• The forums will be unavailable for a few hours on Saturday 6th June, when they do return they will initially be in a degraded state with some features missing, but normal posting/reading will be possible. The main website will not be affected by these updates.
    New user registrations are currently disabled.
    Some other features of the forum are also currently disabled.

Regis le Bris - confirmed

Boris Bear said:
There’s zero evidence. He has no knowledge or education…dropped out of Leeds Polytechnic, then dropped out of a college course. He has no credentials, just a bank account
Click to expand...

No knowledge or education? He was brought up in a family that run Marseille for years. He'll have more contacts in football than you have in your phone book. To say he's a complete novice is nonsense.

How did it go for Steve Cotterill when he's was the highest qualified coach in England when he joined with Wilko?
 

Di Canios Knees said:
End of the day all the negative people on here who never have anything positive to say are going to draw their own narrative on how and why he’s being appointed.

Now, I don’t claim to know everything, but I certainly do know at least a little bit more than the aforementioned doom posters, so just let them get on with it.

Get behind him, get behind the team and crack on.
Click to expand...
I'm sure everyone will want to suceeed but there is also the being realistic aspect in that he has got an awful record and we've seemingly scraped the barrel to get to him.

I would love him to be a massive success, just like I'd have loved Beale, Grayson, Parkinson to all prove people wrong and be great for us, I don't want him to fail, I just think he will.

If anyone actually wants him to fail then yeah, they aren't really fans.
 
molthemackem said:
Now, from a personal point of view, I just don't trust anything they may say now. They have lost my support after having to move seats to accommodate the scum and the BCB debacle. I even offered, via Email to the club, to repair the damage the scum caused f.o.c. Did they respond?, they could not be bothered to even respond. I did ask GG to bring this up at the RAWA meeting but there were other pressing issues at that time. Reluctantly, my lad renewed our familys season cards for this year but this is my last, whatever may come.. Some way to end over 55 years of solid support.
Click to expand...
Be careful marra you're not allowed to mention the BCB shambles and how the ownership handled that situation.
 
BRMC said:
I'm pretty ALL owners will have a say on who comes in.
Click to expand...
I’m pretty sure they don’t not at the established well run clubs. Most employ football people to make those kind of decisions. I guess they will have some limited input at least indirectly but very few will be picking the manager.
 
BRMC said:
I don't think he's been shit. He's don't a lot of good overhauling the squad from where it was when he arrived. He's mainly stopped the talent from the academy leaving while getting them back to winning.

He's made mistakes, but appears to be working to a budget that doesn't give him all the luxurious others in the league have.
Click to expand...
He did well early doors I'll give him that.
The appointment of Beale and the last few windows have been awful.
Let's see how he does this window.
If we fail to strengthen properly and get the right blend of experience and someone to score 15+ goals we will struggle.
I genuinely hope he turns it round and KLD supports him with the funds to get what we need in.
Not hopeful though based on his recent performance.
 
Montys revenge said:
I really don't think you can compare this guy with Moyes, who had a proven record at Everton. Hope I'm wrong but don't think he will last the season and KLD will be gone as well.
Click to expand...
No but this guy was loved by their fans 12 months ago when he got them 10th, and if it wasn’t for his £5 million compensation he’d have already been at Nice by now
 
BRMC said:
No knowledge or education? He was brought up in a family that run Marseille for years. He'll have more contacts in football than you have in your phone book. To say he's a complete novice is nonsense.

How did it go for Steve Cotterill when he's was the highest qualified coach in England when he joined with Wilko?
Click to expand...
If he's got a full phone book of contacts how come we ended up with Beale and signing no competent strikers last summer?
 
First priority financial security, second promotion.

For as much as I don’t want to give a shit about that side of supporting a club, it’s there behind every decision for everyone to see. I’m alright with that, because I have no choice but having to be.

i just hope he’s a normal bloke, without all the cliches. More Neil, less Beale.
 
MadMackem7 said:
How do I not have evidence? The lorient fans have said about the egos and you can see by the players in to out and how they performed that they weren’t replaced

Replaced them with players not good enough and didn’t spend the money wisely. Shown by those players performances
Click to expand...
So are you behind Reggy or against?
This is something you can answer on your own and get something right for a change.
 
Di Canios Knees said:
There’s not much to tell, people will paint a picture that we had reams of coaches rejecting us which is simply not the case, yes it was a long drawn out process and yes there was certainly snags and he isn’t the first person we ordered the job to, but he definitely isn’t the 5th, 6th, 7th etc. who was “offered” anything.
Click to expand...
Oh right sorry thought you meant you knew more about why he was appointed. On the face of it seems a strange one to me.
 
SebastienELLISbexter said:
Impossible to answer. Because it's come out of the blue. But I would cautiously say yes. Because It's the type of head coach I think we should have appointed before now ; Relatively young with a background in youth development. It fits our model. Whether you agree with the model or not is different. But with the direction that was promised....I'm surprised this type of appointment took such a long time coming. I hope it works. Haven't got a clue if it will. Quite an exciting gamble though.
Click to expand...
Wow, that’s a positive spin. Putting aside the incompetence of the recruitment process, I see a middle aged man who spent 20 years in coaching to finally get the head coach position, have one decent season and one bad season. He might be a roaring success and I hope he is, but there’s nothing therein to suggest he’s better than Mowbray or the multitude of other options for HC.

The thing is, the fella is probably doomed anyway, because fan confidence in this whole appointment process is so low that the fans will be straight on his back if he doesn’t get us fighting at the top of the table. Whether you share my pessimism or not I think we all know this is true
 
The Situation said:
It's worth pointing out that Lorient had the 10th highest wage bill in Ligue 1 last season and were the 11th highest spenders in the league.

Yes, they sold two players for big fees and two others for very modest fees, but this narrative that it is being portrayed that he pulled off a miracle in season one and that relegated was inevitable in season two because they sold everyone and spent nothing to replace them is a load of rubbish.
Click to expand...
I agree in theory. For sure the idea that he had the team sold out from under him and nothing invested is clearly not true, so anyone touting that is cherry picking. On the other hand I never like the metric of how much money is spent to be a determiner of success. The way money is spent is clearly important, and it seems like his arguments with the President were exactly about how money was being spent, so I'm willing to give a little leeway there.

Overall though, great managers are able to keep bad teams from being relegated, regardless of whether they spent money poorly.

I'm trying to see positives and be balanced about this appointment, but other than being good with youth and having one brief purple patch (where they out-performed the stats if you give any merit to that) I'm struggling to see why this guy is the answer to our problems. I'm generally happy to be trying something a bit out of the box, but whenever I dig into this one I just don't understand what it is that we are seeing with Le Bris.

I guess that all I can say is that if it does come off then maybe we have to give some credit to KLD and Speakman, because whatever the reasons for this appointment they are not obvious at all. If it doesn't come off then Speakman must be shunted before we choose our next manager.
 
Vauxie said:
So are you behind Reggy or against?
This is something you can answer on your own and get something right for a change.
Click to expand...
I’m sorry but this is hilarious considering “your leader” was adamant it wasn’t this bloke even though the club had a deal pretty much done with him since KLD’s statement
 
mackemglastoid said:
He did well early doors I'll give him that.
The appointment of Beale and the last few windows have been awful.
Let's see how he does this window.
If we fail to strengthen properly and get the right blend of experience and someone to score 15+ goals we will struggle.
I genuinely hope he turns it round and KLD supports him with the funds to get what we need in.
Not hopeful though based on his recent performance.
Click to expand...
Pretty much this, hopefully last season has sent a clear message to kld and co that their plans were shite and this transfer window will see them change their approach somewhat.
Regardless of which manager comes in, the recruitment has to improve to actually give any new appointee a decent chance of succeeding. Beale was an absolute balloon but it really didn’t help having 0 strikers of note to help the team or a holding midfielder
 
Last edited:
North of the Smoke said:
Interesting appointment, points to future recruitment strategy, needs to make sure he keeps the British lads on side communication wise, ie clarity of instruction, encouragement etc etc.

Look forward to seeing his approach to the game and hope he is brilliant for us. HTL.
Click to expand...
Given our recent transfer activity from the continent, we should concentrate on the UK market as that's where our success has come from.
 
sksk3021 said:
I’m pretty sure they don’t not at the established well run clubs. Most employ football people to make those kind of decisions. I guess they will have some limited input at least indirectly but very few will be picking the manager.
Click to expand...

They'll employ football people to guide them on their decision making unless the individual has full control.

It's only the top clubs that tend to have the option of making an appointment that is normally guaranteed to succeed.

People were baffled when Ancelotti got the nod from Perez when being bang average at Everton.
 
Di Canios Knees said:
There’s not much to tell, people will paint a picture that we had reams of coaches rejecting us which is simply not the case, yes it was a long drawn out process and yes there was certainly snags and he isn’t the first person we ordered the job to, but he definitely isn’t the 5th, 6th, 7th etc. who was “offered” anything.
Click to expand...
This is semantics…we may not have offered them all contracts
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top