Mike Dodds

But he's not happy, I think would be the fair reflection in a very snapshot way.

Mike Dodds was linked very early on.

Ashley Cole was one of the names that got thrown around since then.

But it seems now the frontrunner is Carl Robinson.

Hopefully he can.

one thing I did want to ask you about while you're here very quickly TalkSport understands a former Chelsea Arsenal and England defender Ashley Cole was interviewed by the League One side Bromley for their vacant manager role after Andy Woodman left the club now also reportedly Stuart Maynard Mike Dodds in the conversation for this job as well more experience obviously managerially but does it surprise you that someone with his record he's coached England under 21s he's been a coach for England senior team he worked in the Premier League under Frank Lampard with Chelsea And obviously his glittering career, 107 England caps.

Does it surprise you that his first managerial job in England might be Bromley?

It's going to be interesting.

Last season as well, like he came into the run of it and towards January, February time, he came into a bit of a run of it and was fantastic then.

And we were like, even then it was like, this is a player that couldn't get in the side for the first half of the season, which just shows you the level of Mike Dodds' tactical and footballing knowledge.

Really for a player like that not to get into the side.

So, you know, Bromley do go for him.

more so but I think in a way they're better for having that result happen to them earlier on in the season and it is a very harsh dismissal is perhaps the word you'd call it.

Byron Webster has taken over an interim charge former defender of course I think more alarmingly than that is the favourite at time of recording for the job is Mike Dodds who has not shone himself in the best of lights, we'll put it like that, during his time at Wickham Wanderers.

And as well, on top of that, in terms of sort of the poor spell he had at Wickham, is that he's a very different manager to Andy Woodman.

It's an incredibly different style of play.

And that squad is set up to play Andy Woodman football.

It is very much not set up to play Mike Dodds football.

So obviously, time of recording, he's the favourite in the betting odds, doesn't really mean anything at this stage.

But if that is the direction they go, it is even more of sort of a self-harming decision than it seems even on the face of it.

But they weren't, I don't know, it seems a bit, it does seem a bit odd.

They're supposed to be looking at this Mike Dodds play, aren't they? Or are they? I don't know.

But that's hard.

Yeah, a complete clash of styles.

They've not been hugely incredible this season, but there was a feeling that as the season went on, Bromley would only get stronger.

In terms of replacement, I think it's a bit too early to kind of I have a guess at any names Mike Dodds has been mentioned, but again, it all feels a bit too soon to be thinking about possible replacements for Andy Woodman.

I'm sure the review team will look a bit more in-depth at this at the weekend, so make sure you subscribe, like the video, follow the podcast, whatever it is you do, to get their thoughts as well this weekend.

I just thought I'd drop in here before the rest of the episode to let you know that we recorded it before Bromley had announced the news.

Back to purgatory.

Mike Dodds 2.0. Why always Luton? Ooh, some more alliteration here.

Hatters humiliate Hounslow.

Nice.

There's so many more moving parts.

I mean, a football club's a very intricate thing, right? But going back to the whole Hounslow coming in, I, I guess the question for you boys, and I, I've been eagerly awaiting your, your answer to this question for, for the better part of a week or since Saturday really, is in what universe does it make sense to take a guy who was part of two failed previous managerial regimes? In what universe is that the right way to go? It, it seems to me like it's like, uh, we- we've had two...

We've had Mike Dodds, he's come in.

Uh, Hounslow was part of that setup.