Donald on BBC Newcastle

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chriswallace85 said:
I'm almost willing to draw a line under the last 18 months and consider the investment as a new start. I can't forget the bluster and the bullshit or the shit football, but I can look past it if we can just start moving in the right direction. He's answerable to a bunch of wealthy Americans now rather than just a set of fans desperate for a club to be proud of again. Money talks n all that...

Stewart Donald 18/19 - must do better.

Please f***ing do. And quick about it.
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Good post. Credit where its due.
 


chriswallace85 said:
I'm almost willing to draw a line under the last 18 months and consider the investment as a new start. I can't forget the bluster and the bullshit or the shit football, but I can look past it if we can just start moving in the right direction. He's answerable to a bunch of wealthy Americans now rather than just a set of fans desperate for a club to be proud of again. Money talks n all that...

Stewart Donald 18/19 - must do better.

Please f***ing do. And quick about it.
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We should always live in hope. I struggle to find anything to cling to that indicates SD is capable of the level of strategic action that we need to improve the club on the pitch but I certainly hope he can surprise me.
 
The Cabbage said:
We should always live in hope. I struggle to find anything to cling to that indicates SD is capable of the level of strategic action that we need to improve the club on the pitch but I certainly hope he can surprise me.
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Out of interest, how come you're constantly criticising Donald for his lack of knowledge in running a football club (I agree with most you say tbf) but didn't give Short the same criticism even though he was here longer and had a lot more resources available? (Apologies if you said same about Short, just don't seem to remember it as much).
 
HBSAFC said:
Out of interest, how come you're constantly criticising Donald for his lack of knowledge in running a football club (I agree with most you say tbf) but didn't give Short the same criticism even though he was here longer and had a lot more resources available? (Apologies if you said same about Short, just don't seem to remember it as much).
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Because short actually tried to do many of the right things but lacked the courage of his convictions - as well as getting stuck in the death spiral of trying to survive each season. Donald was given a blank canvas and the advantage of a club that was the biggest in its league rather than an also ran. Loads of goodwill too. That was the perfect time to enact a real change of thinking - to move us to being smart instead of dumb. He’s blown the easiest chance we’ll ever have to sort ourselves out as a club. Additionally it’s easier to overlook poor process (though I called for change from the short era too) when we’re in the premier league. Less so when we’re the worst we’ve ever been in our existence - and showing no sign of meaningful improvement.

Must admit I’ve been wondering why this bothers me so much more now, though. I’d put it down to the glaring missed opportunity and depths to which we’ve sunk. It’s pretty criminal.
 
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The Cabbage said:
Because short actually tried to do many of the right things but lacked the courage of his convictions - as well as getting stuck in the death spiral of trying to survive each season. Donald was given a blank canvas and the advantage of a club that was the biggest in its league rather than an also ran. Loads of goodwill too. That was the perfect time to enact a real change of thinking - to move us to being smart instead of dumb. He’s blown the easiest chance we’ll ever have to sort ourselves out as a club. Additionally it’s easier to overlook poor process (though I called for change from the short era too) when we’re in the premier league. Less so when we’re the worst we’ve ever been in our existence - and showing no sign of meaningful improvement.

Must admit I’ve been wondering why this bothers me so much more now, though. I’d put it down to the glaring missed opportunity and depths to which we’ve sunk. It’s pretty criminal.
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Fair enough. Short taking us from Premier League to League 1 makes him a worse owner than Donald currently, in my opinion. There's still loads Donald can do to improve though.
 
Listened to the full interview again. He’s passionate I’ll give him that, but he needs to not follow the previous owner in entrusting it to others to oversee.
 
Mainze said:
Listened to the full interview again. He’s passionate I’ll give him that, but he needs to not follow the previous owner in entrusting it to others to oversee.
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could you send me the link for this please, tks in advance
Mainze said:
Listened to the full interview again. He’s passionate I’ll give him that, but he needs to not follow the previous owner in entrusting it to others to oversee.
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could you send me the link for this please, tks in advance
 
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Poor Parky who has to carry on flogging a dead horse as Donald needs to justify his bad business in signing Grigg. Donald is now picking the team and undermining the manager who is obviously weak as piss and desperate to be in a job. Shambles
 
Uninspiring appointment, hope it works out but he'll probably be gone by the summer. We don't know what the real alternatives were, but this appointment and the seemingly overly austere nature of this management seems to be regressing the club and repelling the support
 
garyswc said:
Poor Parky who has to carry on flogging a dead horse as Donald needs to justify his bad business in signing Grigg. Donald is now picking the team and undermining the manager who is obviously weak as piss and desperate to be in a job. Shambles
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Parky started him for the Gillingham FA Cup game, he was his usual
uninspiring self. The next game, (our last game) v Scunthorpe in the EFL trophy... He was dropped out of sight.
Unless he was injured / unwell, but I didn't hear anything.
 
Linus said:
Parky started him for the Gillingham FA Cup game, he was his usual
uninspiring self. The next game, (our last game) v Scunthorpe in the EFL trophy... He was dropped out of sight.
Unless he was injured / unwell, but I didn't hear anything.
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Yeah Donald rested him, focus on the league and fa Cup
 
Linus said:
Parky started him for the Gillingham FA Cup game, he was his usual
uninspiring self. The next game, (our last game) v Scunthorpe in the EFL trophy... He was dropped out of sight.
Unless he was injured / unwell, but I didn't hear anything.
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PP said he was unwell morning of the Scunthorpe game.
 
garyswc said:
Poor Parky who has to carry on flogging a dead horse as Donald needs to justify his bad business in signing Grigg. Donald is now picking the team and undermining the manager who is obviously weak as piss and desperate to be in a job. Shambles
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Donald picks the team tell me that's not true surely
 
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