[Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

[Icy Gull]

Never been into the "he was once at the club but is no longer, so now we have to hate him" stuff. Tinpot is what it is.

You can keep your admiration for GP as you change your allegiance from a manager to a club

 

[Seasider78]

Its a reference to what Havertz said after winning the league. Not tremendously witty but as expected some of you who have been weeping and raging from day one would like to continue doing that and will look very hard for reasons to do so.

Nah just amusing ourselves at a cringy attempt to show some of the ‘passion’ he has been criticised for not having.

It’s cringe just embrace it although that said not the worst I have seen this week

 

[Icy Gull]

Never been into the "he was once at the club but is no longer, so now we have to hate him" stuff. Tinpot is what it is.

Nobody hates Chris Hughton on here I’m sure, most have disdain for Potter now though, and with good reason imo

 

[oldboyroy]

Cringe worthy is an under statement. All that emotional intelligence, the 'glow up' and he feels the need to resort to the F bomb to get onside with the fans. Embarrassing and indicative of someone who is still nervous despite the upturn in form.

Spot on! Listening to that and I think 'really?'' Thank heavens we have Roberto and a class act in town now.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Cringe worthy is an under statement. All that emotional intelligence, the 'glow up' and he feels the need to resort to the F bomb to get onside with the fans. Embarrassing and indicative of someone who is still nervous despite the upturn in form.

Shape-shifting weirdo, utterly devoid of genuine conviction or personality.
We're well shot of him

 

[BNthree]

Potter swearing like that sounds like he was told the expression to say in advance by a PR person and he just repeated it on cue. Doesn't sound natural at all.

 

[A mex eyecan]

don’t think he even knows who he really is anymore …. if he does then he has lost quite a few self principles …
perhaps he needs a refresher emotional intelligence course

 

[Bold Seagull]

Our ex-manager swore and it's top of the board all afternoon. Find that a bit sadder than the f-bomb tbh.

Should be long forgotten by now given how well things are going for us. Very much straying into obsession territory for more people than just Swansman.

 

[jcdenton08]

Reaction from you guys would have been a bit different if that was another bloke.
You would have loved if RDZ said the same thing.

It would’ve been a lot more in character for Robert “Hot blood and big balls, no?” de Zerbi to say something like that. That video clip just felt a bit unnatural - a bit pandering.

I liked Potter with us for the most part, but that just isn’t his style. Funny though in a cringe comedy way.

 

[jcdenton08]

Nah just amusing ourselves at a cringy attempt to show some of the ‘passion’ he has been criticised for not having.

It’s cringe just embrace it although that said not the worst I have seen this week

“Listen yeah, this is brilliant, yeah. You’ll never work at another place like this again. I’m a friend first, a football manager second and probably an entertainer third”.

Did you see their faces?! I think I spotted Keith from Accounts at the back!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Sure it is. Sure. That famous quote from history

To be fair (as mentioned in my earlier post), I watched the video and knew the quote he was joking about, and I'm not a chelsea fan.

So when saying it to a group of Chelsea fans, it's probably a VERY well known quote.

 

[Bodian]

Never been into the "he was once at the club but is no longer, so now we have to hate him" stuff. Tinpot is what it is.

Did you see/hear the reception Duffy got when he came out to warm up for Fulham? Not sure how many times it needs to be explained really - it's not that he is 'no longer' at the club, that's not the issue. It's how/when he left, what he did and what he said.

 

[Sheebo]

Literally trying to redefine his personality to fit in / be accepted. No way he’ll be a top, top level manager - waaaay too weak. Everytime I see him like this or doing press conferences making ‘jokes’ I just think ‘that isn’t you’ - and ‘What the f*** have you done Graham?!’

 

[nickjhs]

Never been into the "he was once at the club but is no longer, so now we have to hate him" stuff. Tinpot is what it is.

Agreed, although I am still pissed at the way he left, I have gotten over my desire to see him f*** up and instead hope he does ok. We wouldn't be in the position we are without him and in hindsight he left at a perfect time for us.

 

[Change at Barnham]

A wonderful piece of writing about Graham Potter at Chelsea by Barney Ronay in the Guardian.

"I always wanted Potter to do well because he had shown such promise. Now I want to be his friend. I want to go for a walk with him around the historic churchyards of Sussex where he says things like, it’d be rude not to when you suggest stopping for flapjacks in the abbey garden. I want him to help me move house, turning up unannounced and knowing how to work the boiler, then leaving just as promptly to put in an hour at the hedgehog sanctuary."

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ter-chelsea-todd-boehly-european-super-league

 

[Justice]

Our ex-manager swore and it's top of the board all afternoon. Find that a bit sadder than the f-bomb tbh.

Should be long forgotten by now given how well things are going for us. Very much straying into obsession territory for more people than just Swansman.

Yet you are opening and posting on the Potter/Chelsea thread to tell others they should move on

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

A wonderful piece of writing about Graham Potter at Chelsea by Barney Ronay in the Guardian.

"I always wanted Potter to do well because he had shown such promise. Now I want to be his friend. I want to go for a walk with him around the historic churchyards of Sussex where he says things like, it’d be rude not to when you suggest stopping for flapjacks in the abbey garden. I want him to help me move house, turning up unannounced and knowing how to work the boiler, then leaving just as promptly to put in an hour at the hedgehog sanctuary."

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ter-chelsea-todd-boehly-european-super-league

And a wonderful cartoon to go with it!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Agreed, although I am still pissed at the way he left, I have gotten over my desire to see him f*** up and instead hope he does ok. We wouldn't be in the position we are without him and in hindsight he left at a perfect time for us.

Probably more 'he wouldn't be in the position he is without us'. And I liked Potter, but Bloom could easily have lost patience in one of Potter's many underachieving spells, and then he'd have blotted his copybook and probably managed a decent championship side again with no chance of a big 6 club.

 

[Javeaseagull]

A wonderful piece of writing about Graham Potter at Chelsea by Barney Ronay in the Guardian.

"I always wanted Potter to do well because he had shown such promise. Now I want to be his friend. I want to go for a walk with him around the historic churchyards of Sussex where he says things like, it’d be rude not to when you suggest stopping for flapjacks in the abbey garden. I want him to help me move house, turning up unannounced and knowing how to work the boiler, then leaving just as promptly to put in an hour at the hedgehog sanctuary."

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ter-chelsea-todd-boehly-european-super-league

Barney Ronay really is wonderful isn't he.

 

[nickjhs]

Probably more 'he wouldn't be in the position he is without us'.

I think we were both well suited. In TB he had an owner who looks at the longer game and could see the benefit in being patient, which got him noticed, and we had a manager who transformed the squad and the way we play. He left a very stable platform that allowed RDZ to do what he has done very quickly. Other than the feeling of betrayal in how he dumped us, from a pragmatic point of view what a bloody brilliant course of events.