It's just a shame they ALL didn't quite give enough of a shit to win the bestest trophy in football.
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[Football] Stockdale let go..
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It's just a shame they ALL didn't quite give enough of a shit to win the bestest trophy in football.
Beach Seagull
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Managers don't 'do deals' anymore, Chief Execs do them. HR would've played no part in the salary negotiations.
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How do you know?
Beach Seagull
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I put that down to all of our players being pissed from the celebrations after winning the Wigan game through to the end of the season.
How do you know?
Beach Seagull
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It was Birmingham's money not Redknapps. Managers don't fund signings and salary's.
ATFC Seagull
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Indeed, and if History shows us anything, it's that Harry is very good at spending other people's money.
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Another vote for his double save against Sheffield Wednesday being one of the standout moments of our promotion season. It was breathtaking stuff.
All the best Stockers!
All the best Stockers!
Beach Seagull
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Watched all 3 games
That is a cracking answer!! Difficult to disagree!!! Have a good day Dazzer.
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All managers are good at that. Can never understand the snobbery on here towards HR, he had a really good managerial career. Maybe if he didn't speak with a cockney accent the snobs on here wouldn't be so quick to condemn.
Norwich away was more like a party than a football match..........never enjoyed a defeat so much
Lost to a team that had literally no shots on target thanks to 2 bouncing in off Stockdale, and very noisily singing 'Alex Pritchard is a ******' as he was being interviewed after getting MOM. With hindsight should have been more annoyed we didn't seal the title there............
You need to take it up with the people that write contracts. Not sure it is anything to do with employment rules, more the individual contract. I don't know for sure but he was on a reasonable wedge which Birmingham couldn't really afford but if he had played a certain number of games for them that triggered a clause that they had to offer a new contract which they obviously didn't want to do hence the contract ran down and he left on a free.
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Norwich away was more like a party than a football match..........never enjoyed a defeat so much
Yes that was hard to take, especially as the lads were playing as if they had a bottle of Becks in each hand. Even a half reasonable performance would have earned us a point, and thus the title.
ATFC Seagull
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I think there probably is a bit of that to be honest. I listened to him on the Peter Crouch podcast last week and thought he was great.
But you can't deny that he has happened to leave a very high ratio of his clubs just before they face severe financial difficulties. Maybe he is just very good at convincing chairmen to part with their cash as you say. He's also a bit of a throwback - very much a manager rather than a coach, one who always seemed to be much more involved in transfers than the majority of top level managers at the same time as him.
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I seem to remember that there was a great deal of speulation on here during his last season with Albion as to wether he would stay. He cannily said nothing, but I've wondered since if he really did want to leave. What was even stramger was that he then ended up as deputy to Kuszack at Birmingham and in the end neither got a game there at all. A slimmed down (yes!) Stockdakle popped up down the road at Wycombe Wanderers for a week's loan but nothing more was heard of him. Given that he cost (I think) a million from Fulham when he came to Albion the whole thing is a puzzle, to me...
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How many clubs has he left in the sh*t? How do you know he was 'always much more involved in transfers than the majority of top managers?' Have you proof of this?
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You've misquoted him there.
He said "seemed to be much more involved" which implies a degree of opinion rather than an outright statement of fact as your misquote seems to show.
Beach Seagull
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Yes I agree, good point.
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As said above, no proof, just a random opinion/observation from afar. But we all saw the rolled down window on deadline day and the "he's a terrific player" quotes. It was just in an era where managers tended to keep quiet on transfers and let people behind the scenes do the work. Pretty sure Bournemouth, Southampton, Portsmouth and QPR all struggled with expenditure after he'd left to varying extents.
It was a random throwaway comment about a massive football personality, wasn't expecting such a staunch defence of him to be launched on a BHA messageboard!
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Totally agree with you, Redknapp was a quality coach and manager who turned Spuds from decades of near nothingness into a team that could compete in Europe and at the top of the PL.
It wasn’t his fault that his hopeless boss Peter Storrie at Portsmouth did a Risdale and bankrupted the club. When Poyet demanded yet more spending on players, Bloom eventually said “no”, because the Albion are led by a businessman, not an idiot.