Troy Deeney

[Albionic68]

I appreciate it's all about managing in your time but Sir Gary Megson may never have made it with us by today's preferred managerial styles.

Yet without him pulling our club up by it's then largely empty scrote bag we'd most likely have gone down to the third tier again.

Sliding door moment when we could have recruited someone with a long term 'project' in mind and gone onto conquer the footballing world?

Probably not. I suspect we'd have slipped into oblivion along with the Brian Clough school of management. There's a time and place for everything though.

So just because Deeney's failed at the footballing Mecca of Forest Green Rovers it doesn't mean there can never be a place for strict but fairer management by others either now or in future

[WBA123]

I appreciate it's all about managing in your time but Sir Gary Megson may never have made it with us by today's preferred managerial styles.

Yet without him pulling our club up by it's then largely empty scrote bag we'd most likely have gone down to the third tier again.

Sliding door moment when we could have recruited someone with a long term 'project' in mind and gone onto conquer the footballing world?

Probably not. I suspect we'd have slipped into oblivion along with the Brian Clough school of management. There's a time and place for everything though.

So just because Deeney's failed at the footballing Mecca of Forest Green Rovers it doesn't mean there can never be a place for strict but fairer management by others either now or in future

From memory though I can't recall Megson ever digging out and being disrespectful to individuals after a defeat. I might be wrong, but I can't remember that. I also know he said certain players were unavailable/injured rather than be brutally honest about why they weren't playing.

Its okay to be a strict manager, I'm just saying you have to be a bit cute with your words around the media sometimes. Pulis for example was very good at that whilst equally being a tough manager.

Deeney could have been a strict manager behind closed doors, he didn't need to shout his mouth off in front of the world. His direct talking to the press wouldn't be an asset to me if he was managing us, its the opposite.