Maurice Ross Sacked

[irishpete]

And here in a nutshell is the reason why we are struggling to stamp our authority in this league !
No backbone or balls and gets upset when called a name.
I bet he had to leave the Mercedes in the club car park as he couldn't drive home for tears in his eyes !
The opposition will have a field day when they find out who gets upset at being called names and runs off to mummy !
instead of having a pair of oblloxs and giving it back he decides to squeal like a pig ?
I bet it was Covids fault hey MM

Footy is fcuked. Not the game most of us knew it by. Full of Pansies
What was the saying when a kid
Sticks & stones may break my bones, but calling never hurts you

[since41]

Footy is fcuked. Not the game most of us knew it by. Full of Pansies
What was the saying when a kid
Sticks & stones may break my bones, but calling never hurts you

The Wonderful World of Woke.

I wonder how Sir Jimmy would have coped.

I hope it stirs the team up to a fiery response.

[Carlton_Pie]

The Wonderful World of Woke.

I wonder how Sir Jimmy would have coped.

I hope it stirs the team up to a fiery response.

You can't compare the 2 eras, they're completely different.

A lot of what went on back then was wrong but the world just accepted it, good to see times have moved on.

MR has obviously said something he shouldn't as he's not contesting the sacking. Sad but the right call to remove him from his position.

[Notts78]

And here in a nutshell is the reason why we are struggling to stamp our authority in this league !
No backbone or balls and gets upset when called a name.
I bet he had to leave the Mercedes in the club car park as he couldn't drive home for tears in his eyes !
The opposition will have a field day when they find out who gets upset at being called names and runs off to mummy !
instead of having a pair of oblloxs and giving it back he decides to squeal like a pig ?
I bet it was Covids fault hey MM

Wow. Given that MR has come out with a statement and has taken responsibility for whatever was said would suggest it isn’t simply name calling. If it was a case of someone being over sensitive wouldn’t MR have said something along the lines of
‘I said something, I don’t agree with the decision by Notts and will aim to clear my name in court’?
Although I agree that society is generally over sensitive and we have to be really careful what we say, write or type. It doesn’t condone if something was said with any discriminatory words(speculation of course in this case).
You should read the article about a footballer who quit at half time in Scotland when apparently an opponent said ‘’you should have done it right the first time’ - now their is nothing bad in that in isolation, BUT the player it was aimed at has attempted to take his own life on several occasions.
The whole situation is sad and I am sure at some point more information will be released.

[the_anticlough]

Wow. Given that MR has come out with a statement and has taken responsibility for whatever was said would suggest it isn’t simply name calling. If it was a case of someone being over sensitive wouldn’t MR have said something along the lines of
‘I said something, I don’t agree with the decision by Notts and will aim to clear my name in court’?
Although I agree that society is generally over sensitive and we have to be really careful what we say, write or type. It doesn’t condone if something was said with any discriminatory words(speculation of course in this case).
You should read the article about a footballer who quit at half time in Scotland when apparently an opponent said ‘’you should have done it right the first time’ - now their is nothing bad in that in isolation, BUT the player it was aimed at has attempted to take his own life on several occasions.
The whole situation is sad and I am sure at some point more information will be released.

Yes it is, and when/if this info gets out it could be that the words are only moderately shocking, which will tell us that Maurice was in quite a weak position (in relation to the squad/ IB/ staff in general?) and there's something of a pretext around this whole thing - otherwise there would be more effort to repair whatever problem it was.
Anyway, we're all left speculating without the details.

[upthemaggies]

Yes it is, and when/if this info gets out it could be that the words are only moderately shocking, which will tell us that Maurice was in quite a weak position (in relation to the squad/ IB/ staff in general?) and there's something of a pretext around this whole thing - otherwise there would be more effort to repair whatever problem it was.
Anyway, we're all left speculating without the details.

Would he have departed if we'd been flying and still in a chance of 1st place? Is something like this more likely to happen or take on a greater significance when things are going badly?

We don't even know for sure if it's the player on the receiving end of the comment who took offence, For example, he might have called a player out for playing like "an invalid" and another player took offence because they have a disabled relative or something like that.

If it was to be deemed fairly innocuous by common consensus and everybody at Notts has now got to watch what they say, it's not going to make for a happy environment to work in. If it was serious, then all power to the owners for acting swiftly and decisively.

I guess we're all speculating because we're all wondering what kind of club and culture we are now supporting.

[Old_pie]

Wow. Given that MR has come out with a statement and has taken responsibility for whatever was said would suggest it isn’t simply name calling. If it was a case of someone being over sensitive wouldn’t MR have said something along the lines of
‘I said something, I don’t agree with the decision by Notts and will aim to clear my name in court’?

Maybe the Reedtz Bros made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

[Old_pie]

Surely the Football Radar stats predicted this outcome?

[magpie_mania]

Going by what Kevin Nicholson said on MC last week, I don't think we appreciate just how much things have changed. It's not that long ago that he was playing and he said that if he talked to young players now how he used to talk to his teammates when he was playing, they wouldn't speak to him for three weeks. The younger generation are super sensitive, we've seen in the past few years how people can be cancelled for next to nothing, so it's probably unfair to assume Ross has gone as far as we might imagine he did. He may have done, but whatever the case, it's been dealt with, we have to accept it and let's see how the team reacts tomorrow.
God help us though if Ross was the one from this pairing with the better motivation skills.

It's not about how sensitive the younger players are. You seem to be blaming that - in your post in the prediction thread you mention how one of the less popular players may have got 'their mate kicked out by not pulling his weight'.

[upthemaggies]

It's not about how sensitive the younger players are. You seem to be blaming that - in your post in the prediction thread you mention how one of the less popular players may have got 'their mate kicked out by not pulling his weight'.

Taken completely out of context.
I also said "If they didn't much like Ross and have rallied around the player involved, it's going to bring them together and - after Ross's comments about animals - make them determined to show they are better off without him."..... In relation to how the players might react tomorrow.

I'm just trying to be fair and balanced, not blaming anybody. You don't have any more idea what was said than anybody else. Might have been a religious angle to it, who knows. It's not fair to assume it's racist when we've got no idea.