Mr. Reid (5 Viewers)

[Deleted member 5849]

Often held up as a rubbish football manager for Coventry, but often forgotten we started the season OK until he had Davenport sold from under him... and the cash to buy a replacement (Mackay) vanish before a deal could be made.

So... rubbish CCFC manager, or just another in the long line of hapless victims to try to fight back the tide?

 

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[bigfatronssba]

Also one of the few in recent years to have the decency to resign. All the others held out to get their contractual payout.

 

[Jack Griffin]

This topic should be censored.

 

[John_Silletts_Nose]

what happened to the other mr reid thread?

 

[Otis]

what happened to the other mr reid thread?

Are Les and Peter, brothers?

 

[John_Silletts_Nose]

Are Les and Peter, brothers?

they are just reids blowing in the wind

 

[Otis]

they are just reids blowing in the wind

What about the Harry Potter books? They are good reids.

 

[lamtara2006]

Are Les and Peter, brothers?

Are you getting confused with Les REED who managed Charlton for 41 days in 2006?

 

[Otis]

Are you getting confused with Les REED who managed Charlton for 41 days in 2006?

Don't you mean Lou?

 

[mrtrench]

Did Nico ever manage us?

 

[lamtara2006]

Don't you mean Lou?

Now that would have been a "Walk on the Wildside"!

 

[Otis]

No, but Chico did I think.

 

[Jack Griffin]

Is Reid still waiting for his man?

[video=youtube;MOmZimH00oo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmZimH00oo[/video]

 

[Otis]

Is Reid still waiting for his man?

[video=youtube;MOmZimH00oo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmZimH00oo[/video]

Nope, but I do recognise the banana peel there that the City keep slipping on over the years.

 

[Hobo]

Often held up as a rubbish football manager for Coventry, but often forgotten we started the season OK until he had Davenport sold from under him... and the cash to buy a replacement (Mackay) vanish before a deal could be made.

So... rubbish CCFC manager, or just another in the long line of hapless victims to try to fight back the tide?

Reid was not the best....but there is a recurring theme. Coventry City never seem to have it right behind the scenes. The way the club is organised and structured has never seemed professional. It has been evident in contracts and clauses, the transition from youth development to professional, ticket office, club shop, marketing, links with the community. While we are on the last one it is important to promote what you are doing in the community.

SISU are woeful at all these things, but in all honesty we have never been very good at them. That is why we never capitalised on thirty unbroken years at top level. We have always been geared to survive rather than prosper.

 

[bigfatronssba]

Reid was not the best....but there is a recurring theme. Coventry City never seem to have it right behind the scenes. The way the club is organised and structured has never seemed professional. It has been evident in contracts and clauses, the transition from youth development to professional, ticket office, club shop, marketing, links with the community. While we are on the last one it is important to promote what you are doing in the community.

SISU are woeful at all these things, but in all honesty we have never been very good at them. That is why we never capitalised on thirty unbroken years at top level. We have always been geared to survive rather than prosper.

Unfortunately that approach has manifested itself into many fans heads that 30 odd years at the bottom of Div 1/Prem was good.

The fact we never moved the club on to the next level is unacceptable.