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Post by harrybuckle on Dec 17, 2018 16:35:50 GMT
Michael Flynn Born in Newport, Flynn started his career playing for Newport County in 1999. A move to League of Wales club Barry Town beckoned in 2000. After forty goals in two seasons, including a goal in a 3–1 win over F.C. Porto in the second qualifying round of the Champions League, he moved to Wigan Athletic in the 2002–03 season.
Flynn spent a lot of his time on the substitutes' bench as Wigan won Division Two title. He made seventeen appearances in the league, fourteen of which came from the bench, and scored one goal. The next season did not start any better for Flynn as he started just one game and made seven appearances from the bench before he was loaned to then League One side Blackpool, where he started six times in the league and once in the FA Cup before returning to Wigan.
In the January transfer window of that season, Flynn joined Championship strugglers Gillingham on a free transfer. Despite his instant success, and his three goals in sixteen starts, Gillingham were relegated to League One on the last day of the season. Although injury affected his 2005–06 season, Flynn scored six goals. He took over as captain for the 2006–07 season and became top scorer with twelve goals.
It was announced on 8 May 2007 that Flynn had been offered a new contract with Gillingham. He chose not to sign, and left the club when his contract expired at the end of June 2007. On 5 July 2007, Flynn signed a one-year contract with Blackpool, with an option for a further year. On 3 December 2007, Flynn scored his first goal for Blackpool in the club's 1–1 away draw against Scunthorpe United. On 7 May 2008 he was released by Blackpool. On 23 July 2008, he became Stan Ternent's fifth signing at League One side Huddersfield Town. He, along with five other players, made his Town debut in the 1–1 draw against Stockport County at the Galpharm Stadium on 9 August 2008. On 27 August he scored his first goal for Huddersfield in the second round of the League Cup against Sheffield United. Town went on to lose the game 2–1. His first league goals for Town came in the 3–2 win over Northampton Town at the Galpharm Stadium on 20 September 2008.
Following a short spell on the sidelines following a hamstring injury, he joined Darlington on loan on 27 November 2008. He made his debut in the 1–0 defeat to Morecambe at Christie Park on 13 December. He returned to Huddersfield on 29 December.
On 4 August 2009, Flynn joined local rivals Bradford City on a free transfer. He made his debut four days later in the 5–0 defeat by Notts County at Meadow Lane and scored his first goal of the 2011–12 season in a 3–2 loss to Leeds United. On 28 April 2012 it was announced that he would leave Bradford as his contract was ended by mutual consent along with teammates Chris Mitchell and Craig Fagan.
On 25 July 2012 he re-signed for home-town club Newport County. In the 2012–13 season he was part of the Newport team that finished 3rd in the league, reaching the Conference National playoffs. Newport County won the playoff final versus Wrexham at Wembley Stadium 2–0 to return to the Football League after a 25-year absence with promotion to Football League Two.
In May 2015 Flynn's playing contract came to an end and it was not extended by Newport.In January 2017 whilst first team coach at Newport Flynn registered as a player. He made his fourth debut for Newport in the League Two match on 28 January 2017 versus Hartlepool United as a second-half substitute.
Coaching and management
In May 2014, alongside his playing role, Flynn took over from Glyn Jones as director of Newport County's youth academy. Academy scholars Regan Poole, Aaron Collins and Tom Owen-Evans made first team debuts under Flynn's guidance. In May 2015 the Academy organisation was restructured in order to comply to FA guidelines. Following his release at the end of his playing contract Flynn applied for the senior role of Academy Manager but was unsuccessful. Flynn left the Academy following the appointment of Grant Kalahar as Academy Manager in June 2015. On 6 August 2015 Flynn joined Welsh Football League Division Two side Undy Athletic as player-manager. On 8 October 2015 Flynn rejoined Newport County as first team coach under new manager John Sheridan. In January 2016 Warren Feeney was appointed team manager and Flynn was retained as first team coach. In July 2016 Newport County appointed Flynn to a newly created role as Football and Business Development Director.In October 2016 Flynn again rejoined the Newport County coaching staff under newly appointed manager Graham Westley.
On 9 March 2017 Flynn was appointed caretaker manager of Newport County for the remainder of the 2016–17 season following the sacking of Graham Westley with Newport 11 points adrift at the bottom of League Two. Wayne Hatswell returned to the club as Assistant Manager to Flynn. Flynn led the team to Football League survival, avoiding relegation with a win in the final match of the season and confirming the second 'great escape' in the club's history.[8] On 9 May 2017 Flynn was appointed permanent team manager on a two-year contract.[9] On 7 January 2018 a 2–1 home win over Championship club Leeds United in the FA Cup third round meant Newport progressed to the FA Cup fourth round for the first time since 1979 and they were drawn at home to Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.On 27 January 2018 Newport achieved a 1–1 draw to force a replay at Tottenham's temporary home ground Wembley Stadium.[11]. Tottenham won the replay 2–0. In Flynn's first full season in management Newport County finished the 2017-18 season in 11th place in League Two.
Managerial statistics
As of match played 11 December 2018
Managerial record by team and tenure
Newport County 9 March 2017 Present PL 97 W 42 D 24 L 31 43.3%
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 17:05:40 GMT
Managerial statistics As of match played 11 December 2018 Managerial record by team and tenure Newport County 9 March 2017 Present PL 97 W 42 D 24 L 31 43.3% — As opposed to the manager they have just let go, who has a L2 record of; Pl 46 W26 D7 L13 Win % 56.5. |
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Post by emperorsuperbus on Dec 17, 2018 17:51:48 GMT
Managerial statistics As of match played 11 December 2018 Managerial record by team and tenure Newport County 9 March 2017 Present PL 97 W 42 D 24 L 31 43.3% — As opposed to the manager they have just let go, who has a L2 record of; Pl 46 W26 D7 L13 Win % 56.5. DC was sacked by this shower of a board, he wasn’t going to walk out on us. DC was this seasons best hope for turning our form around this season and keeping us up, or getting us up next year. |
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Post by emperorsuperbus on Dec 17, 2018 17:58:33 GMT
As opposed to the manager they have just let go, who has a L2 record of; Pl 46 W26 D7 L13 Win % 56.5. DC was sacked by this shower of a board, he wasn’t going to walk out on us. DC was this seasons best hope for turning our form around this season and keeping us up, or getting us up next year. Stewy left before or AFTER he learned someone else was taking charge of the team at Sunderland? |
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Post by emperorsuperbus on Dec 17, 2018 18:14:34 GMT
The new manager is definitely not Holloway, he knows it needs proper money spent on forward line to keep us up or get us back up, so won’t go near these owners and their downsizing plans. Neither will Cotterill without guarantees he can spend the money needed to take team forward. There are managers, say bottom half of the conference, or keen to play football manager with a real club for the first time, who will jump at the job without those guarantees. But surely us fans want someone appointed who has those guarantees of budget and control?
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Post by emperorsuperbus on Dec 17, 2018 18:23:46 GMT
The new manager is definitely not Holloway, he knows it needs proper money spent on forward line to keep us up or get us back up, so won’t go near these owners and their downsizing plans. Neither will Cotterill without guarantees he can spend the money needed to take team forward. There are managers, say bottom half of the conference, or keen to play football manager with a real club for the first time, who will jump at the job without those guarantees. But surely us fans want someone appointed who has those guarantees of budget and control? Its Cotterill for me, for two big reasons. One. As an under performing player would you want to go into changing room with someone with his reputation? Two. It sends out the signal to us fans he’s won the negotiation with the board over control and investment. Anyone except Cotterill or Holloway sends out the wrong signal on those two big reasons. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 20:00:17 GMT
The new manager is definitely not Holloway, he knows it needs proper money spent on forward line to keep us up or get us back up, so won’t go near these owners and their downsizing plans. Neither will Cotterill without guarantees he can spend the money needed to take team forward. There are managers, say bottom half of the conference, or keen to play football manager with a real club for the first time, who will jump at the job without those guarantees. But surely us fans want someone appointed who has those guarantees of budget and control? Its Cotterill for me, for two big reasons. One. As an under performing player would you want to go into changing room with someone with his reputation? Two. It sends out the signal to us fans he’s won the negotiation with the board over control and investment. Anyone except Cotterill or Holloway sends out the wrong signal on those two big reasons. No stadium, no training ground, silence on everything, a pathetic tent when that mob down the road have a massive stadium expansion scheme ongoing, selling our best players, sitting in an office 120 miles away and popping that through as a company expense at the thick end of a thousand quid a day whilst we have food served out of disgusting wooden huts, the bing-bong boxes don't work, even the smallest scoreboard in the world has failed. What signals does that send? No, I'm not having a good day. |
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Post by Blue Mist on Dec 17, 2018 20:37:29 GMT
Very f**king underwhelmed if thats true.
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Post by Blue Mist on Dec 17, 2018 20:51:04 GMT
The new manager is definitely not Holloway, he knows it needs proper money spent on forward line to keep us up or get us back up, so won’t go near these owners and their downsizing plans. Neither will Cotterill without guarantees he can spend the money needed to take team forward. There are managers, say bottom half of the conference, or keen to play football manager with a real club for the first time, who will jump at the job without those guarantees. But surely us fans want someone appointed who has those guarantees of budget and control? You’d hope as a gashead Ollie would apply for the job anyway, at very least he would get the inside knowledge of the boards budget and strategy. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 23:20:20 GMT
Watched flynn play for a young newport reserves v an experienced rovers team which included mansell,liam lawrence and byron moore at cribbs.
Thing is he was on the back of the newport youngsters all match swearing and cursing at them bordering on bullying.
It really put me off the bloke despite the fact that since then he has done a good job at newport.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 23:29:30 GMT
Its Cotterill for me, for two big reasons. One. As an under performing player would you want to go into changing room with someone with his reputation? Two. It sends out the signal to us fans he’s won the negotiation with the board over control and investment. Anyone except Cotterill or Holloway sends out the wrong signal on those two big reasons. No stadium, no training ground, silence on everything, a pathetic tent when that mob down the road have a massive stadium expansion scheme ongoing, selling our best players, sitting in an office 120 miles away and popping that through as a company expense at the thick end of a thousand quid a day whilst we have food served out of disgusting wooden huts, the bing-bong boxes don't work, even the smallest scoreboard in the world has failed. What signals does that send? No, I'm not having a good day. I think the disappointments concerning the owners should be balanced against the clear improvements at the club. 1] The pitch and the sprinklers. 2] the club shop and bar. 3] mid table league one budget. 4] The development squad. 5] A more professional coaching set up. The UWE,who can say if they were right or wrong to proceed with that project? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 23:53:07 GMT
No stadium, no training ground, silence on everything, a pathetic tent when that mob down the road have a massive stadium expansion scheme ongoing, selling our best players, sitting in an office 120 miles away and popping that through as a company expense at the thick end of a thousand quid a day whilst we have food served out of disgusting wooden huts, the bing-bong boxes don't work, even the smallest scoreboard in the world has failed. What signals does that send? No, I'm not having a good day. I think the disappointments concerning the owners should be balanced against the clear improvements at the club. 1] The pitch and the sprinklers. 2] the club shop and bar. 3] mid table league one budget. 4] The development squad. 5] A more professional coaching set up. The UWE,who can say if they were right or wrong to proceed with that project? 1. Fair comment. 2. Don't use the bars as I don't like drunk people. The shop is dreadful, a wasted opportunity. That's probably the fault of Gorringe, but it's happened on the watch of these owners. 3. You are just teasing, aren't you? I know the ex-manager said that, but as you started a thread about only stating as fact that which we know to be true, I'm sure you've missed a word out here, shouldn't it have read; Reported mid-table budget? 4. Hmmmmph. 5. That doesn't seem to be helping at all. 6. I didn't mention UWE, I was talking about a new stadium, the one that Wael said was 'essential' and that he had the best experts available working on. Anyway, even if the points you made were all good points, which they aren't, but even if they were, that still wouldn't excuse the things that are so horribly wrong. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 0:27:54 GMT
I think the disappointments concerning the owners should be balanced against the clear improvements at the club. 1] The pitch and the sprinklers. 2] the club shop and bar. 3] mid table league one budget. 4] The development squad. 5] A more professional coaching set up. The UWE,who can say if they were right or wrong to proceed with that project? 1. Fair comment. 2. Don't use the bars as I don't like drunk people. The shop is dreadful, a wasted opportunity. That's probably the fault of Gorringe, but it's happened on the watch of these owners. 3. You are just teasing, aren't you? I know the ex-manager said that, but as you started a thread about only stating as fact that which we know to be true, I'm sure you've missed a word out here, shouldn't it have read; Reported mid-table budget? 4. Hmmmmph. 5. That doesn't seem to be helping at all. 6. I didn't mention UWE, I was talking about a new stadium, the one that Wael said was 'essential' and that he had the best experts available working on. Anyway, even if the points you made were all good points, which they aren't, but even if they were, that still wouldn't excuse the things that are so horribly wrong. I just believed what the manager said about mid table budget but also signing nichols,sercombe,craig,bennett,rodman,upson and payne were clear indicators of an increasing wage bill for me anyway. With no 4 and 5 they could easily just cut the coaches and the development squad but that would be an obvious backward step imo. As another poster stated the bar was set very low by the previous owner but these owners have improved the club considerably imo. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 10:32:43 GMT
1. Fair comment. 2. Don't use the bars as I don't like drunk people. The shop is dreadful, a wasted opportunity. That's probably the fault of Gorringe, but it's happened on the watch of these owners. 3. You are just teasing, aren't you? I know the ex-manager said that, but as you started a thread about only stating as fact that which we know to be true, I'm sure you've missed a word out here, shouldn't it have read; Reported mid-table budget? 4. Hmmmmph. 5. That doesn't seem to be helping at all. 6. I didn't mention UWE, I was talking about a new stadium, the one that Wael said was 'essential' and that he had the best experts available working on. Anyway, even if the points you made were all good points, which they aren't, but even if they were, that still wouldn't excuse the things that are so horribly wrong. I just believed what the manager said about mid table budget but also signing nichols,sercombe,craig,bennett,rodman,upson and payne were clear indicators of an increasing wage bill for me anyway. With no 4 and 5 they could easily just cut the coaches and the development squad but that would be an obvious backward step imo. As another poster stated the bar was set very low by the previous owner but these owners have improved the club considerably imo. Ignore all the players who left during the period that Nichols, Sercombe, Bennett, Rodman, Upson (from a dire relegated team, hard to think he's a high earner) and Payne arrived, as if Taylor, Bodin, Ellis, Easter, Rory and probably loads of others weren't being paid. Odd argument. You would have to define what you mean by 'Improve the club', and set that against objectives at the outset. The 2 main objectives, I'm guessing, would be to achieve success on the field and to run the FC with minimal losses (profit would be extraordinary, not impossible, but extraordinary). I would say, by both of those measures, based on our League position and the financial accounts, they are doing a poor job. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 11:39:15 GMT
I just believed what the manager said about mid table budget but also signing nichols,sercombe,craig,bennett,rodman,upson and payne were clear indicators of an increasing wage bill for me anyway. With no 4 and 5 they could easily just cut the coaches and the development squad but that would be an obvious backward step imo. As another poster stated the bar was set very low by the previous owner but these owners have improved the club considerably imo. Ignore all the players who left during the period that Nichols, Sercombe, Bennett, Rodman, Upson (from a dire relegated team, hard to think he's a high earner) and Payne arrived, as if Taylor, Bodin, Ellis, Easter, Rory and probably loads of others weren't being paid. Odd argument. You would have to define what you mean by 'Improve the club', and set that against objectives at the outset. The 2 main objectives, I'm guessing, would be to achieve success on the field and to run the FC with minimal losses (profit would be extraordinary, not impossible, but extraordinary). I would say, by both of those measures, based on our League position and the financial accounts, they are doing a poor job. We will just have to agree to differ on the playing budget which i firmly believe is about middling in our division. The extra coaches and attention to diet,the dev squad,statistical analysis etc is simply catching up to what clubs of similar size already have as is the head of recruitment. If we get relegated maybe all the extra stuff which i feel brings us up to date but you feel is not needed will be axed and we can carry on as we did before. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 12:33:34 GMT
Ignore all the players who left during the period that Nichols, Sercombe, Bennett, Rodman, Upson (from a dire relegated team, hard to think he's a high earner) and Payne arrived, as if Taylor, Bodin, Ellis, Easter, Rory and probably loads of others weren't being paid. Odd argument. You would have to define what you mean by 'Improve the club', and set that against objectives at the outset. The 2 main objectives, I'm guessing, would be to achieve success on the field and to run the FC with minimal losses (profit would be extraordinary, not impossible, but extraordinary). I would say, by both of those measures, based on our League position and the financial accounts, they are doing a poor job. We will just have to agree to differ on the playing budget which i firmly believe is about middling in our division. The extra coaches and attention to diet,the dev squad,statistical analysis etc is simply catching up to what clubs of similar size already have as is the head of recruitment. If we get relegated maybe all the extra stuff which i feel brings us up to date but you feel is not needed will be axed and we can carry on as we did before.  Flat earthers seem to firmly and truly believe that the earth is flat, go to their website, look at their ''evidence'', there's plenty, that doesn't make it so. We had dieticiens and a professional analysis company going over players' performance in games at least 10 years ago, it's not something new to the club. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 12:43:09 GMT
We will just have to agree to differ on the playing budget which i firmly believe is about middling in our division. The extra coaches and attention to diet,the dev squad,statistical analysis etc is simply catching up to what clubs of similar size already have as is the head of recruitment. If we get relegated maybe all the extra stuff which i feel brings us up to date but you feel is not needed will be axed and we can carry on as we did before. Flat earthers seem to firmly and truly believe that the earth is flat, go to their website, look at their ''evidence'', there's plenty, that doesn't make it so. We had dieticiens and a professional analysis company going over players' performance in games at least 10 years ago, it's not something new to the club. Why would dc lie about his budget? especially as the information puts him in a worse light. What i dont understand is why you cant accept that we have a different opinion on the budget? Why bother mocking an opinion with the flat earth bulls**t? You cannot prove our playing budget is 18th or whatever you think and i cant prove its 11th as i believe it is approx. |
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Post by mangogas15 on Dec 19, 2018 9:58:52 GMT
As opposed to the manager they have just let go, who has a L2 record of; Pl 46 W26 D7 L13 Win % 56.5. DC was sacked by this shower of a board, he wasn’t going to walk out on us. DC was this seasons best hope for turning our form around this season and keeping us up, or getting us up next year. Disagree He showed desperation in the last few months. Subbing players at 30 minutes. Never picking the same starting line up. It never works. When Ranieri, the ultimate tinkerman, picked a settled side he won the PL. Clarke seemed to forget everything he ever learned and ran out of ideas. I can't see how striker Marcus Stewart couldn't effect more creativity from the forwards. Change was needed. Harsh facts |
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Post by mangogas15 on Dec 19, 2018 10:00:41 GMT
The new manager is definitely not Holloway, he knows it needs proper money spent on forward line to keep us up or get us back up, so won’t go near these owners and their downsizing plans. Neither will Cotterill without guarantees he can spend the money needed to take team forward. There are managers, say bottom half of the conference, or keen to play football manager with a real club for the first time, who will jump at the job without those guarantees. But surely us fans want someone appointed who has those guarantees of budget and control? You’d hope as a gashead Ollie would apply for the job anyway, at very least he would get the inside knowledge of the boards budget and strategy. Ollie wasn't on EFL on Quest on Saturday. Possibly to avoid being asked the question by Colin Murray |
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Post by crater on Dec 19, 2018 10:10:47 GMT
DC was sacked by this shower of a board, he wasn’t going to walk out on us. DC was this seasons best hope for turning our form around this season and keeping us up, or getting us up next year. Disagree He showed desperation in the last few months. Subbing players at 30 minutes. Never picking the same starting line up. It never works. When Ranieri, the ultimate tinkerman, picked a settled side he won the PL. Clarke seemed to forget everything he ever learned and ran out of ideas. I can't see how striker Marcus Stewart couldn't effect more creativity from the forwards. Change was needed. Harsh facts DC constantly changed the team and it got us 2 promotions and 2 mid table finishes |
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Flat earthers seem to firmly and truly believe that the earth is flat, go to their website, look at their ''evidence'', there's plenty, that doesn't make it so.