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Obviously the last cheque has cleared!!


One or two results didnt go well?????????????

What a twat!

 Looks to me that there is an element of truth in this....namely I think our owners soon came to realise the scale of the problems at the club, and so went for keeping us alive rather than, kicking on.

Poor bloke, just trying to rescue a semblance of a career in football.

If there is any truth in it - and I am not judging anybody or anything - makes you wonder how much backing Danny Wilson is going to get?  Is that a reason we are not very active in the transfer window?

He applies for every job going saying how "INSERT NAME HERE is the sort of team I can relate to" etc Walsall, Crewe and Now Inverness. He may actually get the Inverness job though as they are bottom of the SPL.

I think we've been told how much backing DW will get, namely a couple of French trialists.

It was mentioned we should not expect any players we'd heard of...

a raft of new expensive signings shouldn't have been necessary to beat Histon ffs, the guy is a dick and knows he made a balls of it

I hope the prick never gets another job in football ever, in all honesty.

There's no way in a million years it was 50/50, he clearly got the bullet and not before time. So long you jock cunt.

Anyone who knows their STFC can tell you that we lose to a non league side every decade, so MM joins Bert Head, Danny Williams, Lou Macari and Steve McMahon in that. Of course all those others won something with the us....the league form was just turning round, under MM, and since his departure we've got infinitely worse.

With MM 16 points from 14 games, without 8 points from 11 games.  I'm not suggesting MM was a great manager, just that he may be speaking truthfully, in saying he expected more backing.

Changing goalposts? I think he is on about the cup run.

Let's face it Maurice, the cups were a necessity because we were doing so shit in the league.

we'd just hit our best league form when he was sacked and we've not been any better since then....

After what, a whole year? He had a decent amount of time and we didn't improve - in fact we got worse. I didn't do the paint pot game, but if it was as bad as Histon was then it's little wonder he got sacked.

Are some people suggesting that he should not of been sacked? It kinda sounds that way.

We have got drastically worse since he left but thats the board fault for taking their time with the new aoppointment. Also our defences fault for thinking the our games had finished 2 minutes before the ref blew his whistle.

The man had to go.  :bye:

He moved the goalposts more times than anybody...maybe deciding and sticking with the best one between ours would have helped his cause...and ours...when Smith was doing more flapping than a bird in an aeroplane engine v Leeds etc it was his decisions not Fittons and co.

Trouble is our best has also been shit this season. I'd say the only thing Malpas got right was getting the best out of the front two.

The Board spent £200k on Cox. They let him sign how many shit defenders. They also sacked him far later than they should have done. But thats alright then MM because you didn't get the backing. The reason the goalposts moved was probably because we had reduced revenue coming due to dwindling gates, no cup money and useless cunts that you brought in sat in the reserves.
My fucking heart bleeds for you. You got a decent wage for being a useless twat and due to your so called excellence as a coach we've still got a defence that craps itself whenever the ball goes near them, a midfield that can't pass, can't tackle, in fact can't do anything other than fuck up but I'll give you credit on the front 2.
Now fuck off, cash the cheque that you clearly did not deserve and leave us alone you fuckwit.   

I feel sorry for MM now. ;)

does anybody take malpas seriously anymore? the bloke is a failure in management for a number of reasons.
he had a chance here and blew it.

Most know I had all the time in the world for MM as a person as a Swindon fan his tenure was a shambles. Ok he can blame the chairman at Swindon but waht about at Motherwell he was absolutely loathed up there. The guy is now one of these people chairman talk about "those that apply for every job" Crewe and Walsall didnt want him, to be fair if he does get another managers job it will be in Scotland as he is quite well respected up there as a player etc.

cannot argue with that gazza.

There is no shame in not achieving in the wrong job.  He turned Sturrocks squad into jelly for whatever reasons and had the same excuses at Swindon as he did at Motherwell.  He is not cut out for league management, but may well succeed as a coach or in some other capacity.  He could piss off a corpse with his post game comments, as well as with his arrogance weeks before he was sacked.

A run the wembley in the JPT may of kept him his job..........after the shit they dished up at Brighton...enough was enough...

I hope he gets a coaching role somewhere......but he fucking blew it big time here and i for one was glad to see him go after giving him a fair crack of the whip!

Hopefully at the Scum. How the fucking hell does anyone come to a conclusion that he's a decent coach? I think each of us can see with their own eyes we could all do a better job. Every player bar Cox went backwards. He makes king look like a tactical genius.

He played as an international, he must have had some idea, he must have had input from some of the best football brains. 

His problem appeared to be that he was demanding that players went beyond what they were normally capable off and seemed to think it was all about mental approach. 

Sturrock found out what they could do best individually, told them to go and do it and then organized it with a lot of discipline.

Malpas's approach might work for youngsters trying to excel, but for League 1 players it just won't work.  I don't know if he is a decent bloke or not, but blaming the board who had stated that cup games are very important (echoed by Malpas's own comments), and then complaining about not getting support from the board is ludicrous.  It was getting to be embarrassing for all involved with Swindon Town.