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« Reply #45 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:01:06 » |
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jayocaitchenn you are the most juicy and delicious of a salty lemon.
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« Reply #46 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:01:33 » |
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How is stating a fact bitter?
All you've done in the past week is slag him off constantly. |
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« Reply #47 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:02:18 » |
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I was/am very forgiving at PDC's signings because he was a rookie, but to suggest he didn't have enough money to make good signings is simply baffling.
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« Reply #48 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:04:28 » |
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The fact we spent nearly half a million on agent's (NB that's deliberately singular rather than plural) fees alone suggests he was given plenty of money to spend. If he didn't spend it on quality players, well.....
And yet we won the league, money well spent in my book. And before someone says what about all the embargo/administration stuff I would rather be a league higher with all that stuff to worry about then be in League 2 operating on an Oxfordesque 'sustainable' model. |
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dagrumpymunki
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« Reply #49 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:04:36 » |
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Paolo was never given big money to invest in quality players.....that meant what money he spent(about half a million) was invested in players that were a gamble to sign.......he got rid of hell of a lot of deadwood when he arrived which is never mentioned by those who choose to slag him off.
Many of last nights side were languishing in reserve sides when Paolo signed them...Alan Mac,Ward,Foderhingham etc.
Foderingham alone is probably worth more than Paolo spent in his entire spell here....so to suggest his scattergun approach was a failure is wrong on two counts....one is that where we are in the league...secondly Collins is probably worth three times what we spent for him along with Fods,Devera etc means that the signing he spent a little money on certainly was good buisness.
Many of you forget that this was his first venture into management and yes harsh lessons were learnt at times.
As i say the last two matches show me just how much he got out of....quite frankly ordinary players.
How a group of fans can slag off a man who left his team on top of the league amazes me....astounds me.
He had his reasons for walking away....whether or not we as fans agree with that should not hide the fact that is when he left we were in our highest position for years.
And he has left a squad whos value is a lot higher in money terms than what he paid for by a long way.
I'm sorry but that's bollocks. Paolo was probably given more money to spend in the transfer market than any manager at this club in the last 10 years. I can't think of a single player we've signed for £200k plus since the days of McMahon, that wasn't funded by a player sale. Ferry and Caddis, bought out of the money received from Cox, Ritchie from a fraction of the Austin income. PDC expected to buy who he wanted, and discard what didn't work. And the first time someone had to be sold to balance the books he throws a paddy and quits. |
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« Reply #50 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:05:17 » |
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How much did Wilson spend out of interest?
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« Reply #51 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:07:06 » |
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I'm sorry but that's bollocks. Paolo was probably given more money to spend in the transfer market than any manager at this club in the last 10 years. I can't think of a single player we've signed for £200k plus since the days of McMahon, that wasn't funded by a player sale. Ferry and Caddis, bought out of the money received from Cox, Ritchie from a fraction of the Austin income.
PDC expected to buy who he wanted, and discard what didn't work. And the first time someone had to be sold to balance the books he throws a paddy and quits.
Not his biggest fan, then?  Good to see you back on here. |
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #52 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:08:06 » |
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All you've done in the past week is slag him off constantly.
Good effort, Lani. I've mentioned him 5 times in my last 30 posts. AND you've liked my facebook posts on the subject so don't pretend you're playing devil's advocate when you are just trying to fish. |
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« Reply #53 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:08:16 » |
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disagree. He prepared the side for tranmere and his staff carried out his instructions.
And how did he do that exactly? His own coaching team admit he missed three days of training in the week leading up to that game, presumably because he was in a strop? |
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« Reply #54 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:08:22 » |
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How much did Wilson spend out of interest?
About 750k with a wage bill of about 4M. So quite a lot |
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« Reply #55 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:11:23 » |
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Good effort, Lani. I've mentioned him 5 times in my last 30 posts.
AND you've liked my facebook posts on the subject so don't pretend you're playing devil's advocate when you are just trying to fish.
Is it that obvious? I need to work on my trolling... |
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« Reply #56 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:12:05 » |
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Not his biggest fan, then? Better Swindon managers than him have put up with a lot more shit than he's had to and have got on with their jobs, and done it better. |
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« Reply #57 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:13:53 » |
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About 750k with a wage bill of about 4M. So quite a lot
Not worlds apart then. Any idea on the agents fees from this time? |
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #58 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:14:20 » |
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Is it that obvious? I need to work on my trolling...
You nearly had me till I twigged who you are. |
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« Reply #59 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 14:17:36 » |
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I just don't get how anyone can slate him for his achievements, the way he left possibly yes, but the way he galvanised the team and how he got them to play was pretty remarkable.
Anyone who went to the game last night will have seen a team of players who looked like they'd never even met each other before, let alone played together. The first half in particular they just looked like a dis-organised rabble who didn't know what to do, and the senior players spent most of the half berating each other.
I honestly think we have a team of fairly average players that he got the very most out of.
Yes, we had some bad results when he was here, but I don't honestly believe that we ever looked so clueless as we did last night.
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