petehinton Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 7 hours ago, GrahamC said: Great post. I’ll just add my understanding is that we did approach Mousinho & he wasn’t remotely interested. Eustace wasn’t on our shortlist. & @Davefevs Said at the time, Tinnion & co are even more deluded beyond words if they sacked Pearson, with the genuine belief that they could get Mousinho. Sounds like they probably are, as Monday’s SOTC proved too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 5 minutes ago, petehinton said: & @Davefevs Said at the time, Tinnion & co are even more deluded beyond words if they sacked Pearson, with the genuine belief that they could get Mousinho. Sounds like they probably are, as Monday’s SOTC proved too. Think I heard James Piercy on with Gary Owers this Monday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted March 16 Admin Report Share Posted March 16 55 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Think I heard James Piercy on with Gary Owers this Monday? Correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliOTIB Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 If not manning then who? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgess Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 (edited) 1 minute ago, OliOTIB said: If not manning then who? If not now then when? [Will he get the chop] Edited March 16 by Sturgess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 (edited) Sorry, Manning, Jon and Tinnion OUT! Edited March 16 by Mr Popodopolous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviestevieneville Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 12 minutes ago, OliOTIB said: If not manning then who? It is a major problem . No manager with any decent body of work & experience is going to work under the lansdowns . Listening to Matt withers made my blood boil. Lansdown apologist , blinkered beyond belief . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDarwall Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, petehinton said: & @Davefevs Said at the time, Tinnion & co are even more deluded beyond words if they sacked Pearson, with the genuine belief that they could get Mousinho. Sounds like they probably are, as Monday’s SOTC proved too. I'd wager Pompey will have a serious crack at getting in the Prem before we do. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 8 hours ago, GrahamC said: I’ll just add my understanding is that we did approach Mousinho & he wasn’t remotely interested. Where did hear that Graham? If he was approached and wasn’t interested I wonder if on the managerial grapevine that the Landowns have a reputation for having a poor understanding of how to run a football club? Just speculation of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 13 minutes ago, Robbored said: Where did hear that Graham? If he was approached and wasn’t interested I wonder if on the managerial grapevine that the Landowns have a reputation for having a poor understanding of how to run a football club? Just speculation of course. You’re not allowed to speculate i’m afraid. OS or nothing for you. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coach Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 18 minutes ago, TDarwall said: I'd wager Pompey will have a serious crack at getting in the Prem before we do. I said the same last month. Likes of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton will be back in the PL before we even get there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 Just now, The Coach said: I said the same last month. Likes of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton will be back in the PL before we even get there. Hard to say isn t it, the new Financial rules could hamstring some of these badly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 Just now, The Coach said: I said the same last month. Likes of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton will be back in the PL before we even get there. The ultimate irony if 3 of the main clubs the “be careful what you wish for” crowd use as examples get back into the prem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coach Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 1 minute ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Hard to say isn t it, the new Financial rules could hamstring some of these badly. That’s alright. I’m sure it won’t let Lansdown mind they over take us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 2 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said: The ultimate irony if 3 of the main clubs the “be careful what you wish for” crowd use as examples get back into the prem. The old "be careful what you wish for" trotted out on here might've been usefully directed at Jon and Steve, and Brian, whilst they were looking to get rid of Nige 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aipearcey Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 10 minutes ago, The Coach said: I said the same last month. Likes of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton will be back in the PL before we even get there. I’ve said this for years, the difference is these clubs know the recipe to get back there, we don’t because we’ve never made it and the lansdowns wont let anyone who knows how to come in because they can’t then take the credit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 19 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said: You’re not allowed to speculate i’m afraid. OS or nothing for you. Speculating is allowed as long as it says ‘just speculation’ PF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, TDarwall said: I'd wager Pompey will have a serious crack at getting in the Prem before we do. Unless the Lansdowns buy them, so do I. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviestevieneville Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, Robbored said: Where did hear that Graham? If he was approached and wasn’t interested I wonder if on the managerial grapevine that the Landowns have a reputation for having a poor understanding of how to run a football club? Just speculation of course. No speculation about it. It’s bang on the money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 7 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said: No speculation about it. It’s bang on the money Just a lucky guess Stevie…………… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 16 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said: No speculation about it. It’s bang on the money I have him blocked but sadly still see his inane posts whenever someone replies to them. Ignore him mate, he asks a question & when someone replies he then belittles it or says he doesn’t believe it anyway. Absolutely futile engaging with someone like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviestevieneville Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 2 minutes ago, GrahamC said: I have him blocked but sadly still see his inane posts whenever someone replies to them. Ignore him mate, he asks a question & when someone replies he then belittles it or says he doesn’t believe it anyway. Absolutely futile engaging with someone like that. I know & usually treat him as the village idiot however he makes a good point this time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFCGav Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 11 hours ago, Davefevs said: Can be both! Nah, brought in to do a proper, grown-up CEO job, increase commercial opportunities, etc, only to find the owner’s son (playing at being Chairman) does what he wants, doesn’t follow due process, undermines the CEO by doing shit commercial deals, etc. Calls that out to owner, told to leave. I’m sure his support of Nige didn’t help! Nige played along for a while, going with the “budget bollox” storyline for a while. Then his ally in the hierarchy got removed (Alexander) in September. They called Nige in on the Sunday after the Leeds defeat (Oct 7th) and “asked” him to walk. You may recall rumours of an emergency board meeting circulating on that Sunday. Nige said “if you want to sack me, I’m not dressing it up as mutual decision, you will have to say you’ve sacked me”. Surprised by Nige they bottled it, but Nige knew he was on borrowed time, he knew his staff were on borrowed time too. Cue Nige getting more pointed in press conferences, e.g. why do you keep asking me, go and find someone else to get your answers from. I do agree that most of this will have come from JL / SL not being “man-enough” to take criticism, but they will undoubtedly have sought Tins “advice” about how they could package up their execution of his eventual sacking (and who they’d look to replace him with). He most certainly didn’t defend Nige, or else he wouldn’t be here now. So they let the international break run and waited for a defeat to hide behind. Shit, the old bastard beat Coventry, can’t sack him after a win. Ah that’s better, defeat to Ipswich, but can’t sack him this close to a Derby with Cardiff. I recall talking to @headhunter after this game and he asked whether Nige would make it to Xmas, I replied I didn’t think he’d make it past the weekend! Ah, perfect, lose to Cardiff, now’s the time, players close to coming back from injury, Wednesday and QPR coming up, new boy will get an easy start. Sacked in the morning, you’re getting sacked in the morning - and so he was. Euell and Rennie with him, Fleming to hold the fort as they couldn’t get new boy in quickly enough. Cue a plethora of very poor interviews summing up their ineptitude and pettiness. All complicit. The comment from Jon about players and “deconditioned” is one of the shittiest things I’ve ever heard in football, and I’m not exaggerating. And people on here wonder why he gets stick. I’ve no idea if Manning was first choice. There were rumours of both Mousinho and Eustace, so maybe they were asked but turned it down? But they took a week to appoint Manning, when they already had their plan in place after Leeds, so my gut feel (and that’s all it is) was that they got turned down! Nothing about being sacked was a relief to Nigel, he wanted to stay at the club and deliver what he set out to do, and was doing. He, along with the fanbase, thought he was really on the right tracks. This makes for thoroughly depressing reading regarding the decision-makers at the club but it’s good to know. Thanks for sharing (I think! ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerseybean Posted March 29 Author Report Share Posted March 29 More Manning-speak to digest….anyone got any idea what he actually means? “I definitely think there’s an element of that where a couple of games has compounded what then happens after that and some of that has led to me trying to tweak things, try to ease pressure off players, try to help and support them in that way which, rightly or wrongly, I think it’s always done with the best intentions,” “We’ve sat down and looked at it and some of it, when you look at December-January-February, being able to press when you have a game every three-and-a-half days, the physical output, it’s been challenging from that perspective.” “In general it doesn’t change what I want the game to look like across the course of a season. It might look different in certain games, depending on the level and who you’re playing against but, in general, I want to be a team that gets after it, I want us to go and engage higher.” 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted March 30 Report Share Posted March 30 11 hours ago, Jerseybean said: More Manning-speak to digest….anyone got any idea what he actually means? “I definitely think there’s an element of that where a couple of games has compounded what then happens after that and some of that has led to me trying to tweak things, try to ease pressure off players, try to help and support them in that way which, rightly or wrongly, I think it’s always done with the best intentions,” “We’ve sat down and looked at it and some of it, when you look at December-January-February, being able to press when you have a game every three-and-a-half days, the physical output, it’s been challenging from that perspective.” “In general it doesn’t change what I want the game to look like across the course of a season. It might look different in certain games, depending on the level and who you’re playing against but, in general, I want to be a team that gets after it, I want us to go and engage higher.” I referenced this after the interview. So, he wants to press higher….then you’re the head-coach, set up to press higher! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerseybean Posted April 4 Author Report Share Posted April 4 Here we go…. LM ‘Me and Brian will have the discussions with the correct people and the direction and what it looks like, and once we’ve got a final decision we will communicate that with the players’ = Brian and I will speak to all involved to consider what’s best, once we have a decision we will speak to the players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SydneyCity Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 On 17/03/2024 at 06:03, The Coach said: I said the same last month. Likes of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton will be back in the PL before we even get there. My brother told me of something he read the other day… The Championship is made up of 24 teams. 11 are fighting for promotion. 11 are fighting relegation. And there’s also Bristol City and Preston. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgrsimon Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, SydneyCity said: My brother told me of something he read the other day… The Championship is made up of 24 teams. 11 are fighting for promotion. 11 are fighting relegation. And there’s also Bristol City and Preston. Yep that's been mentioned a few times already and it rings true but it could be added that also Preston always finish above Bristol City! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 On 30/03/2024 at 10:35, Davefevs said: I referenced this after the interview. So, he wants to press higher….then you’re the head-coach, set up to press higher! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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