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View alaneagle1's Profile alaneagle1 Flag Dunstable,Bedfordshire.England 13 Mar 17 6.33pm Send a Private Message to alaneagle1 Add alaneagle1 as a friend

Originally posted by Willo

Further to my post above, it has been reported that Pardew is not in the running for the Norwich job.

Edited by Willo (13 Mar 2017 11.21am)

My contacts have just told me that Alan wishes to talk to Delias Team.

 


Palace 13th 2017/18.

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View Willo's Profile Willo Online Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 13 Mar 17 6.42pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by alaneagle1

My contacts have just told me that Alan wishes to talk to Delias Team.

Yes he is interested but whether ther are interested in him is another matter.

Regards Delia Smith she had a bit of a 'Full and frank' discussion with Alex Neil who is a fiesty character and the next day he was relieved of his duties.

 

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View bodge's Profile bodge Flag 13 Mar 17 7.41pm Send a Private Message to bodge Add bodge as a friend

Looks like SM is a bit like AP with good runs then finds it hard to stop a run of poor results. He will get another job the question is why.

 

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View Qwijibo's Profile Qwijibo Flag Bournemouth 13 Mar 17 10.29pm Send a Private Message to Qwijibo Add Qwijibo as a friend

Originally posted by Willo

When he joined after 11 games, Derby were 19th.He had a terrific start winning 9 of his first 12 games and there was real expectancy that they would mount a promotion challenge.

However they have only won 2 of their last 10 games and only won 1 of their last 5 Home games and now sit in 10th place so their promotion hopes have faded.No idea what targets he was set when he joined Derby.They have had 4 managers in just over a year.

Pretty sure i read that he claimed his brief was to avoid relegation. If true, he has entitlement to be frustrated. If he's wrong, perhaps his employers should either make their objectives clearer or be less fickle and knee-jerk over a 10 match run of form in the midst of a 46-game season.

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Online Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 13 Mar 17 10.32pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by Qwijibo

Pretty sure i read that he claimed his brief was to avoid relegation. If true, he has entitlement to be frustrated. If he's wrong, perhaps his employers should either make their objectives clearer or be less fickle and knee-jerk over a 10 match run of form in the midst of a 46-game season.

Having finished 5th last year and lost in the Play-Off semi-final, I find it hard to believe that just avoiding relegation was the target.

 

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View Qwijibo's Profile Qwijibo Flag Bournemouth 13 Mar 17 10.36pm Send a Private Message to Qwijibo Add Qwijibo as a friend

Originally posted by Willo

Having finished 5th last year and lost in the Play-Off semi-final, I find it hard to believe that just avoiding relegation was the target.

I'm just passing on what my contact told me

"His remit when he went into the club was to get them out of trouble and to take them to safety which he feels he's achieved"


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View Willo's Profile Willo Online Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 13 Mar 17 10.42pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by Qwijibo

I'm just passing on what my contact told me

"His remit when he went into the club was to get them out of trouble and to take them to safety which he feels he's achieved"


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Having further thought about this, he did take over when the club were in 19th place so I can understand why "Safety" was their priority at that stage.

Don't know the situation "Behind the scenes" at Derby so cannot comment as to whether his sacking was justifiable.Sometimes we can look at situations and results etc but don't know the "Full picture".

 

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View palace_in_frogland's Profile palace_in_frogland Flag In a broken dream 19 Aug 18 10.56am Send a Private Message to palace_in_frogland Add palace_in_frogland as a friend

Still working his magic at QPR..

WBA 7 QPR 1

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View Harpo's Profile Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 20 Aug 18 12.39pm Send a Private Message to Harpo Add Harpo as a friend

Originally posted by palace_in_frogland

Still working his magic at QPR..

WBA 7 QPR 1

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Of course.
After all, he is the 'cleverest man's.

 

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View Harpo's Profile Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 20 Aug 18 12.39pm Send a Private Message to Harpo Add Harpo as a friend

Originally posted by Harpo

Of course.
After all, he is the 'cleverest man'.

 

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View manwitheagletattoo's Profile manwitheagletattoo Flag Somewhere in England 20 Aug 18 1.57pm Send a Private Message to manwitheagletattoo Add manwitheagletattoo as a friend

"For me I suppose it's better to happen now than later on in the season where we can do something about it," McClaren added

The wisdom of the man...it’s the manager who picks the team and it’s the manager and staff that train the players. Personally I think McLaren would bulls . up a five a side team if he took charge of it.

Edited by manwitheagletattoo (20 Aug 2018 1.58pm)

 


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View Willo's Profile Willo Online Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 20 Aug 18 2.05pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by manwitheagletattoo

"For me I suppose it's better to happen now than later on in the season where we can do something about it," McClaren added

The wisdom of the man...it’s the manager who picks the team and it’s the manager and staff that train the players. Personally I think McLaren would bulls . up a five a side team if he took charge of it.

Edited by manwitheagletattoo (20 Aug 2018 1.58pm)

The narrative is that McClaren is an excellent coach but not that good as a manager but he did win the Eredivisie with Twente.

Regards QPR, they finished a lowly 16th last season, have had to deal with the FPP fine and all McClaren has brought in are 2 'Frees' one of which is nearly 36 so his hands do appear to be tied.

Edited by Willo (20 Aug 2018 2.08pm)

 

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