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A very strange chapter in our history, dont particularly hold any grudge against him as it was all over so quickly but will be interesting to keep an eye on the goings on over the next few months or so.
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Wish him well. I thought he had something about him and all would have become clear had he been given the time.
Completely agree & whilst I was puzzled by some of his selections the post by Solihull fan puts a lot of his "team selections " into some kind of perspective. He was a young inexperienced manager who would always make mistakes but he, incorrectly, thought he had time and the backing of the owner to put his ideas into action with a view to building a side for this season. Hindsight is showing that an experienced Manager like Slade has not found team building too easy and I believe under Bignot we would have signed some younger and hungrier players with sell on potential rather than a few of the more experienced guys RS has brought in. That said, despite the poor start, its early days and I recall Exeter and Cambridge both had pretty awful starts last season with Exeter making play off final and Cambridge just missing out. With suspensions and currently unfit players returning I still believe we can put out a very competitive first eleven. Still wonder what MB would have put together but will never know so lets hope RS does know his best eleven pretty soon and we start to climb the league.
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I liked MB's passion and desire to get this club moving upwards and from what fatharry says makes sense on what MB was doing because we were safe earlier than expected. I would have liked to see if he could replicate what he had did at Barrow like fatharry says.
I think that MB was going about business, was like him going into Fenty's play room and playing with his toys and making a mess. at least no ties were wiggled, chairs thrown or flags deconstructed.
Football under MB was like that scene from Forest Gump, but instead of life change for football, football under MB is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you was going to get.
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Should have been given longer. The apparent splurge in the January transfer window could only have been approved by the Board (either explicitly in someone signing off on the fees and contracts, or implicitly in delegating authority to the manager). The Board were responsible.
Of course it's all been different in the Summer transfer window. Slade has not signed nearly as many pla...eh, how many?
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Top and bottom of it with Bignot is that under his stewardship we mostly played sh1t. Often because of stupid selections like Donny at home or the complete lack of tactics.
Sadly I am not sure we are doing any better now.
What is a worry is the amount of Town fans that still confuse his cliche bullsh1t with "passion".
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September 1, 2017, 9:57pm |
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I agree with that.
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September 1, 2017, 10:24pm |
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If he'd have calmed himself down a bit, I think we'd have been in better shape than we are today. He could certainly pick out players with ability and potential. He was looking to build for the future while RS is scrapping around with players from the past trying to deal with today.
Still can't work out whether he'd have ended up being insanely amazing or amazingly insane.
Compared to what we've got now, I think I'd like to have found out..
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Mariner_09 |
September 1, 2017, 10:32pm |
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I don't think it was the unmitigated disaster that some make it to be. He made a couple of really good signings (Jones and Osborne) and produced three of the best four performances of the season (at Plymouth, Carlisle and at home to Mansfield) and we were comfortably safe by March under his premiership.
The down sides were rather stark mind you. His man management seemed to be disastrous, the McKeown post Stevenage and Henderson being thrown under the bus just spoke of amateurishness. JT heard of stories of a unhappy dressing room and I'd be staggered if the board didn't get Dave Moore's advice and I can hardly think that Dis and Pearson would be excrement stiring after all their time here. The tactics were non-existent on occasion.
Some of his other signings were unnecessary. Maxwell, Yussuf and Gunning either didn't play or were absolutely terrible, all waste of money which ever way you cut it.
Playing Davies at wing back was asking for trouble and the team selections at Pompey and at home to Donny in particular, with our best centre halves on the bench and Comley out wide were just baffling.
His interviews were about as much use as a pair of sunglasses on a bloke with one ear and he often said 10 million words but actually told us nothing and contradicted himself even within interviews sometimes, again post-Stevenage springs to mind.
He had his heart in the right place but perhaps needed to move to a higher end of Conference club or a low end league club before coming to a club with one of the biggest fanbases in this league. He might learn and come back stronger, but I can't help but feel we were on a one way ticket to the Conference with him at the helm.
However, I do feel that we may not moved off the line, I think we'll stay up, just, but it could be difficult and that has to bring into question the judgement those who appointed the managers.
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If he'd have calmed himself down a bit, I think we'd have been in better shape than we are today. He could certainly pick out players with ability and potential. He was looking to build for the future while RS is scrapping around with players from the past trying to deal with today.
Still can't work out whether he'd have ended up being insanely amazing or amazingly insane.
Compared to what we've got now, I think I'd like to have found out..
Are you saying Yesterday's Man who was planning for the Future would have been better than Today's Man from Yesteryear who's building for the Past? I like that insane phrase you came up with. I think I'm going to nick it and use it at work.
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Should have been given longer. The apparent splurge in the January transfer window could only have been approved by the Board (either explicitly in someone signing off on the fees and contracts, or implicitly in delegating authority to the manager). The Board were responsible.
Of course it's all been different in the Summer transfer window. Slade has not signed nearly as many pla...eh, how many?
The "board" let him sign the players it is true, but subsequently it became obvious his tenure was becoming a disaster. Not so much about results, but the training, player unrest and totally bizarre team selections/media comments convinced the "board" that they had backed the wrong man. Slade has signed his own players like all managers, and obviously we will get rid of those surplus to requirements asap. I am now beginning to think it might take Slade two seasons at least to get us properly sorted.
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