Championship 2024/2025 Season Thread

[spacemunky]

Lovely goal that.

[CosbehFox]

Yeah you forgot how bad some of this division is 

[spacemunky]

2 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Yeah you forgot how bad some of this division is 

Don't know what you're talking about. This division looks absolutely brilliant 

[filbertway]

Plymouth looking as tactically astute as you'd expect from a Rooney managed team

 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Röhl vs Rooney was always likely to be a bit of a mismatch.

[spacemunky]

Plymouth can't even get their players names spelled correctly on their kits.

[Leicester_Loyal]

Any club that appoints Rooney as manager deserves to go down.

[purpleronnie]

Rooney has an amazing ability to make teams he manages look much worse than they were before he took over.

[Vacamion]

 

So do they just need to change the badge on this picture every season, then?  

 

 

[The Doctor]

lol, time to retire Wayne, do the punditry circle where no-one cares if you don't know shit, just how big your name is 

[adejo92]

I think Rooney needs to take some advice off of Neville and leave management to the professionals.

 

Absolute cracking player but his management is like a curse whatever club he goes to.

[David Hankey]

Why do professional football clubs think Rooney has something to offer in terms of management?

[Leicesterpool]

Management expert Rooney, showing his tactical genius once again.

 

Rooney is like another Gerrard and Lampard, top players but hopeless in management. Just shows how these ex players relied on top managers. You'd think another failed job for Rooney would be the end. Give credit to Alan Shearer, after Newcastle United went down he admitted he failed and accepted management wasn't for him, despite a number of job offers that followed in the coming years he said he no after left management behind. 

[MPH]

Who is feeding this idea to Rooney that he is a competent manager? Who keeps telling him to ‘ give it another go’?

[spacemunky]

19 minutes ago, MPH said:

Who is feeding this idea to Rooney that he is a competent manager? Who keeps telling him to ‘ give it another go’?

Coleen 

[CosbehFox]

The only reason Rooney’s got the Plymouth job is that the Director of Football was his youth coach. 
 

The last four appointments at Plymouth have all been scousers with a history with Neil Dewsnip. It’s mad how pro clubs can be ran like that 

[FrankieADZ]

be very surprised if Rooney lasts the season

Wednesday had 30 shots yesterday

know its the first game but bloody hell Rooney is bloody awful, i know he did alright/ish at Derby but im still saying it was more Rosenior than anything

 

then again took them donw

[westernpark]

10 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

The only reason Rooney’s got the Plymouth job is that the Director of Football was his youth coach. 
 

The last four appointments at Plymouth have all been scousers with a history with Neil Dewsnip. It’s mad how pro clubs can be ran like that 

They made a big deal of trying to put distance between Dewsnip and Rooney in the press releases. 

[The Doctor]

Ryan Lowe sacked by Preston 

 

why would you not get rid in June if he was this close to the sack?

[Fox in the North]

Gone after the first game already!

 

Also will be interesting to see how the Bayern players react to this.

 

 

 

 

[Wymsey]

To be honest, what are Preston's expectations?

 

Haven't they been in the Championship for about 25 years now and haven't been in the top-flight for around 80 years?..

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Regarding that video, that's very surprising to hear that from Kompany; thought before that he was down-to-earth and humble.

Edited 12 August 2024 by Wymsey

[Fox in the North]

7 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

To be honest, what are Preston's expectations?

 

Haven't they been in the Championship for about 25 years now and haven't been in the top-flight for around 80 years?..

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Regarding that video, that's very surprising to hear that from Kompany; thought before that he was down-to-earth and humble.

Preston seem to be intimating it was Lowe’s choice, but then if he was struggling that badly with it, surely just call it quits before pre season gets fully underway?

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To be fair, in a normal setting he probably is down to earth. I wonder when in the season this was taken. Before Bayern came in for him, I can imagine Kompany must have felt under a lot of pressure. Doesn’t justify the treatment of Gudmundsson though.

[StanSP]

Feels like Kompany went in a bit too hard on him. No doubt similar exchanges happen all over the country at an elite level, but seems like Kompany made too much of a point about it. 

[RowlattsFox]

Every Preston fan I know as wanted Lowe gone for ages. But it's weird to do it now. 

 

 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

23 minutes ago, Fox in the North said:

 

Also will be interesting to see how the Bayern players react to this.

 

 

 

 

 

"It's ****ing life or death!" sorry but Vincent Kompany isn't doing this unless he knows there's a TV camera there, come on now. No doubt there are training ground disagreements fairly often but this is the most performative shit I've ever seen.