Otis
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"Doug Digs For Victory"
"Doug Digs For Victory"'Doug and the Dog' - Sprout King reveals all in shocking autobiography
"Woke up this morning feeling confused?"If people start singing the Doug King song again for any reason they should be ejected from the ground.
It's nailed on with Sammy the Snake replacing Sky Blue Sam.So are you saying Potter is the new manager?
It might just be MR didn’t like AV stepping into the limelight. AV also said something about them not always seeing eye to eye in the interview, as I recall.Maybe it was down to the player complaints thing. Club wouldn't want that getting out, understandably.
Unless there's another interview in another publication. King was a bit vague.
I don't think they ever got on that well by the sounds of it, but it just worked. Until it didn't...It might just be MR didn’t like AV stepping into the limelight. AV also said something about them not always seeing eye to eye in the interview, as I recall.
Yeah but doesn’t require a conspiracy so isn’t sexy enough for people.I don't think they ever got on that well by the sounds of it, but it just worked. Until it didn't...
I’ve read the articles.Definitely not, not a single person has even read that article, I’ve a pop up for Tesco, then a pop up for Aldi, another for something else and that’s just one line into the article, rinse and repeat the amount of pop up ads, no one has ever read that unless you are over 60 and still have it physically delivered to you.
Agenda?Fair in that it aligns with your agenda
Because a) last night wasn't a forum about transfers, and b) it's well publicised that the kid has been injured since pre season.Thinking about last night, why didn't no one press Dean Austin on the signing of Raphael Borges Rodrigues, one of our 1st signing this season and hasn't played a competitive game. That's shocking and similar to the hilsner signing was Austin in charge of the recruitment with that one as well? I can forgive sometimes a signing doesn't work out but at least u give the player a chance in a proper game.
Robins' comments on Palmer were always quite telling.Viveash will have been the driving force behind signing Palmer who let’s be honest was a total waste of funds at a time we were skint.
A helpless spectator or someone not interfering? Different perspectives on the same account. I thought he meant that Robins would need to select the coach and only when agreed would it come to his desk for signing off and negotiating package etc..I don't think you are contradicting me, other than to put it all on Robins as per King's narrative (whereas I have no idea who to blame for the failure to bring in another quality coach).
Didn't King say a couple of times that no proposed new appointment 'came across his desk' for approval, so basically the owner is saying he was just sitting there waiting as a helpless spectator while the issue dragged on?
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A helpless spectator or someone not interfering? Different perspectives on the same account. I thought he meant that Robins would need to select the coach and only when agreed would it come to his desk for signing off and negotiating package etc..
I took that as those who they would have wanted as they are the best tacticians didn't apply as they wanted to be a number 1 and so they were left with all the others who did apply, but were not up the standard they wantedDoug said all the best tacticians wanted to be a number 1 , which is an odd response
Why would they apply
This has been playing on my mind, because I know that I heard DK say it (whether it was a faux pas or not, I don’t know) and and if it’s true, the cracks were appearing even before the play off final.
He said, referring to Mark and Adi’s falling out, that it happened in: ‘March or April of last year…’
Could easily have been an innocent slip, and he meant this year, however, I dunno. It just makes me wonder how long it’s actually been since they had been at loggerheads.
Viveash will have been the driving force behind signing Palmer who let’s be honest was a total waste of funds at a time we were skint.
I took it as him saying it happened last season. Confusing it with "last year" is easily done when under pressure, as last nights event was. It happens on here too sometimes.
King namedropping Andy Turner as the catalyst was the surprising thing for me.
The Adi interview is still available on the CovTel site and there is nothing damning in it at all. So why would Robins get upset ? Adi would have had to get permission to talk to the press so candidly. As Adi's boss, Robins would have known about it beforehand and could have blocked it if he didn't want to be undermined.
'Chorley FM - coming in your ears'.For some reason it reminded me of Phoenix Nights.
Didn't he say he didn't get permission?
Last night I think there were some truths, some half-truths, some embellishment and revisionism. Still, to be fair it's lanced the boil and the anger seems to have dissipated, so he succeeded there. We just all need to move on and get the best head coach we can.
Today’s agenda.Agenda?
Go through my posting history and I've been very supportive of King but last night just didn't sit right with me .
Speaks volumes about whom?again
we’ve spent 40mill and you can’t name one player who could make it in the prem
speaks volumes
This rings true for me. I wish none of it had to happen and I can't say I'm happy about it, but with some kind of explanation in place I'm more at ease and ready to look forward. I'd rather it had ended with Robins walking away himself with a hero's goodbye rather than disappearing into thin air after a midweek defeat but that's football I guess.
Do you believe everything you read in here in preference to a real ITK - i.e. the owner?I don't tend to read much of the gossipy stuff on here, so I may be wrong but I thought it was claimed a while back that some of the players didn't like AV's methods i.e. he was pushed out by player power? If so, did Robins back his players in that scenario?
Spenser for hireBang onthat's actually tickled me as its so accurate.
Nope, as I said it could be wrong and that it was "claimed".Do you believe everything you read in here in preference to a real ITK - i.e. the owner?
Not dissipated my anger that's for sure. If anything its worse!Last night I think there were some truths, some half-truths, some embellishment and revisionism. Still, to be fair it's lanced the boil and the anger seems to have dissipated, so he succeeded there. We just all need to move on and get the best head coach we can.
Do you believe everything you read in here in preference to a real ITK - i.e. the owner?
Sort of where I am although worth bearing in mind we've only heard 1 side of a 3 sided story
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