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SebastienELLISbexter said:
Could be argued that he was proved right about the LJ not wanting Defoe piece though. And that I and several others were wrong to criticise him.
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True, altough I thought that was fairly obvious after Johnson's interview.

He wrote an article about what Johnson was going to be doing for us this week and 20 mins later his sacking was announced.
 
More than a week and 2 games after the manager gets sacked, with 15 games left to overturn potentially a 9 point lead, before choosing a new one? Inept
 
The Situation said:
I do like a lot of what we're doing (e.g. recruitment), but this has been managed poorly IMO.

From the owner liking posts about Keane, to clearly being miles off the pace when appointing a successor.

Starting the recruitment process after sacking the manager might be the "right" thing to do as per Speakman, but it is naive in the extreme.

IMO Keane (if he is their first choice) should have been sounded out and then been ready to go a day or two after Johnson was sacked.

The fact that numerous places report that Grant McCann, probably the laziest appointment that could be made, is second choice if Keane turns it down suggests not a lot of thought has really gone into it.
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Guess nobody saw a 6 nowt hammering coming tho.
 
The Situation said:
I do like a lot of what we're doing (e.g. recruitment), but this has been managed poorly IMO.

From the owner liking posts about Keane, to clearly being miles off the pace when appointing a successor.

Starting the recruitment process after sacking the manager might be the "right" thing to do as per Speakman, but it is naive in the extreme.

IMO Keane (if he is their first choice) should have been sounded out and then been ready to go a day or two after Johnson was sacked.

The fact that numerous places report that Grant McCann, probably the laziest appointment that could be made, is second choice if Keane turns it down suggests not a lot of thought has really gone into it.
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Especially when Keane and McCann have practically nothing in common. If their first choices were between two young coaches, or two experienced managers, or between say Roy Keane and Duncan Ferguson, I could understand it.

It does just smack of going for whoever is available.
 
Maravilla said:
Doesn't give the impression that we're a well run club does it?
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I’ll get slapped down but I think this is the issue with having those other shareholders on board. One of them, we all know who, leaks stuff to certain people in the press and to mates he’s made up here. They then become ITK and disperse his message and subsequently we all get whipped up.

I suspect that when Dave Jones was bemoaning leaks previously, this is who he was referring. And it makes us look disjointed, like we’re not a professional outfit and that there are factions pulling in different directions.

And the owners and his board member brother were stupidly naive last night. Or cynical. I’m not sure which.

I did warn I was ready for a strop
 
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He may just want to watch us play on Saturday before he decides!! Plus he wouldn’t drop sky in the shit with tonight’ match thst would really burn his bridges
 
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