stevegrant

You put your left leg in...

Indeed. I would suggest people re-read the sticky thread at the top of the page if they are unclear on this.

This

The last manager to win his first game in charge for us was Paul Sturrock, in March 2004

It can work either way, depending on the manager and players.

Also worth bearing in mind there are officially three administrators appointed to the case, AA, Michael Kiely and Peter Kubik, all of whom are listed on the UHY website as partners. If all three are working at the same time, that's a bill of up to £1350 + VAT per hour. For a 7-hour day, that's more than £11,000 including VAT. They went into administration on 26th February. They've been in administration for 140 weekdays (28 weeks) - I'd expect they've put in hours at weekends as well, the days will have been longer than 7 hours each and they'll have also enlisted the help of junior administrators to do a lot of the basic work. Not including expenses, I reckon they've racked up at least £1.5m in fees

Lifted some time in the last 7-10 days. Someone told me on Twitter this morning that there were some Rochdale-based photographers in the ground on Saturday - can't say I noticed, but I've tried to block as much as possible about that afternoon from my memory Since then, there have been reports in journalist-targeted publications (example) that it has been lifted, and also the Sun dropped the "South Coast Team" replacement in their article about Nigel Adkins this week, which would suggest that an agreement has been reached.

Is this going to be the catch-all defence whenever anybody raises a question about a decision made by our Dear Leader?

Bick has been involved since the takeover went through. He was also in a similar role in the Hone/Hoos/Dulieu era.

The "saving" problem should now be fixed...

Seeing as everyone else has turned us down, are they the new candidates for the manager's job?

Prediction League should be fixed now, by the way

So this is something I can definitely blame Cortese for? I'll just add that "busy" is probably a fairly subjective term, but in terms of number of people online, at one stage this lunchtime there were nearly 900 users on the forum simultaneously, so I'd argue that it was pretty busy, considering the record on the older version is just over 1000.

I wasn't facepalming because of the new thread, it's a genuine new development. I was facepalming at the absolute shambles the club seems to be making of what should be a fairly simple recruitment process.

There aren't any threads about Nigel Adkins already.

46 games from last season, 3 games this season, 24 wins = 49% Including cup competitions, Pardew's win ratio was also 53%

Let's put this into perspective. A year ago, when the takeover had just been completed, we'd have been delighted if we'd appointed Nigel Adkins, having just led Scunny to their second promotion out of this division in three years. The season we were alongside them in the Championship (07/08 ), they were unlucky to only take one point from the two games against us, and they played decent passing football. It's only because we made such a high-profile appointment in Alan Pardew, and that Pardew proved to be popular with the fans before his sacking for reasons that will probably remain unknown, that many are feeling underwhelmed at this appointment. Attracting a manager in a secure job at a club in the division above us can only be seen as a positive, IMO. Personally, I'd have preferred to have kept Pardew, but that's not been possible for whatever reason. Adkins is as good a replacement as any, he's just not attracted anywhere near as much media attention because of the low profile of the club he joins us from.

Not really. I posted in this thread when it started, haven't posted in the appreciation thread, but was very much in favour of Pardew. Just because one thread has more posts than another, that doesn't mean a particular viewpoint within that thread is any sort of general consensus. You only have to have been at either the Swindon or Rochdale games to see that Pardew had, and continues to have, a lot of support among the fanbase.

To be fair, I don't think anyone would expect the players to say "yeah, we're all annoyed that the manager's been sacked" if that were the case

Surely John Higgins?

What a shambles

It's not a reserves side in the traditional sense anymore, it's a bona-fide "under-21s" team. IIRC, the idea was to arrange friendlies with other similar sides, but wouldn't expect them to be announced too far in advance.

One thing to note is that, apparently, Tapatalk for Blackberry has been disabled until they fix some sort of issue they were having with it.