Sack him, save our season

[durhampie]

I wish you'd just spill the beans 1955pie!

They were sacked for bullying..

[Pie-eyed&legless]

They were sacked for bullying..

Is this true 1955?

[Elite_Pie]

I am sure that lots of people know what happened.

I am equally sure that the majority of us don't know what happened.

So either tell us or STFU.

[Could'vebeenacontender]

They were sacked for bullying..

The players despised Matty in particular
His brother was along for the ride
The interview with Matty after his departure just confirmed the sort of person he is
I've not noticed clubs rushing to sign the brothers so far
Bad result today
Hopefully we can get the big guns back in time for a final push

[BigFatPie]

The players despised Matty in particular
His brother was along for the ride
The interview with Matty after his departure just confirmed the sort of person he is
I've not noticed clubs rushing to sign the brothers so far
Bad result today
Hopefully we can get the big guns back in time for a final push

Youve not heard anything regarding the ownership?

[upthemaggies]

I'm not going to sit through a 30 minute interview, but from the first 5 mins and reading between the lines, it sounds to me like he felt he wasn't being paid enough for the amount of work he was putting in - set against the stress of what comes with being a coach and dealing with players. Presumably nobody on the staff is paid particularly well compared to some other L2 clubs. Logically you wouldn't be taking people from a part time situation and then paying them what L2 clubs with decent budgets are paying.

Other people are coming to different conclusions, supporters will be fed rumours that deflect from other issues. I reckon money, or the lack of, is the basic issue, not just with this case but with the club generally. It's pretty obvious they're trying to do everything on the cheap despite us having (officially) the biggest gates for 30 years.

[jacobncfc]

I'm not going to sit through a 30 minute interview, but from the first 5 mins and reading between the lines, it sounds to me like he felt he wasn't being paid enough for the amount of work he was putting in - set against the stress of what comes with being a coach and dealing with players. Presumably nobody on the staff is paid particularly well compared to some other L2 clubs. Logically you wouldn't be taking people from a part time situation and then paying them what L2 clubs with decent budgets are paying.

Other people are coming to different conclusions, supporters will be fed rumours that deflect from other issues. I reckon money, or the lack of, is the basic issue, not just with this case but with the club generally. It's pretty obvious they're trying to do everything on the cheap despite us having (officially) the biggest gates for 30 years.

You think our assistant manager who was working full time for Wealdstone on a part time wage walked out because he didn?t think he was getting paid enough?

Come on man.

[jackal2]

I'm not going to sit through a 30 minute interview, but from the first 5 mins and reading between the lines, it sounds to me like he felt he wasn't being paid enough for the amount of work he was putting in - set against the stress of what comes with being a coach and dealing with players. Presumably nobody on the staff is paid particularly well compared to some other L2 clubs. Logically you wouldn't be taking people from a part time situation and then paying them what L2 clubs with decent budgets are paying.

Other people are coming to different conclusions, supporters will be fed rumours that deflect from other issues. I reckon money, or the lack of, is the basic issue, not just with this case but with the club generally. It's pretty obvious they're trying to do everything on the cheap despite us having (officially) the biggest gates for 30 years.

"On the cheap" is just football fan talk for not spending more than you're earning and trying to avoid accumulating debt, which is entirely sensible for a club that is not yet breaking even and has a history of near bankruptcies, but fans choose to ignore that because it sounds boring, while rabbiting on about "lack of ambition", "speculate to accumulate" and all the other lazy cliches is much easier.

Listening to the Saunders interview, I thought he sounded pretentious and full of himself, talking as if he had just completed the complete blueprint for football, rather than being a coach who had just left a League two club and had yet got another job. That said, the standard of our performances since he left has dropped considerably, so it leaves me wondering if he has indeed taken something with him. The talk that the players didn't like him may or may not be true - perhaps they thought he was a bit too full of himself too, especially given his lowly background - but the longer this run of bad performances goes on, the more it raises questions about Maynard's coaching capacities without the guys he chose to bring with him.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

I'll repeat what I said in the other thread. The new signings haven't impressed, but they're not alone. Established players who until recently were performing well are now looking way off form. The whole team looks slow, hesitant and badly under-prepared, and if you're a new player coming into that then you're obviously going to suffer.

I'm seriously beginning to wonder what walked out of the door when we had the sudden split in the managerial team in late January. Since then, only the performance at Gillingham and maybe the one at Fleetwood have been what you might call decent. The rest have been pretty poor, even in the games we won against the division's stragglers. We look like a badly-prepared team. We're trying to continue playing the possession football that is our identity, but everyone wants too many touches, the movement off the ball has largely disappeared and we're playing in front of teams at a snail's pace. I'm beginning to wonder if Maynard was just the PR guy and Saunders was the one with the tactical and training expertise.

It feels like we have come full circle and we are back to that lethargy and apathy that descended on the squad this time last year after Luke Williams left the club. Or is it just the way we see it as a fan base?

[upthemaggies]

You think our assistant manager who was working full time for Wealdstone on a part time wage walked out because he didn?t think he was getting paid enough?

Come on man.

Wealdstone would have been a different situation entirely - Less pressure, less egos. If you're not getting any credit whilst having to put up with that side of things, then the pay check is the only thing that makes it worth your while, like most jobs. If he quit, as opposed to being pushed, then evidently the money wasn't enough for him to want to stick it out.