I'm losing faith in Kevin Bond. Are you?

[MK Shrimper]

Can we close this thread before someone starts off on one again? I'm sure there'll be another one started at about 5pm on Saturday...

When we smash 5 past Lincoln?

 

[South Bank Hank]

And just to prove it isn’t impossible, that’s not how you spell always.

Petty beyond belief,Ever heard of typos? ((especially on a borrowd laptop).

LOL. Yes of course it was a typo but you said it was difficult to prove a negative. Cheer up old chap and don't leave such open goals.

 

[rigsby]

FWIW,it seems to me that KB's career is a very good example of the Peter Principle at work.Basically, this suggests that people tend to get promoted to one level above their level of competence.( aka "How clots get their slots." With reference to KB,his cv shows that he is a pretty useful coach.Unfortunately,it also shows he's not much of a manager.IMO,he's unlikely to achieve success at SUFC as a manager.In fact,I believe the longer he stays in charge the more likely we will be to get relegated this season.

Football has its own rules, so you cant apply the Peter Principle to football management.

In fact there is a common phrase used throughout the coaching world on that very point you make.

"Don't be silly, just ask Tilly"

 

[Mad Cyril]

Sol Campbell is now available...

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Petty beyond belief,Ever heard of typos? ((especially on a borrowd laptop).

It's spelt borrowed.

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

It's spelt borrowed.

Also you do not use a capital after a comma.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Also you do not use a capital after a comma.

When I was taught grammar and sentence construction the use of a comma was followed by a space before the next word.

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

Sol Campbell is now available...

Well out of our league unfortunately. He's one of the brightest minds in football according to Sol Campbell

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Petty beyond belief,Ever heard of typos? ((especially on a borrowd laptop).

And why the ((? Surely two ( are not require? How many typos are beyond petty?

 

[MisterStubbs]

Sol Campbell is now available...

No thanks, a bloke who is quite clearly in it for personal gain at a whole new level.

 

[South Bank Hank]

And why the ((? Surely two ( are not require? How many typos are beyond petty?

Time to move on now though I reckon?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

And why the ((? Surely two ( are not require? How many typos are beyond petty?

It's a generic term.ie. meaning in general

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It's spelt borrowed.

Ever heard of "fat fingers" on a borrowed laptop.

 

[Special Blue]

Ever heard of "fat fingers" on a borrowed laptop.

Great name for a band i'll have to check them out

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Football has its own rules, so you cant apply the Peter Principle to football management.

In fact there is a common phrase used throughout the coaching world on that very point you make.

"Don't be silly, just ask Tilly"

Frankly I think you can.After all football management is just another form of (man) management.Albeit a rather specialised one.

Sadly,I don't think anyone was asking Tilly anything much toward's the end of his tenure with us,apart from perhaps "When is the Chairman going to pay me my wages?"

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Great name for a band i'll have to check them out

I believe "Stiff Little Fingers" is already taken.

 

[hockleyeast1964]

Well out of our league unfortunately. He's one of the brightest minds in football according to Sol Campbell

Football equivalent of Cwwis Eubank.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Also you do not use a capital after a comma.

Prescriptive grammar went out of fashion a long time ago.

 

[rigsby]

Frankly I think you can.After all football management is just another form of (man) management.Albeit a rather specialised one.

Sadly,I don't think anyone was asking Tilly anything much toward's the end of his tenure with us,apart from perhaps "When is the Chairman going to pay me my wages?"

Its far more than that. Plenty of us on here have and do manage people. In most cases the people we manage have to behave otherwise they lose their jobs (unless they are a moderator)

In football no matter how much you have let your boss down someone else will employ you. In the days when you fell in love with the game possible 50% of a players wage was made up in appearances and a win bonus. To be dropped might mean several weeks in the reserves and spam for tea.

Todays manager walks a fine line between discipline and losing the far to powerful dressing room. Fans don't help because they now blame everything on a manger and are more than happy to have ridiculously high turnovers in managers. To me that just lets the players of the hook. I loved Humphrys goal v Sunderland but the last thing i was going to do was to go on the pitch and celebrate with some of last seasons players.

Even when we have good reliable staff who don't need to much 'management' and are good value like JW.... Then fans want better.

For you to claim Bond doesn't have the skills to manage a L1 club is nonsense. He has been in the game long enough and at at good levels to have seen it all. Yes he looks more comfortable in a tracksuit then in a TV/radio studio......That's what I like about him.

If you have 2 very decent number 9's unavailable due to long term injuries. Or
If the team miss chances like Shaughnessy at Cov, and Theo last week. Even if the ball bounces of Lennon for an OG......Is that anything to do with tactics or man management?

 

[Grapevine]

What a good post that is ?