Fantail Breeze

1 minute ago, brummie said:

 

Said he thought the time was right for him to move in a management role somewhere and that if he stayed on, he'd be misleading the club in terms of what he wanted to be doing.

 

I'll be totally honest, before Terry joined us as a player, I hated him, like all non Chelsea fans do. For obvious reasons.

 

But in the time he spent playing with us in the Championship, he was absolutely magnificent - yes, of course he was the best centre half in the league, but he was a leader, and his attitude was absolutely spot on, when a lot of players in his position would have just come for a final pay cheque. You saw from his attitude alone why he had had such an incredible career as a player.

 

He will always be about Chelsea, but he absolutely gave the club nothing but respect, and totally won over a cynical fan base. 

 

When he then went into a coaching role, he got the defence playing extremely well, and was clearly a belts-and-braces coach - ie, totally in. No half measures.

 

I am aware of all the arguments to the contrary in terms of his character and the shagging and racism stuff but he showed in a single year playing for us, the difference between the top clubs and the way their players are, and the rest of us.

 

 

 Sounds like he has great credentials for a management role then.

He also seems to have quite a bit of loyalty and standards in playing/coaching football, which is quite ironic when you consider his personal life.

4 minutes ago, brummie said:

 

That's alright man, I hate my mother in law but I still love the Mrs.

If you end up with Gerrard, I’d expect that to end up in a relegation battle.

Why did Terry leave, by the way? Didn’t even notice that happen.

2 minutes ago, Wullie said:

Absolutely horrendous rule change. I can't believe they've actually gone through with it, such a detriment to the game.

Every change that goes by is of detriment to the game.

OGS ahead of Brendan Rodgers (despite me slagging him off in another thread), is possibly the funniest thing I’ve read on here in a long time.

Is Rodgers even that good?

His teams seem to completely collapse at the end of the season. Liverpool failing to win the league and Leicester twice missing out on the top four.

FA Cup win was good and he did well with Celtic, but also seems to have a lot of limitations. They’ve been crap this season and could end up limping out of Europa League for the second season soon too. 

54 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

 

Southampton only getting 7 points from the next 27 games, aye that will be right

The poor fuckers aren’t going to win any games this season, despite already winning three.  

Claudio Ranieri, Premier League winner with Leicester City at 5000/1, two places below Sean Dyche.

I think it’s impossible to rank them tbh, a lot of them are so similar in terms of ability.

Just now, Caleb70 said:

Good for St.Albans (wherever that is )

Sounds like somewhere they’d play rugby.

Turns out it’s near London.

What a tackle at the end there  Amazing defending.

Some brilliant old school sliding tackles here.

St Albans (National League South) about to knock out Forest Green Rovers (League Two).

10 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

See they're getting a hard on based on a twitter account saying PIF are buying Inter. Said twitter account only started a month ago and has about 400 followers made up of nobody's. Broken, totally broken 

 

 

 

A self proclaimed “transfer specialist” with a gmail account  

The same chap who according to his twitter, two weeks ago said the rumours of Emery to Newcastle were false, but then had to backtrack when we were interested.

He also said Conte wasn’t going to return to management until next summer.  

RTG are very excited by it all though. Not sure why, according to them we’ll never be in Europe, so why would it matter?

9 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Rodgers to Man U is getting a lot of media coverage, there’s supposedly a verbal agreement in place for him to take over, the question is when 

If we start taking “CaughtOffside” as a reliable source…  

Just now, manorpark said:

 

Do you really believe all this obvious trouble-making F A K E news?

Now you’ve spoken on the matter, I wouldn’t believe anything else.

Now Bruce, Farke and Smith have been sacked, is there a worse PL manager than OGS?

Maybe, Dyche? 

Currently playing for Colne in the Northern Premier League Divison One West at the age of 37.

They’re 10th in the league, he was their man of the match in their game the other week after having to go in goal for 50 minutes.  

Just now, ManDoon said:

I think we will get something at brentford. 

What about our next match at home?

Brentford finishing 4th sort of makes me slightly suspect about the computer being super.

He’s really likeable and I wouldn’t be adverse to him growing with us, if it goes well.

First benchmark this year is survival and then growth every season would be fine by me.

Probably a good coach, appears to be highly thought of by absolutely everyone - but he’s a crap manager based on his team selections and tactics.

We got two points but that was mainly due to the opposition being poor rather than us playing well.

There are numerous examples of coaches/assistant managers failing as managers, he’s not an exception.

If he sticks around I don’t see it as a problem at all, seems a decent bloke and talks well too. But thankfully he’ll not be in charge for the next match.

1 minute ago, 54 said:

 

Jokes. Roll on tomorrow 

Maybe that’s why we’re stalling on Howe…

Two defeats on the spin, Ranieri can’t be far away from the chop.

Who on Earth is Gbamin? Apparently he’s played for Everton for three seasons after signing from Mainz. Never seen him before.

1 minute ago, HTT II said:

He was our best player last night in his cameo for me, that says it all…

He’s been one of our best players for a few weeks now, as you say, which tells it’s own story.

There’s definitely a player in there imo. Will be intrigued to see how Howe uses him and how he performs.

1 minute ago, GWN said:

Leeds losing 

Starting to look more and more like relegation candidates. They’ve been all over Leicester and are somehow losing.

Edit - ruled out but may still end up being the case if they fail to win.