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Dicks future in doubt again

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He must be gutted he came back. What he did last season would have been the perfect way to wrap up his career and ride off into the sunset.

I think his "I asked for players, the chairman said 'but we have brought in 4', I said 'but we need quality'" comment last week summed everything up.

Advocaat thought quality players would be brought in, the board are happy with quantity over quality. That's very clear.

Interesting that he says Congerton is doing a great job but has fuck all to spend too.

jsdftm04 said:
Absolutely. With the time of the season and position we are in. Somebody like allardyce would h fortunately be by far our best bet. But I doubt he'd come anyway.
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He'd easily be the best manager we could attract, but there's no chance he would work under this regime.
 

Nelson! said:
Direct quotes about how unhappy he is with the investment this summer.

Some will no doubt put their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and sing "lalala" because they don't want to hear it.

Short needs to do something this week or we're taking a massive step backwards.
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@the streaker will make another excuse no doubt.

Refuses to believe what's staring him in the face.
 
TeamOfTalents said:
Praise for Congers working with no money. Won't go down well on here :lol:
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Congerton will be used as a sacrificial lamb to appease the fans when it all goes tits up no doubt.

SebastienELLISbexter said:
'Invest or I'm gone'. Basically.

Sad times , because it's obvious which is more likely with only a week to go of the window. Short tends to get even more stubborn when people try to put pressure on him.
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We've finally got a good manager, a really good one, and we're not backing him. Seems strange.
 
jsdftm04 said:
Absolutely. With the time of the season and position we are in. Somebody like allardyce would h fortunately be by far our best bet. But I doubt he'd come anyway.
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No chance Allardyce will come here. We'll end up with another young manager and go through the whole process again that we've all seen before with the last four managers.
 
Dick is clearly a man of decency and integrity. He won't walk with the window closed. He obviously cares about the club and if he's going because quality signings aren't going to be made then it will be in the next 3 days to give the club time to appoint a caretaker and bring in their own cheap signings
 
A load of people lambasted Micky Gray (who shouldn't have worded what he said as he did) but there's no way in the world Dick would have taken this job knowing what funds he's been given.

Roadhouse said:
No chance Allardyce will come here. We'll end up with another young manager and go through the whole process again that we've all seen before with the last four managers.
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It'll be some nugget like Alan Curbishley
 
sdurhamlad said:
Dick is clearly a man of decency and integrity. He won't walk with the window closed. He obviously cares about the club and if he's going because quality signings aren't going to be made then it will be in the next 3 days to give the club time to appoint a caretaker and bring in their own cheap signings
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Would be after villa and deadline day
 
Seems like he doesn't give a fuck and is prepared to call it as he sees it. Similar to when he came out with the whole "they're all up for sale by the way" comment, he was happily talking about Defoe in particular and where he could start and the possibility of him moving on and he, without any prompting, came out and said they're all up for sale. Totally pre-meditated and dropped in there to get a reaction, it wasn't a slip of the tongue and neither are the latest comments. He's 100% pushing it to get a reaction from Short.
 
All of this airing our dirty laundry in public (from both sides) is hardly going to attract any new signings. It really just makes us look a complete amateurish shambles

Monty's Double said:
He didn't just bring the Ferrari story up out of the blue. He was asked about Gray's comments and used it to attack his credibility.
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I agree, he did. Does it not seem there may be some truth in what he said though?
 
Absolutely delighted he's come out with this, perfect timing as well, right when people were starting to ease off Short after his embarrassing 'statement'.

In a perfect world, you keep these things behind closed doors, but we are far, far from perfect, we need immediate action and Dick knows it. I honestly think it will have took a lot for him to come out and be so honest, after being so diplomatic all summer, but at the end of the day theres a week of the window left, he doesn't need any of this, and if we aren't going to bother, why should he?

Nelson! said:
He's been doing the same for years. Bring in a manager to clean up the mess/win enough points to stay up. Then promise it's all going to be different before refusing to spend on quality and turning them into a fall guy by twisting figures about expenditure.

I said this a couple of weeks ago.....he's bitten off more than he can chew in DA......no ones falling for it and DA is too big a name/character to put up with his shit.
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This is bang on as well. Short got an easy ride with both Di Canio and Poyet and their sackings because they both had other issues that may well have justified their dismissal. These managed to mask the bigger picture that they both spotted easily enough; the playing staff are far from good enough to compete for a full season. In Di Canio's questionable mental state, and Poyet's ego, Short was able to deflect pressure off him. He cant do that with Advocaat; he has had over a dozen jobs and seen more in football than Ellis can dream of. He's come here, kept us up and been literally begged to come back because we either a) thought he was the right man to progress us or b) didn't have the nous to sound out a replacement. Either way, he's here and he simply doesn't have to put up with it, at the end of the day if he takes us down, most will know it wasn't his fault, his reputation is going to suffer minimally. Like people say, he doesn't have to be here, nothing left to prove like the previous two who were upcoming managers; he's here for his own enjoyment really.
 
Shangri La said:
Absolutely delighted he's come out with this, perfect timing as well, right when people were starting to ease off Short after his embarrassing 'statement'.

In a perfect world, you keep these things behind closed doors, but we are far, far from perfect, we need immediate action and Dick knows it. I honestly think it will have took a lot for him to come out and be so honest, after being so diplomatic all summer, but at the end of the day theres a week of the window left, he doesn't need any of this, and if we aren't going to bother, why should he?



This is bang on as well. Short got an easy ride with both Di Canio and Poyet and their sackings because they both had other issues that may well have justified their dismissal. These managed to mask the bigger picture that they both spotted easily enough; the playing staff are far from good enough to compete for a full season. In Di Canio's questionable mental state, and Poyet's ego, Short was able to deflect pressure off him. He cant do that with Advocaat; he has had over a dozen jobs and seen more in football than Ellis can dream of. He's come here, kept us up and been literally begged to come back because we either a) thought he was the right man to progress us or b) didn't have the nous to sound out a replacement. Either way, he's here and he simply doesn't have to put up with it, at the end of the day if he takes us down, most will know it wasn't his fault, his reputation is going to suffer minimally. Like people say, he doesn't have to be here, nothing left to prove like the previous two who were upcoming managers; he's here for his own enjoyment really.
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Spot-on, I'm glad he's calling Short out, despite him placating people with his programme ramble about going for angry walks and including every expenditure, including the heating bill, probably. We are sailing dangerously close to the wind again and it won't end well this time without backing the manager.
 
Father Jack Hackett said:
Spot-on, I'm glad he's calling Short out, despite him placating people with his programme ramble about going for angry walks and including every expenditure, including the heating bill, probably. We are sailing dangerously close to the wind again and it won't end well this time without backing the manager.
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Said it when he came out with it; why on earth he chose to broadcast the £21m figure I don't know. Did he expect people to be impressed? We know we needed more than that even net spend, and to not include the Wickham money or the Vergini loan fee showed how much, in my opinion, he was clutching at straws.

It was very much a 'I'm a fan, im on your side' appeal. But didn't offer any alternatives, or promises, or hope. It was a waste of time and really caused more questions than it answered.
 
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