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Dale Vince Interview The First Team
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NewForestRover GOAT 5,763 posts
NewForestRover
They’re both as bad as each other
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Ringham Armchair Manager 355 posts
Ringham
RE, TD and RS have destroyed FGR.
The one saviour they could’ve had was destroyed by FGR but saved Cheltenham.
Karma.
Yes, quite the karma being served up. I suspect this is why Dale's pride is hurting when he keeps saying "we don't mind when we get promoted."
 
Strange, as you said it did when you axed the women's team 🤥
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Kentstripe GOAT 3,723 posts
Kentstripe
RE, TD and RS have destroyed FGR.
The one saviour they could’ve had was destroyed by FGR but saved Cheltenham.
Karma.

Agree. Forcing SC out was a terrible move, and not done in the best way by any means, which several of us said at the time.
 
Nothing that has happened since has done anything to suggest it was a good idea imo.
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Libragully Armchair Manager 265 posts
Libragully
RE, TD and RS have destroyed FGR.
The one saviour they could’ve had was destroyed by FGR but saved Cheltenham.
Karma.
Please don't forget the invaluable contribution to this mess by Big Dunc.....
 
In addition I challenge anyone to justify Bowen's part.
 
How did he go from needing 'a few tweaks'.... to overseeing and signing off on 47/48 players??
 
How has he seemingly never had, and clearly still hasn't a succession plan? We should have picked up Williams two weeks ago!!
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Fartvs Antiqvvs GOAT 5,171 posts
Fartvs Antiqvvs
Viewing from the outside now as you are NFR; What the Hell has befallen FGR football management from and since EFL 1 exit?
 
D-o-F insanity!
Non essere curioso!
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NewForestRover GOAT 5,763 posts
NewForestRover
Viewing from the outside now as you are NFR; What the Hell has befallen FGR football management from and since EFL 1 exit?
 
D-o-F insanity!
I don’t know whether you are still viewing from the outside or are now viewing from the inside F/A. Either way, it’s lovely to hear from you again and hope you are well x
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Ringham Armchair Manager 355 posts
Ringham
Directors of Farce? And the obsession in having them.
 
I wonder who signed the most players? Allan Steele or Bowen? Close call I imagine.
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whoisit Armchair Manager 297 posts
whoisit
Half time in a game we were losing was not a good time for DV to do an interview. I wonder if he caught MB by surprise and if he had actually heard it judging by the comments I heard him make after the game.
 
I fear DV shot from the hip. It may well be that the idea of having the three musketeers in charge for a while had been discussed as an option  but the “we’ll see how it goes” approach just creates more uncertainty and chaos.
 
MB said quite publicly that they would be looking at managers. He and DV appeared to deny the Ebbsfleet link - even though Josh Wright seemed to have confirmed it in the week.
 
i have worked in what used to be called matrix management  and it always fails. Like all these things it works for a while and then implodes and leaves a worse scenario than before which is very difficult to unwind.
 
We need a sensible proven manager. There are plenty around who can also play attractive football and don’t have huge egos.

we need to sort this very quickly or we will be in a relegation struggle.
Totally agree with most of what you are saying apart from (we will be in a relagation struggle) we are already in one, with 3 point off it that time has arrived .
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michael GOAT 4,855 posts
michael
Totally agree with most of what you are saying apart from (we will be in a relagation struggle) we are already in one, with 3 point off it that time has arrived .
 
you are correct -whilst i anticipated it-you are' in the moment '.
 
taking my lead from DV from seasons past -i have been similarly blindsided
-fgr are in a relegation battle already (and can anyone realistically see fgr winning at barrow which will compound the issue )
 
DV solution -lets delay things for another 4 games and get fgr into an even bigger mess.
thats just fun.
 
please re arrange-coffee,wake up and smell
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Fartvs Antiqvvs GOAT 5,171 posts
Fartvs Antiqvvs
Barrow, have of late, implemented 'The Iron Dome' defense mechanism; 5 wins on the trot!
 
Small pickings from the 32 miles cul-de-sac there I would think?
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Foggy GOAT 5,495 posts
Foggy
DV solution -lets delay things for another 4 games and get fgr into an even bigger mess.
thats just fun.
At least that is two games shorter than Troy Deeney was in charge of the team...so maybe things aren't that bad after all.
Green in a sea of red!
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Stackz18 Semi-Pro 72 posts
Stackz18
in the main with regards to recruitment _ yes.
i would say 75% success / ok.
you really look for 80%.
too much quantity though i would agree _ but was that driven by rs ?
i can't comment on what else he does as i do not know.
certainly a lot better than the new zealand wet lettuce aka( junior xxx from marketing ) who was alledgedly steering theship 5 years ago.
How are you quantifying that 75% have been a success or ok? I could name you a number of players off the top of my head that have been terrible for us.
 
Agina, Kengni, Pemberton, Mellor, Temi, Mitchell, Robson, Patrick, Balagizi, Bamba, Ahmed, Dausch, Morrison. That being fairly generous to some of the others.
 
The only real successes to this point have been Isted who we inexplicably let go, Mendy, Whitwell and Clarke. The rest are at best easily replaceable.
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michael GOAT 4,855 posts
michael
thank you for your question :
please refer back to my previous reply/post on the same subject/question from circa 2 weeks ago.
 
 
a lot depends of course upon expectations -and may be mine are lower (more realistic ?) than most ?
 
again-please see my reply in full from about 2 weeks ag0-but simply to add that of the 13 you name -imo-nine of them would get into any national league (premier )side -and probably robson as well-but i have not seen enough of him to be specific on that .
 
whether they were/are utilised correctly at fgr is a different question.
that is the managers responsibility -not MB's
 
 
i think the recruitment -'Ins' has been ok .
the 'outs' -i have a different perspective on ,but that is not your question  
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