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1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

It's definitely frustrating and a bit worrying. There's a symptom of the Ashley era here, in that the place is a shit-tip and we're asking the rodents to redecorate, but howay. There's clearly someone involved in the decision-making process who needs pinning to the floor because this business with the leak has scuppered a potentially great thing. 

 

Bit of an embarrassing day and you worry what authority the new manager is actually going to have, when it was as clear as day that he wasn't first choice. 


It’s a real shame we’re going down, if the situation wasn’t so dire the stakes would be a lot lower. Hire whoever, take time to get the club reorganised, get a world class manager a bit later. 

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Aye, that's shit.  

 

Worry creeps in a bit now as it seems this was their number 1 and they tried hard for him and failed, Eddie Howe isn't what I want/expected but if that's who it is, we can just move on for now.  I think Howe is the plan B and will be more of a stop gap until we can entice a higher calibre manager. 

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1 minute ago, Shearergol said:

 

Suppose we just need to trust that we'll have the right footballing people in place to steer us back to the Premiership once we've been relegated. Just sets us back 2 or 3 years in the grand scheme of things.

 

I'll still be happier in the championship without Ashley than in the Premiership with him.

People really need to understand just how bad a state the club is in. 

 

It's like an oil tanker we're trying to turn around here. We're not even starting from a standing start, we're still in the car driving to the warm up before the race. It'll take a long time to sort out the mess Ashley has left.

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Just now, TheGuv said:

People really need to understand just how bad a state the club is in. 

 

It's like an oil tanker we're trying to turn around here. We're not even starting from a standing start, we're still in the car driving to the warm up before the race. It'll take a long time to sort out the mess Ashley has left.

 

If the stories hadn't come out yesterday about Emery this wouldn't be as big an issue though. 

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2 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

It's definitely frustrating and a bit worrying. There's a symptom of the Ashley era here, in that the place is a shit-tip and we're asking the rodents to redecorate, but howay. There's clearly someone involved in the decision-making process who needs pinning to the floor because this business with the leak has scuppered a potentially great thing. 

 

Bit of an embarrassing day and you worry what authority the new manager is actually going to have, when it was as clear as day that he wasn't first choice. 

I’m not so sure Emery would have taken it anyway in the end. Would always be hard to leave a CL club for a relegation fight.

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Eddie fucking Howe man. I'm gutted. What a disappointment, all the promise and riches and positivity of the new regime, all the exciting names mentioned, and after spending weeks on "the process" they're going for the lemon barley water of football managers.

 

Can't be arsed me, might go back to not caring :lol: feels easier

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3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

I was referencing that last 24 hours it can’t be described as anything else 

 

:lol: You have no idea what's gone on. All you've done (as we all have) is read differing reports about different things from different people. All in 24 hours. You have no information what so ever.

 

 

Edited by Super Duper Branko Strupar

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8 minutes ago, Awaymag said:

and that means fucking Jones stays. Great - so look forward to Richie and Fraser down the left wing whilst all the other teams attackers are scoring against us

 

I bet Howe would love Shelvey

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Just now, Nobody said:

This really isn't a good start for the new consurtium. If we end up with Howe three weeks after sacking Bruce, 'the process' really hasn't been working. 

 

I don't think there's any reason to question the gap, despite losing out on Emery. Just because Howe was available on day one doesn't mean they'd identified him as their preferred (second) choice then. 

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While it's disappointing, my way of dealing with whoever comes in is that they are an improvement on Bruce.
For this year, all we need is for someone to get a little bit of a tune out of the players, get us to at least 17th, then we can kick on next season.

If it's Howe then from 4 weeks ago, that's an upgrade.


Fuck Emery. His loss.

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Just now, ManDoon said:

We finished mid table last season lol. The clubs infrastructure is a mess, yes, but we can actually buy in Jan. It’s in nowhere near as bad a state as being made out. Not at all 

That's what I'm getting at; the infrastructure. It's a shambles.

 

Saying that....it looks as if someone has dropped the ball with leaking this. They need to learn and learn quick, and they're not devoid of criticism here. 

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Emery was the outstanding candidate, so that's a real shame. It sounds like he was already being quite indecisive and the leak tipped things for him. That said, if he was having doubts, maybe its a good thing.

 

If the Athletic are to be believed we'll go for Howe now. He's certainly a step down from Emery, but he showed enough promise with Bournemouth that he can stabilise the club in the short to medium term. His transfer record is a touch concerning, but it sounds like we'll have a sporting director who will take those decisions out of his hands.

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Just now, Shearergol said:

Why are people so certain it's going to be Howe by the way? I've missed that part of the story. I doubt he'd even want it.

Was the final two that were interviewed over the weekend according to sources 

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