It's not often i agree with TWF but as mentioned, Pearson's previous appointments (in hindsight admittedly) have more often than not failed to live upto expectations. Also i'm pretty sure this Darren Robinson guy is a bit of a prick given his obvious inflated opinion of himself on his website which i've read, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know his football or that he's the anti-christ! Give him a break, if we appoint Davies because Ehab was told to by a coach with an alterior motive then fair enough, i'd be pissed off but let's be honest we'll never know because true or not it would always be denied. It looks like Davies is getting the job anyway, if we get promoted then i can't say i'd care how he got it.
The Allams will either cop an ear to what the lunchroom vibes are at AllamMarine or have someone to look over all the various message boards. Majority gets it.
Its unfair to blame AP for Dowie really. Bartlett panicked and got AP to remove Brown as RB hoped Mark Hughes would come in. When that went south only Dowie was man enough to come for 9 games. So i put Dowie down to RB not AP.
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At the risk of opening the old debate, we were out of our depth under Brown, but we were a joke under Dowie. We won games and kept ourselves in with a chance under Brown, hardly ever losing at home, yet under Dowie we lost nearly all of our games home or away and against **** teams. I know a lad who works just under Assem at Allam Marine and he is a big City fan so he obviously hears all the rumours and opinions, Assem says he likes to know what the fans are thinking so asks him to feed it back to him. The owners are definitely made aware of what the fans think.
Even if that is true, all he is asking for is what fans think. He's hardly likely to appoint a manager on the strength of what people on forums or in the Allam Marine canteen say. It appeared that majority of fans on here, FB etc were against the suspension and/or sacking of NB so AA knew that it was going to be an unpopular decision, but the club still made it
Whatever happens in the future their decision has split the fans down the middle, that can't be a good thing can it.
The Allams supporters think they are right, and the ones who don't agree with them think they are right. If they had just kept Barmby as a manager you wouldn't have this schism of the fans, so they have caused disruption to the players and fans whether they have done the right thing or not.
Erm the fans are never, and have never been, one happy unit. If its the boo-ers versus the cheerers, the standers versus the sitters, the legendary away supporters or the home fan, the Nige haters and the Nige Lovers, and even those that worshipped Nick and those that thought he cost us a playoff spot and needed to go, the fans have always been divided over sommat. You might as well start blaming the Allams for the terrible weather we're having too if you think they're to blame for the fans.
True we have always been a bunch of whinging gits complaining about nowt but I guess they've made this an issue where it needn't have been.
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I didn't realise that's what Tickler was saying, but thinking about it if the only signing they would approve was Sharp, because they had heard the fans wanted him, they'd probably do the same thing for a manager...
Was that the reason, or had Sharp's agent been in contact with them to try and get a deal for him to come here, and they wanted him?
His agent probably did, but as I've said before I find it very telling how they never mentioned Sharp at the time. I simply don't believe they ever offered to sign him for Nick. I think Sharp was never asked about because financially he was so out of our league (with NB not being allowed to sign cheaper players why would they let him sign Sharp on £20k p/w?) and the Allams just used his name in last week's interview to try and get the fans against Nick. I don't think they knew bugger all aobut hjim apart from him being popular with the fans. If Nick had actually asked about signing Sharp I think the answer would have been the same as it was for the other players he asked about.
Sharp's agent was chasing us, Billy didn't want to leave the area and we were his ideal option, but with the fee, the signing on fee and a wage well over £1m a year, Nick simply didn't think he was worth it. He thought he was going to be able to build his own team and use the funds available to do so, he was wrong.
OLM have you ever thought of going into politics? It is apparent from what you have said on this thread, and the other one, that the Allams did offer the money to NB for Sharp, but for the (understandable) reasons you refer to, NB didn't want him. Unfortunately, therefore, what NB said in his interviews, that money was not available, was wrong. It was just that the signings he wanted were not sanctioned. Those comments have clearly disparaged the club's owners (looking at the views of posters on here and on FB) which would entitle them to sack him.
He didn't say money wasn't available, he just said he hoped he'd get some support in the summer transfer window, from which everyone assumed he was saying he wasn't supported in the January one. Which, in fact, he wasn't. The manager is there to manage, he decides which players he wants and what formation he wants to play, subject to the funds being made available to him by the owners. The owner has no place telling the manager who to buy and who to play, or he has no need of a manager at all, which is exactly what he has now. Some innocuous comments on a local radio station got nowhere near being justification for sacking him, it's just a couple of rich blokes swatting anyone who even mildly irritates them and I find it both disappointing and distasteful.
