Steve Clake - New Poll

[sandman]

Clarke has the temerity to have a go at Dellor for suggesting we might be in relegation trouble next season!

Clarke wants to know why Dellor would say that! Hasn't the fool been taking a note of the performances and results from the team under his management?!

With Zingarevich and Adkins team. A lot of these will not be 'Under his management" next season as they will be out and he will have something a bit closer to his own team. A bit closer of course because he will still have to deal with Pog and others who have a year left to bleed the club dry on there current contracts.

[Lacoste]

He failed miserably in the summer he was at WBA. Bought in some right shit.

[floyd__streete]

The more I think about it, the more I wish we'd sakced Adkins a week or two earlier and got Gary Rowett in. Up and coming manager who has taken them from the bottom 3 to comfortable midtable.

[JIM]

Go to read NEWS NOW.

[JIM]

Go to NEWS NOW, this site may be irrelevant

[teignmouth hoops]

Do who got the better deal, Bournemouth with Wilson, or Cardiff with Alf . One is a goalscorer at this level, the other apparently not.

Cardiff (OGS) were absolutely barmy to pay top dollar for a player who's only effective in and around the 6 yard box and then play him on the wing. No wonder he wasn't r8ed there and it's little wonder, too, that OGS didn't last long there with that level of tactical genius.

Strange then that Alfie has been only been on loan @ Bolton since the end of Jan ,yet has already scored 8 goals for them, which is considerably more than our golden bollocked pair of Pog & HRK

[Snowball]

Yup

8 Goals and 1 assist in 16 Appearances, 1,323 Minutes

a Goal every 165 minutes


Obviously crap we were well got rid of

[wingnut]

Do who got the better deal, Bournemouth with Wilson, or Cardiff with Alf . One is a goalscorer at this level, the other apparently not.

Cardiff (OGS) were absolutely barmy to pay top dollar for a player who's only effective in and around the 6 yard box and then play him on the wing. No wonder he wasn't r8ed there and it's little wonder, too, that OGS didn't last long there with that level of tactical genius.

Strange then that Alfie has been only been on loan @ Bolton since the end of Jan ,yet has already scored 8 goals for them, which is considerably more than our golden bollocked pair of Pog & HRK

You misunderstand me. I liked Alf and far rather we'd kept him than bought Cox. Cardiff's (OGS's) folly was playing him out of position.

[ladida_gunner_graham]

Post from Summer Rebuild thread

Reading manager Steve Clarke is considering leaving the Berkshire club after only five months in charge, according to FLW sources.


FLW understands Clarke is considering his future at Reading

FLW understands that the former West Bromwich Albion manager is unhappy with the lack of control he has at the club, with too much outside interferences hindering his role at the side.

The Royals were defeated 2-1 by Steve Evans’ Rotherham United at the New York Stadium last night, in what was Reading’s fourth consecutive Sky Bet Championship defeat.

Steve Clarke’s men have failed to win a single league game since March 10, when they beat Brighton and Hove Albion 2-1 at the Madejski Stadium.

It has well and truly been a Championship season to forget for the club, with an FA Cup semi-final appearance against Arsenal at Wembley being the only highlight of a bleak 2014/15 season.

Speaking after the match against Rotherham United on Tuesday night, Clarke said to Get Reading: “You are now seeing a team and a squad that is in decay,”

“We lack leaders on the pitch. You can see that.

“You can see when something goes wrong, immediately the first response is to stand away and find a place to hide on the pitch.

[Pepe the Horseman]

It's a bullshit rumours site.

[ladida_gunner_graham]

It's a bullshit rumours site.

...and they spelled Madejski right and everything....

[RoyalBlue]

There may be some truth in the interference. Last night Gooding started to spill the beans on assistance/interference from the Mad Man whilst he and Quinn were in charge.

[Vision]

There may be some truth in the interference. Last night Gooding started to spill the beans on assistance/interference from the Mad Man whilst he and Quinn were in charge.

Come on then RB, what possible assistance/interference do you think JM would give to Team matters?

[melonhead]

from what I heard it basically amounted to the board/JM/Squeaky not giving the manager the players/money he wanted every time he asked.
specifically: that caskey was 4th choice , after a neil lennon request was refused, and then two others.


hardly earth shattering or particularly surprising.
if anyone thinks Brian had the pick of the worlds footballers, but said - nah, its ok im happy with this akpan bloke, then you are a mentalist

[Sutekh]

Interest in Lennon was before Caskey by about 18 months wasn't it? Also the story is that we put in an offer for Lennon which, while acceptable to Crewe, was turned down by the player on advice from Gradi saying he'd get a better club if he hung on - and at the time that club was Leicester.

[RoyalBlue]

from what I heard it basically amounted to the board/JM/Squeaky not giving the manager the players/money he wanted every time he asked.
specifically: that caskey was 4th choice , after a neil lennon request was refused, and then two others.


hardly earth shattering or particularly surprising.
if anyone thinks Brian had the pick of the worlds footballers, but said - nah, its ok im happy with this akpan bloke, then you are a mentalist

So basically you did not hear what Gooding said!

So to answer your question Vision, according to Gooding, the assistance/interference the Mad Man provided was:

Gooding and Quinn asked for four different players, all ahead of Caskey on their wish list. All were declined because, according to Gooding, the Mad Mad wanted to do a deal with the Spurs Chairman - one plain (at that time) Mr Alan Sugar.

So any chance the great man's halo might start to slip a bit, what with massive recent blunders and now these sort of revelations?

[floyd__streete]

Here we go again, RB on his barking mad hate campaign against the most influential, important and successful figure in the club's history. Its like the appointments of McGhee, Pardew, Coppell and McDermott never happened.

I would agree that he has made some horrendous mistakes too, but the balance sheet - did you enjoy our two promotions to the top flight, a league we hadn't come even remotely close to challenging for before Madejski came along - is overwhelmingly in the positive. I challenge you RB to come out and say that overall Madejski has been a hugely positive influence over the club for the majority of 25 generally successful years, go on it won't hurt.

[sandman]

from what I heard it basically amounted to the board/JM/Squeaky not giving the manager the players/money he wanted every time he asked.
specifically: that caskey was 4th choice , after a neil lennon request was refused, and then two others.


hardly earth shattering or particularly surprising.
if anyone thinks Brian had the pick of the worlds footballers, but said - nah, its ok im happy with this akpan bloke, then you are a mentalist

So basically you did not hear what Gooding said!

So to answer your question Vision, according to Gooding, the assistance/interference the Mad Man provided was:

Gooding and Quinn asked for four different players, all ahead of Caskey on their wish list. All were declined because, according to Gooding, the Mad Mad wanted to do a deal with the Spurs Chairman - one plain (at that time) Mr Alan Sugar.

So any chance the great man's halo might start to slip a bit, what with massive recent blunders and now these sort of revelations?

[RoyalBlue]

from what I heard it basically amounted to the board/JM/Squeaky not giving the manager the players/money he wanted every time he asked.
specifically: that caskey was 4th choice , after a neil lennon request was refused, and then two others.


hardly earth shattering or particularly surprising.
if anyone thinks Brian had the pick of the worlds footballers, but said - nah, its ok im happy with this akpan bloke, then you are a mentalist

So basically you did not hear what Gooding said!

So to answer your question Vision, according to Gooding, the assistance/interference the Mad Man provided was:

Gooding and Quinn asked for four different players, all ahead of Caskey on their wish list. All were declined because, according to Gooding, the Mad Mad wanted to do a deal with the Spurs Chairman - one plain (at that time) Mr Alan Sugar.

So any chance the great man's halo might start to slip a bit, what with massive recent blunders and now these sort of revelations?

And you are clearly a blind/ignorant ****

Only an absolute dumbarse could try to claim that Madejski didn't completely balls up the sale of the club. Only someone who is blind can deny that he sat there on his honorary throne as some crazy business decisions were made post sale - decisions he either agreed with or wasn't bold enough to publically speak out against.

And now, even when people who definitely know how he can behave finally start to reveal some of the things that have gone on in the past, his disciples cover their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears and repeat their mantra 'it's not true, he didn't do it, he's not like that'.

I'm pretty sure there will be more interesting info to come in the future.

Here we go again, RB on his barking mad hate campaign against the most influential, important and successful figure in the club's history. Its like the appointments of McGhee, Pardew, Coppell and McDermott never happened.

I would agree that he has made some horrendous mistakes too, but the balance sheet - did you enjoy our two promotions to the top flight, a league we hadn't come even remotely close to challenging for before Madejski came along - is overwhelmingly in the positive. I challenge you RB to come out and say that overall Madejski has been a hugely positive influence over the club for the majority of 25 generally successful years, go on it won't hurt.

I decline your invitation thank you because I am more principled than that.

I believe McGhee was lost because he was not happy with some of the ridiculously tight spending restrictions imposed on him by a man who believed, and still appears to believe, that he can consistently buck the economic model of top level professional football in this country.

Yes, I enjoyed the promotions but what a shame that the good work of those guys was subsequently undone because the guy at the top again felt he could buck the economic model of top level professional football in this country.

And now, having marched us to the top of the hill, the grand old duke is in danger of marching us back to whence we started. This, I believe is due to an initial reluctance to share his toy with other investors and then, when money started to become a real issue, his eagerness to offload as soon as he could.

'nuff said. The two opposing views will never agree. Time and history will be the judge.

[Lower West]

Only an absolute dumbarse could try to claim that Madejski didn't completely balls up the sale of the club.

So easy to say that. If Sir JM had walked away totally what would be left now.

Despite spending millions Cardiff are a mere 13 points ahead. Money alone does not build a successful club.