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Post by bantam147 on Oct 12, 2020 21:49:08 GMT
I love you, you magnificent Ginger bastard.
But I'm calling it. Time of Death, 9.37pm, 12th Oct 2020.
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Post by hobbes on Oct 12, 2020 22:00:29 GMT
Hope he walks, he'd be great on the after dinner circuit, if that ever reappears. Just go Stuart, we know it's not gonna happen, you know it's not gonna happen. And its definitely never gonna happen in the current set up.
Hes been set up to fail by captain admin, should walk away, head held high.
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Post by Hoochy on Oct 12, 2020 22:19:05 GMT
Hope he walks, he'd be great on the after dinner circuit, if that ever reappears. Just go Stuart, we know it's not gonna happen, you know it's not gonna happen. And its definitely never gonna happen in the current set up. Hes been set up to fail by captain admin, should walk away, head held high. Back for spell 4 within 18 months. We need to move him upstairs as head of football operations or something.
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Post by hobbes on Oct 12, 2020 22:21:00 GMT
Hope he walks, he'd be great on the after dinner circuit, if that ever reappears. Just go Stuart, we know it's not gonna happen, you know it's not gonna happen. And its definitely never gonna happen in the current set up. Hes been set up to fail by captain admin, should walk away, head held high. Back for spell 4 within 18 months. We need to move him upstairs as head of football operations or something. Kitman?
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Post by bantam147 on Oct 12, 2020 22:26:04 GMT
Thank fuck we signed that final piece of the jigsaw eh?
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Post by Bacon on Oct 12, 2020 22:27:36 GMT
Thank fuck we signed that final piece of the jigsaw eh? What the fuck is it a jigsaw of?
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Post by Hobhead on Oct 13, 2020 4:33:01 GMT
He’s no more than an average manager but what little chance he may have had evaporates under this regime. He shouldn’t have come back but unfortunately he’ll always answer the call and Rhodes takes advantage of that weakness. Without the infrastructure and relying solely on McCall’s phone contacts and players we meet in opposition U23’s is so unlikely to work that anyone with any control over the situation ought to have recognised it and done something about it.
This team will finish him as a manager.
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Post by Neshead on Oct 13, 2020 4:46:18 GMT
He’s no more than an average manager but what little chance he may have had evaporates under this regime. He shouldn’t have come back but unfortunately he’ll always answer the call and Rhodes takes advantage of that weakness. Without the infrastructure and relying solely on McCall’s phone contacts and players we meet in opposition U23’s is so unlikely to work that anyone with any control over the situation ought to have recognised it and done something about it. This team will finish him as a manager. He didn't look happy last night. Yesterday was a good marker as to where we are as a club, it wasn't so much the defeat that was disappointing it was that Harrogate fully deserved it. If you reversed those two performances people would be rightly heaping praise on McCall, instead a rookie football league manager completely out thought him. My young spotted it straight away, he said Harrogate look like they know what they are doing. It's amazing how good even average players can look when they play to a system that suits their best assets rather than shoehorned into a system the manager has dreamt up the night before.
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Post by Hobhead on Oct 13, 2020 5:39:43 GMT
He’s no more than an average manager but what little chance he may have had evaporates under this regime. He shouldn’t have come back but unfortunately he’ll always answer the call and Rhodes takes advantage of that weakness. Without the infrastructure and relying solely on McCall’s phone contacts and players we meet in opposition U23’s is so unlikely to work that anyone with any control over the situation ought to have recognised it and done something about it. This team will finish him as a manager. He didn't look happy last night. Yesterday was a good marker as to where we are as a club, it wasn't so much the defeat that was disappointing it was that Harrogate fully deserved it. If you reversed those two performances people would be rightly heaping praise on McCall, instead a rookie football league manager completely out thought him. My young spotted it straight away, he said Harrogate look like they know what they are doing. It's amazing how good even average players can look when they play to a system that suits their best assets rather than shoehorned into a system the manager has dreamt up the night before. He always overthinks things and always, always pays too much respect to the opposition. Harrogate looked like they’d baked a shit and saved it to drop in our penalty area. They had no fear whatsoever.
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Post by Hobhead on Oct 13, 2020 5:41:49 GMT
All of this said though, sacking McCall would just be papering over the cracks. The next manager would be just as fucked unless he was something pretty special which, given our driving forces, we aren’t going to identify and approach.
We can sack as many managers as we want but under this set up the only chance of us being even remotely successful is through blind luck. Rupp needs to sell and Rhodes needs to go.
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Post by Dick on Oct 13, 2020 6:11:23 GMT
He’s no more than an average manager but what little chance he may have had evaporates under this regime. He shouldn’t have come back but unfortunately he’ll always answer the call and Rhodes takes advantage of that weakness. Without the infrastructure and relying solely on McCall’s phone contacts and players we meet in opposition U23’s is so unlikely to work that anyone with any control over the situation ought to have recognised it and done something about it. This team will finish him as a manager. He didn't look happy last night. Yesterday was a good marker as to where we are as a club, it wasn't so much the defeat that was disappointing it was that Harrogate fully deserved it. If you reversed those two performances people would be rightly heaping praise on McCall, instead a rookie football league manager completely out thought him. My young spotted it straight away, he said Harrogate look like they know what they are doing. It's amazing how good even average players can look when they play to a system that suits their best assets rather than shoehorned into a system the manager has dreamt up the night before. That's as good a comparison as you'll get i think. McCall massively benefited in 2017-18 from inheriting most of Parkinson's squad, players with fight and who knew their place in the set up. Last night was like a 2007-9 game. Another different starting line up, players unsure of roles and not suited to what they've been asked to do, we look old, slow, out of ideas... The only thing missing was a large crowd to crumble in front of like those sides of that era often did. It is only one loss, but you feel that first era could easily repeat itself. What the hell Mccall has learnt over 13 years as a mananger I have no idea.
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Post by Hobhead on Oct 13, 2020 6:18:02 GMT
Come on Huw, save us from ourselves.
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Post by Train (F-2547) on Oct 13, 2020 6:46:18 GMT
He didn't look happy last night. Yesterday was a good marker as to where we are as a club, it wasn't so much the defeat that was disappointing it was that Harrogate fully deserved it. If you reversed those two performances people would be rightly heaping praise on McCall, instead a rookie football league manager completely out thought him. My young spotted it straight away, he said Harrogate look like they know what they are doing. It's amazing how good even average players can look when they play to a system that suits their best assets rather than shoehorned into a system the manager has dreamt up the night before. That's as good a comparison as you'll get i think. McCall massively benefited in 2017-18 from inheriting most of Parkinson's squad, players with fight and who knew their place in the set up. Last night was like a 2007-9 game. Another different starting line up, players unsure of roles and not suited to what they've been asked to do, we look old, slow, out of ideas... The only thing missing was a large crowd to crumble in front of like those sides of that era often did. It is only one loss, but you feel that first era could easily repeat itself. What the hell Mccall has learnt over 13 years as a mananger I have no idea. Plymouth are good at heading it. He knows that.
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Post by rahicscissorbudget on Oct 13, 2020 11:08:51 GMT
Hopkins, Bowyer and Grayson all had decent records elsewhere. McCall got us to the play off finals with a half decent team. The manager is absolutely not the problem.
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Post by Train (F-2547) on Oct 13, 2020 14:45:10 GMT
Ricc reaches maximum silverback retard level.
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Post by mikehunt on Oct 13, 2020 14:58:53 GMT
Ricc reaches maximum silverback retard level. Does that even make sense?
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Post by Hobhead on Oct 13, 2020 15:17:55 GMT
The problem is McCall is solely responsible for all our incomings this year. The other problem is that he shouldn’t be.
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Post by Train (F-2547) on Oct 13, 2020 15:59:22 GMT
Ricc reaches maximum silverback retard level. Does that even make sense? I’m not sure?
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Post by jdc on Oct 13, 2020 17:45:42 GMT
McCall massively benefited in 2017-18 from inheriting most of Parkinson's squad, players with fight and who knew their place in the set up. When McCall arrived in 2016 we had 9 contracted senior pros that Parky had left him. Three of them were injured, and two of them were Clarke and Hanson. It wasn't quite the ready-made, promotion-challenging squad that people make out. Danny Devine in the starting eleven and kids on the bench. Parky gets more credit than he should for the work McCall did that season. And in 2017-18, McCall managed to get a squad that had lost Meredith, McArdle, Marshall (and seen them replaced by the likes of Adam Chicksen) into a top 6 spot. Given the shite Rahic and Abbott provided him to work with, I think he did as good a job as anyone could have expected. He really should have called it quits at that point.
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Post by Dick on Oct 13, 2020 21:07:39 GMT
McCall massively benefited in 2017-18 from inheriting most of Parkinson's squad, players with fight and who knew their place in the set up. When McCall arrived in 2016 we had 9 contracted senior pros that Parky had left him. Three of them were injured, and two of them were Clarke and Hanson. It wasn't quite the ready-made, promotion-challenging squad that people make out. Danny Devine in the starting eleven and kids on the bench. Parky gets more credit than he should for the work McCall did that season. And in 2017-18, McCall managed to get a squad that had lost Meredith, McArdle, Marshall (and seen them replaced by the likes of Adam Chicksen) into a top 6 spot. Given the shite Rahic and Abbott provided him to work with, I think he did as good a job as anyone could have expected. He really should have called it quits at that point. I got the year wrong, I meant 2016-17, as he obviously didn't survive 2017-18. But while he inherited not much, he did inherit players with some fucking balls, something he's struggled to recruit himself.
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