Inside story on Nigel Pearson's sacking

[Boycie]

1 hour ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Bit of that yeah, but also an indication that the squad was full of tosspots.

The Stoke lot or ours?

Billy Davies is another one who wouldn’t get a tune out a well paid player.

[DarkFruitsRam7]

Just now, Boycie said:

The Stoke lot or ours?

Billy Davies is another one who wouldn’t get a tune out a well paid player.

Stoke. Ours too probably tbf.

[jagerbob]

Im not enjoying Gibbos return to Radio derby.
he does clearly have a gripe about mel morris from the way he critizes the decisions of the last owner, despite mel giving him a job when gibson was finished. 

Having gibson with his moany old persons ways back as the match presenter only makes me appreciate chris coles more.
Gibson has turned into the current day version of Ian Hall.

[FlyBritishMidland]

7 hours ago, duncanjwitham said:

From what I remember, when he first came back we played in a much more defensive, counter-attacking way (kind of forced because of the squad he had available, with no focal point up front and no fit holding midfielders) and we ground out some good results.  In January, he tried to get back to playing his preferred 433 pass-and-move football - having failed to get Martin back we got Nugent, and got DeSart in as a holding midfielder.  But neither of those signings really worked and we ended up looking like we did post-January in McClaren's last season with us (which again, was us basically having no fit focal point or holding midfielders).   

So yeah, it was a definite drop in form, but it was also obvious why it was happening - the missing forward and holding midfielder. We already know that the striker was fixed for next season, because we'd got Martin coming back on a new contract. And on paper at least, the holding midfielder was fixed too - Thorne should have been back from his broken leg by then (obviously hindsight etc etc).  It made no sense to sack McClaren at this point, unless there was some other issue going on.

Exactly that.  Mac2’s brief was to make sure we stayed up.  Had he had the same results over the full period rather than a good run followed by a poor run he might have kept his job - still think he was keeping the seat warm for Rowett though.  And we all knew that to get the best out of Mac’s way of playing it needed Martin up front, Thorne as the holding mid/playmaker and Bryson running off Martin, and Rowett sent him to Cardiff!!  Even Mel knew that by allowing Mac to give Martin a new contract.

[Turnstile]

On 25/04/2022 at 21:35, Boycie said:

Sounds like Keogh had the Gate Code for Mels place.

The mind now boggles even more !!!

[TheresOnlyWanChope]

15 hours ago, jagerbob said:

Im not enjoying Gibbos return to Radio derby.
he does clearly have a gripe about mel morris from the way he critizes the decisions of the last owner, despite mel giving him a job when gibson was finished. 

Having gibson with his moany old persons ways back as the match presenter only makes me appreciate chris coles more.
Gibson has turned into the current day version of Ian Hall.

He probably blames MM for his job loss. Just because someone gives you a job doesn’t mean they are immune from criticism. 

[RadioactiveWaste]

5 minutes ago, TheresOnlyWanChope said:

He probably blames MM for his job loss. Just because someone gives you a job doesn’t mean they are immune from criticism. 

and he's probably right on that front.

Lets face it, we all have opinions on Mel Morris and how he ran the club, if he's still going on about it halfway through next season under the new ownership it be fair to start with the "give it a break Gibbo"

[Van der MoodHoover]

9 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Lets face it, we all have opinions on Mel Morris and how he ran the club, if he's still going on about it halfway through next season under the new ownership it be fair to start with the "give it a break Gibbo"

...then he'll be a member of quite a large club I suspect.... ?

[Boycie]

2 hours ago, Turnstile said:

The mind now boggles even more !!!

It’s 1884 but don’t tell anybody ?

[DavesaRam]

On 26/04/2022 at 13:40, Curtains said:

But people have agendas 

Agreed. Ask Rick Parry.

 

 

 

But don't believe his answer!