McDermott Sacked (AGAIN)

[elrey]

I hate Real Madrid, they show what is wrong with football, they win the Champions League.

Reading is annoying now, sacking a manger every 6 months for no reason.

I think football is becoming nothing for me now....

This is absolutely ridiculous.

[Ian Royal]

Which will all be irrelevant should the changes prove successful and we have a decent season.

For which there is little reason to expect given the spiral of deterioration the club is in and the string of poor deciaions being made at the top.

I don't care who the manager was. We appointed someone with a good track record 5 months ago and then sacked them two or three weeks after the season ended. That's way after the poor performamce was over.

It comes down to this. We sacked the manager at the first run of poor performance. We are giving no one time to build a squad and success, we're lurching from one disaster to another.

Under this management we'd never have been promoted to the Premier League. Coppell would have gone after losing 3 3-0 in a row over Xmas and failing to make the play offs. McDermott would have gone after losing the first four of the season.

Hell, Pardew would have gone for his poor start.

McDermott did poorly with someone else's squad, who also did poorly with it, after the manager prior to that did poorly.

And the squad is going to be very different next season anyway.

Why sack McDermott at this point and not Clarke? Their first 25 league game record was EXACTLY the same. I hated Clarke and thought we were relegation certainties under him but even I didn't think we should sack him at this point. So it's got nothing to do with McDermott.

[Top Flight]

Which will all be irrelevant should the changes prove successful and we have a decent season.

For which there is little reason to expect given the spiral of deterioration the club is in and the string of poor deciaions being made at the top.

I don't care who the manager was. We appointed someone with a good track record 5 months ago and then sacked them two or three weeks after the season ended. That's way after the poor performamce was over.

It comes down to this. We sacked the manager at the first run of poor performance. We are giving no one time to build a squad and success, we're lurching from one disaster to another.

Under this management we'd never have been promoted to the Premier League. Coppell would have gone after losing 3 3-0 in a row over Xmas and failing to make the play offs. McDermott would have gone after losing the first four of the season.

Hell, Pardew would have gone for his poor start.

McDermott did poorly with someone else's squad, who also did poorly with it, after the manager prior to that did poorly.

And the squad is going to be very different next season anyway.

Why sack McDermott at this point and not Clarke? Their first 25 league game record was EXACTLY the same. I hated Clarke and thought we were relegation certainties under him but even I didn't think we should sack him at this point. So it's got nothing to do with McDermott.

I agree with all of that. No need for me to post. You are expressing my views for me. Thanks Ian.

[Top Flight]

I hate Real Madrid, they show what is wrong with football, they win the Champions League.

Reading is annoying now, sacking a manger every 6 months for no reason.

I think football is becoming nothing for me now....

This is absolutely ridiculous.

I feel the same.

[Victor Meldrew]

....and that there is where the problem is ( eureka moment)

Whatever your opinion of a manager that had proven past success with us.....the last thing that we needed right now is another sacking....we are currently leaderless....just like the Thais are clueless

Does it matter that we are "currently leaderless"?
It's summertime, there are nearly 3 months to go until the next season.
Plenty of time for things to be sorted.
Go and have a lie down,there is nothing you can do about it, and come back on here again when our new manager leads out our new team for the first league game in August on that beautiful Mad Stad turf unsullied by egg-chasers.

Meanwhile Brian can count his money until the next well paid job comes along as it surely will if all you on here that believe Brian is a top manager is a shared feeling with football owners across the land or abroad.

[CountryRoyal]

The owners are so clueless that I can genuinely forsee us starting next season without a manager.

[Top Flight]

The owners are so clueless that I can genuinely forsee us starting next season without a manager.

Our manager will probably be on loan to us. We'll have Watford's Under 14's manager on a £2.5million season long loan.

[Maneki Neko]

Looking through our squad list, with just a few additions it could be a good season.

This is going to drag on. See you all soon for the next hna? meltdown.

The same squad that has failed so badly for the last three seasons, minus anyone worth any money?plus some kids and nobodies?
I hope so, but cant really share your optimism

[royalp-we]

Looking through our squad list, with just a few additions it could be a good season.

This is going to drag on. See you all soon for the next hna? meltdown.

The same squad that has failed so badly for the last three seasons, minus anyone worth any money?plus some kids and nobodies?
I hope so, but cant really share your optimism

Yes Brends, just a week ago there was a fair amount of optimism on here as we have a fairly strong squad. They underperformed massively and several will have a good summer away from the club football. But now Brians gone, the way people are talking is that we should contemplate folding the club & are already relegated.

[Longhorn1970]

Glad to hear that

You have allayed all of my concerns

........

How weak.


Many forget our past, we have been in far worse positions and I've never ever seen an outcry as I have this sacking. Some of you are absolutely pathetic.

+1000

[Longhorn1970]

Looking through our squad list, with just a few additions it could be a good season.

This is going to drag on. See you all soon for the next hna? meltdown.

The same squad that has failed so badly for the last three seasons, minus anyone worth any money?plus some kids and nobodies?
I hope so, but cant really share your optimism

Not forgetting the good moments too ... or had you forgotten them

[AthleticoSpizz]

Glad to hear that

You have allayed all of my concerns

........

How weak.


Many forget our past, we have been in far worse positions and I've never ever seen an outcry as I have this sacking. Some of you are absolutely pathetic.

+1000

what like the demonstrations on the pitch, barracking the manager/calling for a taxi....and all the other things that used to happen pre-interspazz?
Chill down, it's three days on, we are mellowing and coming to terms with our personal football martyrdom crusades

[leon]

How weak.


Many forget our past, we have been in far worse positions and I've never ever seen an outcry as I have this sacking. Some of you are absolutely pathetic.

+1000

what like the demonstrations on the pitch, barracking the manager/calling for a taxi....and all the other things that used to happen pre-interspazz?
Chill down, it's three days on, we are mellowing and coming to terms with our personal football martyrdom crusades

Yeah I recall being involved in at least two pitch invasions at Elm Park to protest at how shit we were. Mr Mad with his megaphone. "No one is working harder than me to put this right". Happy days mind.

History didn't start in 2006.

[Victor Meldrew]

+1000

what like the demonstrations on the pitch, barracking the manager/calling for a taxi....and all the other things that used to happen pre-interspazz?
Chill down, it's three days on, we are mellowing and coming to terms with our personal football martyrdom crusades

Yeah I recall being involved in at least two pitch invasions at Elm Park to protest at how shit we were. Mr Mad with his megaphone. "No one is working harder than me to put this right". Happy days mind.

History didn't start in 2006.

So why are so many on here (you and Athletico amongst them) treating the current position as an apocolypse.
It's just another manager moving on with millions in his back pocket.

[AthleticoSpizz]

because we care

[leon]

what like the demonstrations on the pitch, barracking the manager/calling for a taxi....and all the other things that used to happen pre-interspazz?
Chill down, it's three days on, we are mellowing and coming to terms with our personal football martyrdom crusades

Yeah I recall being involved in at least two pitch invasions at Elm Park to protest at how shit we were. Mr Mad with his megaphone. "No one is working harder than me to put this right". Happy days mind.

History didn't start in 2006.

So why are so many on here (you and Athletico amongst them) treating the current position as an apocolypse.
It's just another manager moving on with millions in his back pocket.

Different circumstances entirely. We wanted to keep Brian not get rid of him.

Besides, you won't be saying that when Klop fcuks you over and moves to a big club.

[Victor Meldrew]

because we care

I dread to think what might happen to you if we get relegated or go into administration-two events that are beyond our control just as is the sacking or employing of a manager.
Just accept that there is nothing you can do, that you are addicted to a sport that is soulless , uncaring, without principles and besotted with money-our club is the same as all the rest.

I was much more disappointed when Maurice Evans was sacked and overjoyed that he went on to have such success with Oxford.
Maybe Brian will do the same and maybe our next manager will be a roaring success so everybody wins, including the Thais as they profit from development around the ground.

I think you need a dose of Hampshire Royal's positivity which is sadly missing at this difficult time.

[Victor Meldrew]

Yeah I recall being involved in at least two pitch invasions at Elm Park to protest at how shit we were. Mr Mad with his megaphone. "No one is working harder than me to put this right". Happy days mind.

History didn't start in 2006.

So why are so many on here (you and Athletico amongst them) treating the current position as an apocolypse.
It's just another manager moving on with millions in his back pocket.

Different circumstances entirely. We wanted to keep Brian not get rid of him.

Besides, you won't be saying that when Klop fcuks you over and moves to a big club.

That sounds a little bit bitchy.
The German will move on one day but Liverpool is bigger than just one employee just as Reading is.
BTW a lot of people did not want Brian to be kept on any longer.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Fair comment

I am just apoplectic because of the timing and the needlessness of hiring the bloke in the first place

We will see


Personally, I think that it is all turning out a bit sh1t

Holistically, I am looking for any kind of positives

[Victor Meldrew]

Fair comment

I am just apoplectic because of the timing and the needlessness of hiring the bloke in the first place

We will see


Personally, I think that it is all turning out a bit sh1t

Holistically, I am looking for any kind of positives

Have you got a Summer holiday booked? It will surely help.
Mind you, I can still remember being sat on a beach in Cornwall and reading that the marvellous Simon Osborn was on his way to QPR for £1 million and all that relaxation and recharging disappeared in seconds,
I don't think I have ever got over that just as when Neil Webb went for a paltry £85,000 to Pompey.
So, you might not ever fully get over Brian or the way the club now deals with things but time is a great healer.