He says a lot of things that are not true. He once claimed on another forum that he was a qualified UEFA coach who had worked for clubs abroad. Then someone put a photo up of him, and he looked more like the ball than a footballer.
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How very very interesting that you mention bringing RH on in that game ,because that's EXACTLY what was in my mind when I wrote that ! At the time , I though " what the **** is he doing ?".
Thing is though that he made a call on the day and as we know it didn't work, but I expect he has his reasons - maybe Rhys had been on fire in training that week. Maybe Reid was off colour, or the manager was aware a long time before we were of his lack of commitment and duplicitous nature. We won't know till Reid writes his story in the papers one day, but you're quite right that it seemed a strange thing.
Yet, if it had worked and Rhys had scored a hat trick we'd all be remembering it as an act of genius by the manager.
When you're in command you have to make calls and sometimes they don't work out, but I honestly think that Sir Neil makes the right call more often than the wrong one, and more often than most managers do.
You're also quite right that some of his buys have been poor, but I can forgive him that - lot of managers have done as badly and not gotten any success at all.
I know, Sir Neil knows, and it seems that even Sam Allerdyce knows that we can't realistically compete with flash monkey football teams, and more importantly that's a trap which the majority of teams fall into but which can't get them anywhere.
What we're doing is different and might get us back into the premiership by brute force and discipline , at which point maybe we've git to think again, but in any case it's what we ARE doing now and so the best and only thing we can do is to cheer them on and be committed to that strategy.
Yeah, by all means people can mention what they think would be better now and again, but my point is that this can become very counter productive to the collective willpower of the club if it reaches a certain critical mass.
I think your posting there is about the right level in terms of constructive criticism actually , but many seem to go a whole lot further and tend to celebrate mishaps because it somehow vindicates their own previous prophesies of failure. I think the most upsetting thing I saw was the thread predicting massive 5 goal annihilations by Fulham at a point where we were clearly in trouble , then carping and apparent dissapointment when the rout was halted in that game.
We need the support of the crowd if this young team is going to match the old one then surpass them, and although it's hard, that can be done.
Messageboards will always attract the more outspoken supporters
Most who criticise still love the club but many think there is a better way of doing things.
Sometimes they are right, sometimes wrong and often unaware of why the club have done things in a certain way. Sometimes just plain ignorant.
Most just want what they think is best for the club.. even if sometimes that may be total implosion and starting again as a new club 😂
how the **** has barnett got the energy to keep up this facade. he's been doing for for years now
Yeah it's a young team mainly in the fact that it's newly formed , but some of the players are quite inexperienced and in any case I think we have different ideas of what young means. I don't see a 24 year old as someone who's yet got his full set of skills generally .
Talking about this in work today, he definitely is a short term manager, that’s quite obvious from the number of clubs he’s had. By his standards he’ll be due a testimonial with us pretty soon. There is definitely a pattern with Warnock ( or is it Sir Neil, Warwick, Colin?), he comes in, sorts some shite out, does ok for a bit (in our case, he did extremely well, fantastic in fact), gets his feet under the table, gets involved financially (allegedly), things go sour, bit of unrest sets in & off he goes, whether sacked or of his own accord. The pattern isn’t going to change now, he’s too long in the tooth, even though we’re his kind of people (along with about 20 other club’s fans):hide:
I've been accused of being Roathie before, but I'm not him either and I've never read anything he's written. I think it's just a question of there being a clique of mutual back slappers here who can't imagine anyone not joining in and therefore think it's impossible that more than one person could disagree with them.
There's also this unity of dogma and certainty about a few wonky beliefs which you think anyone who challenges them must be mentally ill or something.
I’ll be honest I’ve never seen “Ronnie” directly called roathie on here. I’ve seen him called WB multiple times of course, but never roathie on this board.
Mask slipping?
No. See there's no mask. It's in the fertile imagination of people here. I've got one identity here, have only ever had one, and at the point where I'd joined I'd never heard of WB any more than I'd heard of you .
I don't tell lies and I'd have no reason to. What's written on my profile is selective but absolutely true.
Lardy, I'll take your £500 if you really want me to, but you WOULD lose that, so be careful. Why don't you just email the admin and ask them to check - I happily give my permission . In fact I've pm'd him myself and he said he'd posted something but I can't find it if he did.
I'm not sure whether it matters much really, but you're quite wrong.
To challenge someone you normally have to provide a well thought out counter argument. You just say that people are wrong because they don’t express themselves the same way you do.
Have you ever thought that the mutual backslapping might actually be a common consensus about the current situation and is actually a sign that things are genuinely a little bit off atm?
Do you check all message boards trying to detect pseudonyms ? That's kind of scary to be honest , but whatever floats your boat I suppose. Unfortunately I've never had more than one identity on any message board or blog though, so don't expend too many of interpol's valuable recourses on it.
You'd be far better off looking beyond football stuff if you really feel compelled to track me down , but I really shouldn't encourage you to stalk people .
Perhaps, and actually if you read what I've written rather than the outraged reactions, I hope you'd find that my talking points are perfectly well thought out and politely expressed.
By the way, this thread generally , not what you said there, is an example of how the usual suspects don't address what I've said but instead start trying to gang up and tag team me on a very personal level THEN I get accused of making it about me.