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apologies to those who may have read this on myonlyswindon
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- one of the main arguments people persue in keeping King is his Kings loyalty to the club.
However i disagree that he is loyal to the club, infact he's quite the opposite. i offer this opinion by reminding people back in the season when we got to the play-offs, King applied for the vacant managerial job at Plymouth just 3 days before we were due to play them away from home. He did apply for the job and that is a fact, Frank Stapleton's (Plymouths chairman) son Ollie Stapleton is a mate at uni and gave me this information and he said kings application was thrown out because quote 'king would of been a PR nightmare'. He also said Grant smith was an arrogant twat and wouldn't sign for them as he thought he was too good for them......sounds familiar
I will be finding out when i'm back at uni in a few weeks whether king has again applied for the plymouth job.
If King showed this little loyalty in a play-off season i don't hold much hope now
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 20:52:25 » |
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 20:58:01 » |
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King in!
tortoise power!
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 20:58:06 » |
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apologies to those who may have read this on myonlyswindon
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- one of the main arguments people persue in keeping King is his Kings loyalty to the club.
However i disagree that he is loyal to the club, infact he's quite the opposite. i offer this opinion by reminding people back in the season when we got to the play-offs, King applied for the vacant managerial job at Plymouth just 3 days before we were due to play them away from home. He did apply for the job and that is a fact, Frank Stapleton's (Plymouths chairman) son Ollie Stapleton is a mate at uni and gave me this information and he said kings application was thrown out because quote 'king would of been a PR nightmare'. He also said Grant smith was an arrogant twat and wouldn't sign for them as he thought he was too good for them......sounds familiar
I will be finding out when i'm back at uni in a few weeks whether king has again applied for the plymouth job.
If King showed this little loyalty in a play-off season i don't hold much hope now Apologies for posting this reply to the post you could have read on MOS if you were interested....and you could read my reply there....but I like symmetery The fact that you confuse the Plymouth chairman Paul Stapleton, with the statuesque former Arsenal and ManUre frontman Frank Stapleton....might lead some to question the validity of your information I'm sure the follow up about Brian Howard coming out in Cheltnum might interest Sussex Red....into hanging round the players entrance when we play The Tykes.
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:03:36 » |
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I'd have gone with the slightly better and plausible angle of the fat git shafting us for unfair dismissal when were admin and then threatening to do it a second time when faced with a potential replacement in his office.
He's as loyal as the worms in my gut but like them he's got nowhere else to go but down the pan.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:05:29 » |
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never knew ollies dads name, frank just sounded familiar, which has become apparent why.' in fact if i wanted credibility i would have gone to great and childish lengths saying you could refer to the plymouth programme when we played away at their place there is a picture of ollie and his mum and dad in it..........and then visit our uni website and prove that he does indeed play footy and go to uni with me.........which u can if u want if thats your thing but this is going off the point i just think that if you apply for jobs 3 days before your due to play the team your playing against you get into the george graham leeds/spurs situation
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:09:37 » |
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never knew ollies dads name, frank just sounded familiar, which has become apparent why.' in fact if i wanted credibility i would go you could refer to the plymouth programme when we played away at their place there is a picture of ollie and his mum and dad in it..........and then visit our uni website and prove that he does indeed play footy and go to uni with me' but this is going off the point i just think that if you apply for jobs 3 days before your due to play the team your playing against you get into the george graham leeds/spurs situation Oddly I couldn't give a shit.....King is perfectly entitled to apply for any job he chooses...the same as any professional person....there's no such thing as loyalty in football.
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:10:30 » |
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never knew ollies dads name, frank just sounded familiar, which has become apparent why.' in fact if i wanted credibility i would go you could refer to the plymouth programme when we played away at their place there is a picture of ollie and his mum and dad in it..........and then visit our uni website and prove that he does indeed play footy and go to uni with me' but this is going off the point i just think that if you apply for jobs 3 days before your due to play the team your playing against you get into the george graham leeds/spurs situation Oddly I couldn't give a shit.....King is perfectly entitled to apply for any job he chooses...the same as any professional person....there's no such thing as loyalty in football. Brian Tinion was very loyal.
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:14:00 » |
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By all accounts Tinnion worked feverishly behind the scenes to oust Wilson and so get the job for himself.....he may have thought this was good for the club although I suspect he thought it was good for Brian Tinnion.
Maurice Owen was very loyal.
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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:17:04 » |
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Oddly I couldn't give a shit.....King is perfectly entitled to apply for any job he chooses...the same as any professional person....there's no such thing as loyalty in football
I agree I mean I've seen this posted elsewhere before and you get the same people who've always wanted king out anyway saying well if this is true then he must go disgraceful etc. but really I couldn't blame him at all even if it were true, it's just lucky he didn't get the job or we wouldn't have made the playoffs. I'm trying to think of some loyal managers.... :|
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:20:03 » |
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Dario Gradi? Guy Roux?
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise, the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:20:10 » |
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Yeovils manager refused the derby job........quite loyal i think
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:21:20 » |
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There are plenty of sticks to beat King with...without pointlessly attempting to dig up completly spurious stuff.
My main gripe was the signing of Cureton and Thorpe, which at the time was more or less universally well received, and my moans seen as some sort of heresy.
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:22:40 » |
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There are plenty of sticks to beat King with...without pointlessly attempting to dig up completly spurious stuff.
My main gripe was the signing of Cureton and Thorpe, which at the time was more or less universally well received, and my moans seen as some sort of heresy. Hearsay didn't do very well either! Bit of Klass!
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise, the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 21:22:44 » |
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Yeovils manager refused the derby job........quite loyal i think Yeovil's manager refused the Derby job because Yeovil pay him more. Their chairman is in the top 50 rich list involved in football
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