Does Bloom have the Balls to make the BIG decisions ?.

[El Presidente]

The problem is it looks like a lack of interest on Bloom's part at the moment. Just letting things amble on and get worse and worse.

What complete COCKnonsense.

He has stuck £90m into the club, nobody but a complete fuckwit would then have a lack of interest.

If you remember at the Carlisle game he caught a taxi from Glasgow airport to see the match, hardly the behaviour of someone who does not give a shit.

 

[cjd]

Ok point taken no more joker jokes.................


ps can i call him a bit of a numpty

I like that name, and he does remind me of a rhyme.........

Humpty Numpty sat on a wall............

 

[Mendoza]

9 managers in 9 seasons, might as well make it 10 eh, a nice round number. Then if he's not won more than 3 games in his first 14, we sack him and start looking for number 11. Then we give him till the end of the season, and if we've gone down, or only won say 2 in 10, then we sack him and get someone in for the start of next season. If then by the end of next October we're mid-table or worse, we sack him. Lets just keep sacking and sacking and sacking.

Because as history shows, having a healthy turnover of managers always works so well in the long run, doesn't it.

Exactly!

These are the only managers to have been in a job for more than 5 seasons

Alex Ferguson - Manchester United
Built an empire over time that is capable of winning all the domestic trophies as well as European and World ones too

Arsene Wenger - Arsenal
Got a new stadium and building teams from youth with the best attacking football the world has seen in recent times. Won the Premier League and FA Cup and got to Champions League Final

John Coleman - Accrington Stanley
No money, built a team that got promoted to the Football League for the first time in nearly 50 years, and he kept them their

David Moyes - Everton
People wanted him out early doors, and he turned Everton into a consistent top 6 team after years of struggling and battling relegation on the odd occasion. Now in Europe and got to FA Cup final

Steve Tilson - Southend United
Built a League Two team into winners and got promoted. Then got them promoted to The Championship. Now in Championship and almost out of business, but still a good team on the pitch

John Still - Dagenham & Redbridge
Built a struggling conference team in one that won the league and got promoted to the Football League, and kept them up against all odds and then narrowly missed out on the play offs

Rafael Benitez - Liverpool
Took them Champions League glory for the first time in decades. Also won the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and European Super Cup

 

[Cullip4]

I think the only way we will know whether he has the balls to make the big decisions will be shown after and if he gets rid of Slade, will he get rid of Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber?

 

[Silent Bob]

Exactly!

These are the only managers to have been in a job for more than 5 seasons

Alex Ferguson - Manchester United
Built an empire over time that is capable of winning all the domestic trophies as well as European and World ones too

Arsene Wenger - Arsenal
Got a new stadium and building teams from youth with the best attacking football the world has seen in recent times. Won the Premier League and FA Cup and got to Champions League Final

John Coleman - Accrington Stanley
No money, built a team that got promoted to the Football League for the first time in nearly 50 years, and he kept them their

David Moyes - Everton
People wanted him out early doors, and he turned Everton into a consistent top 6 team after years of struggling and battling relegation on the odd occasion. Now in Europe and got to FA Cup final

Steve Tilson - Southend United
Built a League Two team into winners and got promoted. Then got them promoted to The Championship. Now in Championship and almost out of business, but still a good team on the pitch

John Still - Dagenham & Redbridge
Built a struggling conference team in one that won the league and got promoted to the Football League, and kept them up against all odds and then narrowly missed out on the play offs

Rafael Benitez - Liverpool
Took them Champions League glory for the first time in decades. Also won the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and European Super Cup

Imagine how well they'd be doing if they hadn't foolishly sacked the managers they had before those guys.

 

[cattlin'srockshop]

It's a treadmill, sack a guy get a new one in who brings in a raft of middling players, they perform middling to struggling and repeat to taste...

Bringing in Dean Wilkins (Albion legen too) and taking on his group of young local lads from youth to first team on a scale never seen in the club's modern history I should think (or since 72 when I first started watching them) was such a sweet time. A place outside the play offs they finished and still there was no end of criticism.

Give Slade time. Or pay the guy compensation get someone else in and pay their present club compensation and then change the current players with a raft of new middling players and it's away we go again. Quite who do we think we can attract in terms of manager or players!?

 

[Napper]

It would be an expensive sacking really as the new man would seek assurances that finances are available in January. TB has already put up lots of cash in the summer, I doubt he wants to do it again in Jan unless it is absolutely neccasary. The arguement is that it isn't essential to sack ....yet

Christmas I'd imagine is the date he prob is thinking for a review

 

[Easy 10]

My patience is not infinate, but I just cannot see the sense in sacking Slade at this point, then ending up going all the way back to square one with a new manager who has to work with a whole load of players he didn't sign.

I'm actually finding it VERY difficult to put my finger on exactly why it is going so wrong this season. As a team we are generally playing better football than last year, which we should expect. On the whole, Slades signings have been decent. Bennett, Crofts, Dicker and Tunnicliffe all look very decent acquisitions, as well as McNulty of course. Jury is out on Dickinson and Jake Wright, with Navarro looking like the only really poor signing. But overall, we are now stronger in pretty much every position than we were last season.

The back 4 has never been settled, and THAT, I think, is perhaps the crux of our problems. Injuries, suspensions, poor form and individual errors have cost us time and time again across the defence. If we can just get a settled back line, that could make all the difference. I really don't think Slade is doing an awful lot wrong, but its an argument thats hard to justify when the results are so, so poor.

My feeling is to stick with him at least until the turn of the year. 14 games is still too early to ditch the manager, even though its been a horrendously disappointing start. Given time, I think we can get a little run going. Results so far don't bear that out, which is what the 'Slade OUT' brigade can always point at. But I liked what Slade did last season, I liked what I heard of his methods in the summer and what he had to say, and I think if we just show a bit more patience and stay calm, the team under Slade will come good in the end.

 

[Mendoza]

I think Slade is the right man, just needs help implementing his ideas. Get rid of White and Booker, and get some real coaching staff in.

We can still get to 109 points, which by my calculations can win us the league!!!

 

[algie]

What complete COCKnonsense.

He has stuck £90m into the club, nobody but a complete fuckwit would then have a lack of interest.

If you remember at the Carlisle game he caught a taxi from Glasgow airport to see the match, hardly the behaviour of someone who does not give a shit.

Well said

Is it me or is Gareth getting more irratating by the day? The constant shit he posts seems to be getting alarmingly frequent.
His not exactly a kid is he?

 

[The Oldman]

My patience is not infinate, but I just cannot see the sense in sacking Slade at this point, then ending up going all the way back to square one with a new manager who has to work with a whole load of players he didn't sign.

I'm actually finding it VERY difficult to put my finger on exactly why it is going so wrong this season. As a team we are generally playing better football than last year, which we should expect. On the whole, Slades signings have been decent. Bennett, Crofts, Dicker and Tunnicliffe all look very decent acquisitions, as well as McNulty of course. Jury is out on Dickinson and Jake Wright, with Navarro looking like the only really poor signing. But overall, we are now stronger in pretty much every position than we were last season.

The back 4 has never been settled, and THAT, I think, is perhaps the crux of our problems. Injuries, suspensions, poor form and individual errors have cost us time and time again across the defence. If we can just get a settled back line, that could make all the difference. I really don't think Slade is doing an awful lot wrong, but its an argument thats hard to justify when the results are so, so poor.

My feeling is to stick with him at least until the turn of the year. 14 games is still too early to ditch the manager, even though its been a horrendously disappointing start. Given time, I think we can get a little run going. Results so far don't bear that out, which is what the 'Slade OUT' brigade can always point at. But I liked what Slade did last season, I liked what I heard of his methods in the summer and what he had to say, and I think if we just show a bit more patience and stay calm, the team under Slade will come good in the end.

Excellent post Easy. None of us is enjoying things at the moment and I can understand why some are calling for another managerial shake up. The problem for me is the Slade still talks sense, yet he has not been able to change the mindset of the team into a winning team.

Most folk I sit with do believe we are playing a better quality of football this season but it's defensive howlers that are mainly to blame for our poor run. Put that right and confidence will soar.

I would give him until Christmas so that he has had 6 months or so in charge, although only 4 to actually get results on the field with this team. He must know his position is under threat and I have a feeling that he is such a decent person if things do not go well for him he would leave by "mutual consent" rather than be sacked.

 

[portslade seagull]

We need a leader on the pitch who cajoles/bollocks the players into keeping their concentration....a Nobby Horton type...they all seem too quiet..

 

[theonesmith]

My patience is not infinate, but I just cannot see the sense in sacking Slade at this point, then ending up going all the way back to square one with a new manager who has to work with a whole load of players he didn't sign.

I'm actually finding it VERY difficult to put my finger on exactly why it is going so wrong this season. As a team we are generally playing better football than last year, which we should expect. On the whole, Slades signings have been decent. Bennett, Crofts, Dicker and Tunnicliffe all look very decent acquisitions, as well as McNulty of course. Jury is out on Dickinson and Jake Wright, with Navarro looking like the only really poor signing. But overall, we are now stronger in pretty much every position than we were last season.

The back 4 has never been settled, and THAT, I think, is perhaps the crux of our problems. Injuries, suspensions, poor form and individual errors have cost us time and time again across the defence. If we can just get a settled back line, that could make all the difference. I really don't think Slade is doing an awful lot wrong, but its an argument thats hard to justify when the results are so, so poor.

My feeling is to stick with him at least until the turn of the year. 14 games is still too early to ditch the manager, even though its been a horrendously disappointing start. Given time, I think we can get a little run going. Results so far don't bear that out, which is what the 'Slade OUT' brigade can always point at. But I liked what Slade did last season, I liked what I heard of his methods in the summer and what he had to say, and I think if we just show a bit more patience and stay calm, the team under Slade will come good in the end.

Perfectly put, wish I could have said it that concisely myself.

Everyone supporting the "keep Slade" idea, please note how everyone who want to get rid of him are now avoiding this thread.

 

[Easy 10]

Excellent post Easy. None of us is enjoying things at the moment and I can understand why some are calling for another managerial shake up. The problem for me is the Slade still talks sense, yet he has not been able to change the mindset of the team into a winning team.

Most folk I sit with do believe we are playing a better quality of football this season but it's defensive howlers that are mainly to blame for our poor run. Put that right and confidence will soar.

I would give him until Christmas so that he has had 6 months or so in charge, although only 4 to actually get results on the field with this team. He must know his position is under threat and I have a feeling that he is such a decent person if things do not go well for him he would leave by "mutual consent" rather than be sacked.

Cheers Mr O.
Just can't help feeling 14 games is far, far too early to scrap Slade. People seem so keen to hit the panic button these days and jetisson the manager almost before he's got his feet under the table.

Question.
When we stayed up on the final day last season, if anyone had said back then, on that balmy May afternoon when we stayed up, that in fact Slade would win just 3 of the first 14 games in the new season - how many would say "right then, lets sack him NOW" ?

Not too many I'd wager.

 

[Father Jack]

i would say putting 90 million into the club is a big decision, sacking a manager to protect that investment is a small decision and one that if he decides to make it he will get right.

 

[Hunting 784561]

Well said

Is it me or is Gareth getting more irratating by the day? The constant shit he posts seems to be getting alarmingly frequent.
His not exactly a kid is he?

I reckon he's on the blob...

 

[R. Slicker]

9 managers in 9 seasons, might as well make it 10 eh, a nice round number. Then if he's not won more than 3 games in his first 14, we sack him and start looking for number 11. Then we give him till the end of the season, and if we've gone down, or only won say 2 in 10, then we sack him and get someone in for the start of next season. If then by the end of next October we're mid-table or worse, we sack him. Lets just keep sacking and sacking and sacking.

Because as history shows, having a healthy turnover of managers always works so well in the long run, doesn't it.

Thats the truth easy.
I've read on other threads that we are becoming a laughing stock because of the money we have spent & our league position. wrong THIS is why we are a laughing stock.

And in the next breath, the fickle twats who are abusing RS will say Brighton supporters are the best in the world.

 

[Ian Bairds Fist]

The problem is it looks like a lack of interest on Bloom's part at the moment. Just letting things amble on and get worse and worse.

Exactly! About time the Club released a statement.

 

[El Presidente]

I reckon he's on the blob...

He needs to get laid!

 

[bhaexpress]

Do you think Bloom is taking us for a ride ? He may desert (orchid) us.