How Long Will BM Last at this rate?????

[RoyalBlue]

I predict that if we lose on Tuesday at Villa, BMD will be out of a job on Wednesday.

With the run of game we have coming up AZ will have nothing to lose. Everyone knows we had a tough set of fixtures at the start of the season and we all looked to November to play catch up. We haven't.

Also prior to spending any money in January AZ will want a new man to have seen the team for a least a month before he makes the call on what new players to buy. MCD had the chance in the summer and blew it. He will not give him another chance.

Brian will keep his job all season, Anton knows that no one else is capable of doing any better with the team. Also the element of tried and tested in the Championship next season for an attempt at bouncing back.

The Reading way is about spirit, in this league you also need quality. That will require bigger investment in the team and a change in policy. Something the club doesn't appear to have interest in doing or the resources. Maybe that's the comfort zone if you will.

I think there's so much more expectation this time around and so why people are pissed off with our position.

Do you really think that if we go down, Brian will have the heart to try and get us back up again? He will end up leaving of his own accord if he's not pushed and some championship club will take him on. All I hope is, that if McD does go, and whenever that may be, that AZ doesn't think he can fill in until we find a successor!

Given the apparent 'I haven't got a clue' approach currently being adopted, maybe it's worth a go!

[Haag Royal]

I predict that if we lose on Tuesday at Villa, BMD will be out of a job on Wednesday.

With the run of game we have coming up AZ will have nothing to lose. Everyone knows we had a tough set of fixtures at the start of the season and we all looked to November to play catch up. We haven't.

Also prior to spending any money in January AZ will want a new man to have seen the team for a least a month before he makes the call on what new players to buy. MCD had the chance in the summer and blew it. He will not give him another chance.

Brian will keep his job all season, Anton knows that no one else is capable of doing any better with the team. Also the element of tried and tested in the Championship next season for an attempt at bouncing back.

The Reading way is about spirit, in this league you also need quality. That will require bigger investment in the team and a change in policy. Something the club doesn't appear to have interest in doing or the resources. Maybe that's the comfort zone if you will.

I think there's so much more expectation this time around and so why people are pissed off with our position.

If you read all my previous posts I agree completely that it is unilkey that anyione could do any better than BMD. However, if you look at the new TV money next year in the Prem it is unlikey that AZ will feel that benevolent towards BMD.

Also I will go further and predict that if we lose on Tuesday BMD will go and the powers that be will ask (have already asked) SSC to fill in until the end of the season a la Rafa.

[soggy biscuit]

He will be with us next season

[72 bus]

He will be gone if we lose to Villa

[RoyalBlue]

He will be with us next season

I think he may last this season but if we go down Anton will decide to put his own man in.

[Snowball]

He will be gone if we lose to Villa

20/1 to be the next manager to go. IOW 20/1 that Villa win by two goals

[Haag Royal]

Put it another way - if we do lose on Tuesday and BMD keeps his job then the new owner needs ask himself why he is involved in football.

What price SSC to come in till the end of the season?

[themadstad]

I predict that if we lose on Tuesday at Villa, BMD will be out of a job on Wednesday.

With the run of game we have coming up AZ will have nothing to lose. Everyone knows we had a tough set of fixtures at the start of the season and we all looked to November to play catch up. We haven't.

Also prior to spending any money in January AZ will want a new man to have seen the team for a least a month before he makes the call on what new players to buy. MCD had the chance in the summer and blew it. He will not give him another chance.

Brian will keep his job all season, Anton knows that no one else is capable of doing any better with the team. Also the element of tried and tested in the Championship next season for an attempt at bouncing back.

The Reading way is about spirit, in this league you also need quality. That will require bigger investment in the team and a change in policy. Something the club doesn't appear to have interest in doing or the resources. Maybe that's the comfort zone if you will.

I think there's so much more expectation this time around and so why people are pissed off with our position.

Do you really think that if we go down, Brian will have the heart to try and get us back up again? He will end up leaving of his own accord if he's not pushed and some championship club will take him on. All I hope is, that if McD does go, and whenever that may be, that AZ doesn't think he can fill in until we find a successor!

I don't think he will tbh, with all the struggles he had getting up in the first place, going down and trying to get back up might be a daunting task.

[Haag Royal]

Just as an aside, it is interesting to see how the tide of support for BMD seems to have turned since last week. Most of us were positive after the Everton result.

And everyone would have been happy (well content) with a point yesterday. Going away, getting a point and moving on. No problem.

But the way the team played in the last 3-4 minutes was suicidal. That is down to poor management - poor tactics and maybe even the team simply not being drilled well enough or even worse not listening to what they are being told. Remember we are a team that lets' 4-0 leads slip so let's not get ahead of ourselves. But no.

BMD has done a good job at RFC but he is simply no match for other Prem managers tactically.

[MmmMonsterMunch]

Put it another way - if we do lose on Tuesday and BMD keeps his job then the new owner needs ask himself why he is involved in football.

What price SSC to come in till the end of the season?

21 million to 1 as it won't happen.

Are you smoking crack or something?

[windermere_royal]

Put it another way - if we do lose on Tuesday and BMD keeps his job then the new owner needs ask himself why he is involved in football.

What price SSC to come in till the end of the season?

21 million to 1 as it won't happen.

Are you smoking crack or something?

Steve Coppell is busy on other "projects" these days

[MmmMonsterMunch]

SSC totally lost his love for football whilst with us. He had no fight left in him at the end & it was a slow lingering death. Why the hell would we want him back?

Great respect for what he achieved in the good days but come on that ship has sailed. I doubt he'd even say yes anyway.

[westongeezer]

if we lose to Villa i think he will resign...

[Man Friday]

I disagree.

I'm with Floyd in thinking that this squad is, quite comfortably, the worst in the division. You call Wigan an average side, but in players like Kone, Di Santo, McCarthy and Gomez they have players that would walk straight into our 1st team.

We are managing to compete against teams like Everton because of the way we are set-up. We get the ball forward quickly and get players up the pitch in support. We don't have players who can unlock defences on their own so this is the only way we can play. Yes this leaves us open defensively, but we saw at home to Spurs just how poor we are when trying to play a different style.

There are players out of form, but I'm not sure you can blame McDermott for the individual errors the players make.

I think McDermott's tactics and ideology will win us more points than any other style we could adopt without making huge changes to the squad.

Of course McDermott has to take the blame for not strengthening the squad in a better way in the summer, but without knowing the budget he had and the recruitment structure in place under TSI I'm certainly not going to use it as a reason to call for the head of a guy who is THE reason we are in this league. Plus I can understand why he wanted to keep the core of the squad intact, as our 'success' this season was always going to depend on spirit rather than quality.

P.O.T.S. (I.M.O.)

[winchester_royal]

Put it another way - if we do lose on Tuesday and BMD keeps his job then the new owner needs ask himself why he is involved in football.

What price SSC to come in till the end of the season?

What price you have an IQ less than the number of points we'll get this season?

[Haag Royal]

Put it another way - if we do lose on Tuesday and BMD keeps his job then the new owner needs ask himself why he is involved in football.

What price SSC to come in till the end of the season?

What price you have an IQ less than the number of points we'll get this season?

What a ridiculous post. Grow up.

[Ian Royal]

Put it another way - if we do lose on Tuesday and BMD keeps his job then the new owner needs ask himself why he is involved in football.

What price SSC to come in till the end of the season?

LOL McDermott out Wednesday and Coppell in? A googleplex to 1.

[winchester_royal]

Put it another way - if we do lose on Tuesday and BMD keeps his job then the new owner needs ask himself why he is involved in football.

What price SSC to come in till the end of the season?

What price you have an IQ less than the number of points we'll get this season?

What a ridiculous post. Grow up.

Whereas you're a model of rationality and maturity?

[soggy biscuit]

I think I am in the minority in wanting Brian to stay no matter what. I would rather my club had some class, stuff with RFC people, rewarded hard work and success with loyalty rather than be a club who throws money around chopping and changing managers to classlessly chase the dream.

Would be happier with 2 relegations than get someone in from the usual managerial merry go round and start blowing millions upon millions on players.

[Once were Biscuitmen]

Sweet Jesus, will we have to endure this mongfest every time we lose a game?

There are at least 17 teams with higher value squads than ours.
There are almost certainly at least 17 teams with higher wage bills than ours.
There are almost certainly at least 17 teams with higher revenues and/or more indulgent sugar daddies than ours.
We were favorites for relegation before the season started for a reason.

A little appreciation of football context and a recognition that there are worse things than relegation from the premier league would make for a more interesting debate.

It should be clear now that Anton is basically only a slightly more wealthy version of SJM. We don't have masses of cash to throw around or the desire to engage in financial doping.

So..... why does a side henceforth best known for half a century in the third tier suddenly expect survival to be guaranteed by December or the manager has to go?