Blackwell

[Flatulent_Bob]

Fucking hell, he took us to within a game of the Premiership what a twat. He had the rug pulled from under him by McCabe and as that happened the results got worse as did the performances.

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Sorry, but that is horseshit of the highest order.

 

[YouFUMS]

Really hope he gets the Coventry job, cos I can't stand listening to him as the 'expert summariser' on RS. For a bloke who's supposedly qualified up to his ears in Football, he offers very little. Bring back King Edwards.

 

[Revolution]

Sorry, but that is horseshit of the highest order.

We had the best defensive record in 40 years in 2008-9. Save for Chris Morgan, none of the regular back 5 were at the club at the start of 2010-11, and Kyle Walker had gone too.

Blackwell has his faults, I know, but he really did have half of that team sold out from under him.

 

[DronnieBlade]

Sorry, but that is horseshit of the highest order.

We had the best defensive record in 40 years in 2008-9. Save for Chris Morgan, none of the regular back 5 were at the club at the start of 2010-11, and Kyle Walker had gone too.

Blackwell has his faults, I know, but he really did have half of that team sold out from under him.

Not sure that they were sold from underneath him. Yes sales were made, that is a given, especially when bigger clubs come knocking e.g Kyles to Spurs.

What simply can not be over looked is the fact that Blackwell was still culpable of some serious errors in judgement in his own transfer activities. I will say that again, his OWN transfer activities.

Players were brought in to the club during his tenure on hugely inflated salaries and / or big transfer fees and, for the most part were terrible flops.

Henderson, Evans (Under Blackwell), Nosworthy, Simonsen, Cotterill to name just of a few of the biggest mistakes made.

The squad of players that Blackwell started the season with the year he was sacked (which was by now mostly his own squad of players) was STILL one of the highest paid and most expensively assembled squads in the division at that time and was, as it turned out, woefully inadequate.

Whether it is bad man management, bad transfer decisions, or bad tactical decisions on the pitch, or a combination of these, the key word here has to be bad.

No surprise to me that the bloke has not had a sniff of a job in 2 years and in all honesty, Coventry is too big a club for him. In their situation, that in itself is quite a statement.

AFC Dronfield U12's need a new manager Kevin if you are interested.

On 2nd thoughts those kids need to learn how to play football

 

[Highbury_Blade]

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No surprise to me that the bloke has not had a sniff of a job in 2 years and in all honesty, Coventry is too big a club for him. In their situation, that in itself is quite a statement.

It's been speculated elsewhere, but the contract he was given at sheffield united would have run out this June. it's quite possible that he would have sat tight, and continued to be paid by McCabe, rather than get another job and forfeit any compensation due to him.

 

[TarquinDelouche]

Anybody willing to kill football in order to get the win is not a football manager. All this "he got results" bullshit is all academic.

In fact, he reminds me of a general in WWI throwing troops into machine gun fire, hoping numbers will overcome the enemy. Knowing nothing of the game or his men, he blustered his way through press conferences and bullied his men to perform.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Sorry, but that is horseshit of the highest order.

We had the best defensive record in 40 years in 2008-9. Save for Chris Morgan, none of the regular back 5 were at the club at the start of 2010-11, and Kyle Walker had gone too.

Blackwell has his faults, I know, but he really did have half of that team sold out from under him.

He was given a huge and its really is obscene wage bill and he fucked up, he was then backed again.
Having to make sales after that isn't having the rug pulled from under you its fucking up and then paying the understandable consequences of you failure. He then moaned like fuck when we had to face these consequences of his failure.

 

[beightonblade]

Blackwell was a bigger mistake than Robbo ..............err well not far off.

 

[Bladesway]

Sorry, but that is horseshit of the highest order.

Good constructive comment from the king of just that. You tell me the facts then Bob, because you seem to have an ideal that the bloke didn't get us to the play off final and didn't get his best players sold from under him. Go on, give it a stab.

 

[DazBlade88]

The reason the players were sold is pretty simple. Because despite the fact we had an extremely large wage bill for a Championship side, he failed to get us promoted and therefore we had to recoup some of the money spent on wages that season.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

I've already covered it, if you care to read the previous posts.

He was blessed with huge backing, for consecutive seasons far more than most of the league, and more than playoff contenders. He failed, hugely and spectacularly.
Once he had to cut back because we couldn't sustain a £15 Million wage bill he had to trim accordingly.
That's hardly having players sold for under him. He was also supported after selling Walker and Naughton by bring in some rather high earners.

Blackwell wasn't hard done to in any way shape or form. Whatever failures he had, they were all his own making.

 

[SwissBlade]

Not when it counted, come Wembley Blackwell was shaking like a shittin' dog (to quote a good friend of mine)

In fairness, every player and manager that gets us to a game that matters gets me shaking like a shitting leaf

 

[Micalijo]

May I take this opportunity to thank everybody who has contributed to some truly outstanding Blackwell bashing on this string. It really has been a pleasure to read them all and I simply cannot better them. well done all round.

I am praying he gets the job but equally I am not sure I would survive the excitement of seeing him in the away dug-out at BDTBL.

 

[Pinchy]

May I take this opportunity to thank everybody who has contributed to some truly outstanding Blackwell bashing on this string. It really has been a pleasure to read them all and I simply cannot better them. well done all round.

That is very kind of you but thanks are not necessary. It was our pleasure and privilege. A fitting tribute to Semi-Pro and his contribution to football.

 

[Micalijo]

I've already covered it, if you care to read the previous posts.

He was blessed with huge backing, for consecutive seasons far more than most of the league, and more than playoff contenders. He failed, hugely and spectacularly.
Once he had to cut back because we couldn't sustain a £15 Million wage bill he had to trim accordingly.
That's hardly having players sold for under him. He was also supported after selling Walker and Naughton by bring in some rather high earners.

Blackwell wasn't hard done to in any way shape or form. Whatever failures he had, they were all his own making.

I don't like singling out individuals for praise but Bob, this is absolutely wonderful stuff. It is just like the good old days.