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He’s gone
Jan 2, 2024 10:29:06 GMT
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Post by Su on Jan 2, 2024 10:29:06 GMT
Sacked after 15 games. Happy new year
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Post by tom on Jan 2, 2024 12:56:28 GMT
Rumours of a training grou8nd punch up...Rowett parked in Rooneys space.
I thought another rumour would be fun.
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Post by Su on Jan 3, 2024 12:47:00 GMT
Having read all the whinging and bleating WR has done since being sacked I'm not at all surprised that he's such a bad manager. Nothing is his fault. He has blamed the board for not giving him enought time, the players for not playing his style of football, and now we are to blame for his mental health as it's going to 'take him a long time to recover'
Give your head a wobble mate. You can't manage an U10s team let alone a professional football club!!
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Post by will on Jan 5, 2024 15:23:27 GMT
While I admit that it's not a good watch to see him moaning, equally I don't think we should underestimate the effects of mental health problems. I know he's immensely rich and won't be affected financially by being "unemployed", but to bring something personal to the table there is no amount of cash that would make Sarah's mental health any better.
Yesterday Daniel did another one of his blogs about the sacking, and in it he condemned the behaviour of a minority of very vocal Blues fans towards Rooney, and I have to say that I agree with him. It certainly makes you wonder whether future potential managers will take that sort of behaviour into consideration when deciding whether they want to come and work for the Club.
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He’s gone
Jan 5, 2024 17:00:29 GMT
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Post by mulv on Jan 5, 2024 17:00:29 GMT
It certainly makes you wonder whether future potential managers will take that sort of behaviour into consideration when deciding whether they want to come and work for the Club. Sadly I suspect it's something all football managers have to live with, even those who are at successful teams.
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Post by will on Jan 5, 2024 21:00:33 GMT
It certainly makes you wonder whether future potential managers will take that sort of behaviour into consideration when deciding whether they want to come and work for the Club. Sadly I suspect it's something all football managers have to live with, even those who are at successful teams. Yeah, you're probably right, but Dan highlighted some very unpleasant examples of the behaviour which do our fan base absolutely no favours whatsoever. Whatever your thoughts about Rooney as a person, and I've been critical of him in this respect in the past, he didn't apply for the job, he was approached. It the club were daft enough to offer him a King's Ransom, that's not his fault. And if the players showed him little respect, they only had to look at his record and his medals as a player to realise that he knows a bit about football at the very least. As for the fans, there were many who didn't want him in the first place and made that clear from the word "GO". I've got no axe to grind on Rooney's behalf. He'll get over it eventually but he has the right to feel a bit pissed off in the meantime. As for the next incumbent, he'll be looking at the experiences of Rooney (hated by some before he arrived), Eustace ("DVB"), Bowyer, Karanka, Clotet, (all hounded out by the fans) Monk, (disloyal) Cotterill, Redknapp, Zola, (all completely useless) Rowett (apparently disloyal) and Clark, (the most useless of the lot) and he'll be thinking "How can I change the Groundhog Day experience at St Andrews?" Either he'll be hounded out if he's hopeless or used to support the Villa, or else if he's any good and thinks about moving on to a more stable and friendly club he'll be kicked out. Yes, some over-optimistic chump will believe he can change the pattern, and one day someone will, maybe. But in the meantime we're stuck with desperate blokes who are out of work because they've failed elsewhere, some of whom (Potter, Cooper) were probably unfairly sacked but who won't touch us with a barge pole, and others (Warnock and Mowbray) who are yesterday's men (maybe even "the day before yesterday's men). The last two won't give a shit about what the crowd think about them or say to them, and will give as good as they get, but as I've already said, they're yesterday's men - football dinosaurs, hairdryer/tea cup throwing merchants (bullies if you like), looking for yet another last big pay day for their pension - while the first two have had a recent taste of the high life and doubtless think they're better than us and can do without the sort of shit which some of our fans can throw at them. What is for absolutely sure is that despite the fact that we've got rid of the worst owners we've ever had and replaced them with possibly the best we've ever had, the fanbase has become incredibly divided, and it's unlikely that there will be the same sort of united feel that we had during our years in the Premier League. Something has to change, including the ambience amongst the fans, or else whoever we appoint will be out of a job again sometime between now and October.
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