kevinhectoring

My own opinion of Warne’s man management isn’t just plucked out of the air. I started posting in late ‘22 that the way he speaks about his players in interviews was a recipe for an unhappy dressing room. There was a specific comment about McGoldrick - relating to an injury (I’m guessing, but maybe around Nov 22) where Warne tried to be funny whilst taking a dig at Didzy. It was careless., misjudged and disrespectful. Warne has so far as I can see stopped doing this now - last time I can remember him at it was when he was speaking about Bird’s transfer. It’s the sort of thing he could perhaps get away with at Rotherham but many ‘bigger’ players won’t put up with it. Even before Didzy left, I would have assumed his and Warne’s relationship was frosty. Then Didzy left, having had his best season ever and with the weekly adulation of 26,000 people ringing in his ears. The timing of that move didn’t stack up for me (for football or financial reasons) tho I accept there’s plenty to debate in that. I think that if he’d enjoyed playing for Warne he would have stayed. I don’t mind people questioning the opinion in that last sentence but it’s not plucked out of thin air.

The Economist has said that Netenyahu has for years tolerated Hamas because it allows him to refuse peace talks. That’s credible enough and has come from several sources. But your suggestion that there was a cunning plan to allow Hamas to inflict such horror on 7/10 is not credible. Not least because that would have required senior IDF officers to have participated in the conspiracy. No way

Didzy’s got class that’s all it’s telling you

Yes you’re right of course. But he would have understood that to skulk away and in particular to have criticised Warne would have damaged the club. And he’d had too good a season - and imo he’s too decent a guy - to want to stick the boot in.

I’d say Warne’s careless way of speaking to the media about his players is likely to be part of the reason. Including about McGoldrick.

Religion. Or real estate (that’s what this one is ultimately about) . Or oil. Or communist/capitalist ideology. Or some guy being assassinated. Or something else. But yes often religion

One of the lines is not straight it has a little kink in it where the Arabist from the foreign office got his finger in the way of the pencil.

There’s a goal scoring machine at notts county who might disagree