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Whatever the reasons it does not reflect well on the club and management that we apparently have 3 senior players who have been ostracised by the manager. When KR was doing the same sort of thing he was being pilloried for it and quite rightly. This is an equally poor lookGood post. So much wrong at the club. Again! Top to bottom!
Owners,
non existent money men from far off lands. I’m on the fence because they’re obviously throwing money at us and the work on the new stadium is fantastic but I can’t help feeling the stadium, facilities and club will be separated and when they move on we’ll be no better off than we are now.
Senior managers
Also non existent but perhaps not as far removed as our owners. Some very odd stories banging about. Also key people jumping ship. blaming fans for the lack of atmosphere. Everyone knows off the field communication, organisation, structure and sound appointments combined with fantastic, exciting winning football on the pitch drives the atmosphere. Sounds like they wants us to watch paint dry and sing about it. Oh and in the dark too. They failed to secure manning when everything was going so well. They failed to get the right people in to back up DasB. And now we’re in a stick or twist position. Can DesB be backed fully in the summer given the mess we’re in on the pitch? But they can’t or will not sack him.
Recruitment
Absolutely terrible January window. Should be ashamed of their work.
Goodwin injured when signed
Edward’s injured when signed
Burey who knows
Matete injured, probably when signed never looked like the player he can be.
Dale has done well in a poor team
Cumming no better than Eastwood.
Bennett started well not sure what else to say.
First team manager,
You can bang on all you want about a false position under manning but I’d have put money on that continuing had he stayed. He had a group of players playing for each other and him. Organised, hard working, hard to beat and like any good manager getting the most out of what he has. DesB on the other hand has turned us into a disorganised, lacklustre, boring, bunch of individuals making mistakes for fun. Terrible , basic defensive errors, slow and open in midfield, mediocre down the flanks and can’t finish. Sliding down the form table. I’m seriously worried about next season. Anyone thinking about the playoffs needs their heads checked! We’re making hard work of teams in even worse form than us! Even the players we know are good from previous managers are looking poor.
Running out of excuses now DesB.
Ground staff
Cracking job as usual.
All in all a bit s**t.
Mous would have been dismissed on here as the cheap option
Nonsense.We will soon find out what people think of Buckingham as manager. When the season tickets are due for renewal
Appointing any of those now could actually work and get us into the playoffs and promotion this season.Paul Heckingbottom (Sheffield United), Michael Duff (Cheltenham & Barnsley) or Alex Neil (Sunderland & Norwich) are 3 high level replacements we could go for.
I think the board are clearly ambitious judging by the money they’re prepared to spend so don’t think a change is impossible.
I think Pompey’s fans were saying exactly that when he was appointed. I very much doubt they are saying it now.Mous would have been dismissed on here as the cheap option
Maybe some would have said that. But you're forgetting that many on here were advocating for Mous to be given at a go at the time. They probably wouldn't have then turned round and called him the cheap option.Mous would have been dismissed on here as the cheap option
I think the first bit (that he would've wanted a crack at it) is well known. He clearly had ambitions to go into management, why wouldn't he take an opportunity that was gifted to him at the club he was already at?We are all assuming that Mousinho would have wanted the job in this particular nest and that people in the building were not aware already of his personal and professional qualities which I doubt. We will never know; Pompey could do an Ipswich or a Rotherham.
To be honest, I have doubts as to whether a promotion from senior player to boss works in general, and this also applies to Mousinho as well. He was most senior member in the squad and PFA representative as well, so going from beers with the lads and have a bitch about the manager, training staff, workload, getting picked to all of a sudden being "Gaffer" instead of "Mous" is quite the stretch. I'm not sure I could deal with a player I had been in a strip club with pre-season and then suddenly demand more professionalism from.Maybe some would have said that. But you're forgetting that many on here were advocating for Mous to be given at a go at the time. They probably wouldn't have then turned round and called him the cheap option.
Not that it really means a lot anyway. Because sometimes the cheap option works out and the expensive one doesn't.
I’d have been unsure if this we’d picked him at the time we sacked Robinson that was all. Had we done it 10+ games earlier when we should have, he presented such an obvious and low risk solution. Getting rid of Robinson was always going to yield a feel good factor that his successor could put to use and would’ve allowed Mous some time for trial and error. But not sure a 10 game run-in with a squad that you had to beg to leave the tunnel was the time for him that’s all.Maybe some would have said that. But you're forgetting that many on here were advocating for Mous to be given at a go at the time. They probably wouldn't have then turned round and called him the cheap option.
Not that it really means a lot anyway. Because sometimes the cheap option works out and the expensive one doesn't.
To be fair, I had meant we should've put Mous in September time, just to steady the ship. I wasn't suggesting doing it for the run in as he had already gone off to Portsmouth by then.I’d have been unsure if this we’d picked him at the time we sacked Robinson that was all. Had we done it 10+ games earlier when we should have, he presented such an obvious and low risk solution. Getting rid of Robinson was always going to yield a feel good factor that his successor could put to use and would’ve allowed Mous some time for trial and error. But not sure a 10 game run-in with a squad that you had to beg to leave the tunnel was the time for him that’s all.
That's because Harris isn't an authentic centre forward and never will be.I'm struggling to see how its Des's fault that we're not putting the ball in the net. We're creating ample good quality chances and simply not taking them. That's 100% on the individual players if you ask me.
I don’t think anyone expected Mous to leave so soon. He may have been pencilled in to take over but took that option out of our hands.To be fair, I had meant we should've put Mous in September time, just to steady the ship. I wasn't suggesting doing it for the run in as he had already gone off to Portsmouth by then.
Maybe he simply couldn't work with Robinson any more....I don’t think anyone expected Mous to leave so soon. He may have been pencilled in to take over but took that option out of our hands.
Fron what Purkiss said on the Dub he'd been wanting more responsibility but not been allowed anything by Robinson. He'd done well when taking charge of games when Robinson was suspended and we had our best performance of the season under him.I don’t think anyone expected Mous to leave so soon. He may have been pencilled in to take over but took that option out of our hands.
I think this is certainly true, but also that no one would have predicted him getting the Pompey job as soon as he did.Fron what Purkiss said on the Dub he'd been wanting more responsibility but not been allowed anything by Robinson. He'd done well when taking charge of games when Robinson was suspended and we had our best performance of the season under him.
I suspect a competent board would have an idea of his mindset and what he wanted, even before he got the Pompey job most on here we unanimous that he's an impressive guy and they'd have been around him a lot more but my faith is so low in those running things that it's entirely possible they missed this, especially as Tim still seemed to be in thrall of Robinson until the very end.
A huge missed opportunity and as @Osei Yaw said there's no hindsight there, plenty of people wanted Robinson out earlier knowing Mous could take the reigns, even if only as a caretaker at first to give him a chance to prove himself.
I think this is certainly true, but also that no one would have predicted him getting the Pompey job as soon as he did.
He was factually better than Des.If we believed everything claimed about Manning now he's gone why weren't we 10 points clear at the top when he left, As he was so much better than Des.
I think there is a part of Liam Manning deep down who will kick himself for jumping ship when he did.He was factually better than Des.