Would you still go to Withdean if Wise was gaffer?

[Buzzer]

Is the right answer.

Bollocks. I don't often disagree with you pasty but this one, I'm gonna.

Number one it means that the board have yet again shat on a bloody decent manager.

Number two, I really have no respect for the man. He has no place in English football, let alone the Albion.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Yes

Im preparing some funds for next season

This season is an off season because I was not a fan of Adams

Why? You were not even a Brighton fan the last time he was manager here?

 

[Buzzer]

Why? You were not even a Brighton fan the last time he was manager here?

Attention seeking. There were a number of reasons why he wasn't at Withers this season

• Lives in Wolverhampton
• Couldn't afford it
• Not really a fan
• Couldn't be bothered

The fact that he wasn't a fan of MA ranks much much lower than any of the above. Thinking about it, sounds like a prelude to him dropping out, going back to Hailsham and coming to the Albion about once a season.

 

[throbinson]

Still go if david pleat was the manager

 

[clapham_gull]

Spot the difference

I don't really understand why he is so hated on here, but I like the guy.

I don't like how he seems as a man, he comes across as a couple and utter knob, no arguments.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

It would appear I flipflopped on the guy. Hmm, ok, this is my deffinitive opinion - good manager with Gus Poyet as an assistant, but bit of a twat in person.

 

[DJ Leon]

I don't like how he seems as a man, he comes across as a couple and utter knob, no arguments. But his record as a manager stands up...

Does it? You could point at 2 nominal successes:

1. Taking to Millwall to the Cup Final
2. Doing well with Leeds

However, he took Millwall to the final by beating Walsall, Telford, Burnley, Tranmere and Sunderland. So they didn't beat a single top league side on the way. They did well to win 5 games, but lots of managers do that.

As for Leeds, he did well with a massive budget for this division and with Poyet by his side. But Poyet left and it went spectacularly pear-shaped. He then gave up his managerial position at a famous English club to take a nothing position at a joke club just because it had a bigger wage packet. His tenure was a complete disaster.

Am I missing something which points to him being a managerial genius?

Russell Slade by comparison took over a desparately poor team looking odds on for relegation and has produced 4 wins and a draw in our last six games. We have every chance of staying up. Why on earth would you replace him with Wise?

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Where I did suggest he was a "managerial genius"? Eh? I didn't, he's not. He's nothing without Poyet, he proved that at Leeds. But he did well with Millwall in the league, and then he went to Swindon and got them into the automatic promotion race in league 2 straight after they'd been relegated, he did that by signing a couple of freebies noone had heard of, and then he went to Leeds. He's done well with every single club he's managed, and on that basis, he would be a good appointment, ignoring what he has allegedly done in his private life.

As for replacing Slade, when have I ever said I wanted that? When? I just said I wouldn't mind Dennis Wise as manager, and that I would still go to the Withdean and to away matches if he were our manager. If you look at the poll in the other thread, I voted Russell Slade as our manager for next season, I have always voted Russell Slade, ever since I fell in love with the guy at Leyton Orient.

 

[Buzzer]

Does it? You could point at 2 nominal successes:

1. Taking to Millwall to the Cup Final
2. Doing well with Leeds

However, he took Millwall to the final by beating Walsall, Telford, Burnley, Tranmere and Sunderland. So they didn't beat a single top league side on the way. They did well to win 5 games, but lots of managers do that.

As for Leeds, he did well with a massive budget for this division and with Poyet by his side. But Poyet left and it went spectacularly pear-shaped. He then gave up his managerial position at a famous English club to take a nothing position at a joke club just because it had a bigger wage packet. His tenure was a complete disaster.

Am I missing something which points to him being a managerial genius?

Russell Slade by comparison took over a desparately poor team looking odds on for relegation and has produced 4 wins and a draw in our last six games. We have every chance of staying up. Why on earth would you replace him with Wise?

In a nutshell.

Putting feelings to one side, we have in Slade a manager who has PROVED that he can get a mediocre team to shine (and one without our star strikers too).

We don't need to look elsewhere. As DJ L says. Why replace Slade?

 

[8ace]

Wise would f*** off at the first opportunity of any slighty better job.
And he's a nasty little c*nt.
C*NT.

 

[8ace]

Does it? You could point at 2 nominal successes:

1. Taking to Millwall to the Cup Final
2. Doing well with Leeds

However, he took Millwall to the final by beating Walsall, Telford, Burnley, Tranmere and Sunderland. So they didn't beat a single top league side on the way. They did well to win 5 games, but lots of managers do that.

As for Leeds, he did well with a massive budget for this division and with Poyet by his side. But Poyet left and it went spectacularly pear-shaped. He then gave up his managerial position at a famous English club to take a nothing position at a joke club just because it had a bigger wage packet. His tenure was a complete disaster.

Am I missing something which points to him being a managerial genius?

Russell Slade by comparison took over a desparately poor team looking odds on for relegation and has produced 4 wins and a draw in our last six games. We have every chance of staying up. Why on earth would you replace him with Wise?

 

[8ace]

In a nutshell.

Putting feelings to one side, we have in Slade a manager who has PROVED that he can get a mediocre team to shine (and one without our star strikers too).

We don't need to look elsewhere. As DJ L says. Why replace Slade?

 

[Mackenzie]

If Wise was appointed, I think Russ Slade could feel increadably hard done by. That said Wise also has a good track record (as a manager), and if I'm being honest, as long as we're winning I couldn't give a monkeys who the manager is. Slade would be good, Wise would be good, Gannon would be good....all good managers.


Would I still go to Withdean?, try keeping me away!!!

 

[cjd]

Apart from his many, many misdemeaners..........isn,t he the little shit, who broke Calun Davisons jaw after a card game..? Didn,t he then, rightly get sacked by Leicester City, only to complain of "unfair dismissal" and receive around £2 million in compensation.?

I also believe that the decision against Leicester City was the financial "straw that broke the camels back", resulting in them going into administration.

He,s not a little shit.........he,s a BIG shit, which the game doesn,t need.

 

[Acker79]

I don't really have an issue with him as manager for us in general (all this stuf I'm reading on here about punching team mates etc. is new to me), and answered thinking in those terms (like "if, one day, dennis wise became manager...")

Having read the thread it seems I may have misunderstood the question.

As of right now, and my position may soften if things go badly tomorrow, I think if we start next season with someone other than russell slade in charge there is something seriously wrong with our board, to the extent the reply "but they saved the club, if it weren't for them..." will immediately lead to whoever utters that cliché being dismissed from the conversation and having their mouths sewed shut with barbed wire. And if that is he case, the fans need to send a message to the board, if that means missing games, so be it.

Maybe we can get fans to turn up with signs saying "if Slade goes, we riot"

 

[Brovion]

I don't like how he seems as a man, he comes across as a couple and utter knob, no arguments. But his record as a manager stands up...

No it doesn't. His record with Poyet isn't bad, but on his own he manages to be both unpleasant AND useless.

 

[Bish Bosh]

Yes of course would still go to all the home games and as many aways as I can. Support the club -there might be players I don't like either but it's the club we all follow. Managers like players come and go.

 

[Insel affe]

NEWSPAPER SPIN.........ALL TO GET HIS NAME IN THE PRESS AGAIN........"OOOH LOOK IM STILL ALIVE.......SOMEONE GIVE ME A JOB PLEASE"

Its all a load of Bollox.........................IT WILL NOT HAPPEN.................END OF.

 

[HG201]

Yes, of course i would still go, i would just much prefer if i could see slade in the dugout rather than wise

 

[Marc]

lol 54 people voted no, can we have those 54 people in writing please that should Wise become manager they will not go to withdean even if we are top of L1/L2 after winning 8games on the trot or something.....losers!