Dick Advocaat - Turns down Cardiff job

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Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef

With some the Club can’t win whatever they do.
All this is a load of cobblers.
As it goes Damned if they do, Damned if they don’t

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But fans love a good rant, doesn’t matter if it’s based on nothing. Especially if it’s a Tan bashing,

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Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef

With some the Club can’t win whatever they do.
All this is a load of cobblers.
As it goes Damned if they do, Damned if they don’t

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I mean they could approach some uk-based managers with their finger on the pulse of championship football who are less likely to die in the post?

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

Random, and a shame for Sludge as I know Dick Advocaat is his favourite drink at Christmas

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That's below the belt

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Originally Posted by 2b2bdoo

It’s funny the club get slammed rightly for having no plan and sacking manager without someone in mind. Now they are having informal chats, probably agents trying their luck to push them onto us and it’s a bad thing.

I don’t really believe it tbh.

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Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef

With some the Club can’t win whatever they do.
All this is a load of cobblers.
As it goes Damned if they do, Damned if they don’t

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He's 77. Also, why would he lie? He was annoyed it has come out and he didn't bring it up.

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Originally Posted by superfeathers

I mean they could approach some uk-based managers with their finger on the pulse of championship football who are less likely to die in the post?

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Steady on, that is way too forward thinking

Good. I wouldn't want him here, he's a shit manager.

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Originally Posted by superfeathers

I wonder if then theyre recording for some sort of fly on the wall comedy but it’s not being released until tan goes?

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Penarth Kev would have had a field day in his Deep In The Bowels series.

This board used to be brilliant.

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Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa

He's 77. Also, why would he lie? He was annoyed it has come out and he didn't bring it up.

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I’m sure he was approached, informal suggests it would be anyone, the club, an agent, media, someone testing the waters.

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Originally Posted by 2b2bdoo

I’m sure he was approached, informal suggests it would be anyone, the club, an agent, media, someone testing the waters.

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Testing the waters of a 77 year old. I don't care whatever way you spin it, this is absolutely mental.

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Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa

Testing the waters of a 77 year old. I don't care whatever way you spin it, this is absolutely mental.

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I think you are over-reacting. He could have done a good job playing in our defence.

Tan approached him after his attempt to bring in Brian Clough failed.

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

I think you are over-reacting. He could have done a good job playing in our defence.

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:hehe::hehe::hehe:

A young player of the year candidate

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

i bet that 80% of fans wouldn't have wanted advocaat anyway....

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Then who would you advocate?

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Originally Posted by 2b2bdoo

But fans love a good rant, doesn’t matter if it’s based on nothing. Especially if it’s a Tan bashing,

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Exactly. This story is obviously nonsense. It’s a clear conspiracy to discredit Vincent Tan and derail City’s bid to stay in the Championship that is being orchestrated by a random bunch of Dutch and Scottish journalists.

How dare they? Bastards, the lot of them…

Is there any hope for us under this regime? 77 years old! These guys are clueless.

Dick Advocaat

My mother-in-laws two favourite things

Wasn't he sacked from Rangers for having a drug problem?

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Originally Posted by superfeathers

I mean they could approach some uk-based managers with their finger on the pulse of championship football who are less likely to die in the post?

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this seems like sounding out an experienced old hand who might be prepared to take over until the end of the season and then walk away .
no up and coming championship manager would sign up for that

No denial of the story from the club yet as far as I'm aware - do we take it that if there's not one by tonight, then it's true?

Ordinarilly, a club would be best advised to ignore such a ridiculous sounding story, but the problem is that, at Vincent Tan's Cardiff City, it sounds nowhere near as absurd as it would if, say, Bristol City were offering Advocaat the manager's job.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

No denial of the story from the club yet as far as I'm aware - do we take it that if there's not one by tonight, then it's true?

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It would be more than a little odd for a 77 year-old Dutchman to confirm the story if it wasn’t true. It seems so random.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

this seems like sounding out an experienced old hand who might be prepared to take over until the end of the season and then walk away .
no up and coming championship manager would sign up for that

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I presume they’ve exhausted the idea of bringing someone decent in to keep us up and stay next season then?

So bring someone in who’s 77, semi retired and chilling in the Caribbean to manage a relegation fight.

Bobby Gould is also available and his wife says he can come

What’s Rinus Michels up to? Big Ron?

If it's true which I doubt, Tan deserves to lose all his money.

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Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue

If it's true which I doubt, Tan deserves to lose all his money.

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77, is a tad to old especially considering there’s youngsters like Allardyce available, he’s probably early 70’s
What could possibly go wrong ?

Bacuna plays for him in the Curacao side - maybe it was all a big plan to bring him back to Cardiff!