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Author Topic: MacDonald Out.  (Read 21546 times)

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2018, 08:16:16 PM »
I've seen from him;

West Ham home - excellent
Vienna away - Decent
Newcastle away - fucking shite
Everton at home - nervous
Vienna at home - mince
Southampton away - Zzzzz and crazy selection 
Tottenham away - What the actual fuck was that selection
Millwall - fucking shite

In fairness it's not his fault. Imagine being asked at work to do a job way beyond your capabilities, that you've neither asked to do nor want to do.


I saw Stoke and Bolton under him aswell in 10/11, that Stoke game we should've been 5-0 up at half time but predictably lost it in the last minute.

I think the whole vibe was just to get this game over with and with that mentality I expected a defeat as he knows he has no chance of getting the job full time unlike his 2010 spell where he could well have got it if Newcastle 6-0 didn't happen.

Next time we change manager I'd like to see Delaney step in for a few games.

I'd forgot he Bolton game. Stoke was where Pulis turned up at half time. I can't recall if we had Houillier by then though.

Before, Stoke was a Monday night game 5 days before Bolton.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2018, 08:21:31 PM »
I'd have given the gig to Delaney today.Same old shit ,different Muppet

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2018, 08:29:24 PM »
We may as well have put HDE in charge today. MacDonald is a complete waste of time.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #18 on: October 06, 2018, 08:29:44 PM »
Hopefully he will not go back to U23s and will be moved on to pastures new under the new regime. He is part of the problem the malaise this club has been in for a while now.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2018, 08:33:28 PM »
Get the feeling he's got a job for life here unless a proper review of the club from the new board comes back with must do better for the Youth team.

Did actually forget he was a manage for a short while, Swindon in 2013 but only lasted a couple of months after they lost in the play offs.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2018, 08:36:51 PM »
How did he come back was he loaned to Swindon?

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2018, 08:55:18 PM »
Get the feeling he's got a job for life here unless a proper review of the club from the new board comes back with must do better for the Youth team.

Did actually forget he was a manage for a short while, Swindon in 2013 but only lasted a couple of months after they lost in the play offs.

Must do better? Doesn't he run the academy pipeline that culminated in an 8-0 win last night?

If anything should be addressed, it's why there's such little transition from academy to first team. I look forward to a time when we're not constantly firefighting and can give a few a bit more game time.

Offline BC Villain

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2018, 09:47:23 PM »
Needs to be a total review of the club from top to bottom.  Why with so many good young players in the under 23 set up do so few break into the first team?  Why in the past have so many moved on a realised there potential.  It isnt just under Bruce.
In the last decade, only Houllier has even remotely looked like being able to bring through younger players.

We're an analogue club, trying to function in a digital eta.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2018, 10:07:06 PM »
Vile man as well as being a shit caretaker manager.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2018, 10:07:47 PM »
Get the feeling he's got a job for life here unless a proper review of the club from the new board comes back with must do better for the Youth team.

Did actually forget he was a manage for a short while, Swindon in 2013 but only lasted a couple of months after they lost in the play offs.

Must do better? Doesn't he run the academy pipeline that culminated in an 8-0 win last night?

If anything should be addressed, it's why there's such little transition from academy to first team. I look forward to a time when we're not constantly firefighting and can give a few a bit more game time.

The U23s is all down to Mark Delaney.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2018, 11:22:38 PM »
He (in my opinion) virtually sabotaged a game against spurs to spite his employers.  The employers who have paid handsome wages to him for many years.  Add to that he is as dull as dishwater he should go in any new structure.
« Last Edit: October 06, 2018, 11:32:18 PM by kippaxvilla2 »

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2018, 02:24:59 AM »
Vile man as well as being a shit caretaker manager.

Now is he even still at the club after that report back in the day.

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2018, 03:43:20 AM »
Awful in all respects. Needs to receive his p45

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2018, 09:09:30 AM »
He could have said no when asked and suggested Delaney

Why was he even asked in the first place?

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Re: MacDonald Out.
« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2018, 09:27:05 AM »
I don't like the bloke at all

hope that's the end of him managing the first team


 


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