With fear of openning the proverbial can of worms again, I believe his sentiments are genuine. However, Brendan's gone now and we've got to move on and get behind our new man when he arrives. http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/B...a-live-heart/story-16301404-detail/story.html
He's gone, why is he again trying to justify himself? We need a new manager not a history lesson from Brendan ! I thank him for what he has done to progress our club but that is it
This has the touch of the Martinez departure about it. As far as I'm concerned I'd be happy never to hear another word from (or about) eithe of these disingenious self-satisfied lying toads.
Thank you Brendan you done us jacks proud! Thank you for the best time I ever had as a swans fan! (10 years) Wish you all the best and don't blame you for taking the job!
Yeah - thanks Brendan - was part of the best times I ever had as a Swans fan. Now shut the f**k up and let us get on with it.
Is he ****ing nuts? A Jack? Not so much .... One guy, two years, dumped us for a team we drew away and beat at home. Siggy is probably not going to sign. Took three of our back-room staff with him. How much was he thinking of us when he was putting himself first ... which I don't have a problem with per se. Curtis is forever a Jack. Mel Nurse is forever a Jack. Jacks don't come and go .... they pass. Rogers was an employee, a pretty good one in the grand scheme of things, but let's not lose our sense of perspective. Once upon a time there was Toshack - he topped the table for weeks on end and finished a good 6th - a Jack? Reality is. Blarney is what you'd like Reality to be! Enough already.
I'm with you stereo , perfectly put . Didn't read the open letter , pretty well know what it says though .... closed case for me !!
You lot need to get a grip!! Brendan is a legend and will always be a Jack - prehaps one of Swanseas greatest ever managers and you all slate him. I thank Brendan for his time to write a letter and wish him all the best in Liverpool - hope he does well to!
I thanked him for his time with us above, what else do you want me to do ? He is a former manager of ours, his words are sound bites that is all, we need a new manager pronto. No getting a grip needed
You said this is getting boring now, yet you are following me around threads posting such things are you stalking me girl ?
Grow up HA HA! Just find it funny how you contradict yourself! You have no sense of humour, you cant adapt your argument in football terms and you are a pessimistic ****!
Yet you are the one not talking about football and following me like a lovestruck teenager, before you diverted the conversation I was talking about football
Sorry Copper, but we need to be rational and objective about the definition of legend, which is bandied about far too liberally for my tastes. And, Brendan is the party that needs to get a grip ... his weepy sentimentalism is much along the same lines of how "fantastic" the players were week-in-week out, belied by the fact that we were a mid-table team at best. Either he was saying that the players were playing out of their skins, well above their true level, or he was having mini-delusions of grandeur. As for the concept of legend ... we have true legends - Ivor Allchurch, Mel Nurse (player, club saviour at our most critical moment, we were dead, getting cold and the grave was being dug) - and perhaps a few others (sorry but they are not popping to mind right now). Rogers is not a legend (Toshack has a greater claim), but is rapidily becoming infamous as the manager who sprinted out for "bigger, greener pastures" but seems not to want to lose the adulation he believes he has here -I am sure attention deficit will kick-in when the Kop starts singing in August. Perhaps he's walked into Anfield and been told exactly where he sits in their pyramid and realization is starting to sink in that Shankly's ghost still haunts the corridors and the grass is just not as Irish green as he had imagined. Maybe they haven't got around to putting his name on the office door or given him a coffee mug yet. Instead of whispering in the chairman's ear, he now as to write a memo and have it go up a few levels with edits. He is now a tiny fish in the big pond; with us he was the whale in the fish tank - huge difference, quite a shock! If he ****s up there, he'll be discarded sooner, faster than they ditched Dalglish (a legend!?!) and without so much as a thank you for closing the door on the way out. He is in the "big" game now, nice that he thinks of us (belatedly), but I suggest he focuses on the job at hand, he's got more than enough to do there. Or perhaps, he's trying to build a landing pad with us for when he leaves / ejects from Liverpool. I wonder .... he rarely does anything without reason, what's the reason for this.
YJ: "dumped us for a team we drew away and beat at home" No, he left us for one of the big names in British football. Don't be so dismissive. Liverpool are not the team of old but don't delude yourself it's not a big Club. It's ****ing huge. You then set out what 'qualifies' someone to call themselves a Jack. All very petty (excuse the pun). The man was instrumental in delivering Prem football to the Club. Try and deny that whist you're all bitching like a bunch of jilted schoolgirls. Makes me sick to my stomach. It clearly wasn't an easy decision for him, and whereas I don't accept all his blarney (he's very adept at saying the right things to the right audience) he didn't have to write the letter at all. Most managers don't. Give the guy a break ffs even if, like me you can't quite bring yourself to wish him well. 30th May 2011 - my best day in 40 odd years as a Swans fan and I was there. Thanks, Brendan.
