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I’ve no idea whether any of latics new signings are any good or up to the job but I have to say that just looking at the balance of the squad this morning I’m the happiest I’ve been with it in a long time
Every single position has good competition for places now all from players who are specialist in that position as opposed to midfielders filling in on the wing etc.. It now looks like the squad can cope with injuries & suspensions without it damaging the balance of the team to any real extent.
Well done Bob
I’ve no idea whether any of latics new signings are any good or up to the job but I have to say that just looking at the balance of the squad this morning I’m the happiest I’ve been with it in a long timeEvery single position has good competition for places now all from players who are specialist in that position as opposed to midfielders filling in on the wing etc.. It now looks like the squad can cope with injuries & suspensions without it damaging the balance of the team to any real extent.
Well done Bob
I’m not going to get too excited just yet……..
Roberto’s prowess, tactically, has been well debated on this (and other) boards – ad nausium. However, I want to see how his football brain copes with his man-management skills as he tells those who have provided a good service to the team that they are benched or that the new aquisitions are ‘not really’ that pivotal and can prepare for (at best) a half season of ‘bedding in’ before being considered for one of those coveted starting positions.
They all ‘can’t play’ at the same time……….the trick/skill will be maintaining that fine dressing room morale we have worked at over the past season…..
Good luck Bob
I think it needs to be realised that these are professional footballers. They know that they are in competition for places, and that sometimes you fall out of favour. That’s the nature of the job – just like managers know that they are going to be sacked sooner or later. It’s not like the everyday world.
If you’re going to have a huff if you get dropped and p*** the manager off, then guess what… you’re going to be seat warming for a while…
Most of them dont give a sh it if they’re on the bench or not. Just how much goes into their bank account.
Crikey….
Captain Obvious and Mr Motivator – you pair wouldn’t be out of place leading men into battle…… :roll:
Of course, Mr Garswood, they are ‘professional footballers’ and there should be a healthy competition for starting places, however, my point was I could hardly see Roberto’s selling pitch as a “Yeahh!…great family club…….happy dressing room……..improving every day……great ambition….you might get a few games if any of my lot ‘c0ck-up'”
“Ooooh!….can’t wait gaffer”.
…..and to those already here – “listen nice brace t’other day Franco, but I want to try this new guy out…..hey! and you Figs, go walkabout into central defence again and the new boy will have your shirt”.
Motivation, clarification, inspiration and communication – key aspects of what makes a good leader/coach – what I want to see is how he deals with this in what can be considered an already ‘settled and happy’ dressing room.
Oh! and Mr Arkwright…..if I felt at any time that any of our playing staff didn’t “give a sh it’ they would get short shrift from me……..the Bullard and Koumas days should be well and truely behind us.
why are you talking sh it.
Bullard played a record number consecutive games for us and ran an average of 10 miles a game.
BTW do you have unlimited acces to the squad in order to give them an earful?you couldn’t me more wrong about bullard – don’t believe all that stuff the club put out when he left, he was forced out by wigan athletic so they didnt have to give him the contract rise in wages that kicked in when we stayed up that first premiership season and it was not just him it was jason roberts as well.
will you bl00dy re-read what you have previously posted before talking sh it yourself……..
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Most of them dont give a sh it if they’re on the bench or not. Just how much goes into their bank account.Bullard was exactly one of them – Mr LMB was spot on with that………(I forgot about Roberts!)
there were also the stories of him in the clubs pished up and acting like Harry Enfield “loadsamoney” .
By the way, Mr Opta, the average distance run during a season is just under 7 miles – I suppose if you add Jimmy’s run just after the game into Wigan to check his bank balance at the local Lloyds then you might be nearer the mark.
sorry you have got mixed up with what i typed –
bullard was not a take it all type – he didnt want to leave – he just wanted the increase in pay that had been promised to him when he signed a new contract on the friday before our opening game v chelsea – the same contract ellington turned down and roberts was given(though roberts was and improved deal) – the contract gave them a massive pay rise if we managed to stay up, it was latics that circulated his availability and chose to force him out.
sorry you have got mixed up with what i typed –bullard was not a take it all type – he didnt want to leave – he just wanted the increase in pay that had been promised to him when he signed a new contract on the friday before our opening game v chelsea – the same contract ellington turned down and roberts was given(though roberts was and improved deal) – the contract gave them a massive pay rise if we managed to stay up, it was latics that circulated his availability and chose to force him out.
I beg to differ sir,
Bullard became a glory hunting, money shaking mercenary……….. however, he was known to be free with his love of the ‘cash’ – one season with us in the prem then the ’till’ rang in his eyes (admitedly he had received many plaudits….his head had been turned…….financially).
Now Paul Jewell had said…
“Life goes on. No-one’s bigger than any club and obviously I didn’t want to lose Jimmy but it was his decision to leave and now he’s gone.”
To which Bullard said that Fulham had made him an amazing offer that was quite simply too good to refuse……..
……..in a TV article – a few years later, involving his dad and friends – Jimmy was quite open about his desire to be closer (at that time) to his family and to have the extra ‘kerching’ that the transfer brought………………again the emphasis was on ‘how much he was earning/worth’.
It is further reported that he spent 2 and a half years at Hull, made 24 appearances and earned (reportedly) fiftyfuckingrandaweek.
I know this “gets on peoples goat”…….however,
2 Samuel 1:27
Sorry….I missed the ‘Roberts analogy’….I had just forgot about him.
jimmy bullard sat in the star inn at statham -lymm nr warrington and told a group of us the exact story and you are wrong anything later i know nothing about .
dont blame him for what happenen at hull – they paid too much money for him, and gave him the contract/wages they did when he got injured do you expect him to say “hey its all right you dont need to pay me” —-
lets get real here
jimmy bullard sat in the star inn at statham -lymm nr warrington and told a group of us the exact story and you are wrong anything later i know nothing about .dont blame him for what happenen at hull – they paid too much money for him, and gave him the contract/wages they did when he got injured do you expect him to say “hey its all right you dont need to pay me” —-
lets get real here
For one who, at times, can display flowing prose I have to inform you that they have taken the word ‘gullible’ from the Oxford/English dictionary.
jimmy bullard sat in the star inn at statham -lymm nr warrington and told a group of us the exact story and you are wrongGive me strength…………
What exactly did you expect him to say to ‘wet eyed, dyed-in-the-wool, life-long, GULLIBLE, Latics supporters.
“Hey! F£ck you lot I’m off for more cash”…………
Yeah!…Let’s get real here, mate. ;)
So…….I’m wrong (am I?)……… and anything later you knew nothing about?
i was the only one there from wigan and certainly the only wigan athletic fan – i had only been in his company on one occasion before that and it was only later after he had explained the reason why he moved,he found out i was a fan, and i wasnt the one who brought the subject up either.
if he was that desperate to get to london perhaps there was a reason why he still lived in lymm for 12 months after his move to fulham and travelled as much as he could just to come fishing up here – he still goes to stay in warrington with a mate he met while living here just to go fishing.
take my word jimmy is daft as a brush -but hes sound, perhaps not as “gullible” as me but still sound.
but why believe bullard when two of the most honest fellows in football jewell :o and whelan :o :o say otherwise.
if he was that desperate to get to london perhaps there was a reason why he still lived in lymm for 12 months after his move to fulham and travelled as much as he could just to come fishing up here – he still goes to stay in warrington with a mate he met while living here just to go fishing.Indeed…..and as one myself who has moved around a lot (sometimes for the cause) I can understand the need to make provision for those around you before a move (there are lots of considerations – have you not a family LMB?) – make no mistake he may have stayed (according to you) in the local, however, his loyalty (and bank balance) lay else where.
take my word jimmy is daft as a brush -but hes sound, perhaps not as “gullible” as me but still sound.but why believe bullard when two of the most honest fellows in football jewell :o and whelan :o :o say otherwise.
Look LMB….I’m not having a go at you, however, I see your loyalty to him (as a fellow angler) is a little clouded. He is not as ‘daft as a brush’ as you make him out to be, and on a better day maybe worth a story and a pint in a local somewhere – but, he went for the cash……
…..end of.
Further, I think that was a little unfair, your comments about Paul Jewell and Mr Whelan………
FFS you only have to look at ‘brown envelope taking cockneys’, (Swede’s for that matter), Spanish Scousers, French Londoners and Jock Mancunians et al before you cast that first stone.
Our position – in this top flight, and for so long, is because of (not inspite of) good management (fiscal and technical) and that, Sir, is the truth.
PS..thank you for you company tonight….. you have been a welcome distraction from this ….errrrrm!……. ‘Plan’ I needed to complete for presentation later on.
cheers fella……. ;)
how did the presentation go micky – well i hope
was it as imaginative as the as the rubbish you post on here ;)
if it was no doubt you entertained your audience today if nothing else,i was glad to keep you company but even a night owl like me who had got up again because i couldnt sleep finally gave up to the call of my bed again.
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