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Title: Peterbrough
Post by: donnyguy on January 04, 2023, 12:27:03 pm
Sacked McCann replaced with Darren Ferguson
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: DonnyOsmond on January 04, 2023, 12:29:14 pm
Rinse and repeat.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: MachoMadness on January 04, 2023, 12:33:13 pm
McAnthony must have the smallest address book in football. Bet he saves a fortune on Christmas cards.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 04, 2023, 12:47:56 pm
What's that definition of insanity?
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 04, 2023, 01:01:49 pm
Crikey. Well they both keep going back. It's not like they don't know the score.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Pliskin on January 04, 2023, 01:10:07 pm
It's a problem when the only man you trust to manage your football club is a shite manager so you have to sack him every so often to save face.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: roversdude on January 04, 2023, 01:13:10 pm
Unbelievable
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Post by: steve@dcfd on January 04, 2023, 01:22:59 pm
They’ll be appointing GMC again in the summer.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Filo on January 04, 2023, 01:33:03 pm
Obviously a job share lol!
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 04, 2023, 01:46:18 pm
McCann to Portsmouth??
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Post by: vaya on January 04, 2023, 01:56:17 pm
Less a recruitment policy, more a dysfunctional relationship.
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on January 04, 2023, 02:49:27 pm
I can't readily recall any manager taking the same job four times, even allowing for caretakers. :lol: 
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Spud on January 04, 2023, 03:01:42 pm
Blimey :-D
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Metalmicky on January 04, 2023, 03:16:07 pm
I can't readily recall any manager taking the same job four times, even allowing for caretakers. :lol: 

Martin Allen did 4 - maybe even five stints at Barnet I think....
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: karldew on January 04, 2023, 03:19:45 pm
https://ibb.co/Ss2j7j6

Nice Wiki page :laugh:
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Post by: mushRTID on January 04, 2023, 03:24:42 pm
Embarrassing from Ferguson. Where is the mans self respect? Sacked 3 times and he goes back. Incredible
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: since-1969 on January 04, 2023, 03:33:47 pm
Rinse and repeat.
The only coin in-the slot ? 
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Dr Fundlekrotch on January 04, 2023, 03:48:41 pm
https://ibb.co/Ss2j7j6

Nice Wiki page :laugh:

He's doing it wrong.  We all know that Ferguson has a strong start and then capitulates at the end of the season.  He should get the first half each year
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Branton Rover on January 04, 2023, 04:03:30 pm
Fergie statistically is really successful he has a win percentage of 41% in nearly 800 games as a manager. I find him prickly at best but Copps always spoke highly of him & those stats don’t lie.

It’s hard to believe him and McCann can’t seem to leave mother Peterborough and both have become boomerang managers.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Dutch Uncle on January 04, 2023, 04:43:04 pm
https://ibb.co/Ss2j7j6

Nice Wiki page :laugh:

Reminds me of the Kings of Denmark up until the current Queen:

Christian II: 1513-1523
Frederik I: 1523-1533
Christian III: 1534-1559
Frederik II: 1559-1588
Christian IV: 1588-1648
Frederik III: 1648-1670
Christian V: 1670-1699
Frederik IV: 1699-1730
Christian VI: 1730-1746
Frederik V: 1746-1766
Christian VII: 1766-1808
Frederik VI: 1808-1839
Christian VIII: 1839-1848
Frederik VII: 1848-1863
Christian IX: 1863-1906
Frederik VIII: 1906-1912
Christian X: 1912-1947
Frederik IX: 1947-1972


Methinks there must be something rotten in the state of Peterborough   :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Campsall rover on January 04, 2023, 07:13:39 pm
Quite unbelievable.

Is McAnthony stark raving mad? 
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Chris Black come back on January 04, 2023, 07:36:02 pm
They went up automatically in their last season in League One with a budget of less than £7m. Doubt many will go up automatically recently with a budget like that.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: drfchound on January 04, 2023, 07:52:37 pm
Well it isn’t far from Stamford to Peterborough so perhaps the club will pay him less travelling money than they would have done for McCann.
Diesel is expensive you know.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: LincolnDonny on January 04, 2023, 08:25:21 pm
I checked to see if it was April fools day ...........
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Post by: ravenrover on January 04, 2023, 08:26:48 pm
Doesn't McCann live out Stamford way as well?
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Post by: roversdude on January 04, 2023, 08:36:16 pm
He certainly did live down that way as he arranged a “local” friendly when he was our manager
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Post by: dickos1 on January 04, 2023, 09:05:04 pm
Quite unbelievable.

Is McAnthony stark raving mad? 

Fergies always done a good job for him though hasn’t he
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Canadian Rover on January 04, 2023, 09:54:34 pm
Why not make them co-managers or one a home manager one an away one!! Madness
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: swain_drfc on January 04, 2023, 09:58:16 pm
Word has it that the Peterborough fans are already calling for Ferguson to be sacked and McCann to be given the job.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Donnywolf on January 04, 2023, 10:41:12 pm
Seriously what must the Interview be like .

Q1 why do you think you are the right man to lead this Football Club

Please feel free to add more and better ones.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Campsall rover on January 04, 2023, 11:00:34 pm
Why has McCann been sacked. They are sitting just outside the play off places.

Where does McAnthony expect them to be.
Ipswich, Wednesday, Derby, Bolton, Portsmouth and a few others I suspect will have much bigger budgets than Posh.

The man’s deluded totally deluded.  Then brings in a man he has sacked 3 times.
Quite mad. The man needs to see a shrink pretty quick.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Campsall rover on January 04, 2023, 11:04:13 pm
Quite unbelievable.

Is McAnthony stark raving mad? 

Fergies always done a good job for him though hasn’t he
But he is only capable of taking them so far.  Once the going gets tough he starts blaming everyone other than himself.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Red wizard on January 04, 2023, 11:11:11 pm
I'd like to know how much he's been paid off in total from all his sackings. Ferguson must be laughing all the  way to the bank.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: roversdude on January 05, 2023, 07:39:53 am
Must be a way of money laundering lol
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 05, 2023, 07:59:44 am
Fergie resigned last time and MacAnthony said he didn't want him to leave.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Chris Black come back on January 05, 2023, 08:24:32 am
Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Herbert Anchovy on January 05, 2023, 09:31:49 am
I really liked McCann when he was our Manager. He was in the process of building something really special I reckon. The 2nd leg play off at Charlton is up there with my favourite Rovers games of all time despite the result.

The manner in which he walked out on us completely ruined everything though and I’m not sure that we ever really recovered. At the time of him leaving I was told by a very good source that Rovers did everything possible to keep him and significantly increased the transfer funds in an effort to get him to stay and finish what he’d begun. He well and truly left us in the lurch and that’s always left a bad taste in my mouth.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 05, 2023, 10:20:58 am
Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.

As reported by Kieran McGuire, it wasn't too long ago when they supplemented their finances with loans. This appeared to be one of the factors in why they were desperate to sell Toney.

We also saw Fry on TV lamenting their position last January, struggling against relegation  suffering from injuries and struggling to attract quality players whilst being bottom of the league. (Very similar to our situation back then)

In addition, they were also lumbered with players who they couldn't get rid of being top heavy with contracted players. The flip side of the speculate to accumulate policy that tends to go unseen. Only the headline transfers leads people to believe their situation is better than it is.

Not saying that taking risks doesn't work but there are consequences.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Lifelong supporter on January 05, 2023, 10:23:53 am
Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.

Ferguson not a good manager for us??
Won promotion and signed Ben Whiteman, among others.
Copps rated him, alongside SO'D, as the best two managers he played under at Rovers.
Wonder what you have to do to qualify as a 'good manager'?
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 05, 2023, 10:44:12 am
Bit unfair to miss out the relegation that preceeded the promotion.

You could argue he achieved promotion (although nearly made a mess of that) from League Two with a League One budget.

Also frustrations with him and his formations not working. For the good signings we also had some poor ones.

He said himself, he could have been sacked but we stuck by him.

I'm a bit more neutral on him. Afterall, he got us back to where we were when he started and it took McCann to get us into the League One play offs.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: selby on January 05, 2023, 11:57:36 am
  Looking at his thoughts about our club that he has stated, I guess any hope of signing any of the players from Peterborough have gone out of the window.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: ravenrover on January 05, 2023, 12:10:57 pm
Putting Ferguson - who was not a good manager for us - to one side, they’ve no materially greater financial resources than us but are consistently more competitive and have a very strong track record of monetising talent for big return.

We are currently outside the play offs in the lowest professional level of the game.

Ferguson not a good manager for us??
Won promotion and signed Ben Whiteman, among others.
Copps rated him, alongside SO'D, as the best two managers he played under at Rovers.
Wonder what you have to do to qualify as a 'good manager'?

Not come 3rd in 1 horse race would do for starters
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: BobG on January 05, 2023, 12:19:41 pm
Maybe he wasn't SOD. But cast your mind back.... Maurice Setters, Steve Wignall, Keith Kettleborough. I know who I'd rather have.

BobG
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: The Red Baron on January 05, 2023, 03:53:43 pm
I can't readily recall any manager taking the same job four times, even allowing for caretakers. :lol: 

Jackie Bestall. Two spells as manager, one as a joint manager, one as a caretaker.

Some managers seem to be an ideal fit for a particular club but don't seem to be able to enjoy success elsewhere. Mark Robins (Coventry) and Nathan Jones (Luton) spring to mind, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Dean Smith back at Aston Villa one day. Incidentally I don't think Southampton have won since Jones came in so he probably won't last long there.
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Post by: normal rules on January 05, 2023, 04:32:32 pm
Ferguson and McAnthony are made for each other .
Birds of a feather.
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Post by: sedwardsdrfc on January 05, 2023, 09:19:55 pm
Properly weird situation for them. Seems to work somehow though. They’ll be trying to get in the championship while we’re a long way off L1. Not sure we can criticise too much really.

He must be good a sacking people for them to so often be happy to come back. I know he left things a bit poorly but can’t help feel Fergie would have been a good appointment instead of McSheffery. Not a massive fan of his but he did ok for us and certainly wouldn’t have been the needless risk GM was which really set the club back again
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Campsall rover on January 05, 2023, 09:45:36 pm
Properly weird situation for them. Seems to work somehow though. They’ll be trying to get in the championship while we’re a long way off L1. Not sure we can criticise too much really.

He must be good a sacking people for them to so often be happy to come back. I know he left things a bit poorly but can’t help feel Fergie would have been a good appointment instead of McSheffery. Not a massive fan of his but he did ok for us and certainly wouldn’t have been the needless risk GM was which really set the club back again
There is no way Fergie would have come back even if asked. He would have wanted a much bigger budget than what the board would have been prepared to give.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: monkeytennis on January 05, 2023, 09:47:39 pm
Lol. Lmao.
Title: Re: Peterbrough
Post by: Chris Black come back on February 11, 2023, 05:03:58 pm
58 percent possession, 15 shots, 6 on target today. Got hammered 5-0 at home by Bolton.