Who's for the Farrar Road hotseat?

This is an interesting one, I'm glad to see some urgency from the board. Ideally an appointment needs to be made within the next two weeks or so otherwise it's a big ask for any manager to come in and sort out a decent pre-season. Maybe some friendlies were already arranged by Bleo, time will tell. I have no real preference regarding the new manager although the rumour regarding Nev Powell is an interesting one and he'd certainly be a popular appointment.

It doesn't really make much sense to me, why resign after releasing Jiws and possibly Havard (although this has been disputed recently). If he knew he was staying around then surely he should have made it clear before making any decisions regarding the playing staff? An office manager/chief executive wouldn't sack some of his staff knowing that he'd resign the next week would he? He told Jiws that he wasn't in his plans for next season, funny that as his own plans seemingly didn't involve Bangor City!!

I know he stated that he was out of work and desperate for a job but surely before taking any job on you do a bit of investigating? I know that having to travel down to deepest south Wales in a week was a disgrace and it shouldn't happen but still he should have known that he'd have to go to both Llanelli and Haverfordwest at some stage in the season.

He also stated that he had problems attracting English players to the club, Dav seemingly never had problems attracting good English players to the club. But, I can sympathise here, it's a big ask to expect part-time players to travel down to Llanelli on a Tuesday night. Nothing short of disgraceful really. Even with a local team the players wouldn't get back to Bangor before midnight/1 in the morning and if they had to work the next morning it's a pain. Maybe they had to take time off work to play, again not good.

Bleo did underline the main problem we have, we can't compete financially with certain other sides. I might slag off the likes of Rhyl quite often but to be honest I'm jealous of them in many ways. Infastructure being the main one, their ground (although looking like a meccano fan's wet dream) is a damn sight better than ours, the fact that they can pay their players money we can only dream of is down to hard-work on behalf of their board, maybe that their league "win" helped in some way but it'd be wrong to attribute their success solely on that. We struggle to attract any investment and therefore we struggle on the pitch. You can spare me the nonsense that a local side full of local talent would sort this problem out, local lads still want paying! The legion of Bangor-area players at Port are certainly not playing merely for the love of Porthmadog. It hasn't helped our case that we've paid certain underperforming players too much in the past. One example was that after the Llanrug match one of the local players was a bit upset that another player was paid £250 for standing around looking disinterested while other players were paid less than half that amount.

I hope that Bleo has left us in a healthier position than we were in 6 months ago. It's now up to the new manager, whoever he is to build on his foundations.