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- Fri Sep 20, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
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Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Depending how one defines such a nebulous term, the percentage of "successful" managers is probably broadly similar to what it ever was. Like politics, it's a career that usually ends in failure: quite reasonable to define Rioch's post-Bolton career as such, and he'd been fired from his two previous...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Aye he's not holding back is he, sounds like a few of us on the forums. Perhaps he's touting for the job ? Far more likely that he's touting for attention, he has a new podcast to promote. It's a much easier life in an unanswerable bully pulpit than on a cold windy training pitch. I love Sam and I ...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
It's a huge game for Evatt, I do suspect that if we lose then he may be relieved of his duties this weekend. I 100% think that Craddock was the wrong choice, it was the easy choice we should have brought in a more senior external coach to challenge Evatt. I'm not sure of his (Craddock) influence v ...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Lampard didn't nearly kill Derby, Mel Morris did. I agree that "6 games to save the job" is rarely a good idea – it simply makes a drama out of a crisis. But Evatt's quotes thusly do interest me, in the spirit of those old ladies who sat knitting by the guillotine. If she's said he's got to get say ...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
I saw this quote from Evatt in the BN earlier: "And I am not naïve to think that if we don’t win the next six games that things will change. Do I think we are capable of that? Absolutely, probably discounting Arsenal, I don’t think that is quite as realistic." Got me wondering whether he's been set...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:23 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Bare Bones....
- Replies: 790
- Views: 145471
Re: Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Bare Bones....
Remember Gethin Jones? Absent for all this abhorrent season? Well, I dunno whether he's back this weekend, but in the longer-term Graham Arnold, the manager who called Gethin up for Australia, has resigned. Dunno who the new manager will be, but it's quite possible he will look past the nearly-29-ye...
- Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
This for me too - tho’ like Worthy, if it does happen I will be thinking “maybe now?”officer_dibble wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:25 pmI laughed at the ridiculousness of the fourth on Saturday and my reaction to a 4-0 was that should be that…. But wanting us to lose. Nope.
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Options for the next manager
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2136
Re: Options for the next manager
My god I completely forgot about him
Series suggestion for next summer: Full-Backs I've Forgotten
Think Lennon alone might have signed about six, and then ignored them all when he started playing wingbacks cos his mate David Brentan Rodgers did, even when our results showed what a daft idea it was
Series suggestion for next summer: Full-Backs I've Forgotten
Think Lennon alone might have signed about six, and then ignored them all when he started playing wingbacks cos his mate David Brentan Rodgers did, even when our results showed what a daft idea it was
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Options for the next manager
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2136
Re: Options for the next manager
Looks like Couhig's Reading takeover has brokmen down or at least stalled. Which might make Selles more possible, if we ever decided we need a new manager. The news this morning is that Couhig has pulled out, had his bridging loans repaid and walked away. Terrible news for Reading fans, and they ha...
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
feck me. Pratleys and Spearings. Both promoted out of L1 with Bolton in 2016/17? How many of our current squad can say similar? Not many, but then not many of our squad are players from the Prem (and on Prem wages) recently relegated from the Champo. Wheater and Beevers - on occasion maligned, both...
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Options for the next manager
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2136
Re: Options for the next manager
You might be right, but I did also hear that name from someone close to the club.nicholaldo wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 9:37 pmI don't think there's anything in that, other than his agent (seemingly incorrectly) getting a whiff of a potential opportunity and putting his name out there.
If there's a conversation, it seems it's one way.
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Options for the next manager
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2136
Re: Options for the next manager
Looks like Couhig's Reading takeover has brokmen down or at least stalled. Which might make Selles more possible, if we ever decided we need a new manager.
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
^^ So you're not advocating "Just hoof it!" Either? I'm wondering where the just hoof it contingent actually are, other than in people's heads.... I thought Rotherham played decent football when they went up (<50% possession), I also thought Ipswich did ~60% possession. I can forgive 15 crosses we ...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Fair, but I think some do forget, and seem to think that Getting It Up The Pitch helps the entertainment. It happened on Saturday - boos when the ball went back to Baxter ("Get it forward!"), quickly seguing into more boos when he did so and their centre-back briefly stopped sucking on his cigar to...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
I'm just about beginning to get the scintilla of the iota of a whiff of an idea that we won't agree on this 
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Fair, but I think some do forget, and seem to think that Getting It Up The Pitch helps the entertainment. It happened on Saturday - boos when the ball went back to Baxter ("Get it forward!"), quickly seguing into more boos when he did so and their centre-back briefly stopped sucking on his cigar to ...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Well that solves that mystery - I was wondering why the league table stacked up like that!Worthy4England wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 2:59 pmthe thing that makes it successful or otherwise is results, not the possession stat.
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Grassroots Footy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 220
Re: Grassroots Footy
@coaches: An old colleague of mine has started a podcast called "It's Only Kids Football" about coaching, well, kids' football. As he's ex-FourFourTwo you might get some names popping by - like Charlie Austin. https://linktr.ee/itsonlykidsfootball
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2168
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Nodding along in agreement at Pru's assessments there. I like the type of football we try to play – not always the way it comes out, but the intentions. While I understand (if not agree with) the backlash against possession, it sometimes seems to get forgotten that if you're not in possession the op...