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Gert Mare

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  1. I think it’s very difficult for any manger / head coach to be successful at this level with the current regime in place. The is definitely a change in culture required. Micro-management and mistrust need to be replaced by trust, delegation of responsibility, integrity, authenticity innovation and collaboration. Drop the ‘them and us’ attitude, create unity (definitely visible during Nigel’s reign - at least externally) Give the manager / head coach the ability to identify their own targets, not just pick one or two from a list identified by the hierarchy. Obviously there needs to be an understanding of our financial position and a pathway for our academy players, but the priority should be to preserve current league status as a minimum. Don’t sack a manager / head coach unless the club is in a relegation battle (avoid instability). As soon as directors say things like “It’s my club”, well, that said all I needed to know a few years back. Will always be grateful for the investment, but future success requires a monumental shift in mindset and culture and I don’t think that the current regime is capable of that.
  2. Manning was set up to fail, but Manning out. Tinnion out. Jon Lansdown out.
  3. I’ve gone past wits end @Davefevs Now I’m just numb and emotionless, so I should fit in well with Liam’s plan and style of play.
  4. And to think we gave Manning a 3 year contract so he could learn how to make us a top end challenging squad this season and be 10 points better off next season too? Oh, and buy another season ticket. Surely, this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back? Surely?!!!! Just get it done and show some integrity to the supporters for once and admit the mistakes.
  5. So all of what Ian has been saying in recent weeks about an over-reacting OTIB forum and yet now he’s as mystified as they over-reacting OTIB posters….”Don’t care who the manager is anymore” The smartest thing Ian can do now is to disassociate himself from his unwavering allegiance to Tinnion whilst he still can. Some overreacting OTIB posters could only see the ridiculous dismissal of Pearson going horribly wrong for the club and I’m sure that quite a number of those who felt he had taken us as far as he could would have felt more comfortable with him seeing the season out rather than the current manager. Our loyal supporters at The Hawthorns singing “We’re ******* shit” and now Ian Gay throwing Manning under the bus. It could only be worse if we finish the season in the bottom 3 and go down. I’ll take being an over-reacting supporter all day long and I certainly won’t take delight in saying “Told you so” but it’s beginning to look like reality and it’s really hard to witness the incomprehensible and needless self-sabotage which has undone 3 years of damn hard work to resolve the complete mess that had been created by bad decisions of the past. The sacking of Nigel Pearson and replacement with a bloke who needs to ‘learn on the job’ has to be one of this clubs worst decisions in recent history. Utterly, utterly, despairingly and deludedly idiotic!!!
  6. Gert Mare

    Emotion

    Well, Liam has certainly managed to remove my emotion and has replaced it with emulsion and I’m watching it dry…..weekly.
  7. Correct But that doesn’t apply to Manning as he needs some time to learn how to manage. Something doesn’t add up does it? Oh well, at least we were ALL happy after Southampton
  8. Being completely over-run now. Joke. ”Manning is learning on the job” - Hang on? I thought we made the change to challenge top end this season?
  9. Best squad since Jon’s been here. Everyone is happy - Tins
  10. Renew your season tickets quick for front foot football……from the opposition.
  11. Our board decided we were good enough having walked League One and were very enthusiastic about tightening the purse strings. Cotts wanted business done early to give him the pre-season to prep the team. The board thought otherwise and he started the season a rather frustrated man. In hindsight he was right in wanting business done early, but it's "their club" at the end of the day and they set the strategy. When the wheels came off and he spouted his frustrations Keith Dawe's man had to go..... I wish Cotts every success at Forest Green. How I wish he had been backed to the hilt here with us. Still, we don't want any manager to be more popular than the board now do we? If that becomes the case we should always find out who's club this really is. Toys out of the pram, break, easy.
  12. How much for a maverick sports carbuncle?
  13. The Pearson sacking and subsequent lies are the straw that broke the camels back for a lot of supporters when it comes to the Lansdown’s reign.
  14. They say what they want They say what they waaaaaaaant It’s Jon and Brian’s club They say what they want They lie when they want They lie when they waaaaaaant Supporters are just customers They lie when they want
  15. He’s great with the academy, agreed, but when it comes to the first team…..
  16. I listened to the interview today. We have a great academy, but playing regularly in the Championship is a different kettle of fish. Oh, how we were so blatantly lied to in October (we already knew that). Top end THIS season a distant memory. Why make the change? Yes Jon, why? Because Tins now states we have someone ‘learning on the job’, so why make the change when we had an experienced manager who didn’t need to learn? Injuries….Hang on….didn’t we have players coming back from injury since Liam was appointed? So why were injuries ignored for Nigel then? He had a worse availability situation than Liam, yet it was ignored and the club sacked him!!!!! Gone from ‘right end of Championship’ to being happy if we were 10 points better off? None of this correlates with the absolutely clear narrative set out in October???!!!!! The football is awful, crowds are down, a club that was all pulling in the right direction has been ripped apart and it’s now back to ‘us’ (the supporters) and ‘them’ (Steve, Jon, Brian etc). Conclusions:- They didn’t like Nige - Even though he did everything that was asked of him. Appoint anyone other than Nige - Even if he has to learn on the job. We’ve got a brilliant academy and a first team which is regressing. Tommy has had enough and is off. Bajic will be off if he doesn’t like bench warming and moans about it. It’s ‘their club’ and they’ll do what they want. Don’t hold your breath over any future spending sprees. They’re happy even if we’re not and that’s all that matters. Shut up, get behind the team and renew your season ticket as we ‘learn’ our way into League One. No-one is going anywhere. Keep your blind faith. We beat Southampton and Middlesbrough. McKenna lost a load of games that he actually won. Coventry have spent money because they sold players for big fees so we can’t compare ourselves to them. Hang on didn’t we sell Semenyo and Scott for big fees Brian?….Ignored, the same as Nige’s injury list. The gulf in opinion between the supporters and directors of this club about how to achieve success has to be the biggest since they took control. Brian has been here 30 years. We haven’t had top flight football for nearly 50 years mate! Please sell up. This is a train crash.
  17. Job for LJ short term until the end of the season possibly? Followed up with a 3 year contract if we stay up?
  18. “Aggressive, front foot” - Brian Tinnion 2023
  19. Runner up was Ronald”oh” with his short corner.
  20. If today’s exhibition was of two young ‘progressive’ managers going head to head tactically then I’d happily go for another dinosaur next time around. 3 years of rebuilding to finally get a good feeling about the club again only for it to be completely destroyed in a matter of months thanks to a call centre boy way out of his depth.
  21. We can’t string 2 passes together and there is zero movement off the ball.
  22. Of tears? Yes, plenty. Paint a wall and watch the bubbles disappear. It will be far more entertaining.
  23. Wow. This front foot football is really something isn’t it?! Back to Max and he hoofs it into touch both sides, or Vyner / Pring launch a 60 yard ball to the Swansea keeper. Apart from that it’s 43 minutes watching Swansea pass it around like Coventry away in 1977. Highlight of the half has to be Ronald’s short corner. Scintillating. Brilliant stuff crayon boy. Well done
  24. This front foot, aggressive, in your face football hasn’t yielded much of a return thus far.
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