Paul Mitchell

[On the Grid]

So badly out of context this. He was totally normal and said nowt important to warrant the dissection on here 🙄 

[midds]

What was the actual event? 

[80]

46 minutes ago, On the Grid said:

So badly out of context this. He was totally normal and said nowt important to warrant the dissection on here 🙄 

Well, if we're going with that line, I found it very surprising that he's still wanting to drag up old arguments in public about everything in the summer being everyone else's fault. Because that was literally his first contribution to the evening, off a total soft ball from Raisbeck.

 

Then I think it was his second or third answer where he was going on about how the transfer market must have changed a lot because he hadn't expected it to be so difficult coming here when he did - which didn't exactly make him sound like a European sports director with his finger on the pulse. 

 

Honestly, it would be easy to make him look a lot worse...

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by 80

[80]

19 minutes ago, midds said:

What was the actual event? 

They had an event at stack tonight, broadcast online too. The main event was most of the leadership team being interviewed on stage together. Eales, Mitchell, Silverstone, COO, CFO. Plus legends later (Cisse) and women footballers.

 

To be honest I didn't realise most people weren't aware of it. Would've approached it differently if I'd realised it wasn't already being discussed.

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by 80

[midds]

1 minute ago, 80 said:

They had an event at stack tonight, broadcast online too. The main event was most of the leadership team being interviewed on stage together. Eales, Mitchell, Silverstone, COO, CFO. Plus legends later (Cisse) and women footballers.

 

To be honest I didn't realise most people weren't aware of it. Would've approached it differently if I'd realised it wasn't already being discussed.

So just like a talk-in type of thing? I must admit I zone out of things during international windows and had no idea anything like this was going on and obviously missed any mention of it

[Erikse]

4 hours ago, 80 said:

 

Loads to mention. But basically couldn't avoid going back to the summer and Eddie issues. Literally his first sentence was about how he'd never join a club mid transfer window again. Plus how rotten he was personally as a footballer. Talked about holding hands with Eddie at the boxing in Saudi. Became fixated on needing to drink several pints a day in stack to help boost his own transfer fund, and hoping to get Eddie to join him in the drinking too.

 

Like, I'm honestly trying to be charitable in thinking he must just be much more of a doer than a talker

 

 

 

 

Depends on what actually happened that summer, but in many possible scenarios I would probably be thinking the same if I was him.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I mean, we all knew it was a difficult time to come in. Sounds like he's trying to joke about the timing more than anything else. 

[Erikse]

3 hours ago, 80 said:

Well, if we're going with that line, I found it very surprising that he's still wanting to drag up old arguments in public about everything in the summer being everyone else's fault. Because that was literally his first contribution to the evening, off a total soft ball from Raisbeck.

 

Then I think it was his second or third answer where he was going on about how the transfer market must have changed a lot because he hadn't expected it to be so difficult coming here when he did - which didn't exactly make him sound like a European sports director with his finger on the pulse. 

 

Honestly, it would be easy to make him look a lot worse...

 

 

 

 

Haven't heard any of it yet. But.. I find it interesting that when he actually admits he found it difficult, which is the opposite of blaming everybody else, you complain that aswell for not sounding competent. Whichever route he takes you seem to look to interpret it in a bad way.

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Erikse

[Scoot]

7 hours ago, midds said:

What was the actual event? 

 

The Roast of Paul Mitchell - Live!

[McCormick]

Super early days and irrational for sure but I can’t shake the feeling that this guy’s just all bluster. Talking about getting pissed and Brenting it up in front of fans isn’t helping either…

[SteV]

1 hour ago, McCormick said:

Super early days and irrational for sure but I can’t shake the feeling that this guy’s just all bluster. Talking about getting pissed and Brenting it up in front of fans isn’t helping either…

His CV would suggest otherwise 

[Rocker]

1 hour ago, McCormick said:

Super early days and irrational for sure but I can’t shake the feeling that this guy’s just all bluster. Talking about getting pissed and Brenting it up in front of fans isn’t helping either…

Oh come on. Aaah. You try something, and that's...

 

[80]

6 hours ago, Erikse said:

 

Haven't heard any of it yet. But.. I find it interesting that when he actually admits he found it difficult, which is the opposite of blaming everybody else, you complain that aswell for not sounding competent. Whichever route he takes you seem to look to interpret it in a bad way.

 

 

 

Hopefully an unedited video makes it's way out, and you'll see what I mean. I said he blamed others (specifically "their plans, their targets, their structures") in his first answer, not throughout the whole evening. It was just a pretty jaw dropping thing to do in the context of no one looking to relitigate things.

 

It's like no one's ever taught him the whole vague "mistakes were made, but we're gonna learn from them and come back stronger" spiel.

 

If I could sum up the overall way he was presenting himself with one word, I'd go with "Crikey!".

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by 80

[McCormick]

49 minutes ago, SteV said:

His CV would suggest otherwise 

Like I said, it’s irrational and just a feeling. Monaco fans seem to think he’s a bit of a bullshit merchant as well.

He hasn’t had much time to prove his worth,in fairness so I’m being quite harsh, I know.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by McCormick

[80]

50 minutes ago, SteV said:

His CV would suggest otherwise 

That's the bit that doesn't add up for me and softens my attitude to him after last night. It's a bit too hard for me to believe he's been in all the places he's been and also just been that guy on stage. So maybe he just presents himself badly. I certainly hope so.

[STM]

"I don't like that Darren Eales, he talks like a disingenuous corporate gobshite."

 

"Jeez, Paul Mitchell needs to learn to be less honest."

[Joelintons leg the 3rd]

Will have to see what he said but I find the honesty refreshing. Things were done wrong before 

[SUPERTOON]

Fortunately we are going to find out in the relative short term if he’s any good or not. I side with people not being overly impressed with how he has portrayed himself so far. Thankfully we will be able to judge him on his actual job over the next few months or so.

[PauloGeordio]

38 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Fortunately we are going to find out in the relative short term if he’s any good or not. I side with people not being overly impressed with how he has portrayed himself so far. Thankfully we will be able to judge him on his actual job over the next few months or so.

This. We thought Ashworth was the second coming and look how that turned out. He's got January and next summer to prove his worth!

[patrone]

I just thought he came across ok, was very generic type questions that were asked so he was never going to be on the back foot.

 

The joke about buying pints to help with PSR was really just a throw away comment, but he did also go on about his previous jobs and what he thought when he came here.

 

People seem to forget we had 1 person doing the role's of the 5 people on stage last night (at least and more) for years and we barely heard a peep from him in all that time

[Dr.Spaceman]

The trap people fall into with the likes of Mitchell (as they did with Ashworth) is solely laying the blame for any amount of failure at their doorstep. Mitchell is the head of a team working with other teams to achieve common targets. Yes he's accountable, but he's not the sole reason we may not sign anyone or may sign someone who turns out to be a bit shit. It's like people blaming Shola because Kuol went to Hearts or wherever it was, as if the club let Shola Ameobi make that decision on his own 

 

As with Ashworth I think we're putting far too much thought into all of this.

[Erikse]

1 hour ago, 80 said:

Hopefully an unedited video makes it's way out, and you'll see what I mean. I said he blamed others (specifically "their plans, their targets, their structures") in his first answer, not throughout the whole evening. It was just a pretty jaw dropping thing to do in the context of no one looking to relitigate things.

 

It's like no one's ever taught him the whole vague "mistakes were made, but we're gonna learn from them and come back stronger" spiel.

 

If I could sum up the overall way he was presenting himself with one word, I'd go with "Crikey!".

 

 

 

 

The thing is he was asked about how he has settled in the first 5 months. He replies with his own honest experience of the first 5 months. "mistakes were made, but we're gonna learn from them and come back stronger" would be a bit of an odd answer to that question, as the question was about him specifically.

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Erikse

[lovejoy]

Being comfortable speaking in public is way down my list of attributes I want our sporting director to have.

 

Who cares?

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by lovejoy

[Shearergol]

5 minutes ago, lovejoy said:

Being comfortable speaking in public is way down my list of attributes I want our sporting director to have.

 

Who cares?

 

 

 

80 cares. 80.

[kingxlnc]

Ashworth was very accomplished speaking wise, he sounded like he had a plan and philosophy etc, the centre of the wheel etc. Look how he turned out. Not too great at his role - given the PSR debacle. 
I'd rather Mitchell stutters his way through press conference embarassingly as long as he is great at his job and brings in great players etc.