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Butts

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43096 said:
That's very easy to say. It would be rather harder to do.
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I'll not dispute the fact he has suffered a lot of abuse since taking over from Rafa , but is extremely well rewarded for it especially with regard to the multi-million pound payoff.

Where else would you get rewarded so handsomely for abstract failure other than football.

Are you seriously suggesting that if someone offered you £8 Million to replicate his experience you would turn it down ?
 
DarloRich

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Butts said:
If he really got an Eight Million Pound Payoff is that not insane ?

A lot of these so called Managers troll around various clubs achieving nothing and leaving with a sizeable severance for maintaining mediocrity in a lot of cases.

Nice work if you can get it !!

Forget Bankers Football Managers are the ones with their nose in the trough.
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I call that good negotiation. He has been treated like dirt by the club and the fans so good luck to him
 
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Butts said:
I'll not dispute the fact he has suffered a lot of abuse since taking over from Rafa , but is extremely well rewarded for it especially with regard to the multi-million pound payoff.

Where else would you get rewarded so handsomely for abstract failure other than football.

Are you seriously suggesting that if someone offered you £8 Million to replicate his experience you would turn it down ?
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Of course, but Newcastle don't deserve a good manager anyway.

Hope they go down this season.
 
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AlterEgo said:
Of course, but Newcastle don't deserve a good manager anyway.

Hope they go down this season.
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They wont.

Butts said:
Where else would you get rewarded so handsomely for abstract failure other than football.
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But he hasn't failed - he has delivered EXACTLY what the former owner asked for and funded. That performance may be different from what the fans wanted!
 
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DarloRich said:
But he hasn't failed - he has delivered EXACTLY what the former owner asked for and funded. That performance may be different from what the fans wanted!
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Precisely. By keeping them in the top division on a shoestring budget, Bruce has made Newcastle more attractive to the foreign buyer that it now has. Mike Ashley has the cash he wants for the club and has spent very little in achieving that, thanks to Steve Bruce.
 
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Winchester City 1...Willand Rovers 1 (Mlambo 38, Balmer m/pen 10; Jagger Cane 37, Coppin s/o 80)

Winchester City dropped from 7th to 10th after being held to a 1-1 draw by Willand Rovers. Olly Balmer had an early spot kick saved (despite the keeper moving off his line in full view of the linesman) and Charlie Philpott made three spectacular saves before being beaten by a shot which crashed off the underside of the bar. A minute later City were level with a deflected shot from Simba Mlambo. Both sides looked to win it in the second half before Noah Coppin was shown his second yellow card with ten minutes to go. Winchester then bombarded the Willand goal and forced a succession of corners in stoppage time (one of which struck the inside of the post) and Ollie Bailey broke through on goal in the dying seconds only to fire the ball over the bar.

Other results:

Barnstaple Town 1...Cirencester Town 5

Bristol Manor Farm 0...Bideford 2

Cinderford Town 2...Frome Town 3

Evesham United 3...Plymouth Parkway 1

Larkhall Athletic 1...Highworth Town 0

Mangotsfield United 0...Melksham Town 2

Sholing 0...Paulton Rovers 2

Slimbridge 3...Lymington Town 0

League Table (Pld/GD/Pts)
1. AFC Totton 10/+24/23
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2. Cirencester Town 9/+18/21
3. Frome Town 8/+10/20
4. Sholing 10/+7/19
5. Bristol Manor Farm 12/+4/18
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6. Highworth Town 9/+8/18
7. Larkhall Athletic 9/+13/16
8. Melksham Town 10/+5/16
9. Paulton Rovers 10/+3/16
10. Winchester City 9/+12/15
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17. Bideford 9/-10/8
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18. Mangotsfield United 10/-21/4
19. Barnstaple Town 11/-46/0
 
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Pitching In Northern Premier League...Premier Division

Hyde United 3 ... Scarborough Athletic 2

A very-much needed result for Hyde against a good mid-table Scarborough side, as Hyde had recently dropped from ninth place into the bottom three after a run of bad league results. Hyde now move up to 18th place, with 16 points from 16 games. They had a confidence-boosting 2-1 win in the mid-week Manchester Premier Cup against Glossop North End.

Next match for Hyde is the FA Trophy match against Mossley (another Tameside team). Mossley may well be in a division lower than Hyde, but they are top of the Northern Premier League - West 1st Division and look well able to pull off a win.
 
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I know abusing managers is not allowed anymore so i shall simply say i believe Mr Solskjær may need to seek alternative employment in the morning.
 
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Liverpool are as good as 7 (SEVEN) nil up anyway. We have two bonuses in a Ronaldo disallowed goal and a Pogba red card. Christmas list stuff.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Once upon a time, Manchester United built their defensive strategy on the pairing of two good dominant centre-backs in the guise of Pallister and Bruce who were at the centre of their defence for a number of years.
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More recently, the partnership of Vidic and Ferdinand managed a record number of consecutive clean sheets.
The strange thing is the way performances have gone off a cliff since last season. United had the 5th best defence in the league. Adding Varane (although injured for today’s match) should have only improved that.
 
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On the matter of foreign players bought by Manchester United over the last twenty years, it is noticeable that many of them were performing well for the clubs they were playing for before arriving at Old Trafford, then only being a shadow of their past self whilst there, then when transferred away from Old Trafford, magically produced their true form. Is the system at Old Trafford not conducive to bringing out the best in transferred-in players

Diego Forlan, Angel di Maria, Memphis Depay being three examples and of course, on the home front, Wilfried Zaha was bought from Crystal Palace them immediately loaned back to that club, did not stay all that long at Old Trafford, but since then has been the player that matured into a good forward player.
 
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Apropos Solksjaer, it irks me a little that he’s constantly referred to as a “legend” and a “great player”. The legend bit I understand because of his winner in the 1999 champions league final, but was he a great player? If he’d been a great player, he’d not have been a substitute most of the time
 
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