Francis: 'Give Malpas time'
TREVOR Francis is tipping Maurice Malpas to lead Town out of League One, and is urging the County Ground faithful to give their boss time to prove his credentials, writes ANTHONY MARSHALL.
The former England international and Birmingham City manager spent one year playing north of the border for Rangers, where he encountered the then Dundee United full-back Malpas on several occasions.
Francis admitted he expected Malpas to break into management and believes that, with a little bit of patience, Wiltshire could soon be host to a Championship football club.
"I remember Maurice as an excellent full-back. He was a good player and I came up against him and watched him numerous times," revealed Francis.
"He was the sort of person who you would have expected to go into coaching or management.
"But it's tough coming from Scotland to England. It's quite different up there to English football, as Alex McLeish is finding out, so Maurice needs a bit of time to find his feet and then I'm sure he will be a success.
"He could have some good times at Swindon. There is definitely the fan base here to have a side that's in a higher league."
Francis had a good record as a manager at the County Ground, but his fondest memory of Wiltshire stems back to his playing days.
He joked: "When I played with Birmingham we had a centre-half called Roger Hind, and he used to go through a routine before each game in the changing rooms.
"He would run, jump and get good elevation just to practice his heading.
"It was quite a low ceiling at the County Ground in those days, so when he tried it he jumped and put his head straight through the changing room ceiling."
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CommentPosted by: M Mack, Highworth on 10:08am Thu 8 May 08
Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.
Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.
Posted by: Jimmyswindon, Swindon on 11:42am Thu 8 May 08
what a bizzare end of the article...
[quote]"It was quite a low ceiling at the County Ground in those days, so when he tried it he jumped and put his head straight through the changing room ceiling."
n Nationwide offer a whole host of prizes to their customers through the Sponsored By You campaign.
Also, play the home nations penalty shoot-out game for your chance to take a spot-kick at Wembley during the next England home international.
Visit www.sponsoredbyyou.c
om.[/quote]
what a bizzare end of the article...
"It was quite a low ceiling at the County Ground in those days, so when he tried it he jumped and put his head straight through the changing room ceiling."
n Nationwide offer a whole host of prizes to their customers through the Sponsored By You campaign.
Also, play the home nations penalty shoot-out game for your chance to take a spot-kick at Wembley during the next England home international.
Visit www.sponsoredbyyou.c
om.
Posted by: mr big, Swindon on 12:30pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]M Mack[/bold] wrote:
Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.[/quote] Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is.
M Mack wrote:
Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.
Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is.
Posted by: Redmoonraker, oxon on 2:03pm Thu 8 May 08
but if the great Sir Trevor francis says this about Malpas then it must be true - good times ahead to look forward to
but if the great Sir Trevor francis says this about Malpas then it must be true - good times ahead to look forward to
Posted by: Redmoonraker, oxon on 2:05pm Thu 8 May 08
If the great Sir Trevor Francis is saying this about Malpas then it must be true. Good times ahead to look forward to....
If the great Sir Trevor Francis is saying this about Malpas then it must be true. Good times ahead to look forward to....
Posted by: blobster, Bradford on Avon on 4:18pm Thu 8 May 08
"Francis had a good record as a manager at the County Ground........."
So exactly when would that have been, or does the "reporter" mean
"As a visiting manager Francis had ......."
Talk about crap reporting
"Francis had a good record as a manager at the County Ground........."
So exactly when would that have been, or does the "reporter" mean
"As a visiting manager Francis had ......."
Talk about crap reporting
Posted by: MunichRed, Munich, Germany on 4:24pm Thu 8 May 08
No comment on Trevor Francis' thoughts about our illustrious leader. Unfortunately/fortun
ately I haven't been able to see a Town match this season. But I do remember seeing him ( TF )as a 16 year old score 2 cracking goals at CG on only his second ever league match, having scored 4 on his home debut the week before.
No comment on Trevor Francis' thoughts about our illustrious leader. Unfortunately/fortun
ately I haven't been able to see a Town match this season. But I do remember seeing him ( TF )as a 16 year old score 2 cracking goals at CG on only his second ever league match, having scored 4 on his home debut the week before.
Posted by: STFCHero, Swindon on 4:53pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]blobster[/bold] wrote:
"Francis had a good record as a manager at the County Ground........." So exactly when would that have been, or does the "reporter" mean "As a visiting manager Francis had ......." Talk about crap reporting[/quote] Blobster I had to read that 3 or 4 times, as I thought it was meaning he was Towns manager! I think the adver will come up with some great stories this month!!
blobster wrote:
"Francis had a good record as a manager at the County Ground........." So exactly when would that have been, or does the "reporter" mean "As a visiting manager Francis had ......." Talk about crap reporting
Blobster I had to read that 3 or 4 times, as I thought it was meaning he was Towns manager! I think the adver will come up with some great stories this month!!
Posted by: Stfc Romain, swindon on 6:59pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]mr big[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]M Mack[/bold] wrote: Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.[/quote] Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is. [/quote] dont tell me MM IS FANTASTIC.Very good at his job and so on.TAKE YA HEAD OUT OF THE SAND mr big.loads of people say the same as M MACK Malpas is not a manager
mr big wrote:
M Mack wrote: Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.
Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is.
dont tell me MM IS FANTASTIC.Very good at his job and so on.TAKE YA HEAD OUT OF THE SAND mr big.loads of people say the same as M MACK Malpas is not a manager
Posted by: danboyshearer, parksouth on 8:20pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]Stfc Romain[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]mr big[/bold] wrote: [quote][bold]M Mack[/bold] wrote: Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.[/quote] Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is. [/quote] dont tell me MM IS FANTASTIC.Very good at his job and so on.TAKE YA HEAD OUT OF THE SAND mr big.loads of people say the same as M MACK Malpas is not a manager [/quote] hey come on i thought we all agreed a few weeks ago that we are all gonna get behind the team and malpas and give it untill christmas and then see were we are. i was slagging malpas off a good en a month or so ago but then fitton came out and talked and put his support for malpas out there, so malpas is going nowhere and to be honest the last month or so of the season was not to bad we finished in pretty good form so malpas deserves a chance. roll on august lets see what the wee mans got
Stfc Romain wrote:
mr big wrote: M Mack wrote: Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.
Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is.
dont tell me MM IS FANTASTIC.Very good at his job and so on.TAKE YA HEAD OUT OF THE SAND mr big.loads of people say the same as M MACK Malpas is not a manager
hey come on i thought we all agreed a few weeks ago that we are all gonna get behind the team and malpas and give it untill christmas and then see were we are. i was slagging malpas off a good en a month or so ago but then fitton came out and talked and put his support for malpas out there, so malpas is going nowhere and to be honest the last month or so of the season was not to bad we finished in pretty good form so malpas deserves a chance. roll on august lets see what the wee mans got
Posted by: tractorboy, south bucks on 8:42pm Thu 8 May 08
Course Francis was a great manager wasn't he (not).
Couldn't fault him as a player though , scored the winner in Europe final for Mr Clough's Forest.
Course Francis was a great manager wasn't he (not).
Couldn't fault him as a player though , scored the winner in Europe final for Mr Clough's Forest.
Posted by: TonyJanson, Chippenham on 9:53pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]MunichRed[/bold] wrote:
No comment on Trevor Francis' thoughts about our illustrious leader. Unfortunately/fortun ately I haven't been able to see a Town match this season. But I do remember seeing him ( TF )as a 16 year old score 2 cracking goals at CG on only his second ever league match, having scored 4 on his home debut the week before. [/quote] MUNICHRED : I was there when TF scored thise goals at the CG. He was dynamite the like I`d never seen before at the CG before or since. The late Wilf Castle had been chatting to me during the morning and laughed as he declared TF`s much publicised debut had been a flash in the pan and the Town defence would soon keep him in check. Gosh how wrong he was !
MunichRed wrote:
No comment on Trevor Francis' thoughts about our illustrious leader. Unfortunately/fortun ately I haven't been able to see a Town match this season. But I do remember seeing him ( TF )as a 16 year old score 2 cracking goals at CG on only his second ever league match, having scored 4 on his home debut the week before.
MUNICHRED : I was there when TF scored thise goals at the CG. He was dynamite the like I`d never seen before at the CG before or since. The late Wilf Castle had been chatting to me during the morning and laughed as he declared TF`s much publicised debut had been a flash in the pan and the Town defence would soon keep him in check. Gosh how wrong he was !
Posted by: steve, brentford on 10:12pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]TonyJanson[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]MunichRed[/bold] wrote: No comment on Trevor Francis' thoughts about our illustrious leader. Unfortunately/fortun ately I haven't been able to see a Town match this season. But I do remember seeing him ( TF )as a 16 year old score 2 cracking goals at CG on only his second ever league match, having scored 4 on his home debut the week before. [/quote] MUNICHRED : I was there when TF scored thise goals at the CG. He was dynamite the like I`d never seen before at the CG before or since. The late Wilf Castle had been chatting to me during the morning and laughed as he declared TF`s much publicised debut had been a flash in the pan and the Town defence would soon keep him in check. Gosh how wrong he was ![/quote] I think francis as a player was great NOW tell me he was great as a manager? MM he said was a top player does that mean he will become a top manager, time will tell, hopefully he will be better than sir trevor, but that won`t be hard will it?
TonyJanson wrote:
MunichRed wrote: No comment on Trevor Francis' thoughts about our illustrious leader. Unfortunately/fortun ately I haven't been able to see a Town match this season. But I do remember seeing him ( TF )as a 16 year old score 2 cracking goals at CG on only his second ever league match, having scored 4 on his home debut the week before.
MUNICHRED : I was there when TF scored thise goals at the CG. He was dynamite the like I`d never seen before at the CG before or since. The late Wilf Castle had been chatting to me during the morning and laughed as he declared TF`s much publicised debut had been a flash in the pan and the Town defence would soon keep him in check. Gosh how wrong he was !
I think francis as a player was great NOW tell me he was great as a manager? MM he said was a top player does that mean he will become a top manager, time will tell, hopefully he will be better than sir trevor, but that won`t be hard will it?
Posted by: callumbus, swindon on 8:20am Fri 9 May 08
Found this tucked away on the BBC sports site:
Swindon manager Maurice Malpas says fans should not expect the Robins to be making big money signings this summer.
"We won't be buying players as such, we won't be spending £100,000 on players because I think it's a waste of money," he told BBC Radio Swindon.
Malpas is looking to add four or five players to his squad for next season:
"We're speaking to a couple of clubs about taking one of their players on loan because either we can't afford to buy him or he's not available to buy."
Bit of a bizarre thing to say!! Why should spending £100k on a player necessarily be a waste of money? If he's saying that there aren't going to be that level of funds available, why not just say that?
Found this tucked away on the BBC sports site:
Swindon manager Maurice Malpas says fans should not expect the Robins to be making big money signings this summer.
"We won't be buying players as such, we won't be spending £100,000 on players because I think it's a waste of money," he told BBC Radio Swindon.
Malpas is looking to add four or five players to his squad for next season:
"We're speaking to a couple of clubs about taking one of their players on loan because either we can't afford to buy him or he's not available to buy."
Bit of a bizarre thing to say!! Why should spending £100k on a player necessarily be a waste of money? If he's saying that there aren't going to be that level of funds available, why not just say that?
Posted by: mr big, Swindon on 8:22am Fri 9 May 08
[quote][bold]Stfc Romain[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]mr big[/bold] wrote: [quote][bold]M Mack[/bold] wrote: Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.[/quote] Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is. [/quote] dont tell me MM IS FANTASTIC.Very good at his job and so on.TAKE YA HEAD OUT OF THE SAND mr big.loads of people say the same as M MACK Malpas is not a manager [/quote] Everyone STFC Romain is talking we must all listen. Where in my last post did I say I thought MM is the man for the job. I am just getting bored of all this MM OUT. He is not going anywhere so I just think we have to give him a chance.
Stfc Romain wrote:
mr big wrote: M Mack wrote: Yes, the fans who have seen the work of Malpas the manager first hand should shut up, because a player who played with Malpas several hundred years ago say's "I think he'll do well". You can tell the season has ended because the Adver are struggling for stories. I'm just going to place myself in a cryogenic chamber for 3 months and will wake up in time for the new season. It makes it worse when we are not even in the Euro's.
Oh Joy 3 months with out M Mack moaning about how bad MM is.
dont tell me MM IS FANTASTIC.Very good at his job and so on.TAKE YA HEAD OUT OF THE SAND mr big.loads of people say the same as M MACK Malpas is not a manager
Everyone STFC Romain is talking we must all listen. Where in my last post did I say I thought MM is the man for the job. I am just getting bored of all this MM OUT. He is not going anywhere so I just think we have to give him a chance.
Posted by: steve, brentford on 9:05am Fri 9 May 08
[quote][bold]callumbus[/bold] wrote:
Found this tucked away on the BBC sports site: Swindon manager Maurice Malpas says fans should not expect the Robins to be making big money signings this summer. "We won't be buying players as such, we won't be spending £100,000 on players because I think it's a waste of money," he told BBC Radio Swindon. Malpas is looking to add four or five players to his squad for next season: "We're speaking to a couple of clubs about taking one of their players on loan because either we can't afford to buy him or he's not available to buy." Bit of a bizarre thing to say!! Why should spending £100k on a player necessarily be a waste of money? If he's saying that there aren't going to be that level of funds available, why not just say that? [/quote] Bizarre well yes like alot of things MnM says maybe he feels coxy was a waste of money,but i can see now why AF choose him with quotes like spending £100,000 on a player being a waste of money, instead of all the bull**** why not as you say callumbus just simply tell us that their`s not cash available, dont they realize the amount of boll***s we have had thrown at us over the years it`s made us smell bull**** before it hits the ground(Have a good day).
callumbus wrote:
Found this tucked away on the BBC sports site: Swindon manager Maurice Malpas says fans should not expect the Robins to be making big money signings this summer. "We won't be buying players as such, we won't be spending £100,000 on players because I think it's a waste of money," he told BBC Radio Swindon. Malpas is looking to add four or five players to his squad for next season: "We're speaking to a couple of clubs about taking one of their players on loan because either we can't afford to buy him or he's not available to buy." Bit of a bizarre thing to say!! Why should spending £100k on a player necessarily be a waste of money? If he's saying that there aren't going to be that level of funds available, why not just say that?
Bizarre well yes like alot of things MnM says maybe he feels coxy was a waste of money,but i can see now why AF choose him with quotes like spending £100,000 on a player being a waste of money, instead of all the bull**** why not as you say callumbus just simply tell us that their`s not cash available, dont they realize the amount of boll***s we have had thrown at us over the years it`s made us smell bull**** before it hits the ground(Have a good day).
Posted by: redplymouth, plymouth on 7:16pm Fri 9 May 08
byrne is our leader all hail his trainer malpas
byrne is our leader all hail his trainer malpas
Posted by: steve, brentford on 9:16pm Fri 9 May 08
[quote][bold]redplymouth[/bold] wrote:
byrne is our leader all hail his trainer malpas[/quote] red army is that you?
redplymouth wrote:
byrne is our leader all hail his trainer malpas
red army is that you?
Posted by: glasred, glastonbury on 9:23am Sat 10 May 08
Bristol Shity will loose 2-0 at Palace today!?
Bristol Shity will loose 2-0 at Palace today!?
Posted by: coxy808, Swindon on 4:28pm Sat 10 May 08
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