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He's too slow...he's a highlight reel player...he's past it... Looking forward to the he should pack it in...we can't keep carrying him...isn't it time he retired...posts. 🙂 Just bracing ourselves for rejection a bit.

I clicked thinking they'd signed extensions.

More on the reasons, for those not familiar... https://humanevents.com/2023/04/30/indiana-councilman-comes-out-as-lesbian-woman-of-color-faces-death-threats-and-doxxing-by-outraged-lgbt-activists

I'd love JWP to stay. We've just been watching him with a succession of horrendous, ineffectual tactics. But he's had better spells not that long ago. He had been keeping us in games not far back either. However, if he wanted to go (And it's important that's first, because the club will happily push people towards the exit nad then say that they wanted to go) and we got a significant fee, then I would hardly begrudge him stepping up, hopefully to get European football. I'd wish him well. Even if he doesn't have a relegation release clause, I'd love him to stay. After all, the club should be commited to going up at the first attempt, so it's not going to be a massive inconvenience if they can follow through on their aspirations. We could happily lose any number of deadwood players to compensate for the salary difference.

Not sure VVD would be that popular now, after the way it went last time. 🙂

I was being comedically on the edge without the safety net of a smiley... and I'd like to come back in off the ledge now...help... 🙂 EDIT: Besides which, I undermined my own post later on down the thread. 🙂

I'd have thought that any manager from any non top league would see this position as a decent post to have. The chance to be part of an overhaul, with some resources, and a big squad at the start of the summer, to get back into the most lucrative league on the planet. Even among some of the top leagues, if you're not likely to be getting into European places, or with realistic chances of getting there soon, then I'd have thought we would be a decent draw too (premier League and the odd other excepted as the resources in those leagues improves) For managers currently not employed, unless they want to only join at a top or European spot chasing club, I'd have thought we'd be a decent draw too. SR are a bit of a shambles at present as they address the leaving staff. But that isn't likely to 1)put anyone off or 2) not get resolved shortly. The above is fairly broad stroke, and illustrates the level we're at and is not a "we can get anyone." But we're in a relatively good place, considering what a horror show of a season it was. We should be amongst the strongest teams to get back up to the richest league. It's a little surprising to find out that it's all nonsense and we're lucky to get someone who's never managed in a top league with that standard of player (used loosely for our lot 🙂). I get the positives in getting Martin. But also the risks, and think we sell ourselves short. We paid Ralph very well. We've not be averse to paying significant compensation either to get a manager in. So those aren't obstacles either.

My tongue was more than slightly in my cheek. Probably less so as I kept typing. 🙂 Like Jones, he would have been mad not to accept the role. He'd have seen Marsch come in for talks, and know that even his own coaching position, might be sidelined or short lived. Some of the signings we'd just got in, were for Jones. Had the club stuck with someone who preferred the pressing, and bought for that, Selles would have inherited better options for his style. But he was as hamstrung as his predecessors were. It was a horrible watch, but I do see the logic in the tactic. Persisting with it though, means either he had no faith in the players to try something else, his own ability to change, or simply didn't know how to change. I even get why managers would pick Mo. All of them have picked him. Not that they feel blessed to be able to do so, but because he fits with what they want to do slightly ahead of the others, who look like bigger duds in their tactics. It's been such a shambles all the way through the club. I can't complain about the investment. I can't blame managers being offered such big moves. But the buck does stop with Rasmus who would have been responsible for the recruitment policy, the managerial signings, the back room decisions, nearly every one of which has been dreadful. Yet, there's a parallel world where their backing of Ralph was reinforced by the strikers who did sign in that last week. Who then offered us creative outlets to get us to safety. Allowing Romeu to go was an awful decision, but a few extra goals may have got us to stumble through, between periods when Lavia wasn't fit. Instead their risky model came right back to bite them. Not really anything Selles had control over.

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Apparently, he got nutmegged a little bit before, lost his cool over it and put in a very bad tackle. They've had 10 reads this season. Small's picked up a couple of those. Mixed feelings about him there, but definitely needs to have more self control. That was part of the issues in our last pre season.

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He's just upset that Selles has left his parent club. 🙂

It would be a dream that could only be topped if he shared his shaving regime during the post match interview. 🙂

Hmmmm. Can't move them on loan.... Can't keep them here... Elsewhere, costs have to be cut.... Welcome to Sweeney Todd's Concourse Pie Emporium! 🙂

Right. Just stop it. 🙂 You might agree with that one. But that in no way compensated for your eyes rolling in their sockets for the next 1000, as the board sinks into pedant purgatory. 🙂

@kitch my post was so firmly in the lands of fantasy, a smiley face surely wasn't needed. 🙂

He did come across well. That was a difficult time. It looked as though he was going to stray over the line a few times, but used the close relationships he had with others in the process, to show the all round frustration. It's exactly the scenario he shouldn't have here, with the money man on the board and a lot to do very quickly. There are links in that video to why he left, and I don't think he'd be best placed to have another window where all the business was done, or falls through, at the end. But Selles and others come across well. In the end it's the results. Needing to do so much might mean it's a little tougher to build the same closeness. And we need to have that core in place as early as possible to give him every chance in pre season. A lot of that money we utterly wasted would be very handy now to get a few early deals over the line.

Gutted he's gone. We'll look back at our narrow defeats in the top league, and wonder what little tweaks would have taken us to success. If only it were his team, and he wasn't saddled with the debris of previous managers. I'm glad they've announced it now as it gives the fans the chance to show their appreciation as a chapter comes to an end. I hope he gets another post soon, so that he can either develop that tactic with a squad it suits. Or that he gets a chance from scratch to implement other plans, free from the relegation pressure and issues at a club in our league.

Half price manager! Go SR! Time will tell if half price was still too much 🙂 Can only hope he turns out to be among our best ever, like I hope for all appointments.

No inquiry says PM , as all concerned try to to break speeding limits peddling away from it. 🙂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65694017 From what I heard on the radio, she's come out with obvious fib she should have said at the start. Trying to avoid mentioning wh she'd spoken to entirely just dug her deeper and deeper into it.

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Not even in jest. Just reading that exchange. Not changed a bit.

Looking at the video and just picturing him at our press conference explaining why the process failed to get us a striker. Or telling us what a good chance we have of hitting the playoffs, only for it to become out of reach. Brrrr. Let's hope that we've learned about recruitment, and he never has to explain why we're not going up.

I was wondering if you were okay SOG, having not posted on this while it was breaking. Glad things are as they should be. Clearly, when she said "same values as us" the us referred to duplicitous, self serving, egotistical swivel eyed politicians, who have to have the truth dragged out of them. So, looking at it in those terms, she's right in not being able to recognise normal folk wanting a better future for their families, and with skills to offer us. I was going to say that there would presumably be a fast track for crooked politicians looking to move here, to fit people she would recognise. But despite banging on about it year after year, they have shown zero control over anyone getting in.

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