It's always easy for things to be said about what happened with zero actual evidence. How much were Pitts and Arundal getting again? Don't forget the bagful of money for Miller and anyone else eh? Who openly said Gentle didn't want Shaul or Lineham, would that be Radford or Pearson, the two people who helped oust/undermine and sacked him and thus needed to justify to fans why they did so (again snd again and again) Suppoedly in the deluded world of the Radford lovers everything positive was down to Radford and everything negative down to Gentle and McRae is garbage. For all Pearson's supposed business acumen and micro managing he sure was a dope for letting all this crud go on under his nose and huge sums of money let flow. But ruining Ben Crooks is all okay though, binning off our specialist hookers, signing losers like Carvell, Colburn instead of using the youngsters, playing an off form Yeaman constantly and wasted/pointless signings plus turning us from a team in contention and cup finalists into relegation fodder is fine.
For all the slating of Gentle he did far more with a weaker squad with not much support in the way of the asst coach and supposed inflated salaries than Radford has. We also defended better under Gentle..go figure!
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See Seb is basing all his facts on radio coverage as per usual.I thought Radford had turned the corner,2 good wins and 2 narrow defeats due to errors and then that happens,I didn't see the Widnes and Cas games due to work and having set hols and I don't have sky sports so cannot comment on those games but been told errors cost us the cas game and we was woeful v Widnes.Of all the signings,the one I'm disappointed in is Manu,not really done anything for me and is a very lazy defender,and don't say about minutes on pitch as he missed Flower in the 1st minute....Carlos is a class centre and way better than Crooks and Pritchard isn't being used right.As for possible replacement coaches,I just don't see why people get a hide on over Powell,he has done well with Cas but they aren't serious challengers in my eyes and have lost the last 2,1 to a team we royally battered.
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Thats why you got the Bullet Agar...Adam Pearson wants winners...not useless gits like you.
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knockersbumpMKII wrote:It's always easy for things to be said about what happened with zero actual evidence. How much were Pitts and Arundal getting again? Don't forget the bagful of money for Miller and anyone else eh? Who openly said Gentle didn't want Shaul or Lineham, would that be Radford or Pearson, the two people who helped oust/undermine and sacked him and thus needed to justify to fans why they did so (again snd again and again) Suppoedly in the deluded world of the Radford lovers everything positive was down to Radford and everything negative down to Gentle and McRae is garbage. For all Pearson's supposed business acumen and micro managing he sure was a dope for letting all this crud go on under his nose and huge sums of money let flow. But ruining Ben Crooks is all okay though, binning off our specialist hookers, signing losers like Carvell, Colburn instead of using the youngsters, playing an off form Yeaman constantly and wasted/pointless signings plus turning us from a team in contention and cup finalists into relegation fodder is fine.
For all the slating of Gentle he did far more with a weaker squad with not much support in the way of the asst coach and supposed inflated salaries than Radford has. We also defended better under Gentle..go figure!
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Dave K. wrote:You have to wonder who is to blame Mcrae or Gentle for signing players like Pitts and Arundel on big contracts?
The biggest worry for me is that Gentle wanted rid or to replace Shaul and Lineham, although you could say the same about Radford with a few of the younger players.
Don't know much about the recruitment process under Gentle and McRae and that's the first I've heard about Gentle wanting to get rid/replace Lineham.
Regarding Shaul, I was always under the impression that it was more that because we had Mcdonnell on the books that Shaul was second choice. To be fair at the time, Mcdonnell was a pretty good full back who we never got to see much of due to injury whereas Shaul was a young, raw, unproven talent. But as soon as Mcdonnell was injured Shaul was straight in the team. It would have been interesting to see what Gentle would have done once Mcdonnell was fit again but that's something we'll never know.
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Doc Brown wrote:Don't know much about the recruitment process under Gentle and McRae and that's the first I've heard about Gentle wanting to get rid/replace Lineham.
Regarding Shaul, I was always under the impression that it was more that because we had Mcdonnell on the books that Shaul was second choice. To be fair at the time, Mcdonnell was a pretty good full back who we never got to see much of due to injury whereas Shaul was a young, raw, unproven talent. But as soon as Mcdonnell was injured Shaul was straight in the team. It would have been interesting to see what Gentle would have done once Mcdonnell was fit again but that's something we'll never know.
Gentle wanted to sign Nick Youngquest as he didn't think Lineham was ready.
Shaul nearly went to Union (Newcastle I think).
Think Radford fought in both cases to keep the players (Or give him a chance in Lineham's case)
knockersbumpMKII wrote:It's always easy for things to be said about what happened with zero actual evidence. How much were Pitts and Arundal getting again? Don't forget the bagful of money for Miller and anyone else eh? Who openly said Gentle didn't want Shaul or Lineham, would that be Radford or Pearson, the two people who helped oust/undermine and sacked him and thus needed to justify to fans why they did so (again snd again and again) Suppoedly in the deluded world of the Radford lovers everything positive was down to Radford and everything negative down to Gentle and McRae is garbage. For all Pearson's supposed business acumen and micro managing he sure was a dope for letting all this crud go on under his nose and huge sums of money let flow. But ruining Ben Crooks is all okay though, binning off our specialist hookers, signing losers like Carvell, Colburn instead of using the youngsters, playing an off form Yeaman constantly and wasted/pointless signings plus turning us from a team in contention and cup finalists into relegation fodder is fine.
For all the slating of Gentle he did far more with a weaker squad with not much support in the way of the asst coach and supposed inflated salaries than Radford has. We also defended better under Gentle..go figure!
Presumably in your world a "Radford lover" is someone who doesn't think he is a turd who should be shot.
ComeOnYouUll wrote:Presumably in your world a "Radford lover" is someone who doesn't think he is a turd who should be shot.
Yawn...again for those without the capability to read and understand. ..that'll be you then, my turd comment was with respect to Radford's coaching ability and should be shot if he doesn't get us into the top four/cup final with this squad...if you think that means being killed then you have issues. Now get back to studying English and ply your vindictive twisted crud elsewhere.
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Pretty much all your arguments are based on.
