One of the QPR commentary team yesterday noted that although their injury depleted lot are quite shit and on a terrible run of form, Hudds he said looked like a team that hasn't had any coaching at all. Just a bunch of strangers who met in the car park for the first time half an hour before KO.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Gowling mutually consented. Just as well as we couldn't afford to sack him.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 5 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
that's precisely our problem, the club is up for sale and the pot of money left to keep it out of administration until a new owner is found won't be enough to pay him off, and our idiot DoF was so bowled over by his interview he gave him a 3 year contract.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
Thoroughly unproven rumours but a genuine source says his deal was two separate ones as player and manager, having refused to sign himself on as the former in his capacity as the latter but drawing the wage as the former because it wasn't his fault he wasn't getting picked.
Sounds ludicrous but stranger things must have happened in football.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
heh!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
one of the previous holders of "most deranged idiotic EFL manager" Nathan Jones. Apparently he had a fist fight with some Southampton players earlier today.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
THERE IS LIGHT
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
congrats
― nothing (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
I'm not joking he was so bad, just any manager with the lowest base level of a football brain (or even just a brain) will be enough to get us out of trouble. No hyperbole here, he was the worst I have ever seen in my life. Not just for trying to cram 8 defensive midfielders in one starting XI but also for the corrosive effect his horrible various negative personality traits were having on the team: He drove out our most creative attacking player on loan to a rival. And destroying the confidence of a few of the highly rated young players we have. Just an all round shite sandwich without the bread.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
cowleys are available! j/k, grats!
― imago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
rumour is it's an out of work manager with a lot of Championship exp coming in ... gulp!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
lol uh oh
― imago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
enjoy Lampard
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
probably more chance of 74 yr old Warnock coming out of retirement .... shit, I'm probably best off not even joking about that!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
every couple of years i end up googling to see if Dave Bassett's still alive
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
Alan Pardew has just been sacked by Aris Thessaloniki, just putting it out there.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
xp
bloody hell, he's only 4 years older than Colin!
the new manager was interviewed this afternoon, gut feeling tells me it's Wilder
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
Our top candidates seem to be Ian Long (who I was quite vocally in favour of to replace Beadle but his total failure since - apart from the FA cup run - should rule him out) and John Askey (although York sacked David Webb today and the clamour for Askey back has brought insiders out of the woodwork saying there were non-football issues behind his sacking, which makes me cautious).
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
Still missing Graham Turner after 13 years.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
David Webb didn't last very long at York! It didn't seem that far back since he was a "technical director" at town - what the devil that means is beyond me. Some chancer who gives good interviews and talks a load of shite is my best analysis.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
Designs next generation of footballing cyborgs, at a guess
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
GT assisting with the new search apparently
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
75 years old is too old to come back isn't it? But hope he can at least find someone less mediocre.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
Seen him in the ground the last couple of home matches, seems in good form.
In a similar vein, it still baffles me that Colin Addison doesn't look all that old. Only Dudley Tyler looks as young from the 72 squad.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
"shit, I'm probably best off not even joking about that!"
74 yr old Warnock is currently the 1/2 fav, with all the usual caveats about next manager betting markets considered. See youse all in L1 next season
― calzino, Sunday, 12 February 2023 00:54 (one year ago) link
lol
― crisp, Monday, 13 February 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
welcome back Uncle Neil! It's only until the end of the season + tbf his record of pulling relegation threatened clubs out of the mire with a third of the season to go is pretty much one of 100% success. Still funny tho!
― calzino, Monday, 13 February 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
ONE LAST JOB
― imago, Monday, 13 February 2023 16:17 (one year ago) link
Reckon they had to send Ben Kingsley to yell No at him repeatedly
― imago, Monday, 13 February 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
There is a lot of Warnock nostalgia amongst supporters of my generation. It's like the second coming of Christ to some of them. Honest, you wouldn't believe how happy some people are about this, lol. Full disclosure: I am happy as well.
― calzino, Monday, 13 February 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
If he keeps us in the Championship the man will go beyong H.T.A.F.C legend, he will acheive messiah status.
― calzino, Monday, 13 February 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
hopefully the Lecter mask and sack barrow are still there
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 February 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
I'd have been absolutely aghast if this would have happened straight after our smart and highly impressive, detail obsessed Spanish head coach resigned, but the last 6 months have totally obliterated previous expectation levels. Lol, I'm back to the paleolithic era of football again.
― calzino, Monday, 13 February 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
ONE OF US, ONE OF US
― Tim, Monday, 13 February 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
(Hope this works out for your sake, but Colin has continually sniped at us since he was king of the slime and I always enjoy seeing him fail.)
― Tim, Monday, 13 February 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
Sorry calz but this is hilarious.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 09:29 (one year ago) link
I'll have you know the Cardiff fans are extremely jealous of this appointment, they see it as a relegation rival getting a huge boost! After having a deeply unpleasant clueless cunt managing for most of the season, who was doing highly embarrassing Comical Ali press conferences every week. It's impossible to feel any more embarrassed for the state of the club. But I can imagine how funny it is from outside of the HTAFC bubble!
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 09:53 (one year ago) link
#NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/2T5X2t2bcZ— Neil Warnock (@warnockofficial) February 17, 2023
one to brighten up Tim's morning. It was amusing that he revealed he was still sore about the Town chairman lying to him in the 90's. He reneged on an agreement that Col could have his own shop in the Town centre flogging Town merch. Such a ridiculous request to agree to in the first place perhaps, but I suppose in context of what a shabby underfunded state the club was in at the time, not so ridiculous.
― calzino, Saturday, 18 February 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
and lo!
― imago, Saturday, 18 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
from now on I don't want read any more "Colin" on here - his name is God!
― calzino, Saturday, 18 February 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
Today was the first day I have left before the final whistle. Abject.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
What do we know about Chris Hargreaves then?
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 20 February 2023 08:49 (one year ago) link
feels like you could have done better, looking at his resume
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2023 08:57 (one year ago) link
it still freaks my nut out that once upon a time i had a match ticket to a league fixture between hereford and leeds. the game was snowed off, i never went
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2023 08:58 (one year ago) link
Not sure it's true but final interviews are today and he's the name floating round.
Apparently John Askey is out because of lack of full time ambition.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 20 February 2023 09:07 (one year ago) link
Despite being ex-Argyle Hargreaves is fairly well thought of at ours I think, he was a part of our coaching set-up and it looked to me as though he would progress inside the club. Wouldn’t seem like a terrible appointment on the face of it. (FWIW it’s my opinion that managerial appointments are less important than we mostly like to think)My friend Gavin gave him a proper kick when playing youth football in the 80s apparently.
― Tim, Monday, 20 February 2023 09:17 (one year ago) link
I can vaguely remember Hargreaves when he was that malingering long-haired fucker (I think) who played for the Cobblers when they were one of our hated rivals. He was possibly on the pitch for the game at Sixfields that was abandoned when a falling advertising hoarding almost killed somebody. A detail much more memorable than any of the football being played on the day.
― calzino, Monday, 20 February 2023 09:18 (one year ago) link
"managerial appointments are less important than we mostly like to think"
As long as there is a reasonable level of organisational competence and the candidate isn't an insecure and vindictive idiot, then there could be some truth in this.
― calzino, Monday, 20 February 2023 09:24 (one year ago) link
sooooome truth yes, but there's definitely a balance to be made between letting players express themselves without fear and second-guessing, and the instilling of tactical rigour and organisation, which can be surprisingly difficult to find
quite happy with our current manager, even if he doesn't have the gravitas, bloody-mindedness or uncompromising sheer energy of a Warnock quite yet. alas, given he appears to have been Hudds' second choice, he probably isn't far off a move upward
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2023 09:27 (one year ago) link