Darlo Uncovered

As Quakerz says, he's not always knocking the team. He spent a lot of the last couple of seasons praising the team and defending quality players like Abbott and Kennedy, who often got knocked by a section of our support. Anyone can praise a team when they are doing well. It's when they are struggli...

Darlo2001uk: re. your point on fans demanding instant success, I think many of us would agree that this is, overall, not a good thing for the game and in many cases it does deny managers (and players) the chance to prove themselves over a a longer period. However, that is the way of the world now. ...

I take your point from the sporting perspective - I love the club too. I suppose the human element doesn't really come into it as far as football fans are concerned nowadays. It is all about instant success - if success is the right word. But it does strike me as strange that people feel perfectly h...

And was in the 'experienced but out of work category'.

However much you might want him, he is too sensible to want to join a club in the mess we are now in. Hang on a minute, who says we are in a mess? Do you have any hard evidence? Well, we are bottom of the table with only two points and no manager - so I think most people would classify that as bein...

Experience is not that important. "Experienced" managers that are out of work find themselves in that position for a good reason - they aren't up to the job. Similarly, what difference does it make if the next manager is local? None. Lose the sentiment clouded logic. Experience is exactly what we d...

Quakerz wrote:Seems like we have some up and coming managers applying, which everybody apart from darlo2001uk knew would happen.

I hope so Quackers. Let's hope we get the right one, eh?

I think that does highlight the value of having a good assistant manager.

Martin Gray also proved the value of that to Dave Penney.

Quakerz wrote:Many teams have dialled A for Atkins in the past and he never reversed the charges.

Atkins = out of the s***, guaranteed.

The only problem is what happens when you want to build on it.

Bit like Hodgy!

After administration and all the problems that the club has suffered of late, i'd be perfectly content to finish third from bottom this season. I'd have been happy to finish there even before the season started - princebishop

Quite agree. I wouldn't have disagreed with that on 8 August.

I guess an 'easy and cheap' appointment was all the administrators were interested in when they made the appointment - although I have no idea what Todd was being paid. Interesting that the views on the board have changed from immediate pre-season when many believed we had a squad that would see us ...

He is doing a superb job there.

I think in our current situation, we need someone with experience and not a first-timer.

For Kevin Gall this season read Danny Carlton last. If we had Abbott, Hatch etc then Gall wouldn't be playing. We don't therefore he is, and he's making a decent fist of it. He's slagged off for only being able to put a full shift in - to me that's more effective at our level than a player twice as...

'on two individuals who brought nothing to the club' - prince

Dear God....... I don't think even Todd's harshest critics would claim he didn't perform miracles to get a squad together in the time he had. Of course, what was achieved is a different matter.

You are well out of order there.

even if we dont leave it to raj..... what the fuck can we do about it? concentrate on supporting the team for fucks sake I do. Hence my annoyance at the 'supporters' who called for Todd's head. A strange way to support the team. But he's gone so let's move on and hope the new manager takes us onwar...

I have a mate who is a Halifax fan and he rates him very highly.

Why not leave the worrying about finances to Raj ? - Aveda

That's what we did with GH and look what happened there!

Of Lincoln City!

...in reference to your post on the "Ideas To Be Forwarded To The Club" thread re: not sacking Todd: It's not an odd concept, y'know - sack a manager who isn't going to deliver the goods, see who applies and then pick the best option. Does every other club that's sacked a manager before *always* ha...

Errrrrr......joke Quackers......

I would certainly hope Raj takes his time before makiing any appointment. A kneejerk appointment is not what we need right now.

I don't hate him, I just dont rate him. And it winds me up I admit, when I see Darlo fans clutching at straws and deluding themselves into thinking he is a good player and may have a good season because he runs around a lot. He isn't, and he won't. Yet everybody used to get on Blundell's back for r...

Santino wrote:Christ, you're like a broken record.

What's with your hard-on for Todd anyway? It's uncharacteristic of you to get behind a Darlo manager.

Penney is the ONLY manager I have wanted out. And I was right, as results showed.

Fuck off.

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If there is seriously nobody lined up, then I really do despair for the future of our club.

Still, there will be plenty of people happy he has gone, even if we have no idea where we are going to turn next.

LoidLucan wrote:Decent, honest bloke who, in the end, did the right thing for himself and the club. As they say, it just didn't work out.

What a two-faced tosser you are.

This thread seems a little ironic. Some Darlo fans and fans from other clubs (myself included) posted that perhaps you needed to give Todd some more time to turn things around. Now posters state you have put on your best performance of the season on the day Todd ends up quitting,(for whatever reaso...

And you think Todd has walked away with nothing?

Perhaps as far as the books are concerned

But in reality...God, you are naive as well as stupid.

However much you might want him, he is too sensible to want to join a club in the mess we are now in.