Southampton Gull wrote:It will sound like sour grapes, BUT, that post did include FACTS as well as opinion. I'm not surprised by some of the replies, I'd expect nothing less to be honest, there will always be rival fans ready to jump at the opportunity to dispute what others say.
My own opinion is that you guys think you've signed a great manager, I say you've signed someone who thinks he's a great manager but has made many mistakes (like a lot of others, granted) but he would never admit to them and also takes a long time to rectify them. Players will get played out of position, some of them are very strange indeed, Hargreaves at centre-half anyone?
I've nothing against Rovers or their fans at all, I hope they do well, but I think you'll do it with the next manager AFTER Buckle, he won't get away with things at your Club that he was allowed to whilst here. He got total support from our Board, probably enjoyed the strongest backroom staff of any of our previous managers and our Board over-extended the budget to get us out of the BSP. I'm not bitter about him going, I never felt he was a good manager either and as a personality, he's a prize tw*t. His arrogance is his strength but will also be his downfall, I can see that coming to fruition pretty soon.
Dave
I dont think any of us think we have now got an amazing manager, I think we do believe we have got a young, up and coming manager though.
We dont expect instant success, but what we do expect is to see entertaining football, with players who fight for the shirt, which is something we have not witnessed for a decade since Ian Holloway left.
Paul Buckle may have made mistakes, but like I said we have had countless managers who have made the same very mistakes and dont like to take the blame for them. Ian Holloway was the biggest culprit of that. He played lots of players out of position. Jamie Cureton in right midfield? and the great wing wizard Mark "Wally" Walters at right back???? It doesn't always mean they are poor managers. We would love Olly back at The Mem, and hopefully he will. I think that is the way for lower league managers, that is why they are here. Even the greatest managers make poor decisions.
Our main goal is to get out of this god awful didvision as soon as possible, Paul Buckle nearly made it out of it with you, on a lesser budget, If he can go one further with us on a bigger budget then that is what we appointed him for.
Whether Paul Buckle is the man to take us any further is another debate.
To be fair I couldn't care less what a managers personality is like, and whether he is an arrogant tw*t, as long as performances on the pitch improve.
Hopefully they will.
