Royalee Perhaps 'everyone' is wrong, but if you look at what Gary Johnson has said, along with everyone else in football, they all feel that it's a very rash decision. .
shoey as previously said the club has been on market since before our prem days and during and now, no one with any decent money or love for the club and its future has turned up!
Rev Algenon Stickleback HRoyalee Perhaps 'everyone' is wrong, but if you look at what Gary Johnson has said, along with everyone else in football, they all feel that it's a very rash decision. .
How often do you see a manager sacked and people within the game say it was the right decision?
Royaleeshoey as previously said the club has been on market since before our prem days and during and now, no one with any decent money or love for the club and its future has turned up!
Madejski wants to sell the club, Sullivan and Gold wanted to sell Birmingham. Look at the completely different ways they went about it and who the winners are.
readingbedding Would Hughes still be managing Citeh if they were 1 place off relegation on 16/12/09?
Will the next Manchester United manager get 4 years to win his first trophy and then a few more on top of that to win his first title?
If people care or give a shiny shite about 'being laughed at' (whoever they are) that's your problem.
Anyone who throws their toys out and wishes his team relegated, just because their managerial preferences are different - what a stand-up guy!
There's loads more, but I'm starving!
Harpers So Solid CrewRoyaleeshoey as previously said the club has been on market since before our prem days and during and now, no one with any decent money or love for the club and its future has turned up!
Madejski wants to sell the club, Sullivan and Gold wanted to sell Birmingham. Look at the completely different ways they went about it and who the winners are.
remains to be seen, a club in Englands second City, or one to a town west of london. Tho we did have more ST holders than them last season!!
Harpers So Solid Crew Why do you only list SC last 19 games royalee???
Harpers So Solid Crew They are not really looking at bigger clubs, they are looking to more than that, posssible ground sharing with Villa, they are looking at the possibility of a top 6 club in the prem, IMHO, with a new ground, cheaper costs if shared, it has to be more likely in the second biggest city, thats the gamble they are working on IMHO.
Royalee Sure - look at our form from February last season and we averaged 1.05 points per game including the playoffs, WITH Doyle, Kitson and Lita at the club in addition to the others we sold. In the November and December, we have averaged 1.3 points per game and this was during a time when we threw away points at Derby at at home to Scunthorpe, the latter being a game we should have won at ease and would have if we'd had someone even half as good as Doyle. If the club based the sacking on performances as they say, then why didn't this happen after the QPR game, as performances and results have improved considerably since then and one would have though they would continue to get better with the addition of at least one striker with the return of Church and Long (even if Long is shit)?
I find it quite baffling that the last time we asset stripped (and that's exactly what we're doing to this business, not 'cutting cloth' or 'ensuring our future' and all the other rubbish coming out of the club - to do these you still need to bring in suitable replacements on lower wages which Rodgers wasn't able to do in terms of our attacking options), when we sold Shaka, Osborn, Taylor and so forth, we stayed up by the skin of our teeth focusing on the 'short term' before sacking the new management duo, bringing in Bullivant and getting relegated. Yet in spite of this, when we have done it even more than in '95, Rodgers was expected to somehow turn water into wine with a young squad which he was trying to build and sacked after 4 months of competitive matches into his and Madejski's '3 year plan'. The fact that even this forum, which is renowned for its knee-jerk reactions during Pardew's early days and 2004/5, held a vote in which Rodgers was voted to remain by a majority (however slim it was), says it all.
If you look at the top clubs around, they all (even Man City with Mark Hughes) give their managers time to create THEIR team, and you simply cannot do that inside 6 months. Sir Alex Ferguson could easily have been sacked with a Madejski in charge at Old Trafford during his early days, but their hierarchy actually know a thing or two about football, could see what he was trying to build and reaped the benefits. Our impatient chairman has acted rashly, as if destroying most of his hard work in the last 2 years wasn't bad enough, he has now destroyed the chance of us building a sustainable successful future within his strict budgets. If you look at all of the best parts to our team, all of them were caused by Rodgers - he's brought in Sigurdsson and Church who have shone, Bertrand who has been excellent at left back, and our main goal threat in Rasiak and McAnuff. If you look at McAnuff and Rasiak's history, their performances have dropped significantly when not settled under their manager, so we can kiss bye bye to the Championship.
I've supported Reading for a fair while now and all this time while Madejski has been at the helm, we have looked to build to the future and create something positive, even in the days of Bullivant and Burns - we looked towards the long term. In the last 2 and a half years, that outlook has completely changed, we have looked to get by as cheaply as we can and done a botch job. We thought we had enough players to keep us up in the Premiership and didn't strengthen, we kept hold of Coppell as he seemed the 'safe' option when he wanted out and there was no long term plan, we brought in Rodgers to build for the future once again, but abandon the plan after 6 months, panicking. I have followed this club home and away for years and could never support any other club, but right now with the exception of our youngsters and a handful of dedicated first teamers like Tabb, McAnuff and Rasiak, I feel absolutely nothing for what we have become. We've completely abandoned what we set out to do in favour of short term 'gain', which will be shown up for what it is come May, we treat long-term employees of the club like shit, we treat our fans like idiots and everyone is laughing at us.
Royaleereadingbedding Would Hughes still be managing Citeh if they were 1 place off relegation on 16/12/09?
Will the next Manchester United manager get 4 years to win his first trophy and then a few more on top of that to win his first title?
If people care or give a shiny shite about 'being laughed at' (whoever they are) that's your problem.
Anyone who throws their toys out and wishes his team relegated, just because their managerial preferences are different - what a stand-up guy!
There's loads more, but I'm starving!
First of all, I don't want to see us relegated you total goon.
Secondly, Man City's expectations and starting point are far higher than ours, as is United's now - thanks to Ferguson.
Thirdly...
19 games played
4 wins
8 draws
7 defeats
Not Rodgers, but Coppell's last 19 games at the club.
Poison chalice.
Harpers So Solid Crew Why do you only list SC last 19 games royalee???
Royalee Your avatar is very appropriate.
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