Ross

[The Exile]

Would have agreed with this in recent years but he's the first manager we've had for a long time who has no excuses whatsoever if he fails here and right now he's failing badly.

I remain highly suspicious of the attitudes of our senior pros. It's all too similar to seasons when Ross wasn't here. Laziness and lack of leadership on the pitch.

 

[Kermit]

Madness sacking your manager and bringing an new one in for a playoff tbf. That's before we get into the sketchy ability that Kevin Ball has a football manager.

You obviously watch whats going on at safc pretty closely. Assuming the status quo is maintained. In your opinion, are we going up?

 

[paws]

Madness sacking your manager and bringing an new one in for a playoff tbf. That's before we get into the sketchy ability that Kevin Ball has a football manager.

It's not madness when you look at our last few months results, a new manager might just have a footballing brain that this one clearly doesn't.

 

[Northumberland Rocks]

Every manager we've appointed in the last decade is shit? Statistically improbable. Suggests a more deep-seated and possibly intractable. Are we, as a club, actually unmanageable?

With the resources he has had at his disposal we deserve way way more. He has been a disastrous appointment. His football is dour...I could live with that if we were successful.

Dour losing football is not for me.

 

[Tokyo Optician]

No point in sacking him now, but he needs to go at the end of the season.

Listening to his interview pre match, he’s already making excuses and saying how difficult it is to play in front of our fans.

He still doesn’t know his best team.
Can’t defend his persistence with Honeyman as captain.

No confidence in what he’s trying to do here?

 

[Plank]

My favourite moment was having Gooch as a lone striker at Wembley for a short while.

 

[Maravilla]

Madness sacking your manager and bringing an new one in for a playoff tbf. That's before we get into the sketchy ability that Kevin Ball has a football manager.

Ball isn't the answer by any stretch but we haven't got a hope in hell of winning the play-offs under Ross so the idea that we'd be better off bringing someone else in for them isn't anything like as far-fetched as it might sound to an outsider looking in.

 

[Hot Since 82]

No point in sacking him now, but he needs to go at the end of the season.

Listening to his interview pre match, he’s already making excuses and saying how difficult it is to play in front of our fans.

He still doesn’t know his best team.
Can’t defend his persistence with Honeyman as captain.

No confidence in what he’s trying to do here?

The job is far far too big for him best he jogs on back up the road asap

 

[Forrest Gump]

He would have walked this league with this squad.

Aye ok

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Have to say that the recruitment has been poor - can forgive the summer buys as we basically had to build a new squad from scratch and there will be always be hits and misses. We fucked it up massively in January however; Grigg has been a major dud so far, Sterling has done nowt, Dunne hasn't improved the defence, Leadbitter is a decent player but did we really need another slow midget in midfield? I can't believe we didn't add some pace and power, it was obvious from the first game against Charlton that we're too slow all over the pitch and too many f***ing midgets. League One is a slog and I reckon we've physically come up short when it mattered. Couple of big shithouses at centre-back and centre-mid and couple of rapid attackers and we'd have walked this league, sounds simple but I honestly believe that. The problem is I'm not sure how much control Ross has over recruitment?

 

[zebediah]

I was happy with the appointment, he isn't finished yet but have seen nothing to suggest he is the next big thing. Assuming it doesn't work out I would continue the same way.

While someone like micmac would have pissed this league with us this season, I would rather we stick with trying young upcoming managers than the usual old boys.

May kiss a few frogs before we find our Cloughie. KTF

 

[CrosbyFTM]

Not the manager for us. Please fuck off. That is all.

 

[durham.mackem]

Seb

 

[mr chuckles]

Mods please merge

 

[mr chuckles]

Merge

 

[Macho]

Every manager we've appointed in the last decade is shit? Statistically improbable. Suggests a more deep-seated and possibly intractable. Are we, as a club, actually unmanageable?

No, it's just the same wrong decisions and we don't learn no matter who the owners are. We needed an experienced manager to get us out of this division, or even one that just knows English lower leagues.

Which begs the question, why? What is it that makes managers successful somewhere else consistently fail here, irrespective of the squad composition?

Which managers have gone onto better things or bigger clubs since leaving? I've said before if you don't hit the ground running you're dead man walking here. The expectation is massive and nobody can step up to the plate.

 

[Kermit]

Have to say that the recruitment has been poor - can forgive the summer buys as we basically had to build a new squad from scratch and there will be always be hits and misses. We fucked it up massively in January however; Grigg has been a major dud so far, Sterling has done nowt, Dunne hasn't improved the defence, Leadbitter is a decent player but did we really need another slow midget in midfield? I can't believe we didn't add some pace and power, it was obvious from the first game against Charlton that we're too slow all over the pitch and too many f***ing midgets. League One is a slog and I reckon we've physically come up short when it mattered. Couple of big shithouses at centre-back and centre-mid and couple of rapid attackers and we'd have walked this league, sounds simple but I honestly believe that. The problem is I'm not sure how much control Ross has over recruitment?

If he is not getting this way in transfers he should resign for the good of his career. I wouldnt be happy with someone else sabotaging my career. If i got panned for my own mistakes thats fair enough.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

No, it's just the same wrong decisions and we don't learn no matter who the owners are. We needed an experienced manager to get us out of this division, or even one that just knows English lower leagues.


Which managers have gone onto better things or bigger clubs since leaving? I've said before if you don't hit the ground running you're dead man walking here. The expectation is massive and nobody can step up to the plate.

I'd say that was part of the problem, but that would be "fans' fault" apparently. Quinny always said it took a special kind of player to succeed here. It would seem to be equally true for managers, and maybe only BSA was able to do that.

 

[Paolo's Right Hand]

My favourite moment was having Gooch as a lone striker at Wembley for a short while.

That says all you need to know about him. The guy hasn’t a f***ing clue. An attacking midfield midget up front by himself against big boy CB’s.

 

[Macho]

I'd say that was part of the problem, but that would be "fans' fault" apparently. Quinny always said it took a special kind of player to succeed here. It would seem to be equally true for managers, and maybe only BSA was able to do that.

The Allardyce argument about him being the one will always be up for debate with me. Look at the amount of managers whom have saved us from relegation then absolutely bombed the year after... Big Sam never got that chance and was able to get out before being judged on a 2nd season.