How Long Will BM Last at this rate?????

[sandman]

For the purposes of comparing him to Tommy Burns see previous post.

Fair play to him for winning the Easydivisie, a two horse race, the footballing hotbed of the Russian League, a European Trophy that even the teams in the competition don't care about and a glorified pre-season friendly.

[72 bus]

For the purposes of comparing him to Tommy Burns see previous post.

Fair play to him for winning the Easydivisie, a two horse race, the Russian League, a European Trophy that even the teams in the competition don't care about and a glorified pre-season friendly.

Never mind the five national sides he has also managed, including his own national side twice
Guess that also counts for nothing in your world

[sandman]

How many relegation fights has he been in?

Well done to him, he's managed some national teams, counts for nothing in a relegation fight. Then again he's a manager with name recognition so in your world that makes him better for this club than a man who has done more for us than anyone bar Sir John and possibly Steve Coppell and who knows the club inside out.

[72 bus]

How many relegation fights has he been in?

Well done to him, he's managed some national teams, counts for nothing in a relegation fight. Then again he's a manager with name recognition so in your world that makes him better for this club than a man who has done more for us than anyone bar Sir John and SSC and knows the club inside out.

So if Anton uses your logic, he will be looking for someone who habitually finds himself in relegation battles ?

[RoyalBlue]

well done master fisher man lacoste
youve hooked a fish who replies to every post on the entire board

[melonhead]

except i was the fish i was referring to already

[Extended-Phenotype]

So it's more a case of Pot meeting himself.

That would be a pretty dull meeting. Marginally more interesting than watching Reading play atm.

[melonhead]

So it's more a case of Pot meeting himself.

That would be a pretty dull meeting. Marginally more interesting than watching Reading play atm.

hi mr pot, im mr pot, but you already know that
you do realise you are black dont you
oh, my mistake, of course we do.

[sandman]

How many relegation fights has he been in?

Well done to him, he's managed some national teams, counts for nothing in a relegation fight. Then again he's a manager with name recognition so in your world that makes him better for this club than a man who has done more for us than anyone bar Sir John and SSC and knows the club inside out.

So if Anton uses your logic, he will be looking for someone who habitually finds himself in relegation battles ?

If you weren't such a reactionary fool then you'd understand what I'm saying. If Anton uses logic he won't replace Brian with a pensioner, name manager, whose international management career that you regard so highly is mostly based on being a poor substitute for Guus Hiddink.

Now go and collect your toys from the floor.

[72 bus]

How many relegation fights has he been in?

Well done to him, he's managed some national teams, counts for nothing in a relegation fight. Then again he's a manager with name recognition so in your world that makes him better for this club than a man who has done more for us than anyone bar Sir John and SSC and knows the club inside out.

So if Anton uses your logic, he will be looking for someone who habitually finds himself in relegation battles ?

If you weren't such a reactionary fool then you'd understand what I'm saying. If Anton uses logic he won't replace Brian with a pensioner, name manager, whose international management career that you regard so highly is mostly based on being a poor substitute for Guus Hiddink.

Now go and collect your toys from the floor.

You sound a bit rattled, calm down

[melonhead]

its spelt ROFLattLOLed

[melonhead]

which i may add has nothing to do with his colour




& who has black pots and kettles any more anyway

[Extended-Phenotype]

Yeah. They are more likely to be Irish or Polish.

[Victor Meldrew]

How many relegation fights has he been in?

Well done to him, he's managed some national teams, counts for nothing in a relegation fight. Then again he's a manager with name recognition so in your world that makes him better for this club than a man who has done more for us than anyone bar Sir John and possibly Steve Coppell and who knows the club inside out.

How many relegation fights has Brian been in?

[SydenhamRoyal]

How many relegation fights has he been in?

Well done to him, he's managed some national teams, counts for nothing in a relegation fight. Then again he's a manager with name recognition so in your world that makes him better for this club than a man who has done more for us than anyone bar Sir John and possibly Steve Coppell and who knows the club inside out.

How many relegation fights has Brian been in?

Two. Second bottom last season (we won the league); second bottom at Xmas couple of seasons back - we missed out on the play-offs by 3 points. So mark my words - its us or Everton for the last champions league place. Maybe. Well. Ok.

[RoyalBlue]

BM says

We have certain ways of playing. At the moment, we play 4-4-2 which works for us.

If that is working for us at present, then we really are up shit creek without a paddle when things stop working for us!

[marcusopp]

I like what a couple of guys have eluded to, our perpetual poor starts to a season, followed by a very strong finish.
I think our start's been ok, only 4 defeats to chelsea, spurs, liverpool and WBA (who are up there), i'm sure we'd have all taken that in august.
A completely undeserved win today will be lovely!
If not, i expect us to do the usual, and finish the season well, finishing lower-mid table

[SPARTA]

Thought it was interesting to hear Brian challenge the section of fans that decided to boo last week. I don't agree with booing, but he condoned it and said you have to support through the bad times as well as the good, which is absolutely correct; however this is the same man that has reiterated in the past that football is a results business - and on that note, he has to be fearful now of losing his job.

[Cypry]

Thought it was interesting to hear Brian challenge the section of fans that decided to boo last week. I don't agree with booing, but he condoned it and said you have to support through the bad times as well as the good, which is absolutely correct; however this is the same man that has reiterated in the past that football is a results business - and on that note, he has to be fearful now of losing his job.

I'm guessing you mean condemned....?

I suppose that losing his job will largely depend on what Anton / SJM etc expected at the beginning of the season - if they anticipated we'd be in, or around the bottom three, and might just avoid the drop come the end of the season by a narrow margin, then Brian is probably meeting their expectations, and can argue that although we haven't won yet, we're not losing games, and a small improvement would be all that will be needed to see us climb the table away from trouble...

I'm sure everyone at the club hoped that we'd be comfortably mid-table and would secure our place in the PL next season with room to spare, but there's a big gap between hopes and expectations and it's the latter which will most likely determine Brians future....

[Royal Lady]

I like what a couple of guys have eluded to, our perpetual poor starts to a season, followed by a very strong finish.
I think our start's been ok, only 4 defeats to chelsea, spurs, liverpool and WBA (who are up there), i'm sure we'd have all taken that in august.
A completely undeserved win today will be lovely!
If not, i expect us to do the usual, and finish the season well, finishing lower-mid table

Yes but, with respect, in those other seasons we were in a lower league playing the likes of Peterborough, Scunthorpe etc, in this league we've got Man Utd (twice), Man City (twice), Arsenal (twice), Chelsea etc etc - there are NO games in which we SHOULD win and having not managed one win yet, it all points, to me, that we don't have either the right playing style/formation or some of the right players to enable us to do this. When we finished 8th in the PL, we had a good start - we certainly weren't languishing at the bottom of the table at this point.

I'm resigned to us being relegated and can only hope that we have an even stronger team next season - take the Championship by storm and come bouncing back.