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Who has the most impact on a club and it's squad . A good Manager or a good coach .? Give me the Manager and he'll find you the coach if needed .
SOD won't turn it around at Bristol he's nowhere near a good manager nowadays, he reached his peak with us and was on the decline with us. Needs a break from the game or continue as a good coach.
The trouble is SOD doesn't suffer fools gladly.I actually think the reporter was trying to help him out with his final question in that interview.Most managers skilled with dealing with the press would have taking the opportunity to have said you bet I am, and so are the players and the fans. If we all stick together out luck will turn.That's all he needed to say something on those lines but he can't bring himself to do it because it WAS a stupid question in a sense.
It isn't looking good though is it? You only have to look at the statistics someone posted re his last 100 league games.... I would be astonished if he made it past Christmas in his present job. I have a good friend who is a BCFC fan and has always backed So'D but even his support is wavering now . Everything he has said to me its like a mirror image of what happened towards the end here.Yes, his teams play nice football, but to be honest, I prefer winning games, and I am sure that most people would be the same. It is okay when that nice football is bringing about results, but his problem is he doesn't seem to be able to change it when it isn't. I don't call that honourable, I call it stupid.You have to work with what you have in management, you can't continually try and fit square pegs in round holes. If you have players who can't play the way that you want them to, then for me, you have to adapt your own style and what you want to have some compromise. If I came in to work tomorrow, reshuffled my team, told them that things were changing and swapped their roles to something they wouldn't be comfortable with, I doubt I would last very long... I feel sorry for the guy, because he isn't going to be remembered for getting us playing nice tippy tappy football and winning a couple of trophys, he is going to be remembered for being pretty much a failure ever since.I also find it funny that people call him honourable etc - I wonder what Crawley would say about that?
The reason the Crawley/honour comes up as a stick to hit him with is a little unfair.
He will be remembered by Rovers fans for playing nice tippy tappy football and winning trophys and getting us promoted , and that is all that matters really to Rovers fans, not what he has done since.
Because Billy didn't piss off within 6 weeks of joining.
I do sometimes wonder if he peaked with us. For example, there must be loads of what we would call 'shit' managers who have a promotion or two on their CV's. Im not calling him shit however its possible when he retires he looks back and we were the high point, everything else was pretty average/poor.
A-M-H.IF SOD went 5 months without pay, then he is a fool. Contractually tied to DRFC, whatever the circumstances, he had to be paid. Fair enough it may have taken 5 months to get his dues, but he got them.
Quote from: podrover73 on October 23, 2013, 04:10:09 pmHe will be remembered by Rovers fans for playing nice tippy tappy football and winning trophys and getting us promoted , and that is all that matters really to Rovers fans, not what he has done since.I'm not talking about amongst Rovers fans, I am just talking generally. A lot of people held him in high regard, considered him an excellent manager etc - I bet they don't have the same views now.Another one for the loyalty debate - how many other clubs did he speak to whilst he was with us? How many jobs did he apply for? I am not saying that it is wrong - everyone deserves a chance to 'better' themselves, but the club is being slated for the way they treated him, when lets face it, he didn't treat us that great at times either.I don't see why his contract and supposed lack of pay should be continually brought into the discussion either - we know your views on it, and it has NOTHING to do with his ability as a manger. Let it lie.