Dr Balls
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Dr Balls started following Tinnion or Manning? , Kevin Amankwaah’s Mum , When to do it and 5 others
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Also if just shown that photo, I challenge anyone to say that they would have guessed she was 72! Very impressive to have survived so long in the NHS and hope she enjoys her well-deserved retirement.
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My only observation is to compare and contrast how recent Head Coaches have been treated. Lee Johnson was kept on despite being Mr Streaky because of his previous relationship with the club and the Lansdowns. That said eventually enough was enough even with him. Dean Holden was appointed after this supposed worldwide search for the best person for the job and lo and behold it was given to the guy who had been the caretaker after the previous sacking. However despite a very promising start, the wheels fell off for Holden, and when results had been poor for some time and relegation was a real risk, he was sacked, even though only months earlier he had been feted as the best thing since sliced bread! As far as Liam Manning is concerned, my observation is that he is on borrowed time. Lansdown Snr will want to see something in the next few games that convinces him that the nest egg is worth sharing with Manning to some degree. The idea of a new young coach “playing the modern progressive way” may have appealed back in October, but if now the likely price tag in purchases and contracts to play that way is high, while in the interim the results are poor and the supporters are up in arms at the “style” of play, plus what it may be doing negatively for Conway’s valuation in the summer transfer window, a different answer may be drawn quite quickly.
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TBF Galloway couldn’t be much worse than Manning in terms of points per game in the last 6 games!
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Well let’s look at the FA Cup Quarter Finals for evidence. Wolves v Coventry - exciting and unpredictable Chelsea v Leicester - exciting and unpredictable Man United v Liverpool - exciting and unpredictable Man City v Newcastle - dull and predictable if you were a neutral 3 out of 4 were great games, but the possession-obsessed game provided minimal entertainment. And that’s a big part of the problem. And it’s not a new one because that successful Spanish team from 2008-2012 at times looked as if they were trying to bore the opposition into submission!
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The important word that you have used is control. Trying to control a results-based business when you aren’t the one who knows best how to achieve the desired results. That’s most sports ownership in a nutshell. The successful ones either head hunt someone who can do the proper oversight role as a CEO, or they have some background in the sport themselves so can anticipate issues and problems. The current mess at the club is that having brought in experienced people into the 2 most important positions in the club, they have then managed to blow that by undermining and sacking them both in short succession. And worse still, appointing a novice replacement to one role, and not replacing the other, but over-promoting someone not suited to a role of that seniority.
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It’s progress of a sort but it’s not exactly maximising the potential. And in reality it’s only getting us back to where we were in the late 60s and 70s, without actually achieving promotion. It’s certainly not success and I’m sorry but celebrating winning 5th round FA Cup ties 50 and 30 years ago does look really tinpot, whoever they were against, and the kind of thing I can’t imagine any other Championship club doing, especially as quite a few have won the thing or been in the final in living memory. While our best in living memory is the 6th round, something even Plymouth have bettered in the past 40 years!
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I can’t see much more than 5 points from that lot. Ironically we might get more from the Sunderland away game than we do from any of our home games. I would target that game and the Rotherham game to win but I don’t think we will better last season’s points total or get more than 15 wins.
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As my old mum used to ask “is it below the Screwfix?” If so, her opinion was that it wasn’t worth considering as any real standard of football. Have to say in Liam’s case, she’s spot on!
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Not so much the dullest but absolutely one of the most underperforming and least unsuccessful given the potential. That many supporters are happy that we have become an established second tier club backs up that poor record leading to very limited ambitions.
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So maybe good enough for Sheffield Wednesday reserves then?!
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And that’s why only Zak of the current players appears on the poster. He’s the only one that they reckon could still be here after the summer. Anyone else with experience will likely be gone as will any player with any ambition!
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What also might be making Lansdown Snr even more unhappy at the moment is that his favourite manager, Mark Robins, has just got Coventry to an FA Cup Semi-Final and they are still very much in with a shout of making the playoffs, despite selling their two best players from last season. That just underlines how poor the appointment of Manning has been by comparison.
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Manning is worse than SO’D. Yes the end of the relegation season was terrible and the losing run at the end was extremely depressing but you could at least accept that the ship was sinking way before that because the recruitment had been poor and defensively we were shocking. At least he had a plan that you could see might work. Plus over the summer his recruitment without a nest egg and playing some of the youth (Bryan in particular) was a significant part of what set us up for the successful Cotterill era. Manning has taken a relatively good team and set of players and made them play much worse. That is unforgivable in a manager/coach.
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Can they both please go and take “Downsy” with them while they are at it?
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Until we beat Swansea last weekend the odds had dropped to 50-1 with a number of bookmakers. The longer we go on a losing streak again (I can’t see us picking up any points in the next 2 games) the more the odds will drop, especially if a large number of punters starting placing bets on it. Its just the way it works!