sherriffbart
New member
- Sep 24, 2003
- 150
Firstly, if he is going to go then hurry up and do it. This hanging
about is
ridiculous and does us no favours. It is not so bad for Reading as
their game
is called off on Saturday due to international call-ups so they do not
play
for ages. But we need to know so we can set about getting ourselves a
new
manager before we have a Reading-esque managerless slide down the
table. Believe me
this can happen and the last thing we want is to end up wallowing in
mid-table
and starting to glance over our shoulders.
If he decides to join Reading it will slightly baffle me. We can argue
about
who are potentially bigger until we are blue (& white) in the face but
Reading
are in division 1...End of...
That said and I mean no disrespect to Reading but is it really that
much a
better job than ours? The bald one said live on Sky after the game
against
Blackpool that he is "ambitious and wanted to test himself at the
highest level".
But in my eyes he has been there and done all that. He finished 2nd in
the old
first division with Palace and would have been in Europe if was not for
the
ban on English clubs. He has also been to the FA Cup Final with Palace,
so what
more is there? Unless he is suddenly given the managers job at either
Man Utd
or Arsenal and therefore the chance of winning the Premiership but I
cannot
see that happening. So what more can he reallistically achieve
managerially?
Anything he can achieve at the Albion with all our constraints will
outweigh any
achievements made at Reading. So again, what is the point?
He wants to test himself at the "highest level" but how many higher
level
clubs came knocking down his door (except us) when he was left sitting
around
after leaving Brentford? Also, why then accept our job if he wanted to
be at the
highest level? Now that we are established at the top and someone else
is
taking an interest he wants to go at the first opportunity.
Another point is money. I cannot honestly believe money is an issue and
he
must have made enough to see him comfortably out. I do not know how old
he is
but he seems to have been around (managerially speaking) a long time so
I was
thinking that this would be his last job. I expected that unless he
does a Bobby
Robson he would have comfortably seen out his days at the Albion. So
again,
if there is not much more he can achieve and money does not come into
it then
why go?
He cannot use Withdean as an excuse. Firstly even if Dick Knight lied
and
said was Falmer was only 6 months away he is clever enough to work out
this was
not truth. I also believe Dick Knight would have told him the truth
with
Falmer. Secondly he has not come into Withdean 'cold'. Mickey Adams and
Peter Taylor
both did. Mickey moved there from Priestfield with us and despite what
we say
about them it was a proper football ground. Peter Taylor had never been
before unless he paid a scouting visit. The bald one is totally
different as he has
been before with Brentford so he knew exactly what he was walking into.
Also
our record at Withdean is excellent.
The chairman cannot be an issue as every manager we have had under him
except
perhaps for Jeff Wood (somehow Hinshlewood is still at the club) love
him to
bits. They say how great he is and Mickey Adams really gushed about him
on
Goals On Sunday yesterday. There are plenty of rubbish interferring
chairman
about and Dick Knick is not one of them.
Is it the Albion-Palace thing? I remember reading an interview with Ian
Chapman after he was booted out and Palace offered him a deal, he said:
"I could
not bring myself to look myself in the mirror each morning knowing I
played for
Palace". Does the bald one have similar feelings? I doubt it.
So if it is not achievements, not money, not the chairman and not the
rivalry
then what is it? Why, bloody why?
Albion & England forever.
Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA
about is
ridiculous and does us no favours. It is not so bad for Reading as
their game
is called off on Saturday due to international call-ups so they do not
play
for ages. But we need to know so we can set about getting ourselves a
new
manager before we have a Reading-esque managerless slide down the
table. Believe me
this can happen and the last thing we want is to end up wallowing in
mid-table
and starting to glance over our shoulders.
If he decides to join Reading it will slightly baffle me. We can argue
about
who are potentially bigger until we are blue (& white) in the face but
Reading
are in division 1...End of...
That said and I mean no disrespect to Reading but is it really that
much a
better job than ours? The bald one said live on Sky after the game
against
Blackpool that he is "ambitious and wanted to test himself at the
highest level".
But in my eyes he has been there and done all that. He finished 2nd in
the old
first division with Palace and would have been in Europe if was not for
the
ban on English clubs. He has also been to the FA Cup Final with Palace,
so what
more is there? Unless he is suddenly given the managers job at either
Man Utd
or Arsenal and therefore the chance of winning the Premiership but I
cannot
see that happening. So what more can he reallistically achieve
managerially?
Anything he can achieve at the Albion with all our constraints will
outweigh any
achievements made at Reading. So again, what is the point?
He wants to test himself at the "highest level" but how many higher
level
clubs came knocking down his door (except us) when he was left sitting
around
after leaving Brentford? Also, why then accept our job if he wanted to
be at the
highest level? Now that we are established at the top and someone else
is
taking an interest he wants to go at the first opportunity.
Another point is money. I cannot honestly believe money is an issue and
he
must have made enough to see him comfortably out. I do not know how old
he is
but he seems to have been around (managerially speaking) a long time so
I was
thinking that this would be his last job. I expected that unless he
does a Bobby
Robson he would have comfortably seen out his days at the Albion. So
again,
if there is not much more he can achieve and money does not come into
it then
why go?
He cannot use Withdean as an excuse. Firstly even if Dick Knight lied
and
said was Falmer was only 6 months away he is clever enough to work out
this was
not truth. I also believe Dick Knight would have told him the truth
with
Falmer. Secondly he has not come into Withdean 'cold'. Mickey Adams and
Peter Taylor
both did. Mickey moved there from Priestfield with us and despite what
we say
about them it was a proper football ground. Peter Taylor had never been
before unless he paid a scouting visit. The bald one is totally
different as he has
been before with Brentford so he knew exactly what he was walking into.
Also
our record at Withdean is excellent.
The chairman cannot be an issue as every manager we have had under him
except
perhaps for Jeff Wood (somehow Hinshlewood is still at the club) love
him to
bits. They say how great he is and Mickey Adams really gushed about him
on
Goals On Sunday yesterday. There are plenty of rubbish interferring
chairman
about and Dick Knick is not one of them.
Is it the Albion-Palace thing? I remember reading an interview with Ian
Chapman after he was booted out and Palace offered him a deal, he said:
"I could
not bring myself to look myself in the mirror each morning knowing I
played for
Palace". Does the bald one have similar feelings? I doubt it.
So if it is not achievements, not money, not the chairman and not the
rivalry
then what is it? Why, bloody why?
Albion & England forever.
Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA
