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Ok Mr1Croft, which of us cocked up that last 19 sequence for SOD
Quote from: Beerseller on April 16, 2012, 07:12:38 pmOk Mr1Croft, which of us cocked up that last 19 sequence for SOD They aren't the same 19 fixtures Beerseller - Croft was recounting the last 19 games of last season, not O'Driscoll's last 19 matches On Croft's stats, O'Driscoll has actually earned 2 points more! The two records are almost identical in terms of amounts of wins, draws + losses.
Dear John,A fool is someone who doesn't learn from his mistakes. I don't think you are a fool...(?)Not half way through April and the season is over for Doncaster Rovers. In truth it has been for quite some while. Indeed some of us were convinced it was over on 22nd September 2011 and said as much. Soundbite I called him. Rabbit in the headlights, and all that.So please stop making excuses. Please stop complaining about referees, assistants, dodgy decisions, injuries, luck, the moon phase, or about anything else and simply do your job.You are the chairman of this football club. For that you can take credit for assembling the most talented bunch of footballers to grace the shirt in living memory. Together we tasted glory - but the following statistics are indisputable facts:L D L D L L D D W D D L L L D L L L L . . .It simply isn't good enough, is it? You made a mistake. A BIG one. Accept it with good grace and we will forgive you. But don't sit on the fence defending the indefensible till it's too late. Just get rid and be done with it. You know as well as I do that the apologist you appointed ain't gonna do the decent thing and fall on his sword, now is he? He's a man of soundbites and excuses, not responsibilities. And where else will he get a job? The man's now practically unemployable as a football manager. Which means a 3.5-year contract looks rather silly (and expensive). Unless you're thinking of hanging on for 3 more seasons, that is. Three more years will probably see him (and us) back in the league where he actually has a bit of experience and is therefore a prudent investment...? Is that the plan? Serendipity and all that. Well it ain't my idea of future planning. Conference here we come? Nah!You may believe he's the bloke to get us out of League One and in that respect I agree. The basement beckons...Come on John. Do what has to be done and get it over with.L D L D L L D D W D D L L L D L L L LRepeat after me...L D L D L L D D W D D L L L D L L L LIt is not a fairy tale ending, is it?The only place I can find any similar looking word is in my Welsh - English dictionary (the only place on earth where you'll find so many 'L's back-to-back). It spells, I would suggest, abject failure.L D L D L L D D W D D L L L D L L L LTHE END.
To be fair John Ryan said on the Radio that not sacking Sean in the summer was a mistake, and to me they look very familiar.Saunders last 19:L D L D L L D D W D D L L L D L L L LSOD last 19:L L W L L L L D D W L D D L L L D L DIf we don't win another game in the last 3 Saunders will have done worse then SOD in the last 22 games of the season. If they should have sacked Sean in the summer (which is what John Ryan has said) then the writing is on the wall for Saunders I'm afraid...
From John Ryan's interviews since Saturday's game I can't help but think that Dean Saunders won't be our manager come the opening day of next season.
Quote from: Chris on April 17, 2012, 12:02:42 amFrom John Ryan's interviews since Saturday's game I can't help but think that Dean Saunders won't be our manager come the opening day of next season. What makes you say that?I'm not saying you're wrong, because maybe you've heard an interview that I haven't. I didn't pick up the above message from JR's interview straight after Saturday's game. Has he spoken out since?
Quote from: pubteam on April 17, 2012, 12:16:58 amQuote from: Chris on April 17, 2012, 12:02:42 amFrom John Ryan's interviews since Saturday's game I can't help but think that Dean Saunders won't be our manager come the opening day of next season. What makes you say that?I'm not saying you're wrong, because maybe you've heard an interview that I haven't. I didn't pick up the above message from JR's interview straight after Saturday's game. Has he spoken out since?On the Football League Show he was asked if Saunders was the man to take us back up to the Championship and JR's answer was "Why not?". When you consider how passionately JR backed O'Driscoll just days before he was dismissed, that response probably won't fill Saunders with confidence.
Quote from: Chris on April 17, 2012, 01:10:15 amQuote from: pubteam on April 17, 2012, 12:16:58 amQuote from: Chris on April 17, 2012, 12:02:42 amFrom John Ryan's interviews since Saturday's game I can't help but think that Dean Saunders won't be our manager come the opening day of next season. What makes you say that?I'm not saying you're wrong, because maybe you've heard an interview that I haven't. I didn't pick up the above message from JR's interview straight after Saturday's game. Has he spoken out since?On the Football League Show he was asked if Saunders was the man to take us back up to the Championship and JR's answer was "Why not?". When you consider how passionately JR backed O'Driscoll just days before he was dismissed, that response probably won't fill Saunders with confidence. Well, perhaps his answer was non-committal, but he's been like that on other issues as well.My query would be, if Saunders IS going to be dispensed of over the summer, why did the board meet with him last week to discuss their plans for the future? Unless that's a smokescreen, but it's difficult to see Deano playing along with it like he did if there were no substance to those discussions.Plus, he's let him sign five of the youth team up on permanent contracts for next season. Whilst that might have happened under any manager, how can they be sure that the next bloke to come in will want them in the squad?And then there is, of course, the eternal question of where we're going to get the money from to terminate a three year contract. It sounds to me as though we're having to be really drastic in cutting back on our expenditure, so do the board even have the financial resources to fire DS, even if they don't really want him in charge?It all seems up in the air to me. Whilst JR's body language and tone of voice in interviews seems to suggest that he doesn't have full confidence in DS, there are also signs that they've started planning for next season with him very much in mind.