The Delusional Manager Thread

[shoddycollins]

I love Evans ability to wind everyone up by informing other teams of what they are spending.

Turns out he knows quite a lot about accounting... Who knew !?

 

[Plumbob]

Turns out he knows quite a lot about accounting... Who knew !?

The inland revenue?

 

[shoddycollins]

My lawyers have advised me to say that I was of course referring to the excellently laid out and most commendably accurate set of accounts he produced for Boston United, for which he was personally honored by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and subsequently knighted for services to accounting and Comic Sans... and not the other set he had carved into the side of the mayor of Boston's head and kept in a locked box beneath the centre circle.

 

[Davidimp]

Surprised he doesn't advise the government how to solve the national debt.
Honest Steve's handy cash tips!

 

[Davidimp]

Turns out he knows quite a lot about accounting... Who knew !?

He was so good at accounts he did two lots at the same time!

 

[Impish]

Hahaha match made in heaven Evans and Mansfield, no question.

 

[Richard Cranium]

What a beautiful pairing it is too.

 

[Impish]

Quite. Beauty being in the eye of the beholder in this case Dick.

 

[Davidimp]

The man is a God to Cheltenham fans, and many gang off his every word even now.

He's a very good League 1/2 manager and can do a job at Championship level, but his style of football and tactics are too primitive to be successful any higher than lower Championship.

What he can do is motivate. Of the original Cheltenham team that got promoted in 1999, only one left for a higher team (Michael Duff) and the rest were pretty much cast-offs or experienced non-league journeymen. Cotterill's motivation is what got us up.


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His struggles to make it as a championship manager continue as Birmingham have sacked him after 5 defeats on the bounce.

 

[Kenneth E End]

Bump...

http://www.ciderspace.co.uk/ASP/features/interview.asp?InterviewId=2143

Very strange interview by Darren Way. And strange comments by the interviewer - about McCormack supposedly "diving" in the centre circle. It was the clearest trip you've ever seen. But he didn't even get a foul for it, nor did the game stop and AMc get booked for diving? And that the YTFC safety officer is reviewing the game for "inciting the crowd". Are you kidding me?!

I also like he was trying to influence the referee before the start of the game about Hylton and McCormack.

 

[Urban]

I'm presuming Hylton absolutely didn't celebrate in front of the Yeovil fans then? As I mean, you know, that would be so unusual and totally out of character.

 

[GTFCfish]

I thought it was quite ironic Jack Lester moaning that it was never a penalty (ok he does have a point) with the amount of dodgy pens he won us while he was here by purposely sticking his foot into several defenders trailing legs winning us numerous pens.

 

[Kenneth E End]

I'm presuming Hylton absolutely didn't celebrate in front of the Yeovil fans then? As I mean, you know, that would be so unusual and totally out of character.

He ran across towards the corner, turned his back and pointed towards the name on his back. It was a bit stupid and needless, but some of the insinuations made is simply laughable. It was a clear penalty.

During the weeks before McConville at Accrington ran across to the SKF clock and rubbed it in the faces of Luton fans and got unpunished.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

He ran across towards the corner, turned his back and pointed towards the name on his back. It was a bit stupid and needless, but some of the insinuations made is simply laughable. It was a clear penalty.

During the weeks before McConville at Accrington ran across to the SKF clock and rubbed it in the faces of Luton fans and got unpunished.

After they scored the winner that day half their bench were on the pitch and the squad were in the stand with the away fans with no repercussions!

I don't really have a problem with it, people get far too precious about these sorts of things.

 

[Kenneth E End]

After they scored the winner that day half their bench were on the pitch and the squad were in the stand with the away fans with no repercussions!

I don't really have a problem with it, people get far too precious about these sorts of things.

The Accrington bench weren't doing any harm though - they were just celebrating a crucial goal in one of the biggest games of their history.

When it is deliberately rubbing it in the oppositions faces is pretty classless, but don't think in either of these two situations that was the case.

 

[Laker]

After they scored the winner that day half their bench were on the pitch and the squad were in the stand with the away fans with no repercussions!

I don't really have a problem with it, people get far too precious about these sorts of things.

I agree with you. Given the outright abuse hurled at players from the terraces, it’s very rich for the same people to get all upset when there’s any response from players to it. They are human after all.

 

[dedwardp]

Yep, if I was an away goalscorer I would love to give it some back on the frequent occasions when I had been getting barracked for a while. Would be one of the true joys of being a footballer.

 

[valefan16]

I thought it was quite ironic Jack Lester moaning that it was never a penalty (ok he does have a point) with the amount of dodgy pens he won us while he was here by purposely sticking his foot into several defenders trailing legs winning us numerous pens.

He made some weird comments last week about the referee not giving them enough... just a free kick they scored from and somehow only booking their lad for clothes lining Hannant!

Kewells interview yesterday was equally weird... although considering his playing style I wasn’t surprised he backed the referee.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

When my side loses I always blame the referee, concentrate and over focus on individual moments that went against my side in the game, have a cheap pop at the opposition star forward and make a snidey bitter comment regarding their manager as well. The last thing I do is concentrate on my own sides players and manager

 

[Vanni]

I thought it was quite ironic Jack Lester moaning that it was never a penalty (ok he does have a point) with the amount of dodgy pens he won us while he was here by purposely sticking his foot into several defenders trailing legs winning us numerous pens.

Er no, he doesn't have a point. Their lad controlled the ball with his arm = penalty.

 

[Kenneth E End]

When my side loses I always blame the referee, concentrate and over focus on individual moments that went against my side in the game, have a cheap pop at the opposition star forward and make a snidey bitter comment regarding their manager as well. The last thing I do is concentrate on my own sides players and manager

When in Darren Way and Yeovil’s case where they’ve conceded 20 goals in 4 games v Luton.

 

[gijsbert_bos]

I thought it was quite ironic Jack Lester moaning that it was never a penalty (ok he does have a point) with the amount of dodgy pens he won us while he was here by purposely sticking his foot into several defenders trailing legs winning us numerous pens.

"Honest" Jack Lester never, ever dived to win a penalty!

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

When in Darren Way and Yeovil’s case where they’ve conceded 20 goals in 4 games v Luton.

I think you are missing the point Kenny.

The onefootballforum is the epicentre for the deflective deluded blame culture and the last place/people who can have a pop at managers comments

 

[Luke Imp]

I thought it was quite ironic Jack Lester moaning that it was never a penalty (ok he does have a point) with the amount of dodgy pens he won us while he was here by purposely sticking his foot into several defenders trailing legs winning us numerous pens.

Lester vs Akinde. That'd be an interesting one!

 

[MrGloverLover]

Bump...

http://www.ciderspace.co.uk/ASP/features/interview.asp?InterviewId=2143

Very strange interview by Darren Way. And strange comments by the interviewer - about McCormack supposedly "diving" in the centre circle. It was the clearest trip you've ever seen. But he didn't even get a foul for it, nor did the game stop and AMc get booked for diving? And that the YTFC safety officer is reviewing the game for "inciting the crowd". Are you kidding me?!

I also like he was trying to influence the referee before the start of the game about Hylton and McCormack.

Every interview Darren Way gives is very strange. He has some 'interesting' interpretations of our games that are rarely based on reality.

 

[MrGloverLover]

He ran across towards the corner, turned his back and pointed towards the name on his back. It was a bit stupid and needless, but some of the insinuations made is simply laughable. It was a clear penalty.

During the weeks before McConville at Accrington ran across to the SKF clock and rubbed it in the faces of Luton fans and got unpunished.

It was a definite penalty and there were no complaints from Dickson when he was sent off. Them's the rules. Hylton was an idiot to then do what he did but that's his nature and everyone knows it so it shouldn't come as a surprise.

 

[MrGloverLover]

When in Darren Way and Yeovil’s case where they’ve conceded 20 goals in 4 games v Luton.

Yes, you're definitely a bogey team for us and have fully deserved everything you've got from those games.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Every interview Darren Way gives is very strange. He has some 'interesting' interpretations of our games that are rarely based on reality.

To be fair to Way here, it seems that the interviewer is the one trying to make a big deal of it rather than him, definitely trying to elicit a "news worthy" comment out of him and credit to him he just keeps saying he is pleased you haven't capitulated which is fair enough.

Interviewer comes across a bit of a prat on that transcript rather than Way.

 

[Trapdoor]

Nobody really understands anything that comes out of Tisdale's mouth so he could be completely delusional or he could just as easily be completely honest and realistic.

Tisdale interviews are bizarre. You cant often identify what he's actually talking about, it could be football but it could also be global geopolitics. He seems to view the events that occur on the pitch as a mere afterthought to some grand strategy.
As far as I can tell he views the club more like a professional services business than a football team. I don't think it's a bad thing it just makes for very odd interviews.

It's funny when reporters ask him difficult questions, he gets very exasperated and prickly. I cant recall him ever blaming the players for a defeat though.

 

[Kenneth E End]

Bump. Getting a bit bored of hearing this...

"I've told them, Luton believe they are a good team because they are all on four-times more money than we are, but we should believe too because we are a good team."