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[Babylon]

58 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Look, 99% of my family lives between Cwmdare and Abercwmboi. I spent a lot of my childhood in Godreaman.

 

Stop making names up, we know those places don’t exist. 
 

Except Abercwmboi, which is where the first Abercwmboi and Fwitch store was opened.

 

[DJ Barry Hammond]

50 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

This is a massive risk. However, one thing I noticed about him when he took over at Man United for a few games is that he has an undeniable aura about him. He looked like the idea of managing a club that size didn't phase him. I'd like to think he'd have the respect of our players. 

Totally.

 

Equally, had he been here in the summer, we wouldn’t have got dicked about by our various transfer targets that ended up elsewhere.

 

Heck, as a former prolific striker he might even be able to get a tune out of Daka! 

[urban.spaceman]

1 hour ago, phoneticerror said:

He’s won more games this season in the PL?

And half of them were against us!!

[em9999]

20 minutes ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

Totally.

 

Equally, had he been here in the summer, we wouldn’t have got dicked about by our various transfer targets that ended up elsewhere.

 

Heck, as a former prolific striker he might even be able to get a tune out of Daka! 

He's a potential manager of the club not a miracle worker 

[Daggers]

Get your starter kits prepped then

 

A ball of cheese would be an upgrade on a coconut I guess. 
 

[PhillippaT]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

He's not Cooper, which is a massive plus.

He's not Swiss, though, so...

[fazzyfox]

13 hours ago, EnderbyFox said:

He should’ve gone the moment he started cutting about in this, is this the man you want as the face of your football operation? 

 

 

 

I don’t see a professional Director of Football I just see a marrow in glasses 

[volpeazzurro]

34 minutes ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

Totally.

 

Equally, had he been here in the summer, we wouldn’t have got dicked about by our various transfer targets that ended up elsewhere.

 

Heck, as a former prolific striker he might even be able to get a tune out of Daka! 

I was more thinking about what he could do for Cannon? 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

17 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Get your starter kits prepped then

 

A ball of cheese would be an upgrade on a coconut I guess. 
 

 

Tell you what else the Dutch like — I'll give you a clue, it gets you high and rhymes with "seed"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's right, it's the popular American commercial rock band, Creed

 

 

[Daggers]

2 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Tell you what else the Dutch like — I'll give you a clue, it gets you high and rhymes with "seed"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's right, it's the popular American commercial rock band, Creed

 

 

Eeet iz, ow you say, funknee because eeet iz, err, troo. 
 

 

[jim5000]

It will certainly get us a few places higher in the running order for MOTD each week, if we get Man Utd legend Ruud Van Nistelrooy in as manager.

 

Probably a good call seeing as we’ll need a new shirt sponsor (King Power) any time now…..

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

3 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Both made up place names

Twinned with Kibworth Beauchamp and Plungar respectively. 

[Jon the Hat]

19 hours ago, dooflip said:

Because nobody with half a brain is offering him a job.

He'd be a good director of football for a number of clubs I think.  His ability to deliver a good culture is not to be sniffed at, just tactically not the man for the dugout.

[Jon the Hat]

4 hours ago, justfoxes said:

It’s like an email but takes FUCHING longer to send you have to put a document in a machine called fax machine  to send it over a phone line !!

 

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/fax-machine/?orgRef=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

😉😂

 

It's like you wet signed a document, scanned it, emailed it to someone and they printed it only without the email step in the middle.  Awesome!

[Jon the Hat]

WTF?  RUUD???  Jesus.  This is going to be a disaster isn't it?  Yes it is.

[CPepFox]

5 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

It’s like an email but takes FUCHING longer to send you have to put a document in a machine called fax machine  to send it over a phone line !!

Eff me, Ethel!!! It's not called a FACTS machine!!! And people rely on it...

[CrazyKopCorner]

6 hours ago, EnderbyFox said:

Cooper is an experienced manager who has survived a relegation scrap before but I'd rather chew my own foot off than have him back. Who gives a shit about credentials when your gaffa looks like this

 

 

You have to say he looks the fuching business. 

 

They'd be no wall left if he asked me to run through it

 

Ruud Van Nistlerooy's Blue and White army for 90 on Saturday 

 

Edited 27 November 2024 by CrazyKopCorner

[Bilo]

6 hours ago, Babylon said:

Stop making names up, we know those places don’t exist. 
 

Except Abercwmboi, which is where the first Abercwmboi and Fwitch store was opened.

 

And now we're appointing Wuud van Nistelwooy to avoid welegation.

 

 

[Countesthorpe Fox 1884 12]

7 hours ago, phoneticerror said:

I suppose you blamed the ref too for Saturday 😂

Not at all, I agree with the decision to get rid of cooper, odd timing but still.

 

I just don’t understand the demand for RVN. Doesn’t make logical sense to me. 

[phoneticerror]

7 minutes ago, Countesthorpe Fox 1884 12 said:

Not at all, I agree with the decision to get rid of cooper, odd timing but still.

 

I just don’t understand the demand for RVN. Doesn’t make logical sense to me. 

Your mistake is coming on FT and expecting logic. Mods, 24 hour ban please.

[Claudio Fannieri]

RVN is not a novice, he has been a manager and most importantly he has earned his stripes as a coach and. assistant manager as well so he is very well rounded across all facets, managing PSV isn’t a gimme so he clearly has something about him. 
 

We have always done pretty well when appointing ambitious managers with a point to prove and with the hunger, desire and ambition of progressing their careers, Little, McGhee, O’Neill, Adams, Pearson and then Enzo have all been successful examples of this, yes there were also times when it hasn’t delivered what we hoped but overall it has been a good strategy for us. 
 

if we want to be a progressive club again then we need to have progressive managers rather than the tired set in their ways journeymen that we could have gone for as the safe perceived options. These types of managers have a limited shelf life and as shown with Cooper very quickly their methods and effectiveness become outdated. 
 

We are potentially recruiting a manager who has managed a top club in Holland, delivering some success and coached/assisted at major tournaments with the Dutch national team, he is far from a novice. 

Edited 27 November 2024 by Claudio Fannieri

[dooflip]

36 minutes ago, Countesthorpe Fox 1884 12 said:

Not at all, I agree with the decision to get rid of cooper, odd timing but still.

 

I just don’t understand the demand for RVN. Doesn’t make logical sense to me. 

From watching his tactics video on YouTube, I can see the sense in it.

the problem is, we don’t have bakayoko, Simon’s etc. his system worked so well at psv because he had the team capable of playing it.

 

the annoying thing is, if we had signed him up in the summer, we would have spent the 30odd million we had on players that would move the squad closer to one who could play ruuds system. Instead, we’ve got loads of defensive midfielders and a few bang average strikers.

[Deeg67]

Who knows what will happen with Man City the way they’re foundering, but if they really do loan McAtee out in January I would hope we’d make every attempt to make that happen. Ruud’s system looks a lot more palatable with a true attacking mid like that in place. We’d have some serious competition for him, though.

[Pliskin]

You can’t apply the same rule to every manager. 
 

Ruud so far has shown he’s a very capable coach, as a head coach he’s done very well, and as a number 2 he has worked in some top roles under some progressive head coaches and would have undoubtedly learnt a lot along the way. 
 

Just take Fabian Hurzeler as an example…. If he wasn’t already at Brighton and we were looking at him, I guarantee the same things would be getting said about him.
 

This is where we see what Ruud is all about, regardless of what some think, we’ve got talent in this squad, if he can get the best out of them then he stands a chance of succeeding.
 

Id much prefer we go for RVN, I’m bored of this so called house hold names, Moyes might have kept us up, but also his race might be run as a manager….. every appointment is a risk, and I’d rather we go for someone with a point to prove over a tired old boot with nothing left to prove.  

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

1 hour ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

RVN is not a novice, he has been a manager and most importantly he has earned his stripes as a coach and. assistant manager as well so he is very well rounded across all facets, managing PSV isn’t a gimme so he clearly has something about him. 
 

We have always done pretty well when appointing ambitious managers with a point to prove and with the hunger, desire and ambition of progressing their careers, Little, McGhee, O’Neill, Adams, Pearson and then Enzo have all been successful examples of this, yes there were also times when it has delivered what we hoped but overall it has been a good strategy for us. 
 

if we want to be a progressive club again then we need to have progressive managers rather than the tired set in their ways journeymen that we could have gone for as the safe perceived options. These types of managers have a limited shelf life and as shown with Cooper very quickly their methods and effectiveness become outdated. 
 

We are potentially recruiting a manager who has managed a top club in Holland, delivering some success and coached/assisted at major tournaments with the Dutch national team, he is far from a novice. 

Yes much rather someone with an appetite who has shown promise and with something to prove over someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing and has shown very little.
 

Cooper had a good run in the Championship with Forest which is where he belongs. No one can credibly claim he is a solid PL manager based on the evidence we have before our eyes. 

Edited 27 November 2024 by Wasyls Pec Deck