Based on last night's goal, it was a MASSIVE mistake not giving him another 5 year contract. Pozzo out.
Reading rising up the table after a poor start, admittedly TDB is the only reason I'm interested in their results.
Nice touch by Fulham here : https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCSport....com/BBCSport/status/1441800853854330881?s=19
Even if it doesn't put them in danger of going down, it'll probably scupper any chance they had of going up.
Warnock not taking too well to his overseas imports. Cannot cope with so many it seems . https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport...arnock-21687229.amp?__twitter_impression=true
Nigel Pearson got COVID. Wish him all the best on a full recovery . https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....l-city-manager-tests-positive-for-coronavirus
Is this the second time he's caught it? I'm almost certain I read he contracted it during the break in the PL the year he was here.
Deeney and Gray both unable to make 90 minutes in a championship game. I think getting rid just might have been the right call after all.
They didn't even make 90 minutes in their minutes combined! Going down to League 1 - taxi for Nigel Adkins surely?
Brereton will be on his way to the PL before long I should think. Perhaps we could drop in a bid. Ben Whiteman performing manfully for Preston North End as well.
Chalo also subbed early for Fulham last game, (maybe injured?). Quina not in match squad. Hughes yet to get off the bench I believe at CP?
Perhaps but expectations at Doncaster are nothing like those at Charlton and they have gone down to League 2 before relatively recently - he could take them back up like he did with Swindon. But he’s already failed at this level, taking Oldham down (who haven’t been back up since) and reasonably they might get someone else in if they are anxious about staying in this division.
Yes - they cannot get it right at Charlton can they ? Even under Lee Bowyer there were issues off the pitch with various owners . Agree the expectations will be different but Doncaster really seemed to have suffered since Darren Moore left .
It’s a real shame, really. Not for us as a club of course, him leaving has benefited us in more ways than one, but for him personally. I really don’t know why from a personal point of view he didn’t just stay here and fade into the background. Instead he not only tarnished his legacy here, he’s going to tarnish his legacy there despite never actually even having played for them before. I believe he signed a two year deal? So things could turn very sour there for him and the fans, as I assume his wages are still not insignificant. I think that journeyman comment from one of their fans is completely inaccurate though, he probably took a paycut to join his boyhood club, he’s not a journeyman, unfortunately his ego just massively outstrips his ability and he believed he could create some sort of fairytale for both of them. He clearly believes all these excuses he’s trotted out the past few years, otherwise I don’t know why he’d put himself in this position if he saw the reality of his ability as the rest of us do. Maybe he’s a bit of a Gazza type, and just can’t accept his football career coming to a close. One benefit at least is that it should provide closure to some of our fans who still beloved he could contribute for us this season.
How many times did we say this exact thing over the last two seasons: It's not a personal dig at Troy, it's the honest truth, and something he must believe deep down. He made himself a cult hero here - and considering we bought him from Walsall he certainly looked the real deal for many years. Brum fans' must of lurked on this forum to know how Watford feel about his declining fitness and motivational issues. I admire him for giving his career one last shot but the last thing he wants is fans' of his boyhood club booing him off as the season goes on.
Totally disagree that he “tarnished his legacy” at Watford, but it’s sad that the Birmingham fans are unlikely to ever have the love for him that we did.
By saying he tarnished his legacy that isn’t a black/white binary statement, I think he definitely hung around for two seasons too long and to an extent did tarnish his legacy. Nothing can take away what he did, but he definitely started to take the shine off of it for various reasons.
Yeah in fairness another poster immediately replied to that pointing out exactly what you have, that he's not in any way a journeyman, but obv I didn't include it because it wasn't a comment on his ability/performance. And yet he gave it large about finally managing to get to a manageable weight this summer, in direct contrast to the last five, as well as 'writing' in the programme about how it was his task to earn the starting place be believed he deserved in the Prem, before pulling the ripcord not two games later when he hadn't done so - it seems like a very strange mix of delusion and calculation. The Birmingham move must have been part an exercise in fan fairytale, and part in legacy-building/defining, but, as you say, sorely misjudged in the end. Apparently when he's on the pitch up top they play a lot of crosses into the box, which is great for him, because he's never in the box and can't get on the end of crosses! Then again, with his current ability, if he didn't want it exposed the only realistic option open to him was to retire, and he was never going to do that at 33. As you say, the smartest move would have been to stay here and play whatever role was asked of him rather than demanding the headline act, but that doesn't seem to be in his character.
So now we think Deeney should have stayed picking up his “70-100k” a week? After months and weeks of people wanting him gone like he was some dirty stain on the club controlling everything. He got on the end of a cross the other day hitting the bar with a header I saw tbf. More than our strikers offered on Saturday for most of the game .
No, I didn’t want Troy to stay her picking up his £70-100k per week at all, not in the slightest, but all things considered, it would’ve been the best thing for him personally by far.