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Speakman gone

Cult of Personality said:
Evidence that they are?

The only player he likely signed is Adingra, and look what happened to him.
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Think about it

A guy was part of a recruitment team and for whatever reason you don't like him, so you associate any failure with that team with him and all success that team has he gets no credit. Madness

You are one making the bold claim he didn't make the good signings, prove it. The burdon of evidence is on you.
 

Ferryhill Exile said:
No need naming players mind :lol:

Wright was sound anarl.
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Opens the post by saying it's important to remember everybody who helped the club along the way and then decides to name 4 players as being part of us at our lowest ebb

Something about his linkedin posts, I can't get behind I'm afraid
 
UltimateRadgieGadgie said:
Think about it

A guy was part of a recruitment team and for whatever reason you don't like him, so you associate any failure with that team with him and all success that team has he gets no credit. Madness

You are one making the bold claim he didn't make the good signings, prove it. The burdon of evidence is on you.
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Where have I said I don’t like him? Prove your claim.
 
Provider said:
I'll get taken apart for this I know but IMO he gets far too much credit for where we are now.

He came in and made some good signings early on, Pritchard, Hume, Clarke, Stewart etc but overall his business in the transfer market was very very questionable. Despite claims of a "data driven approach" it was instead lots of punts on young, inexperienced players, refusing to budge from that when it was clear we needed experience. After signing Dan Ballard permanently we went about 18 months hardly signing a player who positively impacted the first team. We're still saddled with a number of the sub standard players he signed who wouldn't even be good enough if we were still in the Championship.

There were two transfer windows when Mowbray was crying out for strikers and he responds with Geldhart, Ekwah and Anderson and then Hemir, Burstow, Ruysn and Mayenda.

Despite claims of implementing a philosophy of style of play throughout the club and lists of the next potential Head Coach, he bounced around from Lee Johnson to Alex Neil to Tony Mowbray to Michael Beale. Coaches who have very little similarities. It cumulated in the Mike Dodds debacle where I'm convinced it was an audition for the permanent job and we ended up with either the worst or second worst form in 2024.

Let's not forget that in that close season there was a poll on here where over 90% of voters wanted him out.

This followed with the shambolic managerial search in the summer of 2024 where we were seemingly turned down by our top 4/5 targets and if you read between the lines it seems like KLD has stepped in and found us RLB (via the same agent who managed many of the players at the time and French journalist Julien Laurens saying on 5Live that Reggie is only here because of Kyril).

This was the turning point as Reggie was the main reason for us going up last season IMO, immediately coming in and taking virtually the same squad of players to the top of the league and at the same time.

The summer of 2024 also saw a change in KLD's mindset to give more control to the Head Coach as we saw players such as Isidor and later on Le Fee coming in who have strong links to RLB and he was also free to not play some of the punts who he didn't think was good enough. IMO this was down to Speakman's performance the previous year.

It's no coincidence to me that as soon as we got promotion to the Premier League, KLD got a new man in and phased Speakman out in just over 6 months.
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He was in charge of more than just the 1st team. The whole footballing side of the club is unrecognisable to the one he inherited..he probably doesn't get enough
 
woodlebert said:
Opens the post by saying it's important to remember everybody who helped the club along the way and then decides to name 4 players as being part of us at our lowest ebb

Something about his linkedin posts, I can't get behind I'm afraid
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Wright had his ups and downs with us, but he was invaluable in that promotion push under Neil, and seemed to be a really good character. I'll always have a lot of time for Bailey Wright for those few months alone.
 
UltimateRadgieGadgie said:
Think about it

A guy was part of a recruitment team and for whatever reason you don't like him, so you associate any failure with that team with him and all success that team has he gets no credit. Madness

You are one making the bold claim he didn't make the good signings, prove it. The burdon of evidence is on you.
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I’ll jump in here. Michael Beale.
 
Provider said:
I'll get taken apart for this I know but IMO he gets far too much credit for where we are now.

He came in and made some good signings early on, Pritchard, Hume, Clarke, Stewart etc but overall his business in the transfer market was very very questionable. Despite claims of a "data driven approach" it was instead lots of punts on young, inexperienced players, refusing to budge from that when it was clear we needed experience. After signing Dan Ballard permanently we went about 18 months hardly signing a player who positively impacted the first team. We're still saddled with a number of the sub standard players he signed who wouldn't even be good enough if we were still in the Championship.

There were two transfer windows when Mowbray was crying out for strikers and he responds with Geldhart, Ekwah and Anderson and then Hemir, Burstow, Ruysn and Mayenda.

Despite claims of implementing a philosophy of style of play throughout the club and lists of the next potential Head Coach, he bounced around from Lee Johnson to Alex Neil to Tony Mowbray to Michael Beale. Coaches who have very little similarities. It cumulated in the Mike Dodds debacle where I'm convinced it was an audition for the permanent job and we ended up with either the worst or second worst form in 2024.

Let's not forget that in that close season there was a poll on here where over 90% of voters wanted him out.

This followed with the shambolic managerial search in the summer of 2024 where we were seemingly turned down by our top 4/5 targets and if you read between the lines it seems like KLD has stepped in and found us RLB (via the same agent who managed many of the players at the time and French journalist Julien Laurens saying on 5Live that Reggie is only here because of Kyril).

This was the turning point as Reggie was the main reason for us going up last season IMO, immediately coming in and taking virtually the same squad of players to the top of the league and at the same time.

The summer of 2024 also saw a change in KLD's mindset to give more control to the Head Coach as we saw players such as Isidor and later on Le Fee coming in who have strong links to RLB and he was also free to not play some of the punts who he didn't think was good enough. IMO this was down to Speakman's performance the previous year.

It's no coincidence to me that as soon as we got promotion to the Premier League, KLD got a new man in and phased Speakman out in just over 6 months.
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awful post. Literally every single part of the football of the club is in a much much better place than when he came. That’s just a fact
 
If he was disliked or poor he would have been long gone. Failure simply hasn’t been tolerated since KLD had control. This departure will suit all parties and Speakman will always be, overwhelmingly positively, associated with a remarkable rise. Anyone thinking our return was inevitable need only look at the likes of Bolton or Blackpool. Big, historic football clubs can and do stay shite for very long spells.
 
Ferryhill Exile said:
No need naming players mind :lol:

Wright was sound anarl.
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I agree! There seems to be a bit of that in our fanbase generally of naming players from our (very recent) past very dismissively. Happens on the podcasts loads. We’re not better than these players and equally when top players have come to play for us they’re not better than Sunderland either. Proper authoritarian ‘I look up to him but down on him’ crack.
 
chriswallace85 said:
Wright had his ups and downs with us, but he was invaluable in that promotion push under Neil, and seemed to be a really good character. I'll always have a lot of time for Bailey Wright for those few months alone.
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I met him in the stack at Newcastle when is what at the bottom of Northumberland St, I can confirm he was a cracking fella.
 
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