Big_Bald_Si Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15682997.stm 5-year plan? Young manager? Hmmmm......
Mr_Red Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Agree it is almost a carbon copy of our '5 year plan' Any chance someone could explain to me where pompey are financially tho? When were they/or are they out of **** creek?
eurosaint Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Agree it is almost a carbon copy of our '5 year plan' Any chance someone could explain to me where pompey are financially tho? When were they/or are they out of **** creek? FFS, it seems that some are still unaware of the legendary thread in the lounge !!
RobM Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Very true, we invented the idea of looking to young and promising managers and creating a forward-thinking plan. Nobody else thought of it before us. Nobody.
John Cool Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Stalin got there first. And he had a top tache. I think our players should all grow moustaches for Movember http://uk.movember.com/
Mr_Red Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 FFS, it seems that some are still unaware of the legendary thread in the lounge !! Aware and... Lazy. Think it was on page 846 last time I checked!
arfurdent Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15682997.stm 5-year plan? Young manager? Hmmmm...... The Soviet Union had 5 year plans - worked for them?
DanW Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Sporting is all about "copy what's successful." Currently our plan is successful for where it's at and where it aims to go. Other clubs SHOULD be copying us...until the next club comes up with a different and more successful strategy.
Sour Mash Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Aware and... Lazy. Think it was on page 846 last time I checked! Is that the one full of posters predicting they'd be 'toast' a year ago? Full of self congratulations and premature excitement about the end of the Skates? Think this could be a fairly shrewd, cheap, low-risk appointment by them.
shurlock Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 How many decent first-team coaches have turned out to be good managers?
CB Fry Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 It's more like our appointment of Nigel Pearson than our appointment of Nigel Adkins to be fair. When we appointed Adkins in League one he'd already been promoted from that league twice before. This new guy is clearly someone with potential but completely unproven. Being that they are skint and probably a season away from being relegated the similarities really are spooky.
View From The Top Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Is that the one full of posters predicting they'd be 'toast' a year ago? Full of self congratulations and premature excitement about the end of the Skates? Think this could be a fairly shrewd, cheap, low-risk appointment by them. Or it could be an absolute disaster. HUGE gamble appointing someone with no management experience. That in itself speaks volumes.
S-Clarke Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 It's what all clubs at this level try to convey to the fans that all is rosey, when in reality they have no hope in hell of ever mounting a challenge. Let's all remember Coventry's ''operation premiership'' - which is apparently still on-going.
pap Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 Actual conversation in interview:- Appleton: "I will work for ten pounds a week and sleep in the Fratton Park broom cupboard". PFC: "You're hired!"
Mr_Red Posted 10 November, 2011 Posted 10 November, 2011 How many decent first-team coaches have turned out to be good managers? Not sure whether they were 'decent first-team coaches' in the first place, I'm sure some on here will have a view, but Wigley and Gray weren't all that good! Suspect there are many more you could add... Brian Kidd at Blackburn didn't step up too well. Haven't answered the question at all have I. Were Mourinho/Adkins (very similar imo!) coaches between their physio and management days?
LostBoys Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
dubai_phil Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Lol It's not like it hadn't already been mentioned a few hundred times on the Lounge thread about their Business Plan........ It also bears a remarkable resemblance to the Overall Strategy of the Business Plan in the BBC Panorama programme "How to Buy a Football Club" that got Bryan Robson into trouble for showing how somebody could potentially have interests in two football clubs. There is actually a clear link in all of that (ie how could the Manager of the Thai National team get filmed with something so close to what poopey seem to be doing)which a decent bit of detective work or a long weekend in Bangkok (when the floods have gone) could find out. But the specualtion provides far more entertainment than the truth.
Mowgli Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Hardly comparable. I don't recall either the club or NA feeling it necessary to 'defend' the appointment even though there may have been one or two sceptics on here. We already had a top notch infrastucture in place and the 5 year plan for NC / NA is to take it on to the next level. Wasn't NA's appointment the result of the club researching suitable candidates rather than inviting applications? Recruitment process to me was light years apart. P*mpey are starting from ground zero. Their five year plan involves setting up a recruitment policy; ours is to use an established global scouting network and become a force to reckoned with in the Premiership - challenging for Europe. It's like comparing Marks and Spencer with a duty free shop.
John Boy Saint Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 A Five year plan? They must be getting that from the pound shop! When ML & NC took over we had an impressive infrastructure already in place, and being financially astute they still figured that we needed a 5 year plan to get to the "promised land". Our Fishy friends are over 20 years + behind us in terms of infrastructure and its roots. Ah well it all adds to the entertainment.
disintegration87 Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Best of luck to them. But lets tear them a new one in Dec.
lordswoodsaints Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 They've got nobody in the crowd,nobody on the pitch and now they've got a nobody in the dugout.....and no money,so I don't think they are trying to emulate us as we are now but I think they are going to make the same mistakes as we did a few years ago with the Dutch experiment. They had a short list of 20 managers which was whittled down to 10 and it included so decent names including the likes of coppel,(sound familiar) and they went for a nobody in a burtons suit who's on about £50 a week.
This Charming Man Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Is that the one full of posters predicting they'd be 'toast' a year ago? Full of self congratulations and premature excitement about the end of the Skates? Think this could be a fairly shrewd, cheap, low-risk appointment by them. Hopefully it goes just as well as our experiments with appointing coaches with no managerial experience...
This Charming Man Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 They've got nobody in the crowd,nobody on the pitch and now they've got a nobody in the dugout.....and no money,so I don't think they are trying to emulate us as we are now but I think they are going to make the same mistakes as we did a few years ago with the Dutch experiment. They had a short list of 20 managers which was whittled down to 10 and it included so decent names including the likes of coppel,(sound familiar) and they went for a nobody in a burtons suit who's on about £50 a week. I wouldn't say that, their first XI isn't that bad.
Steeleye Saint Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Roy Hodgson speaks very highly of this man so don't get too smug too soon - negative comments like those above have a habit of coming back to bite.
View From The Top Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Roy Hodgson speaks very highly of this man so don't get too smug too soon - negative comments like those above have a habit of coming back to bite. Hardly going to bad mouth him is he.
Dazza82 Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 Roy Hodgson speaks very highly of this man so don't get too smug too soon - negative comments like those above have a habit of coming back to bite. As did people about Stuart Gray and Steve Wigley look how good their record as managers worked out
SaintRobbie Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15682997.stm 5-year plan? Young manager? Hmmmm...... Sounds like they're trying to replicate Lowe's 5 years plan more like…. going down! Going down… going down (etc)
Dark Munster Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 I think you'll find Vlad, Roman and Chinny's 5 year plan is to extract as much filthy lucre from Cheats FC (including parachute payments), and then leave the rotten corpse afterwards.
Deano6 Posted 11 November, 2011 Posted 11 November, 2011 I think the thing that attracted me to the club is that they have a five-year-plan. Seriously...doesn't every club have a 5 year plan? I thought pretty much every business in Britain does!
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