by Dave » 06 May 2013, 15:33
ferrarilover wrote:Deary me, will the club ever do anything right in the eyes of the fans?
Sack him by phone (perfectly practical, saves cost on both sides and keeps the whole thing completely secret) and the Board are uncaring, unkind idiots who don't know what they're doing.
Get ML to come to us (costs both sides money, makes a bit of a t**t of Dinger, risks the info being leaked) and the Board are uncaring, unkind idiots who don't know what they're doing.
Send Thea to ML (costs the club money, makes it seem like we are doing all the running around) the Board are frittering away money for diesel and Leigh Delamere services Costa Coffee. The Board are also spineless, doing all the running around in order to sack someone. When are we going to grow some balls?
Meet Dinger halfway (costs the club a fortune, inconveniences both parties) the Board are profligate idiots who don't know what they're doing etc.
The club had a number of options, each of them with positives and negatives. They chose the cheapest, simplest option which involved least inconvenience for both parties.
No one is "suing" anyone. A geezer has been sacked, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't matter what assurances he was given or by whom. Martin slit his own throat last night when he said he's fully recovered and has been for 5 weeks. Had we sacked him while he was ill, it may (although unlikely) have posed us a problem. What we've done is waited until he's back fit and well before giving him the boot. We haven't sacked a sick man, we've sacked a healthy man.
For me, he's a victim of circumstance and I think we'd have finished higher had he been fully fit all year. Still, he's gone and it's all rather academic now.
Matt.
100% spot on Matt. as a general point there really are some daft posts on this thread, christ why are we so worried that our club have some how been put in a bad light, christ take one look at Barnet how mnay god damn managers did they sack or kick sideways over the last 5 years only to bring Martin Allen in to save them, it is part and parcel of football.
Of course Alan Knill if the terms and conditions are right will take the job and if he doesn't someone else will, we still remain one of the very few clubs where you can go 20 games as a manager with an awful set of results and be more likely to be offered help than the sack.
The moment Lingy went sick and a interim manager was brought in his postion as manager was under threat, why does anyone think Martin Ling sought an assurance from the board, he knew his time could well be up. As a result of all that has happened on and off the field Lingy's postion became untenable period, our board have got this right.
And what the hell does it matter how, he was going to get the boot, no need for any fanfare, just get it over and done with,
Edit..Oh and on the subject of players, Jarvis was only ever played up top on his own instead of Rene, Rene Howe was only played up top on his own and hated it, those two are not going to be in any rush to re-join Lingy, in fact I think we now have a better chance of holding on to Rene.
And Saah goal celebration against barnet was a very clear sign he like's working with Alan Knill, so think he would probably stay aswell.
[quote="ferrarilover"]Deary me, will the club ever do anything right in the eyes of the fans?
Sack him by phone (perfectly practical, saves cost on both sides and keeps the whole thing completely secret) and the Board are uncaring, unkind idiots who don't know what they're doing.
Get ML to come to us (costs both sides money, makes a bit of a t**t of Dinger, risks the info being leaked) and the Board are uncaring, unkind idiots who don't know what they're doing.
Send Thea to ML (costs the club money, makes it seem like we are doing all the running around) the Board are frittering away money for diesel and Leigh Delamere services Costa Coffee. The Board are also spineless, doing all the running around in order to sack someone. When are we going to grow some balls?
Meet Dinger halfway (costs the club a fortune, inconveniences both parties) the Board are profligate idiots who don't know what they're doing etc.
The club had a number of options, each of them with positives and negatives. They chose the cheapest, simplest option which involved least inconvenience for both parties.
No one is "suing" anyone. A geezer has been sacked, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't matter what assurances he was given or by whom. Martin slit his own throat last night when he said he's fully recovered and has been for 5 weeks. Had we sacked him while he was ill, it may (although unlikely) have posed us a problem. What we've done is waited until he's back fit and well before giving him the boot. We haven't sacked a sick man, we've sacked a healthy man.
For me, he's a victim of circumstance and I think we'd have finished higher had he been fully fit all year. Still, he's gone and it's all rather academic now.
Matt.[/quote]
:goodpost: 100% spot on Matt. as a general point there really are some daft posts on this thread, christ why are we so worried that our club have some how been put in a bad light, christ take one look at Barnet how mnay god damn managers did they sack or kick sideways over the last 5 years only to bring Martin Allen in to save them, it is part and parcel of football.
Of course Alan Knill if the terms and conditions are right will take the job and if he doesn't someone else will, we still remain one of the very few clubs where you can go 20 games as a manager with an awful set of results and be more likely to be offered help than the sack.
The moment Lingy went sick and a interim manager was brought in his postion as manager was under threat, why does anyone think Martin Ling sought an assurance from the board, he knew his time could well be up. As a result of all that has happened on and off the field Lingy's postion became untenable period, our board have got this right.
And what the hell does it matter how, he was going to get the boot, no need for any fanfare, just get it over and done with,
Edit..Oh and on the subject of players, Jarvis was only ever played up top on his own instead of Rene, Rene Howe was only played up top on his own and hated it, those two are not going to be in any rush to re-join Lingy, in fact I think we now have a better chance of holding on to Rene.
And Saah goal celebration against barnet was a very clear sign he like's working with Alan Knill, so think he would probably stay aswell.
