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Post by banksy1art on Aug 25, 2022 9:52:57 GMT
Thank you Michael For saving us from certain relegation to the Third tier of English football.
Thank you for cleaning out all the overpaid deadwood and steadying our FFP crisis.
Thank you for developing some of our great young players: Brown, Tymon, Tezgel, Campbell, Taylor, Souttar…
Thank you for some of these incredible signings this summer.
You’ve left us in a good place to be able to kick on as a club (Hopefully)
I’m wishing him all the best..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2022 10:06:48 GMT
Love the bloke as a human being.
If only he can have faith in himself by being braver and bold.
Wishing him all the best
Thanks Michael for everything.
Take care sir.
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Post by greyface on Aug 25, 2022 10:07:48 GMT
Thank you Michael For saving us from certain relegation to the Third tier of English football. Thank you for cleaning out all the overpaid deadwood and steadying our FFP crisis. Thank you for developing some of our great young players: Brown, Tymon, Tezgel, Campbell, Taylor, Souttar… Thank you for some of these incredible signings this summer. You’ve left us in a good place to be able to kick on as a club (Hopefully) I’m wishing him all the best.. Absolutely. Well said. |
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Post by bagnallboothen on Aug 25, 2022 10:08:17 GMT
I've been his biggest critic recently but he certainly deserves a thank you. Turned round a sinking ship with some exciting football scoring plenty of goals before bizarrely losing his nerve.
All the best for the future, but the time was right.
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Post by The battheader chronicles on Aug 25, 2022 10:08:46 GMT
Thank you for everything Michael, all the best in the future you saved this club
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Post by lordb on Aug 25, 2022 10:09:12 GMT
in many ways he did a good job, had a lot of stuff to deal with, more than most managers face at most clubs
in the end he simply failed to get the best out of his players for too long a period & had to go
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Post by Robo10 on Aug 25, 2022 10:09:47 GMT
We will always have Boxing Day 2019!
My shins still have scars from the ensuing mental!
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Post by owdestokie2 on Aug 25, 2022 10:10:09 GMT
Thank you Michael For saving us from certain relegation to the Third tier of English football. Thank you for cleaning out all the overpaid deadwood and steadying our FFP crisis. Thank you for developing some of our great young players: Brown, Tymon, Tezgel, Campbell, Taylor, Souttar… Thank you for some of these incredible signings this summer. You’ve left us in a good place to be able to kick on as a club (Hopefully) I’m wishing him all the best.. 👍 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2022 10:10:30 GMT
Smashing guy
Stabled us but sadly stalled
Hope he goes back to N I
👍
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Post by thevoid on Aug 25, 2022 10:11:18 GMT
Thanks Michael but it was the right time to go.
All the best for the future, maybe your country beckons again?
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Aug 25, 2022 10:12:05 GMT
Kept us up, got rid of some shit, steadied the ship but then it just went to shit really. Nothing against the bloke but it had to happen.
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Post by David Brent on Aug 25, 2022 10:16:47 GMT
Glad he’s gone. He’s not here to be our friend is he, I’d rather him be a wanker and get us promoted
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Post by gawa on Aug 25, 2022 10:17:37 GMT
Smashing guy Stabled us but sadly stalled Hope he goes back to N I 👍 That would be a pointless move for him in my opinion. We don't have the personnel to replicate the same success. Scotland or Championship I imagine his next move will be. |
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 25, 2022 10:21:31 GMT
It's a pity. Barnsley away for his first game was amazing - gave us some hope after the shite of Rowett and Jones. Thought we might survive then and it was a miracle we managed it so comfortably in the end.
Nice bloke who died on the hill of 532.
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Post by werrington on Aug 25, 2022 10:33:35 GMT
in many ways he did a good job, had a lot of stuff to deal with, more than most managers face at most clubs in the end he simply failed to get the best out of his players for too long a period & had to go And when he “took on the support” last Wednesday night with his after match interview his position became untenable |
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Post by buckoscfc on Aug 25, 2022 10:35:50 GMT
A shame it ended how it did as he's the first manager to stop us from dropping like a stone since relegation. No doubt, he'll have success elsewhere. Thanks, Michael.
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Post by wuzza on Aug 25, 2022 10:39:53 GMT
Really hoped he would be the man to build a decade long ‘dynasty’ complete with inbuilt successor - I just don’t understand why he could not get a tune out of the players he had.
Wish him all the best for the future - it’s been a tough gig here.
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Post by AlbertTatlock on Aug 25, 2022 10:46:18 GMT
It all started to go wrong after we beat WBA at home last season, he thought the 5-3-2 was going to push us on but it was quickly found out, our only creativity would come from the wing-backs so double up on them and we had nothing to offer, he was too stubborn to change it back to 4-3-3 or similar, he's carried on making excuses to back up his insistence to play with wing-backs even though we obviously didn't have the personnel to make it work, the standard of football suffered and the supporters started to get restless but he insisted that persisting with 5-3-2 would work. Good luck MON and thanks for saving us and giving us some hope in the first 2 half seasons of your tenure, what a pity you didn't have the belief or courage to push us on. Gouranga.  |
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Post by gawa on Aug 25, 2022 10:48:12 GMT
Thank you for your kind words everyone.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Aug 25, 2022 10:48:31 GMT
A good man who ran out of ideas. Took us through a tricky period with Covid dealing with things in a classy way generally.
Just a shame he stayed a season too long.
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Post by pistol on Aug 25, 2022 10:50:43 GMT
Thank you Michael For saving us from certain relegation to the Third tier of English football. Thank you for cleaning out all the overpaid deadwood and steadying our FFP crisis. Thank you for developing some of our great young players: Brown, Tymon, Tezgel, Campbell, Taylor, Souttar… Thank you for some of these incredible signings this summer. You’ve left us in a good place to be able to kick on as a club (Hopefully) I’m wishing him all the best.. Incredible signings this summer? We have picked up free transfers and loans with a few youngsters with potential. I think that’s why we are where we are. We’ve shopped at Lidl and are expecting Waitrose results |
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Post by banksy1art on Aug 25, 2022 11:01:35 GMT
Thank you Michael For saving us from certain relegation to the Third tier of English football. Thank you for cleaning out all the overpaid deadwood and steadying our FFP crisis. Thank you for developing some of our great young players: Brown, Tymon, Tezgel, Campbell, Taylor, Souttar… Thank you for some of these incredible signings this summer. You’ve left us in a good place to be able to kick on as a club (Hopefully) I’m wishing him all the best.. Incredible signings this summer? We have picked up free transfers and loans with a few youngsters with potential. I think that’s why we are where we are. We’ve shopped at Lidl and are expecting Waitrose results Delap, Gayle, Smallbone etc all brilliant players especially for our budget. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2022 11:05:09 GMT
Thanks Michael and all the best for the future. I'm glad you've gone before it got nasty because you don't deserve that.
I think you have left us in a much better place than the two previous incumbents with a couple of tweaks to the squad.
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Post by stokemark on Aug 25, 2022 11:05:30 GMT
Gutted it hasnt worked out but thank you all the work you have done for this basket case of a football club
'He drinks the Whisky....'
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Post by nonameface on Aug 25, 2022 11:10:00 GMT
He's been an amazing manager for us, largely in an off the pitch way, but also on the pitch by keeping us up and progressing the kids.
We'd have stayed up with him, results improving when the key players are back. So now, the next appointment is so important, could really see us relegated if we get it wrong. Not having someone in already is very concerning.
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Post by gingerninja on Aug 25, 2022 11:10:02 GMT
Why sack him at the end of the window when he has recruited all the player's, very odd, you would think all of the managers we will be looking at were available, by & large at the end of last season?.
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Post by spitthedog on Aug 25, 2022 11:10:24 GMT
I'm actually very sad it hasn't worked out.
Of course we want every manager to succeed but I don't feel a sense of celebration right now.
That first season was miraculous and will be part of our history, but we look to have really stagnated.
i think he has been unlucky with injuries but its a decent squad overall. I like that he has shown faith in younger players and I think they will benefit from that.
Good luck to him.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2022 11:16:27 GMT
Has he left us in a better place than when he found us?
100% he has.
For a manager with very limited league football management experience he did a superb job at first, and history will show that overall he did a good job in sorting out an absolute mess of a playing squad.
It's a shame that the football stagnated and that he seemed to have lost that spark, and it was becoming clear to see that he had ran out of ideas of how to get it back.
All the best Michael in the future, I dread to think how bad it would have got if you hadn't walked through the door in 2019.
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Post by phill51 on Aug 25, 2022 11:26:14 GMT
Exactly the right appointment at the time. Did a brilliant job keeping us up.
Pity he hasn't been able to move us forward. Thank you Michael.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2022 11:27:45 GMT
Exactly the right appointment at the time. Did a brilliant job keeping us up. Pity he hasn't been able to move us forward. Thank you Michael. You don't believe he's moved us forward? |
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