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The fact that five separate reports exist? 100%. Are they true? Possibly not, but five separate reports of the same thing is pretty strong circumstantial evidence, imo. I agree that the club would have had a plan, and did execute it. It just seems, to me, that that plan involved letting the...

Not at all. Never said that; never implied that. :shrug: What I’m exercised about is the fact there are 5 separate reports (listed above) of the club having not told the players. I think that’s piss poor management. That’s the start, middle, and end of it.

There was discussion of this topic on another thread on the day (or day after) CH was fired in which it was stated that both Bozza and Not Andy Naylor knew of the dismissal before the players. Also on that thread it was stated that the non-playing staff received an email informing them of CH’s...

Is that eether or ither?

For a club that prides itself on how it runs its business this is a monumental clusterjiggyjig. For the players to learn from the press that their direct line Manager has been fired is just plain wrong. It brings to mind the worst excesses of David Brent. I don’t care how hard it is, you find a...

On the poll of this thread, 5 voted “Remain”, 2 voted “Leave”; 71% Remain. The poll itself - 69% Remain. The balance of the mods who have voted could not be more representative of the view of those users who have voted if they’d been recruited solely on their stance on Brexit.

The small print at the bottom of the email confirms that it’s League and FA Cup games only, so 21 is indeed the max. They don’t explain why though.

29 aways. Huh? We didn’t even play that many, did we, and I know I missed two, maybe 3. :shrug:

Yep.

Fair point; except when he was fired by Norwich he said “I understand the recent frustrations...” and while saying “I am naturally very disappointed to have lost my job...”, he didn’t mention surprise at all. These sentiments convey to me an understanding of why he was dismissed from Norwich...

Yep, your fourth option is possible. However, Tony and Barber are on public record multiple times as saying that the target was PL survival, with hopefully a decent cup run. I do not recall them either of them having ever said, prior to Hughton's dismissal, anything at all about the style of...

Hmm. A target like "Retain our PL status" is unambiguous - like any decent target should be, it's totally not open to interpretation. I think it's far more likely (as others have said) that TB decided that Chris was a) unlikely to repeat the feat next season and that anyway b) he wanted a...

Yes, exactly. Which is the most likely example of my option 2. From Tony's perspective - it's not unreasonable. From Chris', it might have been "Whoa - you never said that at interview and it's not in my contract. That's simply not fair - it means you could sack me at any time - all you...

“Surprised” is the interesting word. I can’t interpret it in any more than only three ways: 1 “I paid no attention to the targets that had been set for me by the Board; I hadn’t realised they were important” 2 “The b’stards had more targets for me than they told me. That’s not on” 3 “I got...

He also has a nice taste in cardigans.

Manager - the role recruited when the Head Coach is viewed as having failed. Head Coach - the role recruited when the Manager is viewed as having failed.

Exactly. Mind you, I HATE Marmite.

I’m not particularly surprised the chain is in administration - I ate in a Jamie’s Italian three times over the years and found them both poorer quality than I expected and more expensive - not a good combination. I hope the staff get new roles elsewhere in what is a very tough market at the...

Unless something has changed in the last year, this isn’t true.

I think a large part of Knocky’s success in the Championship team was that he knew that he had sufficient skill to go past defenders. It has been demonstrated many times in the PL that he possesses insufficient skill to go past defenders at this level in the same way. To be fair, few attackers...