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« Reply #75 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 19:43:20 » |
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We move on. Let's see how serious this board are now. We need a manager a few players. Go get them! !!!!
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« Reply #76 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 19:52:36 » |
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Glad he won't be back. Everyone needs to move on now!
Sad he won't be back. Yes everyone needs to move on now! |
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« Reply #77 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 19:56:30 » |
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To summarise my thoughts as this chapter comes to a close:
He was up amongst the most exciting managers we've seen here on the field and undoubtedly the most exciting off it.
He was a fucking nightmare to deal with for probably one of the most patient and forgiving boards in our history. For these reasons he will miss out on a lot of jobs he is tactically good enough for.
His commitment to his job as a manager and the commitment he demanded from his players was unprecedented.
His inability to forgive players for sometimes quite minor misdemeanours make the possibility of a career in top level management potentially problematic.
His loyalty has always and will always be to himself and the cult of personality he has built around himself everywhere he's been.
This cult of personality, for all the criticism it gets and the problems it caused and the sometimes arrogant and blinkered way it comes across in interviews, was above all what galvanized the fans and revitalised the club after it felt like we'd sunk to a new low after relegation to the bottom division (see Bournemouth and Paul Groves for what happened with similar financial backing but an opposite personality).
I believe his passion is sincere and in the heat of the moment he genuinely feels a deep connection to the fans and his players, even though he is capable of jumping ship 24 hours later and transferring that passion to a new fanbase and set of players without batting an eyelid.
This is hard to comprehend for most fans. It is hard to comprehend because he is a nutter whose head it is very difficult to imagine being inside.
The was one of those sublime eras at a club that lurches regularly from the sublime to the abysmal season to season.
We draw a line under this era now and move on.
We have some fantastic memories to take away from his tenure at the club.
I will give him a good reception when he returns to the CG with another club and i hope other people will too.
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DiV
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« Reply #78 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 20:05:24 » |
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Good post that one
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« Reply #79 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 20:17:32 » |
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Totally agree - very succinct precis of the man.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is unknown but today could be a whole lot better.
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« Reply #80 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 20:20:07 » |
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Great post BruceChatwin
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« Reply #81 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 20:26:00 » |
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Yeah good post, nearly as good as your baby owl one.  |
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« Reply #82 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 20:43:30 » |
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Can history please record, contrary to his version, that Dux left us in 6th and not 1st place in the League?
Change the record mate. We get it. |
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« Reply #83 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 21:04:50 » |
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And that online petition. At least they can take it down now.
I know the boat has sailed, but if that petition got 100,000 signatures, wouldn't the Government have to do something about it? |
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Dr Pierre Chang
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« Reply #84 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 21:21:20 » |
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Di Canio should have walked the minute he recieved that phone call from Ritchie who was at Bournemouth at the time.
Disgraceful treatment of one of our best ever managers.
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« Reply #85 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 21:22:52 » |
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It's disappointing that a phone call could have kept him...
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If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit...
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« Reply #86 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 21:39:34 » |
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Disgraceful treatment of one of our best ever managers.
And disgraceful treatment of Ritchie too, though I appreciate it was through desperation. |
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« Reply #87 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 22:10:25 » |
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And disgraceful treatment of Ritchie too, though I appreciate it was through desperation.
Interesting how Bournemouth's form has collapsed since he's gone there. Agent Ritchie anyone? |
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« Reply #88 on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 22:11:37 » |
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Interesting how Bournemouth's form has collapsed since he's gone there. Agent Ritchie anyone?
The curse of going top.. |
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Fred Elliot
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« Reply #89 on: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 00:09:42 » |
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It's disappointing that a phone call could have kept him...
Not just a phone call is it though ? It's the unsustainable promises that would have had to be made during the said call that would have kept him. The man is a shite, a successful shite yes. But a shite none the less |
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