After Thorn sacking, City must get the next appointment right.

Thorn’s departure was strange, even for City.

This isn’t a blog I thought I’d write as we enter the 5th game of the season tomorrow, but here we go.

So after the second-half that many didn’t see coming over their half-time beers on Saturday bought an end to one of the oddest and tumultuous managerial reigns in this club’s history.

Losing a 2-0 lead to Bury, seen by some as relegation fodder, is not acceptable. It just isn’t, especially coming at the Ricoh where we have been tough to crack in 2012.

But no way did I think it deserved to be the end for Andy Thorn.

We didn’t lose, but we, from all accounts didn’t play to a level people saw as acceptable. All together though it was harsh and someone like Thorn, who held himself so well in the face of the ridiculous goings of last season, has every right to feel a gripe about finding himself without a job.

But, some will see this as a small victory. Thorn is no longer the man at the helm and the manager which fell into the job through an ownership looking to get fans’ on side and the style he bought being chalk to Aidy Boothroyd’s cheese 15 months ago.

But now, with City fans in the majority looking to support a hopeful promotion charge, the owners have to get this appointment right. They just have to.

I feel compelled to say it might just define the club for the foreseeable future on and off the field.

If they get it wrong, and we have no way of saying if they do or not now for quite a few months- or days in some people’s cases.

But this is a ownership working in the name of a fan base who are waiting for them to call for their collective heads and will do at a moment’s notice.

A summer of transfer activity has nullified the gripes a little- the ongoing rent issue is a point of discourse- but if they appoint someone who is wrong for the side and how they look now (Adam Barton, Cody McDonald, Kevin Malaga spine) then they will get the protests and the like crop up with renewed regularity and vigour.

Barton, like most summer signings, will mean the footballing philosophy can’t change to much with next boss.

But who should get the job?

There is a need- as I have hinted to above- of getting someone in who will have a philosophy matching Thorn’s as the players at the club now do not suit the stylings of a Long-ball enthusiast.

But, what is needed more and was mentioned a couple of times by Tim Fisher this morning on BBC CWR is someone to change the culture.

That is a must, the last time we were in this league we had Jimmy Hill at the helm and he was just gaining momentum with his Sky Blue revolution.

I am in no way saying that we need Jimmy or the second coming of him. But we need someone to come in and just change the club from top to bottom as much as is viably possible.

The phrase ‘scruff of the neck’ would be the best way to describe what is needed. Boothroyd had a steely way about him and Thorn for all his qualities, was simply put not someone we needed.

His ability to spot talent is the reason we have a club in some way, as the players he found and bought to the club have bankrolled the club for too long. His ability didn’t transfer to the dugout, which is a shame as he deserved more of a chance given what he was put through, but it wasn’t to be and now we see who comes next.

On to that and just who the next incumbent of the literal hot-seat at the Ricoh should/could well be.

Knowing the situation at the club, I wouldn’t expect another swoop to drag a manager away from another club.

Di Canio is one of many favourites with the bookies, but just, no. Swindon are with money and will just outbid us if we really do have any interest in him.

Steve Davis is a intriguing name to watch and someone who gained admirers leading his Crewe side to promotion last season.

People like Steve Davis at Crewe are intriguing. He has not been in charge for a year yet but has taken his side up a division thanks to a near 20 game unbeaten run. Match that with the procession line of talent that is the Gresty Road club, he has got a very young team playing.

A note for that is following the departure of 18-year old Nick Powell to Man United, Davis stated that his role in his XI would be taken by Max Clayton, also 18. His eptitude of working and getting the best out of young players is a massive plus when you look at our squad, even with the scatter of experienced heads in the team at City.

One tweeter, Gavin Horsfall was almost too excited about the prospect of ex-City loanee Dean Holdsworth being the new boss, imploring them to go ‘cap in hand’ to the League 2 side to bring him here.

I know little of what Holdsworth is doing at Aldershot past what Gavin told me. But he bought Newport County to the top 6 of the Blue Square Premier before leaving to Aldershot where he seems to have run a steady ship and picked up many admirers. And that is that, I will look into Holdsworth more if he given the reigns.

But for me, Dennis Wise is the archetypal ‘culture change’ boss.

Wise is out of work, so cheap, has recently said he wants back in the game as soon as possible and enjoyed his time here a few years ago and was a fan favourite (scored 6 in 13) despite his short stay.

He is a ‘winner’ has won virtually everything there is to win in the game and spent most of his playing career at the top level.

Wise will command respect and will not stand for ineptitude.

In his managerial career, he has so far seemed to understand that you have to work your way up, like he did in his playing career. He has 47% win percentage over three stop-off’s at Leeds, Miwall & Swindon.

He is also someone looking to rebuild his reputation as a promising young manager after a horrific time at Newcastle where he was chased out of town after a series of bizarre decisions.

He isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but at a time where we see constant, weekly reminders of players playing far below par, Wise will be someone to retain order and shake up the under-performers in a hurry.

If he isn’t given the job then I will support whoever is given the job the same as I have every manager we have seen roll in and out of the club.

But this has to be the right decision.

This has to be a step forward for a club in a tailspin.

SISU must surely realise that more than most what a bad appointment could mean to the club and as they had their mouthpiece, Tim Fisher, mention that the financial situation has been ‘turned around’ at the club.

If all that is the case will come clear in the coming days, but a nagging feeling of SISU hoping they fall into another appointment, how they did with Thorn, might come to fruition in the wake of a more obvious culture change.

But, remember this club has churned out another man with good intentions and reaped no success.

That must be the change this appointment results in.

PUSB!