by fruits »
28 Aug 2013 12:20
Tommio wrote:
I hope he won't last much longer, I'm desperate for AZ to sack him. He was never the right man in the first place. Get Gus Poyet or Martin O'neill.
For goodness sake, we are changing the system. We sacked Rodgers look where he is now, Liverpool could finish in the top five this season in the Premiership.
Look at the record of Atkins,lots of promotions had produced a Southampton team which was coming together well in the Prem when he was sacked for political reasons.
The man needs time, we have a good spine to the team.One of the top three English goalkeepers,three great backs, one of the best midfields in the division. We lack forwards , we have players who I think are probably disrupting the dressing room. Kebe should have been suspended for calling Radio Berkshire and undermining NA. The man is a permanent sick note ,I don´t know if he did say he didn´t want to play for Reading again after McDermott was sacked, I would suspect it was true. The Pog terrible situation like a cancer in the club, obviously no interest in playing for the club can´t we just pay the bastard off and help him pack his bags back to Russia.Roberts should have been paid off to not given a new contract, I have to work hard for my money no one pays me for doing nothing.Even if he comes back in September his contribution will be nil until Christmas due to his age and the seriousness of his injury, so that is one year of not playing.
Look how long it took Sir Steve to turn things round, and he inherited a good, possibly great side from Pardew. Rome was not built in a day, even God took six days to build the world.
Nigel Atkins inherited a team in tatters ,no confidence ,no leadership getting beaten out of sight every week. I saw the game ,I think it was the 3rd or 4th last season home to Spurs, and I said to a friend "This team is totally lacking quality, we can´t pass the ball more five yards the midfield is a joke, the attack non existent". Don´t get me wrong , what Brian Mc Dermott did for us was nothing short of a miracle, maybe the Premiership was a league too far for him. He handled players badly bought quantity rather than quality, the one quality player he bought he handled really badly. I know the club is bigger than any player, but most players in the Premiership are Prima donas. Some have to be treated with kid gloves, others need discipline. Brian seemed incapable of getting it right.
When a team is on a long losing run , it is a bit like a boxer who keeps getting hit it becomes more and more depressed players blame each other for mistakes, problems develope in the dressing room. It takes a long time to turn things around. We have a large squad, players have high opinions of themselves, Federici probably thinks he should be No 1 goalie,Mariappa thinks he should be playing, etc etc There is a lot of dead wood in the squad, get rid of Kebe, Roberts ,the Pog for starters. Nearly everyone raves about Drenthe ,but what has he done really? Not a lot . Came in on silly money, is a nutty as a 10 bob watch, has caused mayhem everywhere he has been.
We will recover from this defeat. If we do not sign anyone by next Monday ,I can see Atkins resigning. I just hope we do not panic a la Rodgers and sack him. The history of Russian ownership of British football clubs and other countries as well, does not inspire me with confidence. They want success quickly if doesn´t come, they react strangely hiring and firing managers at will or walking off.
"Poyet or O´Neill", the former is a loose canon the second seems well past the sell by date. Perhaps when Di Canio is sacked from Sunderland we should appoint him. We have a great manager who inherited a woeful team, give him time and we will have a mid table Premiership side in a couple of years.
Knowing Reading we will probably slaughter Yeovil at the weekend.
thick as shit here.
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