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Just spoke to a mate who says he has internal contacts at the club, anyway he's been telling me that there was some sort of bust up prior to the Walsall match, some of the players don't get on with MM, and don't want to play for the bloke.  There's a mutiny in the ranks.

Now I'm not saying there is any truth in this whatsoever, but at least it would explain the awful performance/result.

Anyone else heard anything?

(apologies if already posted).

Spoke to Peacock after the game and he didnt let anything on. Said they were still behind him.

It did look like a team who didnt want to play out there saturday.

Auf Wiedersehen Malpas?

I'd expect this to be posted on thiss, bit not on here

Don't be a prick Dave, I have just had a conversation with a friend, I have included the appropriate caveats, I'm just throwing it out there to see if anyone else had heard anything similar.

Fuck me I give up sometimes.

Bit harsh dave - not like its one of the usual suspects posting rubbish on the wind up.

ah sorry. It might well be true, but forgive me for being a teensy bit sceptical over friend-of-a-friend stuff.

I hope there's an even bigger punch up tonight and someone knocks McGovern into a fucking coma.

How's that for honesty.

McGovern wont be there Dave  8)

Its ok. My sauce tells me they all butt-fucked in the showers to make up afterwards.

All is well.

and fwiw, if this is true then the players are a disgrace. Why the fuck should not liking the manager affect the way they play. You'd hope they'd be proffesional to play to their best, whatever they think of the manager

Fair enough Dave, I'm sceptical about it too, hence the title, just thought it was an interesting bit of gossip.

The fact that no one else has heard anything makes me think it's untrue tbh.

Yeah. moses managed to finally get a shot on target....

Or that this incident has been kept relatively well under wraps........

I must say I think this probably happens alot, tempers are bound to flare up especially when it's a load of blokes who all think they're the best thing since sliced bread.

It's part and parcel really.

wasnt there some kind of rumor like this going round before when we had a poor spell?

I love rumors  :soapy tit wank:

well if it is true.you can bet the poor form will last.
wouldn't surprise me either way.

I was told on Saturday that the players just don't get MM - and he is starting to lose the dressing room...

Aljofree was (allegedly) saying that his team talks are a complete joke.  It was said that MM stood up and said we will play 3 1/2 in midfield, and 2 1/2 up front.....

When everyone looked confused and Aljofree asked what he meant - he pointed at Mcnamee and said "there is the half" !!!

The guy who told me is a lovely fella - just retired -goes home and away almost every game, knows a lot of people at the club and has absolutely no reason to lie to me whatsoever....

I am not saying it is gospel - I thought it was interesting, but make of it what you want...

sounds fair enough. McNameeeeee is a bit of dwarf.

I hope they did have a row and Malpas kicked fuck out of most those lazy dickheads on saturday

Offer your services Macca :wink:

But that makes perfect sense, at least in theory.

If our players are incapable of grasping the concept that one of the midfielders should be pushing up to support the strikers when we're attacking then maybe that's where our problems lie. Admittedly McNamee might not be the man for the job, but we don't have a central midfielder who can do it...

Personally I'd stick with the Sturrock tactics of getting it wide and getting it in given the players at our disposal. At least we created chances under Sturrock.

Mcnamee has shown 1 or 2 glimpses but i think the balance is slightly better with zaboub on the left, still not convinced about vincent at left back though

Hmm interesting this. Might explain why we were so poor on Saturday. He completely lost the dressing room at Motherwell from what i gather as well.

I expect an Adver article "I've not lost the dressing room" says MM, or words to that extent.  Thursday morning maybe.

or tomorow if we win tonight, the usuall lick arse suspects will probably come out and say that was for the gaffer

Accompanied by a picture of him next to the dressing room to show he knows where it is

Followed by Roberts going on about how "theres no I in dressing room" or some such bollocks

If this is true, I'm wondering if this is a classic case of a talented player, who also coached other talented players (yes I know it was Scotland U21s ) finds it difficult to communicate, and frustrating  to work, with those that are less able, with things that are taken for granted higher up.

Not being funny but players at our level like it a little more simple.

http://www.dance-lyrics.com/ama/rumours_b000002kgt.jpg

If the players didn't try because they don't get Malpas then they may as well leave themselves.

There were no excuses for that piece of crap they served up last Saturday, Malpas being a shit manager or not.

This Malpas bashing is doing my head in though.

Agreed, but as he wasn't a so-called 'big name' and somewhat of a surprise then it was always going to start not long after he took over, unless he got fantastic results right away.

it should have been ling

I saw Malpas at Empire Cinema last week. This tells me that he likes to watch films.

There you go, theres the most reliable post in the whole thread.  8)

im not bashing him But when as I have  said already I will question the ability of a man who says he will go gung ho and make more attacking changes then swap the goalkeepers …

what did he watch

Maybe Smith is better at headers incase we were in a mad rush for a last minute equaliser. I certainly would question Brezovan's heading ability, and his knack to be in the right position for a 94th minute equaliser.

a great album is that sonic.

It was either Juno, The Water Horse or Football Management for Dummies.

I reckon it was the water horse.

Oh I think he's made mistakes.

I just think it's too soon to say he has to go now, which is what a lot of people are saying. It almost seems like they are trying to make excuses.

Saying that I think some of the more opinionated and reasonable posts have come from Spencer White, possible because he backs up the argument quite well. The flip side is that we could still be a successful team under Malpas, yet not very exciting. At the moment we aren't doing any worse or better in the table so I am prepared to wait it out for a longer time yet.

I feel any on pitch momentum came unstuck with the takeover and Sturrock leaving, not when Malpas joined.

Thing is though Si Pie, under Bryne we did have that little bit of momentum going with the unbeaten run once Fitton took over. Malpas did keep that going for another 4 games but we seem to have hit a bit of a wall now...

This is clearly post of the day. Top work Macca  8)

UNRELIABLE POST ALERT!!!

Not necessarily Tails, perhaps he was made to go there by his Mrs.  I take my gf to the cinema every now and then but she doesn't really like going to the cinema or watching films.

Beautiful!!

I can imagine Malpas watching the water horse - Its about Scotland isnt it?

I reckon Malpas makes them watch Any Given Sunday every week

He should make them train any given sunday

They've lost any footballing ability but are now shit hot at American Football

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ace. 2nd top post of the day.  8)

hear the swindon fans are going through what we did last year. they appear to be complaining about the same things as our fans i.e. poor tactics poor reactions to reults & poor results. any one else heard anything. i feel for the swindon fans, thank goodness our mm is mark mcghee now, well for now anyway.  

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Motherwell fans have some sympathy then!!

And if you look round our own forums around the time of that appalling display at Stockport, you'll find plenty of people laying into Sturrock. And there's also a fairly rich vein of Motherwell messageboards where they didn't like McLeish either. So what does that tell you?

Well paul what it tells me is the Scottish are not a very popular bunch that’s for sure

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: That janaage eh?

No neeeeeeeeed

Don't quote me on this, but i think it's about a creature that resembles a horse that happens to lives in water. I could be well wide of the mark though and it could be about cold weather, rain, being incurably miserable and skag. :D

I have something to add! I was talking to a friend at college today who knows nothing about football or Swindon town but talks to one of the 'new players' daily she said to me today 'and there was that massive argument aswell wasn't there? and i said i hadn't heard anything about it and she went on to say that last week there was a big argument at the training ground she wasn't sure if it was between the players or management and players but said when she saw the player the day after he was still really mad about it, make of that what you will, im not saying it's true, but i don't think she'd make it up because she wouldn't even know we had new players unless she'd met one of them!

how did she know he was a new player if she didnt know who was old? who was it anyway

I hate it when people only give you half the information so im being a bit of a hypocrite but i think he's telling her in confidence because she knows nothing about football! So i don't want to give everything away, anyway the said player likes to keep busy so is working somewhere in Swindon in the afternoon's and evenings, he started working with her last week and told her he was new here etc and was playing for Swindon

Eh? A professional footballer with a second job? Fuck off.

I was going to mention this on a thread but I knew I would just get shouted down as its an anti malpas thread

but i too heard that hes lost the changing room .. and also that Byrne and Malpas arent getting on either - clashing over tactics etc

Its True.  McNamee is working in Kids Gap at the outlet village

It's actually called Gap Kids. I get all my good stuff from there.

what the hell?? - this thread is confusing me now

p.s I think the waterhorse thing is set in Scotland in a loch???

No idea, probably. I just wanted to make myself chuckle at my own poor attempts at humour.

Byrne looks to me as though he's been out for Malpas' job since day one.

I haven't seen The Water Horse (the trailer looks garbage) but Juno is good. Hopefully Malpas spent his money on that.

I'd have thought Juno's more Rix's cup of tea isn't it?

That actress is at least 20 ;-)

I bet 50% of football clubs had a blazing row at one point or another last week.  We've mentioned this before but everyone involved in the pro game has to have an ego the size of a planet else they wouldn't be in the sport.  Players and coaches will all be certain they are right and they are the ones who can do the best job.  All bar 11 of the players will hate the managers guts because they didn't get picked to start last week, just as they'll love him if they do get picked tonight.  FWIW I think Malpas needs all of this season and up to Xmas next season before anyone should think of an alternative but then I know shit about football management :D

I think Fitton has his eye on doing the job himself....he got in Malpas on the recommendation of Sturrock, because he actually wanted somebody completely crap.  Its a bit like the Producers.

   By the time MM has finished we'll welcome Fitton with open arms.

my friends dogs, bitches owners mothers, fathers, uncles, milkman wife who sleeps with the postman wives, uncle

said nothing to me what so ever, it must be true.

This Malpas bashing is getting fucking boring.

We played shit, we lost.....why? because are players arent world beaters and Walsall are doing well this season.

Part of me thinks, if the adver and the deluded idiots of this world didnt suddenly talk up our play off chances, of which we never had any no one would have cared that much about the defeat.

We lost some under Sturrock and played fucking awful, but he put it behind him got on with it.....and it wasnt a regular occurence.

Give Malpas a chance to do the same.

mate your a bit weird, you say dont slate malpas(which im not by the way) then you blame everyone else but the players and manager.They are infact the deluded idiots who keep going on about the playoffs

whoever, for one second thought we could get the play offs was wrong.

It was never going to happen and anyone from STFC talking about it were just raising expectation levels.....which has come to bit them in the arse after a few games.

Players and the Manager say it, because its want the fans want to hear, the fans who believe it however....

sounds like a bloke working in Tesco's trying to crack onto a girl by spinning a yarn.

Considering that not so long ago we where just a few points off with games in hand then thinking that we may just do it was not so far fetched at all.

Of course it has always been unlikely but I harboured some hopes myself yet I don't think that I was stupid, just optimistic thats all. Granted I don't see the performances for myself but I can still read the table.

There is trouble in the dressing room, Zaaboub stormed out and left the ground before the Walsall game and there was a training ground incident involving 2 players, i cant say who so dont bother asking, just wanted to let u know we have alot of problems

Yes but Zaaboub is a moody prick who probably stormed out because he wasn't picked.

The 2 players on the training ground is bollocks, it was 3. Don't bother asking me who, I'm just pretending I know stuff like Im_Mint does, but seriously all our players are secretly masons.

It was actually 2 players and 1 member of staff.....and a gun

fuck off tails u know fuck all

also, funny how once one person posts it.....about 3/4/10 people have also heared it but just failed to mention it untill someone else did.

....saying that I know all about it anyway.

yeah, that's what he said.

If these problems are true, and it is down to Malpas then I hope in a way that something escalates meaning the MM HAS to be given the boot. and then we can move on forwards.

Although I really don't know what is happening.

He does look a bit scary though, Malpas I mean.

Bit of a strange time for my first post, but Zaaboub watched the game with a load of moody French looking types in the Arkells, near at the back towards the left if you're looking at the stand from the pitch. He left just before the 3rd Walsall goal...

Hi moose welcome

welcome liar  :D

No! Zaboob clearly stormed out to buy himself a rocket launcher and a pickaxe and take revenge on each bullying player and MM by getting medieval on their lazy asses. Just because you saw him with your own eyes and he wasn't covered in bruises doesn't counteract the highly credible sauce that someone's cousin's foetus didn't see it in their tea leaves.   :D

She probably got it wrong and it's probably just a youth player or something, i was only saying because i thought someone else might have heard something about the argument at the ground to back up what she'd told me. Last time i tell you lot anything!!

Zaaboub obviously stormed off cos he wasnt picked yet again, the training ground incident didnt involve Zaaboub

Stabby McStab is moving up a level in choice of weaponry?

Didn't I just say that?

Easy catch you are aint ya.

mmm medieval rocket launchers.... :D

Catapult!

Trebluchets, I beleive they are called.

Don't be silly, they had rocker launchers in medieval times. That's how Bill the Conker won the battle of hastings direct in 1066. I worked hard in History  :beers:

almost BR  :wink:

Did they use the rolling stones as ammo?

We'd be promotion bound with a manatee in charge

Anyway, to call them rocket launchers would be quite inaccurate,

"Fucking great big fuck-off rock" launchers would be more accurate.

When laying siege on a castle they also used to launch rotten cattle into the enemys castle so as to spread disease.

Trebuchets will fire anything heavy or flammable. or both. I say roll on fB's next adventure.

A manatee could do more damage than a rocket or rotten cattle, unless the rotten cattle was a sea cow.

Although this could explain the manatee death toll

i would make the manatee shit out ten hedghogs he would then be defeated

The romans used to use a weapon called "Incendary pigs"

Basically they took a bunch of pigs into battle, covered them in somthing flammable and the sent the flaming swine running towards their enemy.

Battle Bacon, Cool  8)  8)

That's genuis BR... I hope Malpas is reading.

i expect hes at the game

He has a blackberry

Malpas: My TEF addiction cost me my job

EDIT.

and note to self:

I MUST pay more attention to which thread I am posting in

what tune?

Reasons to be cheerful by Ian drury and the blockheads, playing on RS at the mo. Posted in the wrong thread again.

ah, I've got Brunel on.

It's actually true (The incendary pig thing I mean). The genius should not be credited to me but to the Romans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pig

Took my lad to see an ace Trebuchet at Warwick Castle last week - great castle, great Trebuchet. Can't say fairer than that.

http://www.warwicksiege.co.uk/flash_game/flash_game.asp

Best castle in England, I agree.



What was this thread about?

The use of medieval warfare in lower League football - I think we should deploy more longbowmen at the back with cavalry as sweepers

I can't wait to go to warwick castle this year.  All the medieval stuff is ace!

Medieval castles aslo had moats did they, about time we had a moat at the CG then.

They do always bang on about making it into a fortress.  A moat should definitely be on the agenda..... :D

Ive just booked a medival banquet at Warwick castle at work

do you know what song reminds me of a medical banquet? that song by David Jordan - about the sun going down or something? Im not sure why

So did Frank Spencer - what's your point ?

It's Si Pie  :D

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44154000/jpg/_44154626_spencer_bbc203.jpg