Stop the Rot

[SkyBlueGull]

Quite frankly I am fed up with al the bickering amongst fans about the pros and cons of Nicholson.

As a player I loved him - as a manager I am ambivalent. However he seems to get more vitriol than Dave Webb - who I know little about what he did to TUFC but sends my father in law into an apoplectic fit just at the mention of his name

Can I make a suggestion that will alleviate the problem and help the TUST

There should be a swear word/naughty word box type situation -all future mentions of "Nicholson" in posts incur a 50p penalty to be donated towards the TUST coffers.

That way people can continue to moan berate or praise the man knowing they are contributing to a good cause.

Alternatively they could concentrate on the here and now we find ourselves in.

[Louis]

[offtopic]SBG... if you login and post you wont have to wait for an admin to approve your topics as a guest. [/offtopic]

[Plainmoor78]

I don't think Merse's pension would stretch to that.

[merse btpir]

'Merse's pensions' leave him perfectly able to do that thanks to his judicious efforts of providing for his retirement thankyou!

However I shall more than likely change my reference of him to a different name in order to protect my standard of living as failure to do so would soon render me as indebted as Torquay United now are to Clarke Osborne! :na:

Right; I'm now off to a hospital appointment to check that I am still alive and kicking

[Plainmoor78]

My best wishes for your appointment, hope all is well.

[Plainmoor78]

As a player I loved him - as a manager I am ambivalent. However he seems to get more vitriol than Dave Webb - who I know little about what he did to TUFC but sends my father in law into an apoplectic fit just at the mention of his name.

I think a lot of that can be put down to the passage of time. At the time the Webb era was by far the worse time to be a tufc supporter up to that point and I could go into an apoplectic fit over the mention of his name just like your father in law.
But times change, eventually Cyril Knowles and mike batson would come along and it was happy days are here again.

The real reason why we having this fight now is because Nico's successor has to all intents failed. This leaves a considerable section of the fan base getting nostalgic for Nico's time in charge, although I think the actual circumstances at the club are now worse in the post bristow era than they were in the Webb era.

[MellowYellow]

Blame Mr Harrop - he started it. "These guys tick all the boxes for us" and I quote “It has been important for us to find the individuals who... can adopt our plan for sustainable success and can bring the talent, experience and contacts that are key... to climb and top the National League".

Really!

[SkyBlueGull]

Louis

Don't seem to have option of logging in and posting - don't know why - always seem to have to do it this way.

I was either SBG or SkyBlueGull but doesn't seem to work

[Plainmoor78]

Blame Mr Harrop - he started it. "These guys tick all the boxes for us" and I quote “It has been important for us to find the individuals who... can adopt our plan for sustainable success and can bring the talent, experience and contacts that are key... to climb and top the National League".

Really!

Your probably right. However that leaves us with the real possibility that Owers and co will still here next season just to save harrops face.

[MellowYellow]

Your probably right on that too - but as we could not get a decent manager for national league football who the hell would come to manage regional football. Come to think of it - who of us is going to pay top dollar to watch regional football?

[desperado]

More than a possibility P78 , Owers is going nowhere in the summer, except on holiday
I think people will come to watch regional football Mellow, there will be a lot more on a saturday afternoon
next season if we are scoring goals and winning games than there will be at Plainmoor tomorrow night, but
of course considerable doubt that Owers can build a goalscoring winning team

[Southampton Gull]

The real reason why we having this fight now is because Nico's successor has to all intents failed. This leaves a considerable section of the fan base getting nostalgic for Nico's time in charge, although I think the actual circumstances at the club are now worse in the post bristow era than they were in the Webb era.

Do I think Nicholson should have been sacked? No.
Do I think he was treated poorly? Yes.
Do I want him back? No.
Do I want Owers to succeed? Yes.
Do I think Owers will succeed? No.
Do I think Owers will be here next season? Yes.

No nostalgia here, just realism.

[Plainmoor78]

Probably nostalgia wasn't the correct word, but a limited secondary modern education leaves me bereft of the vocabulary to find the right word.
By the way concur with five of your bullet points.

[MellowYellow]

Secondary modern education! you lucky fellow. My nomadic childhood provided me with the wonders of third world education. I don't recommend it - but there was nothing stopping me from reading books. You will find everything you need to know within those pages.

So what is the sixth bullet point you don't concur with?

[Plainmoor78]

Guess