Uncle Buck
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I see the excuses are already being tweaked for the new season. It will all be OK after Christmas....
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Player hunt on hold
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Uncle Buck
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The Large One said:
All involved in one of the most gutless relegations we have ever seen....
Uncle Buck
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Trigger said:
Achieving very little on either front before Christmas may well have long term benefits....
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Icy Gull 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.
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Icy Gull
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Uncle Buck said:
IMO he has earned the right over the last 3 seasons to be given a chance this season to rectify last. If we perform as we did last season I will also be calling for his head but will he be accepted as adequate by those that want him out now, if he does have us playing decent football and top half of the table
We cannot expect better than that, although a promotion season would be great it is unrealistic to demand it.Schrödinger's Toad
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Turkey 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.
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London Irish 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
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Rambo
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Woodchip said:
Ahhh the gold old days of Mark and Lard.
A bigidy bigidy bong.
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London Irish said:
If you look at my other posts on this thread I did say that McGhee kept us up so no I wasn't on the moon.
I also backed down about saying it was a fact that players don't come here because of McGhee. I then said in my opinion.
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London Irish said:Not sure about McShane!Yeah, he was only the bloody player of the season!
If you had looked three posts down from the post that you quote from you would have seen I take back my foolish comment on McShane.
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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?
I forgot to add Bradford City. I didn't say we had the fifth best ground in the league either did I? I was talking about facilities in general. What I did say was "all the other clubs don't have that much better facilties than we do. "
I can't wait to get Falmer as I know we need it urgently to fufil out massive potential.
Repugnant Toad 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.
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Turkey 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.
That is a fine post post Icy, raising what I feel is one of the most pertinent points which is the knock on effect of the Falmer saga trundling along for a long as it has, there just seems no end in sight to entice potential players.