Eric Black

[aj2k77]

Journeyman, nobody, mimicking who must be his boring Idol Lambert.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Thanks for nothing Eric. You had a job that most fans sympathized with you over. Just give us a bit of fight and dignity as we go down. Couldn't manage even that though.

[PaulWinch again]

Thing is he can say all he wants in the week, but when you put out a starting line up like that and say what he said after the game then you're a fucking idiot.

[wittonwarrior]

We were 'outstanding' today, apparantly.

The sooner he finds his next caretakers job, the better.

Must have been talking about the fans  today who were worthy of supporting a European Cup winners not a bunch of Sunday pub players who by and large can't be arsed.

[john e]

All managers everywhere are just a bunch of no nothing tosspotts

and that's the top and bottom of it

[p_ad]

He had a free hit no pressure no expectations, he gives us that line up words really do escape me.
 Except for nobber.

[TonyD]

Most managers are failures as only a few can win trophies.  There are only c12 or so great managers over the last 50 years in English football.  But like players the average managers get labelled legends.  We have had 2 , Ron and SGT.  They don't grow on trees.   

[ChicagoLion]

Caretaker, I would not put the idiot in charge of a broom cupboard.
Another useless twat.

[Clampy]

I saw the team sheet and groaned and the lack of movement off the bench at 1-0 and relegated anyway was just baffling.

[OzVilla]

Surprised by the anti-Black vitriol. He's started outing a few that need outing at long last. Gabby for example.

Personally, id still play these fuckers every game till seasons end, let them take the abuse they deserve and not start their holidays early which is I'm sure what many would prefer to be really doing.

[Singapore Villa]

I hope, I really do, that he has made limited changes as he does not want the younger players (future of our great club) to deal with the emotional mess that is relegaion.

However, it may just be that he has n balls and doesn't want to rock the boat.

I hope the former but suspect the latter.

[brian green]

You are right SV he does not want to rock the boat but the boat he does not want to rock is his own.  He has had a nice comfortable career earning about five times as much as a nurse or a teacher for doing virtually nothing.  He wants to protect his nice little earner and be able to move to another back room cushy number until he retires.  He is working from some virtual How To Manage Football Team Manual and parroting footballspeak he has picked up here and there along the way.  He is like a self taught pub pianist playing Chopin.

[London Villan]

Dragging Lyden off at half time, then having him sit in with the fans and not in the dug-out, would indicate that isn't the plan.

[Singapore Villa]

Agreed LV, treatment of Lyden was poor.  Should have taken off someone else and given him 90.

[sickbeggar]

Thinking its only the players who the fans love to hate playing up is  naive in the extreme. I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of those not selected don't fancy being here next season at all. End of the day, Black is just picking up the mess while we're in limbo. He's not getting the job, he knows he's not getting the job, he hasn't got the authority to change anything like publicly calling out the players because the new guy may want/have to work with them. Aiming brickbats at someone with little or no control over our future seems a bit pointless