AN Press conference - CANCELLED

[southstander]

The club statement is a strange one as well. Based on what we know he looks as god as gone.

Either they are saying they want to keep him to save face with supporters, or they plan to counter Stokes offer with a better one.

Unreal.

Difficult to see him being welcome on the patch if we were to make a counter offer.

 

[Wild Card]

Relegation is a massive worry now

Guess we will see the real ambition of the owners if he goes.

He has us punching above our weight.

still refuse to believe it until it happens mind. Although the cancelled press conference and statement to follow doesn't look good.

 

[Hatful Of Hollow]

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Eh!?

 

[Hulkenburger]

This could genuinely be the all time best SMB car crash thread if true (pun not intended)

If he stays it belongs in Gold

 

[Baby Give It Up]

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[Nil desperandum]

My worry is that Stoke owner(s) are panicking and will offer AN much much more than KLD is willing to pay.

Well, that wouldn't be difficult.

 

[RossTheNinja]

"Following a formal approach by SCFC, the Club is contractually obliged to permit the Head Coach to start a dialogue with the Potters."

If he wasn't interested, he would have said no.

We all know what's going to happen now.

Bullshit

 

[The Rolls Royce]

Eh!?

So he was in a car, now hes not, but the club have said hes talking to them, but was it on zoom or did he actually take an uber?

 

[Fetch Fletch]

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Aye. Dan

 

[Spenny Mackem]

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[Sweeper]

And Neil wants to talk to them. Replace him immediately

Surely - given that AN was demonstrably the solution for us, not the problem - we should be “replacing” him last?

 

[Ageing Grey Mackem]

Bullshit

Which part are you choosing to ignore / not believe?

 

[RossTheNinja]

Gerld

Mods: can we change the title to a lesson in believing what you read?

 

[Chewit]

The presser isn't going to go ahead is it?

The club will typically say nothing and the first we'll hear about it is Stoke announcing that he's joined them.

The club will then hoy out a cobbled together statement along the lines of "SAFC can confirm that Alex Neil has decided to join Stoke City as their new manager. The club would like to place on record our appreciation to Alex in successfully guiding us out of League One. The process to appoint a new Head coach will start immediately. Mike Dodds and Michael Proctor will take charge of first team duties for our forthcoming clash with Norwich City tomorrow lunchtime"

... and I won’t be there! Iam not watching a second Doncaster match in the same calendar year and neither am I going to support the board for losing control of this situation.

 

[rapscallion]

I reckon he will do the press conference and will confirm he's going nowhere.

You have the perfect username

 

[garyeaststand]

Past that, he's on his was to talk to another club. No going back from that. Replace hin

The worrying thing is if it’s allot on budget then it’s unlikely we will get anyone close to his calibre, dyche etc going to demand what Stoke offering or more

 

[woodlebert]

I suspect the “permission” thing could do with clarifying, which none of the articles do.

It could mean we said “yeah whatever we don’t care”

It could mean there’s a clause in his contract saying if a championship club comes in and is willing to pay X compensation, that we have to let Neil talk to them

It could mean a lot of things

Wow looks like this was actually close to the mark

 

[jarrowdiamond]

If he's travelled down then he's as good as gone in most fans eyes. If that's not true and by the looks of it he's still at the AoL then I'm still backing him

 

[fredthefan]

Why, who have we appointed as his replacement?

Titus Bramble marra, keep up

 

[RossTheNinja]

Which part are you choosing to ignore / not believe?

Your non sequitur logical fallacy.