Is the clubs silence on the "El-Abd issue" condoning what he did?

[Gritt23]

I think so. If they don't feel it warrants an apology or even a comment, then they clearly don't feel there was anything to comment or apologise for.

 

[Ernest]

I think El Abds and the clubs silence on this is pisspoor, maybe it shows what the clubs hierarchy really feel about us mugs in the south stand

 

[Icy Gull]

Mountains/molehills imo

 

[Mendoza]

i think its good, means its dealt with internally, unlike mcghee who did everything in public, pissing off the player involved, the board, the fans and the squad - but did mean andy naylor was happy

 

[Yorkie]

I'm sitting on the fence.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

I don't think there's many clubs in the football league that would allow a player to call fans 'c*nts* and tell them to 'f*** off' and then not apologise.

 

[empire]

get over it please,its old news

 

[Easy 10]

They're not condoning it, they're just hoping it all goes away. All Perry has banged on about is the abuse of Robinson and Cox before the kickoff, which EVERYONE has rightly condemned. But he's completely swerved the El Abd issue, and Wilkins seems to be using the Cox/Robinson thing as justification for El Abds reaction, when the incidents are entirely seperate. Was the whole South Stand abusing players before kickoff ? No. So Why El Abd felt compelled to tell the whole South Stand to go f*** ourselves and call us wankers, only he will know (being as its obviously not worth apologising for it seems).

£413 is it ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Of course they're condoning it. The blame lies squarely at Dick Knight's door for chucking the youth team into the first team and making them play fifty games on the bounce and basically subjecting them to intolerable pressure when they should be brought along gradually while they learn their trade. Something had to snap. Beyond Dick Knight's door of course, lie the NIMBYs and beyond that Bill Archer and his poison dwarves. But for now the buck has to stop at Dick Knight sadly.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Of course they're condoning it. The blame lies squarely at Dick Knight's door for chucking the youth team into the first team and making them play fifty games on the bounce and basically subjecting them to intolerable pressure when they should be brought along gradually while they learn their trade. Something had to snap. Beyond Dick Knight's door of course, lie the NIMBYs and beyond that Bill Archer and his poison dwarves. But for now the buck has to stop at Dick Knight sadly.

Can Dick Knight be blamed for that if there is no choice in the matter? What are the alternatives? Surely it is up to the manager to pick the team?

 

[Ernest]

Another misjudgement to put it politely by the idiots that run the club

 

[surrey jim]

Mountains/molehills imo

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Can Dick Knight be blamed for that if there is no choice in the matter? What are the alternatives? Surely it is up to the manager to pick the team?

The alternatives are to rustle up some more investment from SOMEWHERE. And the manager can pick the same team he picked six months ago that was getting grand results and it just don't matter cos they're just plain KNACKERED now. Not a lot he can do to shuffle the pack really. Still, at least he gee'd them up to somehow reach 52 points which is more than McGhee would have done in a year of Sundays. IMHO, like.

 

[DC Rules]

I'm sitting on the fence.

Hope its not a barbed wire one!?!?!

 

[Marc]

Adam El-Abd

 

[Yorkie]

The alternatives are to rustle up some more investment from SOMEWHERE. And the manager can pick the same team he picked six months ago that was getting grand results and it just don't matter cos they're just plain KNACKERED now. Not a lot he can do to shuffle the pack really. Still, at least he gee'd them up to somehow reach 52 points which is more than McGhee would have done in a year of Sundays. IMHO, like.

Sorry Tom but that's rubbish.

 

[Trigger]

Piss poor, not the first time those words have been linked with the club in recent times though is it? Hardly surprising.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Sorry Tom but that's rubbish.

Which bit in particular? Are the youngsters NOT knackered at the end of a bruising 50 game season season? Would McGhee have somehow bounced back from the broken manager we all knew and didn't like very much last September? Did Dick Knight leave the manager in any kind of position where he wasn't forced to play the youth team in the first team?

 

[Yorkie]

Which bit in particular? Are the youngsters NOT knackered at the end of a bruising 50 game season season? Would McGhee have somehow bounced back from the broken manager we all knew and didn't like very much last September? Did Dick Knight leave the manager in any kind of position where he wasn't forced to play the youth team in the first team?

McGhee had lost three games in a row. Wilkins has achieved that feat several times this season (and more besides) so comparing managers is useless.

Wilkins doesn't have to play the youth. He has experienced players in the reserves but chooses to play youngsters ie Fraser for Hart and Flinders for Kuipers.

 

[Easy 10]

Oh gawd, not another McGhee v Wilkins BINFEST pleeeease