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Wanted to make sure the first post in here was a positive one.  What a fupping great man he is, taken us from Division 2 obscurity and looking like dead certs for the drop into the league Oxf*rd struggle in, to promotion candidates in just 4 turbulent yet overall glorious years.  Keep up the good work that man.

Vote to make him feel appreciated!  Or to render your dissatisfaction (what more do you want - would you rather have Mel Machin?!).

On a side note, anyone seen his feet?  Tiny or what!!!

Chuzzlewit!

I think i would worry about him tactically in a higher division. For the foreseeable future, i see no reason to axe him though.

I beleive that generally he has done a good job.  Considering the position and financial status of the club he has turned us into the very realistic promotion hopefuls predomenantly as a result of some very good buys.

I do believe however that tactically he is not the best and is prone to making some quite odd decisions.  I am not sure also if sometimes he is able to truly communicate with the players to get accross his ideas.

So generally i think he has done a good job but, as always, there is still room for improvement!

I am sounded like my old school teacher here! :soapy tit wank:

well, he has done a better job than Evans or Todd did. Evans gave up, Todd was useless. King has stayed got a decrnt sqaud, but i think he will go when we get into a higher division.

He's not a legend but he's not that bad.  He's alright at this level but couldn't do a job any higher, lower league manager is our Mr King.

Had to go for so-so as well.  Remember saying he would have to go if we lost that game against Mansfield.  We didn't, and I think he's done pretty well since then.

He's so much of a legend he puts King Arthur and Robin Hood to shame. Even if they mearged into some sort of super-legend

Pretty good.  If Arsene Wenger said he wanted to come to Swindon i would want King out, but he is the best we're going to get.  So i'm happy.

Wenger can't motivate players as shown by Arsenal's recent run of just one win in ten games. With a squad such as Arsenal's that's pathetic. If Wenger wants to come I say keep King and tell Wenger to fuck off, If Mourinho wants to come then maybe we can sort something out.

I can't even make my mind up about him anymore. I don't want him to leave but I wouldn't be suicidal if he did, that's about as much as I can say really...

He's worked wonders in terms of getting us a very good first choice 15/16. But his tactical misgivingd are cringe-inducing to say the least

I have to agree with that. If the first team is playing ok then he's but as soon as its not going well he is unable to change things.

So-so, best we're going to get in this division

Most managers in this division are average at every area that their job concerns. What makes King so infuriating is that he is brilliant at some parts and spectacularly awful at others. If he could sort out his weaknesses he wouldn't be managing at this level.

King Out!!  :wink:

I see no one voted king bloody crap. Then agian, Stanley and J1mmy are the only ones that really hated him that much.

u really do know fuck all

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Wasn't being entirely serious there. Just highlighting the fact that even the best managers aren't perfect. People claim that King can't motivate players when we're going through a bad patch, I was just applying the same logic to Wenger, in both cases it's bollocks.

peace restored i rule you suck

I can't really understand why when this topic was started walrus was really pro king and then since then we've got 19 points from our last 10 games, which is almost automatic promotion form and now he's all King is a cunt, get him out.

What's that about hey?

Look, have a pop at people who are anti-King in general but when you go personal that's unfair.  You have also done what is called non-contextual literalism, which is a tactic the KKK use to show the Bible as justifying racism.

I maintain King is a legend.  He has done a fantastic job for Swindon, and till this point I have always been fairly behind him.  However, the slip we have endured this season is poor.  If we make the playoffs this season, its satisfactory to a degree, but really we should have been knocking on the door of automatic this season rather than playoffs with a squad of our quality.

I do not want to repeat arguments I've put in other posts, but basically this season has not been good enough for the squad we have.  Yes King has done a great job for the club - I'm probably different to many King-haters as I believe he's a good bloke who's done well - but the continuous knock-backs and poor, abysmal runs of form mean we are unlikely to ever reach the championship under his guidance.

My stance has changed since we lay 14th in the league with the squad of our quality.  People think we're out the woods now, but if you examine the league table, Bournemouth are certs to jump above us (we have to beat them at the CG) and Hartlepool and Brentford will be long once they've played their games in hand.  Playoffs looks distant still to me, and this isn't good enough.

In conclusion:  King = good man, done a good job for the club, but now needs to be quietly alleviated from his position and someone more capable of dragging this club into the championship to replace him.

Swindon Town FC 0 - 3 Colchester says it all for me really.

I'm not having a personal attack at you, I just honestly couldn't really understand it. Just wondering what what your reasons were.

I don't think we've done that badly this season all things considered, if King had been allowed to bring in the players he wanted in the summer then we might have got going a bit sooner but I don't think it's been disastrous by a long way.

I think the league is harder this season as a few teams have improved, we've done alright just been hit by a few setbacks, financial problems and injuries but are now starting to show a bit more form. Just hope it continues.

To sack king at this stage in the season and in this position would rank alongside some of the most bizarre sackings ever anyway. If anyone can get us to the championship with our finances it'll be King.

Shouldn't underestimate how difficult a task that is though, doubt many managers would manage it and especially not any that we're likely to get.

And sure I quoted you out of context but every single time king says something he gets the same. It's not just the kkk who do that.

I've gone for So So. Would have went for option two but the best manager in division 2 bit put me off. He's certainly in the top 6.
We're looking good now and that is down to King. If you slag him for the team playing shit you have to praise him when we're doing well.
The players look like they have some belief now and that has to be down to King.

So-So. He's completely transformed the team to a strong league 1 outfit, and we are looking like a top 6 side at the moment. Not sure how he would cope if we were to go up. We'll just have to wait and see!