Fitzhugh Fella

To be fair (and you can only speak as you find) in the dealings I had with him he was really helpful and efficient. When the Echo sold up and evacuated its premises at Redbridge taking its archive to God knows where I suggested the club try and purchase the stuff relating to the club ie the Football Echos going back to 1898 plus the photographic archive he did his best and was very proactive but came up against Newsquest intransigence. I guess there are two sides to every story.

Ex Academy manager John Sainty has passed away aged 77. He was given credit for bringing Adam Lallana to the club among others. https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/club-news/club-mourns-passing-of-197071-promotion-hero-sainty/

I think they will stick with Selles - they really are that much out of their depth (and pocket).

That’s a long post to basically say out of the 3 Ralph is the least worst. You are probably right but the bar is so low you couldn’t get a puddle under it. The reason Ralph was popular was because he followed three crap managers. So out of the last 6 managers 5 have been dire and Ralph has won the beauty contest just by having a nice smile. No wonder this club are in the shit. Even in our other relegation seasons we still had a chance of staying up on the last day. This time we’ve been down since Xmas.

I had a feeling this thread would go well

A lot of froth in your post and also a load of crap

I dread 2 o’ clock and the unveiling of the team almost as much as the kick off. Just want to see 11 players who give blood while looking like they really want to attack.

I thought Dragan was the main “money man”?

Well Nigel Pearson has actually done something. He was our manager when we escaped relegation under Crouch so not so daft really. Didn’t hear you speaking up when we appointed Jones either.

Yea but he’s operating on a shoe string. I know he’s far from ideal but I’d just like us to get back to basics. Sick to death of this foreign hipster coach type thing.

I would go for Nigel Pearson. No nonsense English manager who would whip this lot into shape. Fuck all the hipster Spanish roll necks. Fuck all the European side passing evangelicals. Fuck all the Pep wannabes. Fuck all the pseudo tactical “play from the back” crap and just give us a manager who puts his best 11 on the pitch and tells them to die for the club. Even if it doesn’t work at least we would have some pride in our club. Something I haven’t felt for a long time.

His pressers are insightful though. Finger well and truly on the pulse with a searing analysis on what we are doing wrong.

Good rumour if you are a Selles fan

Just want to see a bit of fight. Not too much to ask for surely.

Maybe Nigel Pearson could do a decent job in the Championship. At least he would put a bit of fire into the bellies of this current bunch of pussycats.

Selles criminally sent a team out at West Ham (and Leeds) that lacked ambition, fight and bravery. Cowardly performances in two critical relegation six pointers. That tells me he doesn’t really get what football is all about in this country. His post match interviews prove it. He waffles on about being in control etc which is just painful when we’ve threatened little all afternoon. He’d be clueless in the Championship where it takes a lot more blood and thunder to compete.

No HTH

Then while Ankersen is in charge we are royally fucked. God knows who the next boffin will be. Or perhaps Ankersen has wised up or perhaps the owner has wised up about Ankersen?

I think if you read my words you will realise it’s just an educated guess based on a lot of our signings mentioning god in their tweets. Probably reading into too much but I am all ears to anyone who can explain why Ankersen thought Jones was the right man.

Because it would explain the insane decision to employ Jones ie a fellow traveller. I can think of no other reason even though it’s far fetched.

Think you are wrong. If Sports Republic are genuinely in the game to take us forward I am sure they could offer GP an attractive package, even if the journey is likely to start in the second tier. We should be moving heaven and earth to make this happens. But I have no faith in Ankersen. Maybe Potter is not in the right lodge or maybe he’s not a church goer? I don’t know but my faith in us doing the right thing is diminished.

No thanks.

This to me is the most damning fact. Go down fine but make a fight of it.

Yep I agree. Still can’t for the life of me work out what Ankersen was doing. You only had to talk to Jones for two minutes to realise how unsuited he was. Makes me think there was another angle but perhaps I shouldn’t go there.

Going by recent Athletic articles things had deteriorated hugely under Ralph’s tenure