Lee Power...

[pauld]

Tracksuit or suit tonight then?

Just wear whatever you feel most comfortable in, mate. The dress code's quite relaxed these days.

[Flashheart]

Go in a onesie Tans.

[tans]

Im not going

[Flashheart]

Shit fan

[horlock07]

Tracksuit or suit tonight then?

He has stated that he is going to sit in the Directors Box so I suspect suit.... he is not a scouser you know!

[suttonred]

He has stated that he is going to sit in the Directors Box so I suspect suit.... he is not a scouser you know!

He's a southern Scouser, Lewisham..

[4D]

Did anyone ask Power where he saw the club in the next 10 years?

[tans]

Premier league bruv

[4D]

Which one?

[Chrystovski]

I’ve found some of the things Power has said recently truly baffling and a quite contradicting

I was listening to BBC Wilts on Monday morning and heard a couple of clips which I presume were from his most recent phone in.

He confirmed that he was responsible for the formation, style of play & player recruitment, Williams coaches the team in the week & Coopers pick the team, does the team talks and makes the subs.

Since then he has blamed Cooper for our style of play, which was the main reason for Coopers sacking? How can it be Coopers fault if Power sets our style of play and Williams coaches the team?

Last night he said Williams hasn’t been coaching the team at all this season? Nicky Ajose was recently praising Williams and confirmed he told the rest of the team you don’t normally get coaching like his at our sort of level.  I’m sure if Williams hadn’t been involved at all this season, Ajose wouldn’t of made such comments to the press.
And if he’s a coach who hasn’t been coaching what on earth have we been paying him to do?

In his pre-match interview last night Power let it slip that he often visits the changing room at HT and gives his point of view to the team, something which he had previously denied.

It seems to me that Power has had alot more involvement with first team affairs than we were previously led to believe. Cooper it would appear had very little influence on what went on at the club either behind the scenes or on the pitch and was always going to be the fall guy for Power’s downfalls.

If Power & Williams are responsible for our style of play & recruitment, it doesn’t matter who comes in they will once have very little influence on proceedings.

Power either needs to bring someone in and let them manage the team on a day to day basis and let his chosen man to live & die by his own methods or he may as well just appoint himself and be in the firing line rather than have a puppet like Cooper.

[kaufman]

Remember the phone-in was before Cooper was sacked so one theory would be Power was trying to keep the peace and hold things together while behind the scenes he knew the problems.

It's different now Cooper has departed and things can begin to come out in the open. Be interesting to hear Cooper's take on everything but he might opt to go down the Kmac route and just get on with his career which would probably be best.

[RJack]

Williams hasn't been seen at the training ground for months.  Not sure what he's been doing but it would seem there were certainly indifferences between him and Cooper.

It's clear Power has a bigger say on the field and player selection wise than is being let on. Anyone expecting a big name to come in will be bitterly disappointed. We will get a Yes man and someone that will work with Power ideologies. 

[pauld]

Since then he has blamed Cooper for our style of play, which was the main reason for Coopers sacking? How can it be Coopers fault if Power sets our style of play and Williams coaches the team?

Presumably because Power feels that Cooper wasn't implementing the style of play he asked for? I agree with your main thrust though, Power has contradicted himself a lot recently and much of this feels like Cooper being made to pay the price for failings in Power's approach.

[pauld]

Be interesting to hear Cooper's take on everything but he might opt to go down the Kmac route and just get on with his career which would probably be best.

I'd certainly hope so, for his own sake as well as ours. Does no-one any favours to have a protracted public spat.

[horlock07]

I'd certainly hope so, for his own sake as well as ours. Does no-one any favours to have a protracted public spat.

I suspect that he will hold his counsel, the Bayern job may be coming up shortly and as the new Guardiola I assume that he will be favourite for that!