own name at the top of the shortlist. The club - perhaps admiring his front - agreed to his modest proposal.

Bowen rejected a new role at the club following Paunovic's appointment.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

The choice who preceded Paunovic was weird too. Reading hired Mark Bowen as director of football in August 2019. Two months later, when the owners decided to sack their manager, they naturally asked Bowen to draw up a shortlist of potential successors.

Bowen, then 56 and never a full-time manager before in his life, put his own name at the top of the shortlist. The club - perhaps admiring his front - agreed to his modest proposal.

Bowen rejected a new role at the club following Paunovic's appointment.

But Reading is off to a good start so maybe it will work out.

 

[sabremike]

 

[HajdukSplit]

Bristol and Reading remain perfect, Luton picking up where they left off last season on good from with three wins from their first four. Derby finally pick up a win, Rooney scoring a late winner at Norwich. Forest meanwhile probably haven’t recovered from their collapse last season, four straight losses. Wycombe not good enough for the league (lucky to be promoted in the first place) while Wednesday now up to -5 points

 

[GabeTravels]

Portsmouth finally get into the win column.

The fans really want Kenny Jackett gone, but it'll cost 400K to terminate his contract. He isn't going anywhere, especially during Covid.

I fear a lot of teams going bust. Portsmouth is losing £700,000 a month. That's just not sustainable.