Away to Blurrrghburn

[Lord Kangana]

Where has this space suddenly appeared from then?

[wanderers_on_tour]

Does his body language and attitude concern anyone else or is it just me?

Not really. I've wondered a few times if Dougie has lost the dressing room due to his brusque nature (I like it but I know some of the players won't), but here Pratley just looks genuinely disgusted and embarrassed by their performance, rather than deflated.

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'. As long as he isn't coming out and doing a Di Canio, reeling off individual players to the media, I think the players need a boot up the arse. Coyle tried the nicely, nicely approach and it didn't have the desired effect with a pretty much identical dressing room.

[BL3]

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'.

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

[wanderers_on_tour]

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'.

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

I don't think you'll find any manager which enjoys doing this..nor any other reasonable professional. You just hope they can identify and correct such behind closed doors.

[89bwfc89]

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'.

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

It would 'make a nice change' if you got behind the manager a bit.

How many people, in any job, give a frank assessment of their own shortcomings?

[LeverEnd]

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'.

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

Didn't he admit he got it wrong and put the players in a difficult position last season, away at Brighton I think? Much better than the litany of excuses we'd been listening to for 2 years previously.
You actually want him to come out and admit his shortcomings? Or to address them and learn and improve?

[BL3]

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'.

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

Didn't he admit he got it wrong and put the players in a difficult position last season, away at Brighton I think? Much better than the litany of excuses we'd been listening to for 2 years previously.
You actually want him to come out and admit his shortcomings? Or to address them and learn and improve?

He doesn't learn. He made the same mistakes in the run-in. He couldn't stop tinkering.

[LeverEnd]

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'.

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

Didn't he admit he got it wrong and put the players in a difficult position last season, away at Brighton I think? Much better than the litany of excuses we'd been listening to for 2 years previously.
You actually want him to come out and admit his shortcomings? Or to address them and learn and improve?

He doesn't learn. He made the same mistakes in the run-in. He couldn't stop tinkering.

I think if you get a 38 yr old manager in charge of a club on the slide he's never going to get everything right. I was confident he'd come good, now I'm just hopeful, but I'd stick with him. I'd also be far from gutted if he left. the same goes for our chairman and every single one of our players though. I'll spread the blame.

[BL3]

I'm also in the 'makes a nice change camp'.

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

Didn't he admit he got it wrong and put the players in a difficult position last season, away at Brighton I think? Much better than the litany of excuses we'd been listening to for 2 years previously.
You actually want him to come out and admit his shortcomings? Or to address them and learn and improve?

He doesn't learn. He made the same mistakes in the run-in. He couldn't stop tinkering.

I think if you get a 38 yr old manager in charge of a club on the slide he's never going to get everything right. I was confident he'd come good, now I'm just hopeful, but I'd stick with him. I'd also be far from gutted if he left. the same goes for our chairman and every single one of our players though. I'll spread the blame.

Why get him in then if he's just learning how to do the job on our time?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It would 'make a nice change' if the manager gave us a frank assessment of his own shortcomings.

Didn't he admit he got it wrong and put the players in a difficult position last season, away at Brighton I think? Much better than the litany of excuses we'd been listening to for 2 years previously.
You actually want him to come out and admit his shortcomings? Or to address them and learn and improve?

He doesn't learn. He made the same mistakes in the run-in. He couldn't stop tinkering.

I think if you get a 38 yr old manager in charge of a club on the slide he's never going to get everything right. I was confident he'd come good, now I'm just hopeful, but I'd stick with him. I'd also be far from gutted if he left. the same goes for our chairman and every single one of our players though. I'll spread the blame.

Why get him in then if he's just learning how to do the job on our time?

To answer, even though LeverEnd is capable of doing so - because the previous dickhead was a shsfe on the road to oblivion if we'd stuck with him. We can have oblivion, or we can hope. The fact the hope is going tits up has absolutely nothing to do with the fact we were previously in oblivion's maws.

[LeverEnd]

Yeah what he says.

[LeverEnd]

Seriously though, we either get someone experienced but tried and failed or take a punt on someone up and coming. We're not in a posiiton to be attracting top managers. maybe we've chosen the wrong one, we'll see.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Seriously though, we either get someone experienced but tried and failed or take a punt on someone up and coming. We're not in a posiiton to be attracting top managers. maybe we've chosen the wrong one, we'll see.

Waddya mean, seriously though? I was being serious