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Post by stainrodisalegend on Apr 5, 2024 10:24:07 GMT
What got me was the view from so many fans that as he played for us he had earned the opportunity to manage us and I’m still shocked the owners bought into that opinion. Wildly unsuitable for the role in every measure and once he got Haka Dave in if I was owners at that point I would have thought this is not going to work and started looking for replacement. We all know that the board panicked. We were on a huge losing run, fans not happy with signings etc. Critchley didn't work so they went against their own football ideas to bring in a fans favourite, to buy them some time. Backfired spectacularly though and since then the board has changed, football operations changed and obviously the manager. Board and the fans. As Acton and James said above the fans were demanding it. And as the board are largely clueless, they often follow the fans in these situations. |
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Post by alanwycombe on Apr 5, 2024 12:43:18 GMT
Not just fans to be fair, on paper he was the sort of guy we were right to look at. He’d been decent at Wycombe and they would have had a second season in the Champ if it hadn’t been for Derby cheating. Massive surprise to see just how bad he was and a mystery how he kept Wycombe more or less successful for a decade. No, not defending him. I didn’t want him but I thought he’d be much better than he turned out.
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Post by West Acton on Apr 5, 2024 13:10:58 GMT
Not just fans to be fair, on paper he was the sort of guy we were right to look at. He’d been decent at Wycombe and they would have had a second season in the Champ if it hadn’t been for Derby cheating. Massive surprise to see just how bad he was and a mystery how he kept Wycombe more or less successful for a decade. No, not defending him. I didn’t want him but I thought he’d be much better than he turned out. can’t agree Alan. Nothing about him warranted us having a look. Done well at Wycombe don’t make him even close to being right or appropriate for QPR. |
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Post by stainrodisalegend on Apr 5, 2024 14:46:28 GMT
No record of developing players, no record of making a club money from transfer fees, no record of playing the passing football that we had built a squad to deliver, no evidence of any tactical ability, no real record of success in the Championship, no record of managing players like Willock and Chair, no knowledge of continental football or record of any fresh thinking, literally don't see anything in his cv to say he would be a good long-term fit. Plus he just looked and sounded a joke. I could have just about understood it if it was always a short term fix to fire the squad up to avoid relegation that season, but because he was already in a job we had to take him on with a long deal plus all his backroom team which was always chucking money we couldn't afford down the toilet. This is not hindsight as a few of said before the appointment he was always going to be a very poor man's Ian Holloway, and we were done with all that.
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Post by hubble on Apr 5, 2024 16:20:35 GMT
Why are we still talking about El Trampo? He did my bleedin nut in, almost drained the will to live out of me, and I was praying he'd be gone, long, long before he finally got the tin tack.
But I do have to hold my hand up and say I was one of those mugs who thought he could do a job. And I really believed this right up until, oh, I don't know, about 5 games into his tenure, when I realised to my horror, that he was far, far from the Wild Thing messiah I had deluded myself into believing in, and that in fact, he was a complete and utter idiot.
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Post by Hitman34 on Apr 5, 2024 17:12:06 GMT
i knew he was useless after i watched the 4 year plan.
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Post by Stanley75 on Apr 5, 2024 17:52:41 GMT
Why are we still talking about El Trampo? My thought too. Don't get the interest tbh as we've moved on so much since then. And I bear him no ill will, nice guy just out of his depth, who you could in no way blame for taking the job as he was offered it. But think we've been over all that a million times now, so see no benefit in regurgitating it. |
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Post by Shania on Apr 5, 2024 17:56:38 GMT
I was thinking that Dobson and Ainsworth completed each other. Dobson talked a good game; but obviously I was wrong.
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Post by jfrabbit on Apr 17, 2024 4:26:10 GMT
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Post by 2Loftus on Apr 17, 2024 14:51:26 GMT
Can't bring myself to listen to it...
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Post by hubble on Apr 17, 2024 15:06:36 GMT
I couldn't bear to listen to a second more of his Lancastrian dirge.
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Apr 17, 2024 15:57:54 GMT
Shouldn’t of been a pod cast he on, should of been a criminal courtroom for fraud
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Post by stainrodisalegend on Apr 17, 2024 16:55:47 GMT
Think I would rather listen to an interview with Liz Truss saying the problem was everyone else...
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Post by 2Loftus on Apr 18, 2024 11:18:51 GMT
Gaz is apparently favourite for the Stevenage job, following Steve Evans' departure for Rotherham.
They're currently 9th in League One (and 9 points ahead of Wycombe).
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Apr 18, 2024 14:39:16 GMT
Gaz is apparently favourite for the Stevenage job, following Steve Evans' departure for Rotherham. They're currently 9th in League One (and 9 points ahead of Wycombe). not for long😀 |
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Post by West Acton on Apr 27, 2024 12:23:03 GMT
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Post by 2Loftus on Apr 27, 2024 12:57:38 GMT
"Have we just played the league winners?"
Good grief.
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Post by Stanley75 on Apr 27, 2024 13:06:10 GMT
POSSIBLY Málaga CF bound (Spanish third tier)
I heard it through the (musical) grapevine.
His wife's Venezuelan so makes sense. Certainly beats British weather!
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Post by Timmy Doc on Apr 27, 2024 13:12:17 GMT
POSSIBLY Málaga CF bound (Spanish third tier) I heard it through the (musical) grapevine. His wife's Venezuelan so makes sense. Certainly beats British weather! Hope he gets that job. Nice area, weather, food and life style. Chance for a professional comeback as well. |
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Post by West Acton on Apr 27, 2024 13:27:03 GMT
POSSIBLY Málaga CF bound (Spanish third tier) I heard it through the (musical) grapevine. His wife's Venezuelan so makes sense. Certainly beats British weather! now that’s a side that have fallen from grace they were in champions league semi finals few years back. |
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Post by 2Loftus on Apr 27, 2024 14:08:29 GMT
POSSIBLY Málaga CF bound (Spanish third tier) I heard it through the (musical) grapevine. His wife's Venezuelan so makes sense. Certainly beats British weather! He'll be brushing up on key phrases, like: "Vaciar el tanque" (Empty the tank)
"¿Acabamos de jugar contra los campeones de liga?" (Have we just played the league Champions?)
"Así se hace el Haka." (This is how you do the Haka.)
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Post by jfrabbit on May 3, 2024 17:59:20 GMT
Off to Gillingham by all accounts
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Post by gtleighsr3 on May 3, 2024 19:41:16 GMT
He not fit to manage a wheelchair side
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Post by jfrabbit on Aug 7, 2024 22:22:39 GMT
Fuck me he's had some wear out of them poxy boots.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2024 22:27:57 GMT
He's a tramp
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Aug 8, 2024 6:17:09 GMT
He was a bigger disaster than the Xmas tsunami, and looks like he just been hit by one
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2024 8:22:05 GMT
We encouraged him to look like that as well with all that embarrassing 'wild thing' bollocks too.
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Post by jfrabbit on Sept 26, 2024 5:17:15 GMT
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Post by 2Loftus on Oct 15, 2024 16:12:29 GMT
Ainsworth beaten to the Hearts job by his predecessor at QPR...
Neil Critchley
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Post by acricketer on Oct 15, 2024 18:40:18 GMT
Ainsworth beaten to the Hearts job by his predecessor at QPR... Neil Critchley Just half a season delay then! |
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