Thanks Alex, but the regrets are all ours.
Quote from: Chris Smith on August 23, 2012, 09:27:55 AMWhy shouldn't the bloke stick up for himself? I'm sure we'd all do the same in the face of criticism. Until the injuries really hit we were comfortably mid table so the stuff about the kids outperforming the youngsters isn't backed up by results. He was the wrong appointment and the football was mostly horrible but I don't see why people have to manipulate the facts.Rubbish Chris. Bent was obviously a big loss, but it was senior players like Hutton, Agbonlahor, Warnock and Collins etc who were amongst our worst performers last season. After Bent's injury, Weimann outscored Gabby in any case, and players like Herd contributed far more to the cause than the likes of Warnock.
Why shouldn't the bloke stick up for himself? I'm sure we'd all do the same in the face of criticism. Until the injuries really hit we were comfortably mid table so the stuff about the kids outperforming the youngsters isn't backed up by results. He was the wrong appointment and the football was mostly horrible but I don't see why people have to manipulate the facts.
We spent most of the season around mid table, over the last 2-3 months we suffered a bad run of injuries and were forced into playing an inexperienced and disjointed side, performances dipped accordingly and we dropped down the league.
Quote from: Chris Smith on August 23, 2012, 09:27:55 AMWhy shouldn't the bloke stick up for himself? I'm sure we'd all do the same in the face of criticism. Until the injuries really hit we were comfortably mid table so the stuff about the kids outperforming the youngsters isn't backed up by results. He was the wrong appointment and the football was mostly horrible but I don't see why people have to manipulate the facts.What's he "sticking up for himself" for anyway?I haven't heard anyone from the club slagging him, and he's hardly got the world's press on his back as they don't give a fuck about us.He's the one touting for work through the press, giving his inexplicable performance with us some teflon sheen so some other mug will pay him vast sums for a job he can't do.He's a wanker, David O'Leary with a little more charm but less talent.
Quote from: Rissbert on August 23, 2012, 09:33:41 AMQuote from: Chris Smith on August 23, 2012, 09:27:55 AMWhy shouldn't the bloke stick up for himself? I'm sure we'd all do the same in the face of criticism. Until the injuries really hit we were comfortably mid table so the stuff about the kids outperforming the youngsters isn't backed up by results. He was the wrong appointment and the football was mostly horrible but I don't see why people have to manipulate the facts.Rubbish Chris. Bent was obviously a big loss, but it was senior players like Hutton, Agbonlahor, Warnock and Collins etc who were amongst our worst performers last season. After Bent's injury, Weimann outscored Gabby in any case, and players like Herd contributed far more to the cause than the likes of Warnock.It's only rubbish if you ignore the facts.We spent most of the season around mid table, over the last 2-3 months we suffered a bad run of injuries and were forced into playing an inexperienced and disjointed side, performances dipped accordingly and we dropped down the league. Of course certain individuals might have done OK in that time but results don't lie, they were better when we had our more experienced players available.I'm not trying to stick up for the bloke, I'm glad he's gone, but injuries played a huge part as we didn't have the squad to cope with them. It's a lesson I hope we've learned for this season.
Quote from: Chris Smith on August 23, 2012, 10:49:30 AMQuote from: Rissbert on August 23, 2012, 09:33:41 AMQuote from: Chris Smith on August 23, 2012, 09:27:55 AMWhy shouldn't the bloke stick up for himself? I'm sure we'd all do the same in the face of criticism. Until the injuries really hit we were comfortably mid table so the stuff about the kids outperforming the youngsters isn't backed up by results. He was the wrong appointment and the football was mostly horrible but I don't see why people have to manipulate the facts.Rubbish Chris. Bent was obviously a big loss, but it was senior players like Hutton, Agbonlahor, Warnock and Collins etc who were amongst our worst performers last season. After Bent's injury, Weimann outscored Gabby in any case, and players like Herd contributed far more to the cause than the likes of Warnock.It's only rubbish if you ignore the facts.We spent most of the season around mid table, over the last 2-3 months we suffered a bad run of injuries and were forced into playing an inexperienced and disjointed side, performances dipped accordingly and we dropped down the league. Of course certain individuals might have done OK in that time but results don't lie, they were better when we had our more experienced players available.I'm not trying to stick up for the bloke, I'm glad he's gone, but injuries played a huge part as we didn't have the squad to cope with them. It's a lesson I hope we've learned for this season.I don't think anyone on here ever considered us 'comfortable' in mid-table. My feelings were that the we underpeformed in the early part of the season when we had the more experienced players available. If he hadn't been happy to settle for the high % of home draws against beatable teams in the first half of the season he would have had sufficient good will in the bank to over come the problems in the last few games.
I just get the feeling he will end up at they sty again one day.
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