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Living under the venky jackboot is indeed like a snail having to crawl along a razor blade

Nah, it was jonnolad

Does this help? https://www.sotwe.com/JackGreensnote

I know what you're getting at, and you may be correct, but to me, it's Occam's razor time and the simplest explanation is just that they're hopeless, and the decision making is paralyzed by the absent landlords. I don't think we sack managers full stop, who's the last one who has his contract terminated, coyle? What's that, eight years ago? They don't like doing anything other than picking their wages up, that's my impression. I could be wrong, it's been known to happen

Sounds like if it's Ismael , it would be a minor miracle if he lasts until the end of the season. I would call it a managed decline, but I don't think the executive at the club have the wherewithal too manage anything other than picking their wages up

We still love you Kenny. Thank you for remembering us. https://www.facebook.com/1Rovers/videos/1266460294440205/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

In my view it was constructive dismissal. Good luck to whoever is next. Unless they are so desperate because no-one else will hire them or they've lost all self-respect that they're happy to abandon all ambition and just turn up and take the money, then I give them about a year before they walk, too.

Nailed it James. People giving it to Eustace or even part-blaming mowbray for the 💩 we're in, it's the wrong target entirely. Fair enough Tony gave up the last few years, he just phoned it in and was very cynical. I think though that working in that job is it's own particular type of moral injury. It's impossible to get anywhere with venkys in charge, and I think in the end you just psychologically surrender to it, like Tony did. Or you safeguard your professional pride and piss off at the first half decent opportunity, like the last two have done. Giving the owners a few pass, as some fans do on social media, but laying into the managers is just crazy. It makes me think of people in America blaming immigrants for putting them out of a job and then voting for trump

I wish John nothing but the best. No animosity from me. He's performed miracles to get us where we are. He also seems to be a decent person. I can't blame him at all for going. I think everyone on football must know what an absolute shell we now are.

Hannibal lector for me please

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🤣 He needs to foxtrot Oscar before the pressure gets too great and bits start dropping off him

The public face of our club. Honestly, it's a joke. He looks like Mr potato head on a bad day.

The only common denominator for these repeating patterns of falling away sharply is the owners. We've no more crown jewels for them to sell. Barring a miracle next season well be going down

Who knows what venkys want? They're completely unfathomable. If just wish they'd piss off. It's like having a tapeworm you can't get rid of

Yeah and I think next year will finally be the year where we go down. And possibly bust

Will these leeches be gone before I pop my clogs? I'm fifty two now, so say in next thirty or so years. I need to know. If they're still going to be here when I'm gone, then it's maybe time to fold up the tent

Poetic

Well no, I think it's fair comment from you and others, I've not seen them for ages. I've had to spend a lot of money trying to get my house right, and I've just fallen out of the habit. Well that plus venkys make everything feel unclean. I'm happy to stand corrected. And yeah, it really was a bad one, no argument there. Depressing viewing

I'll consider myself told Jim 😊

Blimey, well I saw him run to the byline near the revs if the game, maybe he was taking it easy because he looked slow to me then. Maybe there was something in my pre match Guinness 😆

Well, not Billy Bremner from what I've read As Jimmy Graves once said, they were lining up in a tunnel and Bremner booted him. Why did you do that bill? Because I effing felt like it. I know he hated the photo but Dave Mackay had the right idea when he grabbed hold of him by the scruff

I couldn't believe how slow Britain. Good man, he's slow. Like he was towing a double decker bus. He's gotta be the slowest full back I think I've ever seen

That's the impression I got, never mind, I have others 😆 He's definitely on the Ronnie hildersley side of the height scale. I don't know, maybe he flatters to deceive when going forward. But definitely is a liability at times with gifting possession. He's not the only one in that team though

Never saw him play, but have seen some highlights, looked like he had a grand technique and deft touch. But what has struck with me through the TV footage is what a really nice fellow he seemed to be.