Time To Get Behind The Manager

[janaage]

I'm a smug bastard at the moment, because I never had a problem with the bloke and took to him straight away. As Leefer said, it's about supporting.

It seems to me that a lot of Town fans took an instant dislike to him because he isn't a 'personality'. I predict that the very things they said they didn't like at the start of his tenure will be the same things they come to love about him. He's not very media friendly, so what? I want a football manager, not a comedian. He doesn't show passion like Byrne at games, good. I want the manager to be concentrating on the game, not behaving like a demented epileptic on the touchline.

Anyone who went to the games at the end of last season (Particularly the away ones) would've seen what he was trying to do. Maybe he should've stuck to the same style we had until the end of the season, but he's obviously a man with strong beliefs in how the game should be played. Anyone thinking that Bryne is really in charge (As some do) and MM is some kind of puppet, is a fool. Malpas is his own man. I've heard the players don't get on with him as well as previous managers because he's a bit distant and a disciplinarian, Great!! Make the players work and if they don't like it, tough shit.

I really believe that, given time, Malpas will be a successful manager for Swindon, it won't be plain sailing and there will be times when we don't get the result, but that's football. Too many Town fans expect instant success and get on managers and players backs at the first opportunity. Surely that's when they need our support the most?

I'm starting to ramble a bit now so I'll stop.

Hertha I feel like I should apologide for hacking into your account and posting that - but I can't remember actually doing it!!  That is 100% my view on this subject.

[herthab]

Tbh Jan, we usually agree on all things Swindon Town related.

It's minor things like The Middle East we don't see eye to eye on.........

[janaage]

Tbh Jan, we usually agree on all things Swindon Town related.

It's minor things like The Middle East we don't see eye to eye on.........

Ha ha!!!  Quality comment!  Minor things indeed!

[Peter Venkman]

Hertha I feel like I should apologide for hacking into your account and posting that - but I can't remember actually doing it!!  That is 100% my view on this subject.

As you know already Steve I too agree 100% with your comments, as we have discussed in the past.

I would love it....love it (in a Keegan sort of rant) if MM becomes the most successful manager in our history, playing the best football in our history (a lot to ask but not out of the question).

I look forward to a long and fruitful first full season for the quietly spoken manager.

[pumbaa]

All very well, but:

1. He's Scottish;
2. He was crap at Motherwell;
3. Nobody south of Hadrian's Wall has heard of him and;
4. He has no personality.

All facts that can't be disputed.......

[janaage]

I realise you're fishing Pumbaa, but I have to take issue with point 2 and just say, who cares if he was crap at Motherwell?  Parkin was shit at Northampton, makes no odds.

Also 3's an awful admission of lack of football knowledge.  Anyone who bought a panini sticker album in the late 80's early 90's should have no excuse for not hearing of MM, especially the Mexico 86 and Italia 90 editions.

But fish away.

[Lumps]

All very well, but:

1. He's Scottish; What like Lou Macari, Colin Calderwood, Duncan Shearer, Luggy, Fergie.......etc.
2. He was crap at Motherwell; Fair enough, in his first job in management, when thrown in at the deep end probably before he was ready, in the Scottish top flight with a club with minimal resources he didn't exactly set the world alight. It happens. Macari's record here at the start was so poor that the board tried to sack him before the end of his first season. Fortunately for all of us fans back then were able to see that beneath the stats of his performance he was starting to move the club in the right direction, and took action to get him re-instated.
3. Nobody south of Hadrian's Wall has heard of him and; Fuck off! I'm Welsh, I  lived in Swindon for 20 years from the age of 8 until about 10 years ago. I've never lived in Scotland and never followed Scottish club football at all and I knew who he was. I'd heard of him because he was a full international with more caps than Macari, Sturrock, MacMahon, or Hoddle. Just because your knowledge of the game might be limited don't assume that's the case for the rest of us.
4. He has no personality. Based on what exactly? Now I'm not saying I've been to dinner parties with the guy but I doubt you have either. I'm guessing I've seen, heard and read the same interviews and stuff that you have, and I don't get the impression that the man is lacking in presonality at all. He's clearly quite serious about the game, but I'd fucking expect him to be as the manager.

All facts that can't be disputed....... All quite obviously opinion that clearly can be all to easily disputed

I know I can hear the reel spinning and clicking as loudly as everyone else 

But I thought I'd stick the answers up anyway for any idiots that might be lurking and secretly thinking, "hey you know that warthog might be ugly but he does have a point".

[janaage]

Wow!!!!  Now that was a post and a half, I wonder what the lurkers will make of that outburst - food for thought.

Fair play Lumps.

[Spencer_White]

All very well, but:

1. He's Scottish;
2. He was crap at Motherwell;
3. Nobody south of Hadrian's Wall has heard of him and;
4. He has no personality.

All facts that can't be disputed.......

This sort of sneering has to stop.

Supporting Swindon really isnt going to be much fun whilst this is going on. It was bad under King, but if we dont nip it in the bud with Malpas it could be much worse. I cant see how numbers 1 or 3 of those points make any difference?

[Arriba]

performance lke saturdays will do maurice no harm at all.
i'm more concerned that byrne might have a heart attack on the touchline one day.the bloke almost bursts blood vessels over a throw in

[pumbaa]

Jesus wept, I was expecting a bite, but anticipating a minnow......

This is the nub of the problem though. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of uneducated halfwits who think some or all of those four points, and really do believe them to be fact. How many aren't buying ST (or even attending games) because of it?

The question is how the hell do we more educated fans do something about it thats going to make a tangible difference?

FWIW, on the record, I agree with absolutely everything that herthab has said. All good point too lumps (albeit in rant format, sorry to set you off.....).Totally agree with Spencer too.

[janaage]

Post Lumps' post on the next Malpas story on the adver site.  That'll go down well over there!

[Batch]

How many aren't buying ST (or even attending games) because of it?

0. Some 'fans' have an excuse, any excuse not to go. Their choice, but they could at least be honest about why they aren't going. The excuses have been coming since getting relegated from the championship - McMahon/King/Too expensive/blah blah blah. Fact is, they are fair-weather and will turn up when the team are doing well regardless of who is manager.

[Lumps]

All good point too lumps (albeit in rant format, sorry to set you off.....).

Sorry about that, started in rant mode and wasn't until I reached the end that the cogs started to whirr and I realised I'd been hooked.

Thought I might as well post it anyway with the little postscript to make it clear that the abuse wasn't aimed at you but at those who actually still hold those views. Most of them post on Thisis admittedly but a few lurk on here as well.

Mind you they've all been fucking quiet since Saturday!

[yeo]

I cant remember if I liked MM or not.

I think I liked him because he has no personality and because I havent heard of him (ooh shocking lack of football knowledge! )

I tend to like the people that arent liked as a matter of principle.

So yea, go Malpas!