Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I see the excuses are already being tweaked for the new season. It will all be OK after Christmas....
'Performances, not points' before Christmas, remember that.Uncle Buck said:I see the excuses are already being tweaked for the new season. It will all be OK after Christmas....
The Large One said:Seb Carole
Alex Frutos
Paul McShane
Wayne Henderson (sometimes)
CKR
Trigger said:'Performances, not points' before Christmas, remember that.
Uncle Buck said:I see the excuses are already being tweaked for the new season. It will all be OK after Christmas....
Icy Gull said:It will be ok long before Christmas, which will probably spoil yours.
Uncle Buck said:Why? Is McGhee going to go before Christmas....
Like anyone I want to see a succesful Albion side, it is just to have this a change needs to be made with regards to the manager. Last season we got relegated which is a bad thing at the best of times (although not sure with some Albion fans), however my gripe is that we went down with no fight and the manager is there to train the team, pick the team and motivate the team and some of that was missing.
Turkey said:One of the strikers has to start banging them in but I think both CKR and Jake are capable of that at this level
London Irish said:What source can you quote that will back up your claim of McGhee's "bad reputation" throughout the world of football?
Woodchip said:STOP!!!!!
Carry on!
London Irish said:And Mark McGhee DID keep us up, were you on the moon in 2004-5?
Repeating that lie over and over again doesn't make it any less of a total lie.
Repugnant Toad said:I can't imagine why ... there certainly hasn't been a scrap of evidence in the latter case; he's flattered to deceive in almost every game he's played. As for CKR, he'll get you a handful of spectacular strikes a season, but a consistent goalscorer? I just don't see it.
London Irish said:Not sure about McShane! Yeah, he was only the bloody player of the season!
London Irish said:So we have the fifth-best ground in League 1 then? That wonderful athletics track of ours?
Really makes you wonder why we make such a fuss about getting Falmer, don't it?
London Irish said:Why are Brentford in a worse position than us? Other than the fact that they can't find a manager to take them up through the play-offs but we did?
Repugnant Toad said:I would imagine Paul Simpson's quotes are fairly indicative of McGhee's standing in the game. He's hardly well thought-of amongst fans either. A fairly unremarkable piece of gratitude from Robbie Keane aside, I can't recall anyone having anything particularly positive to say about him.
http://www.northstandchat.biz/showthread.php?threadid=79517&highlight=paul+simpson
paddy said:Great point, most other managers are always being recognised for their qualities as a man-manager or coaching abilities yrt MM never gets any of that. If we fired him today would MM get another job in League 1 - no way, there are far better managers than him out there.
Turkey said:He would blatantly get another League 1 job! Three promotions from this division! Plenty of higher league experience. If you're looking for someone to take you up, he has a pretty good track record!
Lets sack him and see...Kinky Gerbils said:I dont think he would straight away.
His track record last yer and fall out with players in well knownnow.
This isnt the first club its happened at now.
Icy Gull said:Adams also had the momentum of coming back to Brighton and the "inevitable" stadium within 2 years. That was the way the club was sold back then and it worked, unfortunately after 8 years and LDC the inevitability of a new stadium does not stand up. In fact it is probably more of a hindrance than a help these days as the end looks no closer than it was when we moved into Withdean, full of hope. We are also in much bigger debt than we were. The only good thing is that despite all the shit of the last few seasons, we are still in the same division as we were when Adams dropped us like a hot potato, is that worth nothing then
It is clear to me why MM has more trouble enticing players here, we are a division above where we were when MA rebuilt his team, we have bigger debts and we have sold all our best players and have only used a fraction of the money received to re-invest. MA was given the 2nd biggest budget in Div 4, didn't have to sell at any stage, and did very well with it. I have no doubts MM would do similarly well if he had the 2nd biggest budget in this division this year.