Chopper71 Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Now this would be entertaining and a disaster waiting to happen... Tony Husband @TonyHusbandBBC 26m26 minutes ago #pompey Steve Claridge says he would do the job in a "heartbeat." That's about as long as they give every other manager... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brizzie Saints Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Booooooooooo. Just realised they are mathematically safe from relegation. hope eastleigh make the playoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopper71 Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Just checked the Conference table - Eastleigh 1 point shy of the play offs, but with a game in hand (tomorrow night). Fingers crossed for a derby next year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 (edited) Didn't Richie Barker get Crawley out of league 2? Maybe Waddock is as good as him... Barker got Bury out of the division, although that overstates things a little. He took over at about this time of the season and Bury went on to win six out of eight games to get promotion. They finished about 15th the following season. Funnily enough the Shakers have the skates this weekend. They will probably need a similar run to get promoted again. Three points at Sh*tpark will do nicely. If they are successful I'll give you a match report next week. Edited 13 April, 2015 by Chez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 To be fair the Pompey Board have earmarked an important new role for Awford - Those cones aren't going to put themselves away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Booooooooooo. Just realised they are mathematically safe from relegation. hope eastleigh make the playoffs Booger. No chance of a points deduction I suppose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torres Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Nice to see that Factless Allen was on the ball and breaking this news today. Neil, you have one job..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 tomahawk 11:18 AM on 13/04/2015 We must now hire a decent ,proven, manager -after all we are a unique top club. Saturdays game was a blow - lowly Morecambe wanting to play us every week. What a bitter pill to swallow? Saints did it,Bournemouth are doing it; even non league Eastleigh have said Pompey would hold no fears for them. With players like Wallace,Tubbs and Taylor at our disposal at least we have a good basic attack. Sorry for Mr.AA of course, but he knew it was a gamble before taking the job,and after all it is not the end of the world. I bet the payoff was more than just all right. Time now for a bit of class in the management side and also the players. We the supporters deserve this. blues 11:23 AM on 13/04/2015 Top club......no we are a mid table Div 4 club.... tomahawk 11:44 AM on 13/04/2015 blues - in the football world we are a top club - not where we are now but our past is something else. We are up there with the legends. Blue Shoes 11:49 AM on 13/04/2015 Tomahawk.....we are not a top club at all and as fans, we need to get this ridiculous idea out of our heads! Up there with the legends, are you drunk!! We are a small city club with a small fan base, who has achieved a small amount of success. We are not a big club at all. [emoji38] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 So, how much say did the club's 'owners' have in Awful's dismissal? Owners? You know....the fans....the biggest bestest fan owned club in the known universe.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 If they truly aspire to be up there with the heavyweights of league football, Burton and Shrewsbury, then they're going to have to bring in a heavyweight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK the 2nd Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 SkyBet latest Odds ... Next Permanent Manager Harry Redknapp 5/1 Gary Waddock 5/1 Ian Holloway 6/1 Darren Ferguson 8/1 Neil Warnock 9/1 James Beattie 10/1 Paul Cooke 10/1 Uwe Rosler 10/1 Danny Wilson 12/1 Ian Dowie 12/1 Mark Yates 14/1 Paul Hardyman 16/1 Nigel Worthington 16/1 Gary Megson 16/1 Mark Warburton 20/1 Brian Laws 20/1 Gianfranco Zola 25/1 Keith Hill 33/1 Paul Lambert 33/1 Gus Poyet 33/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Oh I'd love it if Beatts got the job - think of the carnage he could cause! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Easy money betting on Waddock there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaMarlin Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 There is some wonderful self-delusion over on the Fansonline message board. They are talking about sacking the board at the same time as saying the owners of the club - the fans - have no say in the decision-making processes. There is talk of them having the biggest budget in the league which should enable them to go out and get who they want. Their preferred targets include the likes of Paul Tisdale, and Mark Warburton, besides the likes of Adkins and Neil Warnock. "With our crowds, we should have a healthy bank balance," says one sharp observer, completely ignoring the fact that most of the money was spunked on making people like Connolly and Tubbs among the highest earners in the division, and will continue to be spent on journeymen in the mistaken belief they are to players. The one or two realists who point out that a) they don't Redknapp back as he was responsible for their current plight and b) they are not likely to present a hugely attractive proposition to the sort of names the deluded want the club to pursue, are - as usual - hounded down. Also, it appears to have occurred to very few of them that one of their preferred choices - Tisdale - is a farkin scummah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 To be fair the Pompey Board have earmarked an important new role for Awford - Those cones aren't going to put themselves away. Nah, too elevated a role for him, he'll be on Pooper Scooper duty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 tomahawk 11:18 AM on 13/04/2015 We must now hire a decent ,proven, manager -after all we are a unique top club. Saturdays game was a blow - lowly Morecambe wanting to play us every week. What a bitter pill to swallow? Saints did it,Bournemouth are doing it; even non league Eastleigh have said Pompey would hold no fears for them. With players like Wallace,Tubbs and Taylor at our disposal at least we have a good basic attack. Sorry for Mr.AA of course, but he knew it was a gamble before taking the job,and after all it is not the end of the world. I bet the payoff was more than just all right. Time now for a bit of class in the management side and also the players. We the supporters deserve this. blues 11:23 AM on 13/04/2015 Top club......no we are a mid table Div 4 club.... tomahawk 11:44 AM on 13/04/2015 blues - in the football world we are a top club - not where we are now but our past is something else. We are up there with the legends. Blue Shoes 11:49 AM on 13/04/2015 Tomahawk.....we are not a top club at all and as fans, we need to get this ridiculous idea out of our heads! Up there with the legends, are you drunk!! We are a small city club with a small fan base, who has achieved a small amount of success. We are not a big club at all. at least one of there fans is being realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Malkay Mackay has the right attributes to be a Pompey Manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Rock Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 I will give it a go, I have been known to make the odd poor decision on Football Manager, hello hatch, long time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 I've used my EW winnings from Saints Are in the National to back Waddock. #easymoney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 We will have to accept that one season they will come up to the dizzy heights of L1. Annoyingly Waddock does seem perfectly capable of delivering it. Hopefully not for another 50 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 I'm awfully sad about this. I thought Andy was the right person to take them to a whole new level. Anyway, I have full confidence Champagne and the board will choose an equally capable replacement. Oh I'd love it if Beatts got the job - think of the carnage he could cause! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysstuff Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 I guess the Board have a difficult choice in the close season: essential maintenance to Fatpipes or a half decent manager. There certainly doesn't appear to be enough spare cash sloshing around to fund both. Will be interesting to see which they go for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Good god If anything sums up just how small time they are, and how dirty, ugly and disgusting 99% of the PO postcode is, then it's that video. There was one younger bloke, with a modern haircut, who blurrily flashed into shot to the far right of the crowd pan just before the end of the video, who had a look on his face that said something like "I can't f0cking believe I'm here, watching this absolutely f0cking sh11111t, with these fat ugly absolute complete and utter f0cktarded morons making things wors...GET THAT CAMERA OFF ME!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Does make sense to fire Awford now though, they've saved on a proper manager's wages for the next 4 months and they can appoint Waddock permanently in August or when he starts threatening to walk without a permanent deal, whichever is sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Just asked my wife if we have a black armband around that I could wear. She was a bit concerned that an old friend of mine had passed on. She was not amused when I told her the real reason. Forgot to say the look on her face was priceless when I showed her that video. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 13 April, 2015 Share Posted 13 April, 2015 Where's Guardiola, Ancelotti or Benitez? Surely they would jump at the chance to manage the biggest club with the bestest fans in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Jim Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Seems fairly clear that Gary Waddock will get the job on a permanent basis, he's got a fair amount of experience at that level already, and won promotion with Wycombe in 2010/11. With pretty average stats though. 31% win ratio at Wycombe, 16% at QPR and 12% at Oxford, his last appointment (albeit temporary). He did a good job at Aldershot though. All up his win/lose/draw stats are very similar to Awful Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeintheslowlane Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 McInnes said yesterday, "I think we need to be looking at someone who has experience at this level and someone who has been successful at this level. I think probably part of the requirement will be that he has had no previous connection to the club." So Beatts it is then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Nice idea - why waste money on one manager when you can pay loads for two! That dream team of Coppell and Barker worked a treat. I suspect the flaw in this idea of a big name appointment (to sell season tickets) is that big names tend to be used to coaching quality players, and not in a public park with a nice fence. They also like to be paid. And they don't like being abused by a ragtag mob of toothless simpletons in a shed that displays all the high-tech features of 17th century architecture, design, and fat dispersal. Other than those minor points, some new hero will jump at the chance. The acid test will be if Harry wants no part of it - that would confirm that the coffers are empty. The bottom line is that they have fallen too far to attract quality, or investment. A giant gets to a point where he is no longer just sleepy, he has no quality of life and needs to be put out of his misery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Why waste money one 1 manager when you can waste money on 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snopper Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 At last - a highly appropriate merging of Portsmuff and Colin W****r. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 At last - a highly appropriate merging of Portsmuff and Colin W****r. Agree. They are a perfect match. Warnock was born to sport an ill fitting Sondico shell suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-Armstrong Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9805071/sky-sources-portsmouth-interested-in-southend-boss-phil-brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holepuncture Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 McInnes said yesterday, "I think we need to be looking at someone who has experience at this level and someone who has been successful at this level. I think probably part of the requirement will be that he has had no previous connection to the club." So Beatts it is then. IIRC, truck loads of cash went through the bookmakers when 'arry categorically ruled himself out of a return to fatpipes for round two. Perhaps champagne iain is under 'arrys consultation as they plot round three, getting the odds up whilst gambling the guttering repair monies from the tesco swindle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torres Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 I actually wouldn't put it past them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Can I be the first to anticipate the Snooze headline written by Factless Allen : " Premier League Manager appointed to Fratton Hotseat" ! We all rack our brains thinking - Wenger, Rodgers, Bruce, Martinez etc... but then we read further and it turns out to be : Phil Brown :) Ps. how's that top premier league striker from WetSpam doing these days ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Jim Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Not safe for those with hangovers, the bestest in tinpottery: Good greif! And they try and take the p155 out of us?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 I think that article translates as Phil Brown's agent makes a few calls after spotting a club with a history of paying over-the-top wages....either to get him a payrise, to give the impression that he is in demand, or just to remind proper clubs that his client exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-Armstrong Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 I think that article translates as Phil Brown's agent makes a few calls after spotting a club with a history of paying over-the-top wages....either to get him a payrise, to give the impression that he is in demand, or just to remind proper clubs that his client exists. His contract at Southend does run out in 10 weeks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTONS EAST SIDE Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 AaaH Phil Brown Ron Akinsons love child. Better stock up on the spray tan Phil...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Fatpipes Phil has a certain ring to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Not as sweet as Relegation Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Phil Brown's bottom feeders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 We can't Phil (Brown) our stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer saint Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 One nil down already to Stevenage that was quick 3 mins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 "One Gary Waddock. There's only one......... Resign, you cu%7!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Eastleigh 0-1 up and into the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clapham Saint Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Fatpipes Phil has a certain ring to it. Does he watch a lot of golf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopper71 Posted 14 April, 2015 Share Posted 14 April, 2015 Eastleigh 2-0 up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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