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Match Thread Supporter's Meeting with Doug King Match Thread (7 Viewers)

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GIMOC

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #946
SKYBLUES90 said:
@GIMOC gone abit quiet…Weird that
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Not really

common theme in all this.

the last 18 months we’ve seen everyone bar Dean austin leave from Lawrence to robins to boddy

all under king regime

just think about that. why is that? when they all worked fine before that

Then you have Austin next to him tonight (unsure why) and king said the fitness of the players is the best it’s been according to the data down to the performance director
 
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sw88

Chief Commentator!
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #947
Sky Blue Goblin said:
Looks like he’s doing an interview with Andy Turner at the moment. That must be frosty

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Find it amazing football clubs still accept CV’s

Even more amazing that Lampard has good stuff to put on his
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #948
Didn't like that one bit tonight ,I'm sorry but to put the blame on Robins for everything and take credit for the good isn't leadership .
King came across as incredibly egotistical and self indulged .
 
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David O'Day

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #949
hill83 said:
You love Sisu
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Joy had some nice handbags to be fair
 
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skybluecb

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #950
I think we need to wait and see, who our next manager is and what they do, it will make or break doug king
 

usskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #951
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Your information contradicts other ITK tidbits here and one of the sources is incorrect. There’s a thread called ‘.’ (Edited by OP) where the insinuation is that this was forced on Robins. Someone’s ITK source is incorrect so I trust your info 50%.

There’s information wars at the club and there are sources have certain biased spins that they’re telling people like yourself.

Likewise, some ‘ITK’ info I’ve been privy to AV is probably wrong too. Based on Doug King’s comments earlier, MR didn’t want to work with AV there’s no insinuation that he was sacked for gross misconduct.

Maybe it was true but from MR’s POV’s rather than the club as a whole and the sources version of events is tilted towards certain characters at the clubs.
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Chris and I have a mutual friend. An ex pro (England International) that previously worked with Chris.

I don’t have an opinion either way. All I’m saying is what happened doesn’t appear to jive with what was said tonight.
 
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stupot07

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #952
This is ridiculous we're going down the "usual suspects", "Sisu apologists" road now. This is why we need to move on now. We've had our say, Kings had his, whether we believe him or not, it's done now. No need for supporters to rip lumps out of each other.
 
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Hobo

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #953
fernandopartridge said:
Your average company doesn't have thousands of very visible and vocaC stakeholders like a football club does TBF

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Well he pulled the trigger, he chose the date, he has had several days to compose himself; he was still wobbly jelly under scrutiny. He is the owner. He can make the decisions he wants. But at least sound confident in your decisions or the situation.
 
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rob9872

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #954
Ring Of Steel said:
this is kind of lost on people- whether on purpose who knows but probably.

This is his club. The buck stops with him, and what a mess he’s overseen here.
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He owns it but it's our club not his.
 
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MalcSB

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #955
Briles said:
The only weird thing he appeared to imply was that having no manager was better than having Robins. When he was pressed on why he had nobody lined up to replace him he hid behind the "well that would've been disrespectful" line. Something didn't sit right with that
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WHat something? People would have been furious if a new manager had been appointed the day after Robins was sacked.
 
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Telfer85

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #956
Ring Of Steel said:
With regard to the Chris Ramsey episode, I’d be 100% confident that US is bang on the money.
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To be fair regardless of who’s right or wrong on what happened with this, Chris Ramsey didn’t exactly fill me with any sort of confidence that he would have been the elite coach to turn things round.
His record at QPR and getting them to play great football isn’t exactly glowing so whatever happened him not coming in was the right result in my view.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #957
"Shot him a memo"
 
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Gynnsthetonic

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #958
Doug says its solely him who's running the club, that is worrying, don't most clubs have chief execs, directors etc. Some caller also mentioned Doug is being backed from somewhere which is what I've thought from when he first took over. Is someone whispering in his ear
 
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sw88

Chief Commentator!
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #959
His point about the calibre of people they interviewed for the no.2 position, but didn’t appoint as no one wanted to be a no.2 and wanted to be a no.1, why did they apply in the first place?
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #960
usskyblue said:
Chris and I have a mutual friend. An ex pro (England International) that previously worked with Chris.

I don’t have an opinion either way. All I’m saying is what happened doesn’t appear to jive with what was said tonight.
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To be fair I don’t doubt your source but wonder if his interview didn’t do as great as he thought it did.

I know several times in life when I’ve thought I’ve done well in one only to be told it was shite
 
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fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #961
I would have been interested to hear a lot more about the proposed role of head coach and what the difference is between that and Robins' role.

Yet we heard fuck all about it because of the the shite questions from both the audience and some of the CWR representatives.

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Evo1883

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #962
usskyblue said:
Chris and I have a mutual friend. An ex pro (England International) that previously worked with Chris.

I don’t have an opinion either way. All I’m saying is what happened doesn’t appear to jive with what was said tonight.
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Yea but doug king has said what he's said and it's all exactly correct , no conversations were held face to face and everything is as he said ..

All robins fault
 
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Nick

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #963
Gynnsthetonic said:
Doug says its solely him who's running the club, that is worrying, don't most clubs have chief execs, directors etc. Some caller also mentioned Doug is being backed from somewhere which is what I've thought from when he first took over. Is someone whispering in his ear
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Ay? He openly said he wants to get a DOF in to do the football side.

He said he speaks to a lot of people for advice who are in the game as well.
 
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Deity

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #964
GIMOC said:
Not really

common theme in all this.

the last 18 months we’ve seen everyone bar Dean austin leave from Lawrence to robins to boddy

all under king regime

just think about that. why is that? when they all worked fine before that

Then you have Austin next to him tonight (unsure why) and king said the fitness of the players is the best it’s been according to the data down to the performance director
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Admit it your sources were wrong. You therefore unintentionally misled fans.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #965
Sky Blue Goblin said:
Looks like he’s doing an interview with Andy Turner at the moment. That must be frosty


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GDPR breach there

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Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #966
Evo1883 said:
Yea but doug king has said what he's said and it's all exactly correct , no conversations were held face to face and everything is as he said ..

All robins fault
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Did he say no conversations were held?
 

GIMOC

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #967
Deity said:
Admit it your sources were wrong. You therefore unintentionally misled fans.
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why were they?
Look at the viseah thread

if you really think robins and adi fell out over a newspaper article makes you so gullible it’s beyond gullible
 
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Gynnsthetonic

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #968
Nick said:
Ay? He openly said he wants to get a DOF in to do the football side.

He said he speaks to a lot of people for advice who are in the game as well.
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He can speak to as many people as he likes, at the end of the day he is solely in charge
 

Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #969
So just to confirm , all the people that applied for the number 2 role actually wanted to be number 1s and were hoping king would sack our 8 year manager in the interview ?
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #970
usskyblue said:
Chris and I have a mutual friend. An ex pro (England International) that previously worked with Chris.

I don’t have an opinion either way. All I’m saying is what happened doesn’t appear to jive with what was said tonight.
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Maybe that adds weight to the idea that this sacking was planned, and it was therefore not a good idea to add an assistant if he might be sacked within weeks

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TomRad85

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #971
fernandopartridge said:
I would have been interested to hear a lot more about the proposed role of head coach and what the difference is between that and Robins' role.

Yet we heard fuck all about it because of the the shite questions from both the audience and some of the CWR representatives.

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No one was ever going to ask positive forward thinking questions unfortunately.
 

Evo1883

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #972
Nick said:
Did he say no conversations were held?
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No , but who can prove what was said face to face with somebody is my point
 

clint van damme

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #973
stupot07 said:
This is ridiculous we're going down the "usual suspects", "Sisu apologists" road now. This is why we need to move on now. We've had our say, Kings had his, whether we believe him or not, it's done now. No need for supporters to rip lumps out of each other.
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Who's going down the sisu apologist route?
Someone said you should always back the owner, I said did you support sisu, they said no.

Suddenly everyone's making out people are being accused of being sisu apologists when no one's said that.

All my point was is no, you don't have to back the owners. Nick who I'm disagreeing with on pretty much everything said it was weird to say you have to back the owners as well.
 

torchomatic

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #974
Briles said:
Coincidence? I think not..

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Nick said:
"Shot him a memo"
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He is soaked in management speak, isn't he?
 
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usskyblue

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #975
fernandopartridge said:
Maybe that adds weight to the idea that this sacking was planned, and it was therefore not a good idea to add an assistant if he might be sacked within weeks

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Obviously, we may never know but it’s was what Chris suspected himself.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #976
sw88 said:
His point about the calibre of people they interviewed for the no.2 position, but didn’t appoint as no one wanted to be a no.2 and wanted to be a no.1, why did they apply in the first place?
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The job was advertised at head of first team coaching - perhaps they didn't think that it would be assistant manager

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MalcSB

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #977
Ring Of Steel said:
Oh we’re in great shape. No manager, no manager in sight, no assistant manager, coaches that the owner just basically said are crap, huge division amongst the fanbase and an owner who has just made any applicant think twice about getting involved with this toxic shitshow. What’s not to like
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He didn’t say they were crap. He said we need an elite tactician.
 
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Tommo1993

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #978
Anyone still listening to CWR? Someone’s done something to Doug, he sounds different.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #979
MalcSB said:
He didn’t say they were crap. He said we need an elite tactician.
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He should know a few , apparantly they all applied for the number 2 but really managers role weeks ago
 
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clint van damme

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  • Nov 11, 2024
  • #980
Tommo1993 said:
Anyone still listening to CWR? Someone’s done something to Doug, he sounds different.
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Took their tongue out his arse?
 
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