{"id":581442,"date":"2021-01-31T09:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T14:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=581442"},"modified":"2021-01-31T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T14:28:17","slug":"fleetwood-town-appoint-simon-grayson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/31\/fleetwood-town-appoint-simon-grayson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleetwood Town Appoint Simon Grayson as Their New Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/football\/tag\/fleetwood-town\" target=\"_self\">Fleetwood Town<\/a> have appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetwoodtownfc.com\/news\/2021\/january\/simon-grayson-joins-fleetwood-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Grayson as the club\u2019s new manager<\/a>. Grayson is the permanent replacement for Joey Barton who <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/04\/fleetwood-town-confirm-departure-joey-barton\/\" target=\"_self\">left the club<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Wiles has been in caretaker charge of the first team but has failed to win any of his five league games.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson brings a wealth of experience and will be tasked with firing Fleetwood back into promotion contention. He has agreed a deal at Highbury until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Fleetwood Town Appoint Simon Grayson<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ftfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ftfc<\/a> can confirm the appointment of Simon Grayson as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson arrives with more than 15 years of first team managerial experience on his CV, which includes promotion winning stints from League One with four difference clubs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnwardTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#OnwardTogether<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fleetwood Town FC (@ftfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ftfc\/status\/1355871218080116736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Grayson Returns to Management After a Year Out of the Game<\/h3>\n<p>The 51-year-old brings plenty of experience and is no stranger to League One. He boasts an impressive CV, managing several clubs at this level including <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Leeds United<\/a>, <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/huddersfield-town\" target=\"_self\">Huddersfield Town<\/a> and <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/sunderland\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a>. He led Leeds to promotion in 2010 and Fleetwood are hoping he can do the same here.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson\u2019s most recent management job was a second spell in charge of <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/blackpool\" target=\"_self\">Blackpool<\/a>. However, he was dismissed in February last year after a poor run of results. He is refreshed and raring to go but will be under increasing pressure having managed Fleetwood\u2019s arch-rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson must arrest a worrying slump of form which has seen the Cod Army fail to win any of their last eight league games. Overall, it&#8217;s one win from their last 12, which is a real concern. Grayson needs to re-energise a talented squad with play-offs not out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>He joins a Fleetwood side sat in 14<sup>th<\/sup> place, nine points off the play-off places. The club are ambitious and want to progress but their season for one reason or another hasn\u2019t come together. The pressure will be on Grayson to ignite their flailing season.<\/p>\n<p>His first game in charge will be against struggling <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/bristol-rovers\" target=\"_self\">Bristol Rovers<\/a> next weekend &#8211; a great opportunity for him to make a winning start. That could give them a platform to build on, with fixtures against promotion contenders to follow in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson\u2019s new side will face <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/doncaster-rovers\" target=\"_self\">Doncaster Rovers<\/a>, Sunderland, <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/lincoln-city\" target=\"_self\">Lincoln City<\/a>, <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/accrington-stanley\" target=\"_self\">Accrington Stanley<\/a> and <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/charlton-athletic\" target=\"_self\">Charlton Athletic<\/a> in his first seven games. It&#8217;s a potentially season-defining run of games for the Cod Army.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"-fKPImDjQ_BKqSBNm757QQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1194370001\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-fKPImDjQ_BKqSBNm757QQ',sig:'FBfLdPW_KyAc7avU42lFIKD37xlYSNgukirI-PkRdSk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1194370001',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleetwood Town have appointed Simon Grayson as the club\u2019s new manager. Grayson is the permanent replacement for Joey Barton who left the club earlier this month. Simon Wiles has been in caretaker charge of the first team but has failed to win any of his five league games. Grayson brings a wealth of experience and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":581448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30],"tags":[657,244,430,188,1220,7955,136],"class_list":["post-581442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","tag-efl-league-one","tag-fleetwood-town","tag-joey-barton","tag-league-one","tag-simon-grayson","tag-simon-wiles","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}