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hybrid_x

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Jun 28, 2011
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Anyone else feel like you have try really hard to like him?

Most of his interviews seem to just say all the football cliche's, and dare i say, insult our intelligence a little.

It's also his first major job in foorball, and i can't get out of my mind how much of a spice boy he was round town years back.

The new manager not wanting to make any connection with the fans also tastes a little bitter.

When the marketing lot speak more to us than the manager then there is a definate problem that needs addressing.

sigh.
 




Surf's Up

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Jul 17, 2011
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It's a bit strange thar OG seems to use Jones as his front man doing the majority of the media stuff
 


Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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It feels like I have to try hard to like the Albion generally of late, and I don't mean in an old football/new football kind of way.
 


Bevendean Hillbilly

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Sep 4, 2006
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Perhaps its because he's Welsh and had a face like a constipated shrew?

I imagine it's his fluent Spanish and his famously sharp mind that merits his role though.

Oh, and he is knobbing Helen Chamberlain by all accounts...at least, he was..
 






Barham's tash

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Jun 8, 2013
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Rayners Lane
Anyone else feel like you have try really hard to like him?

Most of his interviews seem to just say all the football cliche's, and dare i say, insult our intelligence a little.

It's also his first major job in foorball, and i can't get out of my mind how much of a spice boy he was round town years back.

The new manager not wanting to make any connection with the fans also tastes a little bitter.

When the marketing lot speak more to us than the manager then there is a definate problem that needs addressing.

sigh.

I find myself scowling irrationally whenever I see him being interviewed. I don't like the fact that he doesn't speak in platitudes about his previous time with us and that he appears to consider himself a cut above.

I guess each manager's relationship with his assistant differs but I prefer the ones that do the work with players on the training ground and stay subservient to the leaders. Not the gobby mouthpiece's whose self inflated egos belie their otherwise diminutive stature.
 


Geriatric Seagull

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Nov 10, 2009
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Littlehampton
It feels like I have to try hard to like the Albion generally of late, and I don't mean in an old football/new football kind of way.

I have to agree. The club's PR record over the last few years hasn't exactly been inspired and things haven't improved his season. Never mind, we're only customers and no longer supporters!
 






Rugrat

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Mar 13, 2011
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Seaford
Agree. Also wonder about the realationship with OG and I wonder if Oscar chose him or he was given to him.
 


Vegas Seagull

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Weak leaders appoint people that are no threat to themselves, great leaders appoint people that can become even better than themselves
 




Barham's tash

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Jun 8, 2013
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Agree. Also wonder about the realationship with OG and I wonder if Oscar chose him or he was given to him.

Completely THIS.

When he joined from MTV I was sure that his fitness coach (that's working well isn't it?) and assistant coach came with him. Then all of a sudden up pops Jones as assistant Head Coach. All very odd.
 


glasfryn

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Nov 29, 2005
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Weak leaders appoint people that are no threat to themselves, great leaders appoint people that can become even better than themselves

that's about right
 


Diego Napier

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Mar 27, 2010
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Anyone else feel like you have try really hard to like him?

Most of his interviews seem to just say all the football cliche's, and dare i say, insult our intelligence a little.

It's also his first major job in foorball, and i can't get out of my mind how much of a spice boy he was round town years back.

The new manager not wanting to make any connection with the fans also tastes a little bitter.

When the marketing lot speak more to us than the manager then there is a definate problem that needs addressing.

sigh.

Another negative thread flushing out the negative posters.

sigh
 








Westdene Seagull

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Oct 27, 2003
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Anyone else feel like you have try really hard to like him?

Most of his interviews seem to just say all the football cliche's, and dare i say, insult our intelligence a little.

It's also his first major job in foorball, and i can't get out of my mind how much of a spice boy he was round town years back.

The new manager not wanting to make any connection with the fans also tastes a little bitter.

When the marketing lot speak more to us than the manager then there is a definate problem that needs addressing.

sigh.

I sort of agree with you but it's not his first major job in football is it !
 






kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
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...nor me. There seems to be a distance between the club and the fans now, that certainly wasn't there before. Both OG and Nathan seem to lack charisma and the club as a whole feels a lot more of a 'corporate' entity since Mr Barber joined. It feels like we've lost a bit of our soul. The events of the summer didn't help, but something has certainly been lost with the departure of Gus, Tanno and Oatway and, in terms of the boardroom, Dick Knight and Martin Perry. It's just a bit hard to feel the love right now.
 


backson

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Jul 26, 2004
2,386
Anyone else feel like you have try really hard to like him?

Most of his interviews seem to just say all the football cliche's, and dare i say, insult our intelligence a little.

It's also his first major job in foorball, and i can't get out of my mind how much of a spice boy he was round town years back.

The new manager not wanting to make any connection with the fans also tastes a little bitter.

When the marketing lot speak more to us than the manager then there is a definate problem that needs addressing.

sigh.

Isn't this what marketing is, though?

Personally I'm not worried how coaches/assistants/whoever, come across in interviews; I'm comfortable in myself not to need my precious ego massaged by them telling me how marvelous I am as a fan. Bit like people who get all righteously indignant because a player didn't wave at them.
 



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