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Simpson sacked from Stockport. Must be something in the air today

Perhaps unfair but not surprising. If Stockport lose their Football League status, they won't be back anytime soon.

Partial eclipse of the sun....very strange this morning, when I left for work, can't ever recall it being so dark at that time of day...thought it was a portent of Ragnarok.

Then it suddenly brightened....think such events affect people in strange ways...just look at some of the posts on here recently whereby seemingly rational people seem to have taken all leave of their senses.

There's been rational people on here? When? How did they get on here? This is a disgrace - mods, I demand a full inquiry!

Don't worry, we're trying to up the fucktard ratio now it's quiet. We're going to be starting a fund to pay for some forum posters from the East to start incredibly interesting, and yet completely inane, topics written in broken English and viagra links.

:D

Bartek!!

Was he the one unhealthily interested in Lukas Jutkiewicz?

Yeah. Bless him

Keane gone from Ipswich. Which mug of a team will offer him a job next. He really is shit.

You do realise if we now go on a dreadful run of form leading to Wilson getting sacked and replaced by Keane, you're going to have to go into hiding? :)

did a great job at sunderland

I wouldn't be keen on Keane

He spent about a billion pounds.

And spent £8 million at ipswich.

has woy hodgson got the boot yet?

I don't think people have stopped to consider the real victim in all this - Roy Keane's dog must be bricking himself at the prospect of being route marched all over Cheshire again now he's got more time on his hands

Keane always has and always will have the old Man United 'do i as i say cos i am from Man United' attitude.

He was a prick when he walked out on his country and done very little since.

Spent a small fortune at Ipswich....he should call it a day...made enough out the game...

Spot on Flash, never liked him as a player and don't like him as a manager.

He'll be back he is a 'big name' and there are certain chairman that look for a name before qualifications

Jinx.

I deleted it in sportsmanship.

Bless you.  Lets pretend this squalid episode never happened!

I concur... Onwards.

Yes - this morning!

Bad month for ex-Reading players as managers, looks like Dillon's out at Aldershot:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aldershot/9354514.stm

If its any consolation his daughter is proper fit

Has rich actually gone?!?! He was the best poster on here

Yes, he has. Hopefully there are some decent out-of-work posters who'll be able to pick up the reigns quickly and get the TEF firing again.

I don't think anybody disliked Rich. Unfortunately we liked him more than he liked us :(

Why has Rich gone?  Is it my fault.  I feel bad.  Thats it Im leaving.

Bournemouth having a real battle to keep hold of Eddie Howe.

Last ditch talks to try to get him to stay,after Howe had 6hrs of talks yesterday with Charlton.

Aldershot have ditched their manager.  And Dave Penney is going to be wovvers new manager.  Who he?

Name rings a bell.  Ex Oxford?


They should give up now.  Howe's head has been turned.  Relationship with Bournemouth can never be the same again now.  Sadly, the should now try to focus on maximising compensation etc.

David "Bad" Penney ??

Paul Jewell has replaced Roy Keane

Wallop!  Where did that come from?????

Penney's most succesful stint was at Doncaster I believe, has managed Darlington and Oldham more recently.  Think most Rovers fans will see it as an underwhelming appointment.

I suppose most Gasheads wanted Trollope out, but this is what happens.

Rovers budget is lower than ours, but you've got to compensate an outgoing management team, then pay for a new team, not cheap, so Boards look for value.

This will mean someone from the unemployed pool, who wont be too expensive and maybe can work with staff in place.

The mongs who want Wilson gone think we'll get Mourinho in his place....apart from the thisis ubermongs who want Dave Byrne.

I want Malpas back....does this make me a Superdooperubermong?

I've always thought he was a closet Shithead....can't understand how any Town fan could have a bird who supported Shitty.

Nah a SupercalifragalisticMcmong

He's always had an unhealthy fascination with them.

Probably on OTIB now.

Gary Johnson has left Posh by mutual consent apparently.

If Wilson were to go I owuld absolutely love to have Johnson at Town...proven at this leve and took city to within 90mins of prem

Cue the "Wilson out, Johnson in" parade

Probably because the chairman has run out of money and Johnson has been told to sell another player, when Johnson was expecting money to spend from the sale of McLean.

Johnson isn't any better than Wilson IMO. The only difference is he's got a promotion at this level.

Johnson has a better history than wilson. Took Yeovil from the conference to league one, did what wilson couldn't do and got City promoted. Also has International experience. You can argue that it's gone stale for him in recent seasons, but it had too for wilson before we got him

If, and it's a big If, we do sack wilson I would want Johnson here. West country again for him, would assume he'd be fairly happy to move back to the area.

Will be interesting to see how this news makes Fitton and co act, and whether they'll act differently. My instinct would say no, they seem like far too decent people to sling Wilson out on his ear just because Johnsons available. Have to wait and see I guess

Lets not forget everything he did for Yeovil.

Its still Wilson in for me, but if Johnson is unemployed and we were looking for a new manager I'd be happy with Gary Johnson no doubt about it.

Yep.

He'll probably go to palace anyway. Or Burnley. Or charlton

We're having a parade? Oooh, goody. Will there be trumpets and clowns on stilts?

there was no difference between the 2 sides [Oldham away]

apart from the 2 goals

well those sort of differences matter, don't they?

Hasn't been seeing eye to eye with the chairman all season apparently

Johnson was promised a transfer budget which never materialised.

Well he should have been used to that,must have been galling for him doing all that work at City,then Coppel strolling in buying England Keepers on megabucks.
Maynard was a great signing for him and his injury was a big blow........maybe will see him at Rovers ;D

Barry Fry was on 5 Live on Friday saying that Peterborough were looking to spend £0.5M to £1.0M of the McLean money on a new striker but maybe that has not materialised or been pulled from under Johnson

He was too shy shy apparently

Hush, hush

eye to eye

Hey girl, move a little closer

It shows how farcical it all is when Danny Wilson is joint 20th (I know it says 24th but 5 managers were all appointed in Dec 2008) longest serving manager in the football league.
http://www.leaguemanagers.com/managers/longest-current.html

Average manager tenure in League One 1.78 seasons. I suppose that's probably not helped because the sackings are added to by anyone who's had a good season jumping at the first sign of interest from above.

I refuse to google the next line.

Much to my embarrassment I actually remembered that rather than having to Google it. There's whole swathes of really important/useful/interesting stuff I can't remember for the bloody life of me, but I appear to have a firm grasp of Kajagoogoo lyrics, even though I hated them. I despair, I really do.

If you remember one Kajagoogoo song, you remember Limahl.

Despite my best efforts, yes. Why won't the screaming in my head stop?

Jesus, this is a never ending story isnt it.

Do you see what I did there?

Yeah...

acted like a cunt!

I dont like it....its my job....

After 1600 posts Ive finally been called a cunt.

Thankyou flash, I feel part of the TEF now.

Cunt.

Eddie howe staying at bournmuff

Howe did they manage that?

See what i did there???

You've spelt how wrong.

Yeah...

acted like a cunt!

I dont like it....its my job....

What a shame, Rich spoke a lot of sense.  Did somebody say something which upset him?

He'll be particularly missed by those that can't get to games, as he always updates regularly throughout the match.

Haha ferguson in talks to return to the posh

Yeh, shame. I enjoyed his company on Match Day Threads.

So what happened to Rich?.....is this a wind up....why did he leave...anyone?

Dean Holdsworth to be named as the new Aldershot boss on wednesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aldershot/9358562.stm

Leefer's mental prediction may actually come true. I would literally lmfao

On the subject of comings and goings, on the playing side of things Leicester have signed Yakubu on loan from Everton till the end of the season.   :hmmm:

Get him fit and he'll score for fun in the Championship.

:D

Rich Pullen? If yes, than he deleted himself. A long time ago you used to have to ask a mod, so a member would normally provide an explanation, but now anyone can delete their accounts without reason. :(

Thanks Barry.....shame,....real nice fella and i liked his grass rootsy posts.

That option can be turned off

I always thought Pullen was a right twat. I didnt really but he's got to be reading this hasnt he :)

A special prize of nothing to the person who spots his return first.

He explained his reasons on his twitter  http://twitter.com/Rich_Pullen

Think the Oldham match aftermath, convinced him that there was more to life than gnashing and wailing about losing a game of football, like the sky had just fallen down.

Made me chuckle, because now instead of posting on TEF, he's probably going to post more on twitter  :D

Perhaps we should lure Rich back by starting a thread to help him with his standup material.

I'm sure a set built around Sheena Easton, Manatees, Vincent Pericard and Cheese Puns will nail him a slot on Mock The Week before too long.

Mick the 86 year old golfer comes home and sits in his chair crying...whats up says his loving wife Mildred...i am hitting the ball so sweet of the tee and its going miles but me eyes are gone and i cant fin d me ball on the fairway.
Take Uncle Bertie says Mildred...his eyes are brilliant he could be your spotter...but he is 103 years old says Mick !...i know says Mildred but he can sit on the buggy and his eyes are brilliant for his age.
Monday morning and THWACK!....the ball goes miles into the air and down onto the lush fairway....Mick turns to Bertie who is sat in a buggy and says...did you see it...it sounded great...oh yes said Bertie i saw it...brilliant shot...well says Mick ware is it?
Bertie looks at Mick,frowns...blinks three times and says....ive forgot :-[

Its all yours Rich...a parting gift :bye:

was only heard by a few million listeners to radio 2 leefer

:headhurts:....ssh....Rich listens to Radio Newcastle.

A few postions now being filled then, the most surprising is Darren Ferguson returning to P'Boro  - that will be the Man U youngsters we want on loan gone then.

Dean Holdsworth to Aldershot & Dougie Freedman steps up at Palace after being No 2

On a four and a half year deal. fucking idiots, he's shit

And he fucked off at the first opportunity too didnt he?

Didn't he get sacked previously?

'Mutual consent', and the chairman slagged him off when he did leave.

This deal is probably dependent on getting players in from loan from Fergie snr.

i must have missed something here, did'nt p'borough have a new manager recently :headhurts:

I turned it on because I felt people shouldn't have to justify why they leave, to a mod. If they wanna go, they can go innit. (I do always hestitate when I have to confirm deletion in the back-end though. :( )

He spent sack loads to get out of our division - very over-rated manager

And then fucked it up when they got into the championship, got sacked fucked up preston in the championship and has gone back I expect no one else would touch him after his exploits at Preston anyway he's only going on his fathers reputation

Nigel Clough next up for the chop according to the Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/clough-set-for-axe-as-posh-talk-to-ferguson-2181998.html

Well we have "special relationships" with Man City, Liverpool and Celtic, so we have no need to worry about Man U youngsters do we!!  I mean they sent us a future great in Mr Ball.

I was only trying to wind him up so he'd come back.

Howe is off to Burnley according to the Beeb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/9360426.stm

Haha i knew it

Sky was reporting a few days ago he was off to Charlton and he pledged his future to Bournemouth so wait and see shall we

How much money is it worth to swap living in Bournemouth for Burnley?!!!!

Fuck that. 

I'd have thought Burnley pay some serious $....after all they did fall out of the Prem, with a 48 mill parachute payment.  I daresay their offer to Howe made the 300-400K pa of the likes of Palace and Soton look a bit puny.

I'd imagine Howe will be able to buy a nice little place in Sandbanks if he wants.

The answer is, you buy somewhere in the Ribble Valley, about 10 miles from Burnley. Beautiful..

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 Don't think this is back down the thread, but Chris Powell has been appointed manager of Charlton. 

 Who knows could be inspired or might bomb.

Inspired i would guess.

Freedman appointed at Palace, again inspired or not, I think they will still be relegated and we will be playing them next season.

The Charlton fans seem absolutely delighted, would be the equivalent of us appointing Shaun Taylor as they love him. He's always come across as a really top bloke as well, so I hope he does well.

Could be a Tinion though. Big risk by Charlton.

Let's hope so :)

Confident that we will stay up!!!???

Could also be an Eddie Howe though. There's always a risk with any appointment.

That's what I'm hoping for!

hello lads and lasses. i fancy another crack at management at swindon. when is fitton going to sell wilson to a championship club for peanuts? just you remember who brought eric sabins to the club.

Haha! Great timing Andy.

Thats what it looks like on a nice day, but what about the other 364 days of the year?

rest of the time it looks like this
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So Grant out and O'Neill in at West Ham, guess that win threat was truer than many thought.

Blimey. I suppose not too surprising Grant going but didn't think O'Neil would take that sort of challenge on. Guess its been in the pipeline for a while though.

I'd be ecstatic about that if I was a West Ham fan.

Surely O'Neil could have the Liverpool job if he wanted it?!

West Ham would be a massive step down for him.

I'd be surprised if O'Neil risked his reputation at west ham, there will be better jobs available soon enough