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fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #71
marcusp said:
He also gave us a great 9 months of a team playing well and didnt take a penny out the club when he left even though he could of unlike previous managers
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9 months? That good run of form lasted about 3 max. Otherwise his spell was pretty awful
 
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pipkin73

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #72
Ok injuries the season we fucked it up can be blamed on injuries or loss of form.
The next season he kept trying to sign Championship players for our league 1 team (of course we never had the money and most other teams would not have had either).
I think he banked on us going up the season before (so scouted for that), so when we never he never had a plan B so messed up the transfers.
If i was cheap enough and had a youtube video he would have signed me.
Once he realised he had messed it up he bailed out (yes for no pay off BUT i think by doing so he kept his standing in the game). If he had stayed then that could have harmed it and found it harder to get a new team.
He never left for free as he is a gent, he was looking after himself and his next job.
 

Grendel

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #73
marcusp said:
He also gave us a great 9 months of a team playing well and didnt take a penny out the club when he left even though he could of unlike previous managers
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It was 4 months and he resigned so the club owed him nothing anyway
 

higgs

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #74
Grendel said:
It was 4 months and he resigned so the club owed him nothing anyway
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He could have waited until he was sacked and got a pay off the natives were getting restless in the crowd the team being booed off the pitch was only a matter of time before the club pulled the trigger

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Grendel

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #75
higgs said:
He could have waited until he was sacked and got a pay off the natives were getting restless in the crowd the team being booed off the pitch was only a matter of time before the club pulled the trigger

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Sure
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #76
higgs said:
He could have waited until he was sacked and got a pay off the natives were getting restless in the crowd the team being booed off the pitch was only a matter of time before the club pulled the trigger

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He bombed and parachuted out before it hit the ground
 

higgs

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #77
Would he have kept us up if he stayed? Surely couldn't have been worse than Venus and slade?

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #78
higgs said:
Would he have kept us up if he stayed? Surely couldn't have been worse than Venus and slade?

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He clearly didn’t feel he could
 
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mark_ccfc

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #79
Grendel said:
Sure
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Classic wum reply
 

Grendel

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  • Oct 25, 2020
  • #80
mark_ccfc said:
Classic wum reply
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No it’s a fact he resigned you don’t pay off someone who resigned do you
 

JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #81
pipkin73 said:
Ok injuries the season we fucked it up can be blamed on injuries or loss of form.
The next season he kept trying to sign Championship players for our league 1 team (of course we never had the money and most other teams would not have had either).
I think he banked on us going up the season before (so scouted for that), so when we never he never had a plan B so messed up the transfers.
If i was cheap enough and had a youtube video he would have signed me.
Once he realised he had messed it up he bailed out (yes for no pay off BUT i think by doing so he kept his standing in the game). If he had stayed then that could have harmed it and found it harder to get a new team.
He never left for free as he is a gent, he was looking after himself and his next job.
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agree w most of this but he wasn’t banking on promotion, or if he was he hadn’t got that message through to his players. I remember distinctly Sam Ricketts (his captain) telling them local press that we were over performing when we were in the playoff positions.
 
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Legia Sky Blue

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #82
Brighton Sky Blue said:
He clearly didn’t feel he could
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I disagree. Our expectations as fans at that time was that we should be top half & challenging for the play offs, regardless of who had or hadn't signed for us. Even our worse doom & gloom merchants were not predicting relegation at the time Mowbray resigned, most still thought we had a good shot of staying up even when Slade took over. I believe Mowbray resigned because he believed that he had failed to provide a team capable of challenging for the play offs, or even the top half, not because we were a team about to get relegated.
 

Otis

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #83
clint van damme said:
I blame him but still like him as a man. Comes across as a decent fella.
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Exactly this.

Really like him as a bloke. He did have us playing some great football at one point, but by the end of his tenure here he had totally lost the plot.
 
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mark_ccfc

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #84
Grendel said:
No it’s a fact he resigned you don’t pay off someone who resigned do you
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So is that.
 

Evo1883

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #85
Grendel said:
Timely

Wolves 1-1 Newcastle: Jacob Murphy's clever free-kick rescues late Premier League point at Molineux

Jacob Murphy’s late free-kick snatched a point for Newcastle at Wolves.
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for the record , i always rated murphy and could see he had talent , thought our fans were extremely harsh on him and many at the time were wanting ryan haynes to take his place on the left...had a chat with him at wigan away and he said things were getting ontop of him then in regards to fan criticicm aimed at him ...nice lad , had something different to offer the club and would have him here right now if we could , obviously not happening anytime soon .....i gave jacob murphy my player of the season vote that year
 
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Evo1883

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #86
in terms of mogga , weve had much much worse over the last 20 years , i actually used to enjoy watching us and the crowds reflected the standard of football at times , slade and pressley 2 extremely poor managers the latter proving so at every job afterwards
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #87
Evo1883 said:
in terms of mogga , weve had much much worse over the last 20 years , i actually used to enjoy watching us and the crowds reflected the standard of football at times , slade and pressley 2 extremely poor managers the latter proving so at every job afterwards
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Pressley had us playing great football too, for a longer period than Mowbray under worse circumstances
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #88
Evo1883 said:
in terms of mogga , weve had much much worse over the last 20 years , i actually used to enjoy watching us and the crowds reflected the standard of football at times , slade and pressley 2 extremely poor managers the latter proving so at every job afterwards
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Indeed we have, mind you Pressley did have to overcome a points deduction and the exile in Northampton but he had lost the plot by the end. The truth is that every manager sacking since 2001 has been justified with very few exceptions
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #89
All things considered I would say Pressley did a better job for CCFC than Mowbray - it’s just the majority of our fans did not see the home games unlike Mowbray
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #90
SlowerThanPlatt said:
All things considered I would say Pressley did a better job for CCFC than Mowbray
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Time since would show Pressley just isn’t a good manager, but I can respect that he worked his arse off when he was here under some farcical circumstances.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #91
SlowerThanPlatt said:
Pressley had us playing great football too, for a longer period than Mowbray under worse circumstances
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He had Robins team mostly, and once he assembled his own team it was fucking horrendous shite... So bad fans spent most matches flashing their phone torches at each other
 
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clint van damme

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #92
Evo1883 said:
for the record , i always rated murphy and could see he had talent , thought our fans were extremely harsh on him and many at the time were wanting ryan haynes to take his place on the left...had a chat with him at wigan away and he said things were getting ontop of him then in regards to fan criticicm aimed at him ...nice lad , had something different to offer the club and would have him here right now if we could , obviously not happening anytime soon .....i gave jacob murphy my player of the season vote that year
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the shit our fans gave him was embarrassing.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #93
clint van damme said:
the shit our fans gave him was embarrassing.
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I understand the season was slipping away but the way they pinned all their anger on Murphy actually pissed me off
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #94
Evo1883 said:
He had Robins team mostly, and once he assembled his own team it was fucking horrendous shite... So bad fans spent most matches flashing their phone torches at each other
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They had similar spells here really, great for half a season then it all unravelled once the young players got injured or form dropped

Mowbray did bring in Ramage, Hunt, Lorentszon, Henderson of course
 

Evo1883

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #95
SlowerThanPlatt said:
They had similar spells here really, great for half a season then it all unravelled once the young players got injured or form dropped
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The football was better under Mowbray, Robins played better football than Pressley and once Pressley got his hands on players coming in he just played extremely dull football... He was also not missed by the academy lads he used to treat like dirt
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #96
Evo1883 said:
The football was better under Mowbray, Robins played better football than Pressley and once Pressley got his hands on players coming in he just played extremely dull football... He was also not missed by the academy lads he used to treat like dirt
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Like Callum Wilson?
 

Evo1883

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #97
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Like Callum Wilson?
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Tbh, he was pulled into the first team and was his star... I'm talking about lads up and coming
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #98
Evo1883 said:
Tbh, he was pulled into the first team and was his star... I'm talking about lads up and coming
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Sure, he did still have his first full season at Sixfields with a points deduction mind
 
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Evo1883

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #99
For some unknown reason I can't remember much about dowie... Maybe a period in my life that just passed me by but I only remember old Trafford... I cant remember much about his league form etc
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #100
Evo1883 said:
For some unknown reason I can't remember much about dowie... Maybe a period in my life that just passed me by but I only remember old Trafford... I cant remember much about his league form etc
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His league form went pretty rancid, the cup games were the exception
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #101
Evo1883 said:
for the record , i always rated murphy and could see he had talent , thought our fans were extremely harsh on him and many at the time were wanting ryan haynes to take his place on the left...had a chat with him at wigan away and he said things were getting ontop of him then in regards to fan criticicm aimed at him ...nice lad , had something different to offer the club and would have him here right now if we could , obviously not happening anytime soon .....i gave jacob murphy my player of the season vote that year
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Murphy player of the season?

Dear God. Worst player on the pitch in over 20 games.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #102
This argument has been done to death.

Some people will never accept Mowbray did anything wrong and having Slade appointed is the perfect scapegoat for them.

Mowbray was the catalyst that started our relegation and the season previously that team should have gotten into the playoffs. Apart from about four months of positive football, his time at the club is tainted with frustration really.

He is now at Blackburn with a much bigger budget and a squad full of quite a few better players than us. We rolled over for them and it was an easy 3 points. Not really anything to see here I think.
 
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Tommo1993

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #103
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Murphy player of the season?

Dear God. Worst player on the pitch in over 20 games.
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Absolutely no chance.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #104
Tommo1993 said:
Absolutely no chance.
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Yes he was.

Go back through all the match ratings and tot them up.

He destroyed Gillingham and had another handful of decent performances and everyone wanked over him. He was a burden on the team most of the time.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 26, 2020
  • #105
Evo1883 said:
The football was better under Mowbray, Robins played better football than Pressley and once Pressley got his hands on players coming in he just played extremely dull football... He was also not missed by the academy lads he used to treat like dirt
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Pressley was made to sell or otherwise lost Clarke, Wilson, Baker, Moussa, Christie. He can hardly be blamed for struggling to replace all of those tbf
 
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