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Author Topic: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.  (Read 7528 times)

Offline richard moore

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2013, 10:57:07 PM »
Warnock's book is brilliant and I doubt enyone, ahvign read it, would not actually have an admiration for the guy.

He's also been very good and very honest as a guest presenter on Talkshite over the last few months

Offline supertom

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2013, 11:22:11 PM »
I don't mind Warnock. He's a bit of a rent-a-gob at times but he seems honest enough.

Offline eamonn

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2013, 11:26:35 PM »
The Becchio situation he talks of is the Jan transfer window just gone, right?

Offline Ad@m

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2013, 11:28:34 PM »
The Becchio situation he talks of is the Jan transfer window just gone, right?

It's got to be recent because he talks of Hughton at Norwich.

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2013, 11:33:26 PM »
I don't mind Warnock. He's a bit of a rent-a-gob at times but he seems honest enough.
Telling his players to get deliberately sent off in the hope of having a match abandoned?

Honest?

Offline supertom

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2013, 11:39:34 PM »
I don't mind Warnock. He's a bit of a rent-a-gob at times but he seems honest enough.
Telling his players to get deliberately sent off in the hope of having a match abandoned?

Honest?
Ha ha. As the day is long.

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2013, 01:31:08 PM »
I dont mind him - his players always seemed to give everything in every game. I remember Sheff U beating us in the Cup in 2005 and they simply wanted it more than we did. His Palace team nearly did for us in the Cup in 2010 as well. Always had a sneaky admiration for him.

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2013, 01:32:40 PM »
such fun and games. I remember Doug saying that he had agreed with another chairman (can't remember know) that they would both offer the exact same fee for Alan Thompson. Then when the other guy refused to budge he offered more and got him in. Cheeky devil that Doug!

I may have a look at downloading this as well. Only trouble I just where do I look....

I think it was Ridsdale at Leeds. Doug and Ridsdale agreed on the same offer for Thomson and said they would not enter a bidding war and would simply let the player decide which offer he would accept.

Doug then went back with an extra 50k over the weekend and we got Tommo.

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2013, 01:45:12 PM »
I don't mind Warnock. He's a bit of a rent-a-gob at times but he seems honest enough.
Telling his players to get deliberately sent off in the hope of having a match abandoned?

Honest?

Causing a riot too.

Offline KevinGage

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2013, 02:26:30 PM »
Add to that telling one of his own players to break the leg of an opposition player and his incessant moaning about match officials every bastard game. I'd say football won't miss him.

His stock seems to have fallen enough that even middling Championship clubs won't take a punt on him now, so he's redefining himself as some sort of honest, straight talking ex-manager.  He's an arse.

Offline supertom

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2013, 05:56:01 PM »
such fun and games. I remember Doug saying that he had agreed with another chairman (can't remember know) that they would both offer the exact same fee for Alan Thompson. Then when the other guy refused to budge he offered more and got him in. Cheeky devil that Doug!

I may have a look at downloading this as well. Only trouble I just where do I look....

I think it was Ridsdale at Leeds. Doug and Ridsdale agreed on the same offer for Thomson and said they would not enter a bidding war and would simply let the player decide which offer he would accept.

Doug then went back with an extra 50k over the weekend and we got Tommo.
I'd completely forgotten about Thompson. Thought he'd be a decent signing at the time and expected half a dozen thunderbolts a season.

Offline peter w

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #26 on: July 10, 2013, 11:34:16 PM »
Good read that. Shows how frustrating management must be. He's a charmless individual but he came across well in that eye opening documentary about QPR from a couple of years ago.

I've liked him since he spoke well of us after we beat his Sheff U 3-0.

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2013, 11:38:34 PM »
such fun and games. I remember Doug saying that he had agreed with another chairman (can't remember know) that they would both offer the exact same fee for Alan Thompson. Then when the other guy refused to budge he offered more and got him in. Cheeky devil that Doug!

I may have a look at downloading this as well. Only trouble I just where do I look....

I think it was Ridsdale at Leeds. Doug and Ridsdale agreed on the same offer for Thomson and said they would not enter a bidding war and would simply let the player decide which offer he would accept.

Doug then went back with an extra 50k over the weekend and we got Tommo.

I don't think that it was Leeds. That doesn't ring a bell.

Offline peter w

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #28 on: July 10, 2013, 11:45:51 PM »
Leeds does ring a bell. If he never played for them then the thought of him in a Leeds shirt must have come from this.

Offline TheSandman

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Re: An interestin​g insight from 'The Gaffer'.
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2013, 12:07:35 AM »
Wasn't he a coach at Leeds?

 


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