From Huw Jenkins to PU Stankens..

Kifflom! · Oct 8, 2016

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Imo, your being completely unreasonable Roof

How could we fire Tumulutu, he didn't work for us ever. In fact his actions worked directly against us when he attempted to gain an influence in our club by taking control of our transfer policy. Thinking that we were a titchy little welsh club which could be bullied and pressured into using his agency as the sole suppliers backfired on him we are not the titchy little Welsh club he thought we were.

We protected and defended ourselves from his underhand dealings which were directly interfering with and adversely affecting our ability to sign players in the transfers markets. Huw Jenkins, instructed by and acting on behalf of the old board, banned the underhand motherfucker from the club. I don't understand at all how you can be upset with Huw Jenkins, or the board he represented, for protecting the club at the time. All Huw Jenkins did was to act upon the instructions of the board which were to ban Tumulutu from the club. After that it all turned sour with Michael Laudrup who Tumulutu managed and controlled.

Yes, we have sacked our last three managers, but why? Because of they under achieved as managers. The 'points on the board' earned under their control weren't sufficient enough to keep us out of a relegation battle, so in each case something had to be done don't you think?. In my view, each manager had squads capable of more than a relegation battle yet each was being steered to an event horizon we couldn't escape from. If things continued we may well have never escaped relegation, hence their dismissal.

I think its naive to talk about the 'feelings' of well paid coaches when the position they've coached the club into threatens its existence in the Premiership. As managers each knew the situation all too well. They knew that failure is not an option and each knew that they were or are in a results oriented business. Maybe this is what Guidolin didn't know when he recited his catchphrase 'I don't know'. I'd personally prefer a manager that does know, regardless of how 'nice' he is perceived to be.

Huw Jenkins isn't my buddy Roof and its silly of you suggest he is simply because I offer a different opinion to yours.

I actually know him as well as you do Roof but one thing I'm convinced of is that he is not responsible for our the under performance of of our team under each sacked manager, nor is he responsible for their overall poor performance as managers, nor is he solely responsible for the sale of our club to the Americans, who you seem to resent much. Would you resent them still if they were, say, Danish? maybe? maybe not? only you know the answer to that one. Like most on Planet Earth though Roof, Huw Jenkins doesn't have the chrystal ball vision we one eyed fans see our club with.

The consequence of the actions of both the old and the new boards is that we have the small matter of The Swans Vs Arsenal to look forward to in a week or so and I suggest that because of their historical and recent actions, the chances of watching The Swans Vs Arsenal for the next couple of years have been improved this week.

Stankens? takes the impact away from your post Roof, it makes you sound like the scorned kid who wasn't picked to play in the schoolyard derby.
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^^^This!

Lots of conjecture on this thread when nobody knows the truth.

I agree that we've handled successive managerial departures in a very amateurish way. I also agree that it's hard not to be concerned about the path our Club is taking of late. But saying Jenkins went to South America because of a, b or c and it must be 'shady' because hey, it's South America, or that Jenkins was "pissed off" over Laudrup touting Williams around or that so and so was doing <insert activity here> because of <insert factor here> is just guesswork.

Yes, we're all entitled to an opinion but I prefer to base mine on what I know, and what I know is that things have gone awry at the Club from the time of the Morgan/Dyer debacle. That was the start of it. You can debate whether Jenkins has been good or bad for the Club since then and I can see arguments on both sides, but Stumpy is right. That disgraceful episode was not a moment we should look back on with any pride as a Club.

Stumpy · Oct 8, 2016

Kifflom! said: ↑

^^^This!

Lots of conjecture on this thread when nobody knows the truth.

I agree that we've handled successive managerial departures in a very amateurish way. I also agree that it's hard not to be concerned about the path our Club is taking of late. But saying Jenkins went to South America because of a, b or c and it must be 'shady' because hey, it's South America, or that Jenkins was "pissed off" over Laudrup touting Williams around or that so and so was doing <insert activity here> because of <insert factor here> is just guesswork.

Yes, we're all entitled to an opinion but I prefer to base mine on what I know, and what I know is that things have gone awry at the Club from the time of the Morgan/Dyer debacle. That was the start of it. You can debate whether Jenkins has been good or bad for the Club since then and I can see arguments on both sides, but Stumpy is right. That disgraceful episode was not a moment we should look back on with any pride as a Club.
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Agree Kiff, no one knows what the true course of events were but, whatever they were, they've certainly left a sour taste for us to chew on.

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