The Manager Thread...

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City Man said:
Yes, it's odd how people want to cling to the superficial stuff when they make their assessment of how good or bad a manager was for us.
'Prickly' Nigel was never interested in being Burnsy's pal like SB was.
Ditto Silva - never remotely into being 'mates' with Burnsy. You're a journalist, I'm the coach. You've got you job, I've got mine.
Now people are getting a semi on cos Len's learnt good English in 5 months or he's made some encouraging statements about what he intends to do or how he likes to play.
E allora?
Actions not words.
Let's see how it's going mid November when we've had a few ****ty midweek aways at Ipswich, Wolves etc and see how Leonid is doing.
If Lenny can make us very hard to beat away like Big Nige did, then he's The Man.
Grinding out narrow 1-0 wins, watertight defence and deadly on the counter, is the Road back to the PL.
The side that Nigel, Walsh and Shakespeare moulded was expert in that, but call him sockface if you prefer to ignore the core details of his time here.
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It was so expert it finished nowhere near the playoffs. Neither did the team he built the following season.

I actually liked Pearson as our gaffer, but he was bang average, we lost some monumentally **** games under him and I wasn't unhappy that he left for Leicester.
 
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Sterling Archer said:
It was so expert it finished nowhere near the playoffs. Neither did the team he built the following season.

I actually liked Pearson as our gaffer, but he was bang average, we lost some monumentally **** games under him and I wasn't unhappy that he left for Leicester.
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He came in when we were in disarray after PLEXIT in 2010, we finished 11th after a slow start and a revolving door of departures, recruiting the likes of Chester, Rosenior, Brady, and we had our record unbeaten away spell of 14 games .
Second season , we were 1 point outside playoffs but with one game in hand when he left.
FACTS
 
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City Man said:
He came in when we were in disarray after PLEXIT in 2010, we finished 11th after a slow start and a revolving door of departures, recruiting the likes of Chester, Rosenior, Brady, and we had our record unbeaten away spell of 14 games .
Second season , we were 1 point outside playoffs with but game in hand when he left.
FACTS
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We also, in terms of performance, got shockingly worse under Nick in a very short space of time.

Pearson wasn't brilliant for us, but he did a very good job. Anyone who thinks otherwise is blinded by his public persona and signing Aaron McClean.
 
City Man said:
He came in when we were in disarray after PLEXIT in 2010, we finished 11th after a slow start and a revolving door of departures, recruiting the likes of Chester, Rosenior, Brady, and we had our record unbeaten away spell of 14 games .
Second season , we were 1 point outside playoffs but with one game in hand when he left.
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Sure, let's list off the excuses. He isn't as good as you say he is nor is he as **** as some people remember.

He was just average.
 
Howden Tigress said:
Me too, I'm liking the cut of his jib and what I'm hearing. Comes across very personable and confident, bearing in mind a new country, city he knows little about, no family with him, no posse/backroom gang with him. Seems relaxed and confident in his own abilities to work with a team unknown to him, obviously his Chelsea connections must help and undoubtedly the draw of City of Culture! Cautiously optimistic.
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All positive but does he like a pattie?
 
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AlRawdah said:
So pitchforks pointed at Slutsky when he starts Marshall in goal first match of the season. Bloody great.
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Why would you want to do that, there's no Jak to compete against. Ah, maybe McGregor ...
 
I think our owners, once again may I add.. have brought in a really good guy, and quite possibly the right kind of manager we need at this moment.

Bruce was perfect at the time, big name manager for a club that had big plans. It worked perfectly.
Silva was perfect and was a bold appointment. He just came to us a few weeks too late otherwise we would have probably stayed up.

And now Slutsky. We needed someone fresh, determined and different. Leonid is certainly that. As others have said, I hope he does well for us, not just because we obviously want City to do well, but because this guy has done everything possible to do well in our country, he deserves some success.
 
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GLP said:
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I like him more and more. I hope he's successful, comes across as a decent fella.
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The more I see and hear from him the more I warm to him, he's genuine in being excited and happy to be here, can tell he's here to reach the Prem, his emotions don't seem fake or forced like you see in some interviews You See from new players/managers.... Roll on pre season :)
 
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