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(Belgian) Bob Peeters *CONFIRMED New Head Coach (pg 37)*

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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824



    His habit of keeping teams from getting relegated could come in useful next season...

    Not digging you out mate, but as far as i can see it has happened once. He has been in the job 6 months and they finished 3rd from bottom, with the bottom two relegated. They did however lose all their last 4 games, and won just 1 in their last 9.

    His only sustained managing job was at Cercle Brugge. In the three seasons before him they finished 4th, 9th, 9th. Under him they finished 9th, 7th and in the season he got sacked they finished bottom (16th).

    He then went to Gent mid-season. They didn't win a single game in his 11 in charge (five draws, 6 defeats), and he was sacked again (twice in one season) after 11 games. Amazingly, after he was fired Gent stayed up after an amazing run of 12 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats in their last 18 games.
  • And the fact of the scumwall connection
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619

    oh god no. please not Bob Peeters.

    better someone we never heard of than some 2 bob ex-spanner.

    Rationality personified.

  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    I'd rather have a Romanian.
  • barstool
    barstool Posts: 1,351
    seems like the Belgian Ian Dowie from the comments
  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,725
    edited May 2014

    I'd rather have a Romanian.

    This isnt the Would Ya thread! ;)
  • I'll start some positivity

    Bobbie Peters Red n White Army!
  • Welcome Belgian Bob!
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    edited May 2014
    This Millwall connection thing is really irritating me. Our greatest ever manager had a very strong link with Millwall and apart from managing them went on to become a director of the football club.

    Our hero Steve Gritt has a very strong history with Millwall. Another Charlton legend Johnny Summers played 91 times for Millwall before joining us.

    What possible consequence of Peeters playing a couple of dozen times for Millwall ten years ago have any effect on his coaching skill, personality or anything else.

    Did you hate Chris Powell for playing for Palace. Or Super Al for the same reason.

    Pissing me right off. Rant over.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    edited May 2014

    I'll start some positivity

    Bobbie Peters Red n White Army!

    Don't.

    It took me until the last home game to finally give in to singing Jose Riga's name FFS.
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  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,800
    If you are Morrison, Hamer and Poyet, all with probably more lucrative offers on the table from sides placed notably higher up in the 92 than us last season, and have now had two managers who you liked and respected a lot removed in the space of less than 3 calendar months, I am struggling to see a single substantive reason why you would even be polite enough to bother giving Katrien or whoever else the courtesy of sitting down round a table to discuss it. Because you can't bear to leave the Valley until you've had a chance to play on that new pitch? Or because you've always wanted the opportunity to develop fluency in Flemish and are convinced that the squad make-up here come pre-season will give you the best chance of achieving said objective?

    Ex-Millwall, ergh.
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    edited May 2014
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  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    Let's wait until he's appointed before we get behind Peeters . . . I don't fancy following Waasland-Beveren, even if I can find them on the map.
  • This Millwall connection thing is really irritating me. Our greatest ever manager had a very strong link with Millwall and apart from managing them went on to become a director of the football club.

    Our hero Steve Gritt has a very strong history with Millwall. Another Charlton legend Johnny Summers played 91 times for Millwall before joining us.

    What possible consequence of Peeters playing a couple of dozen times for Millwall ten years ago have any effect on his coaching skill, personality or anything else.

    Did you hate Chris Powell for playing for Palace. Or Super Al for the same reason.

    Pissing me right off. Rant over.

    Greatest ever manager? Iain Dowie had no connection with Millwall.

  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    cafctom said:

    Doesn't look like the sort of bloke you want to get on the wrong side of!

    image

    Seen that film Hostel?
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034



    His habit of keeping teams from getting relegated could come in useful next season...

    Not digging you out mate, but as far as i can see it has happened once. He has been in the job 6 months and they finished 3rd from bottom, with the bottom two relegated. They did however lose all their last 4 games, and won just 1 in their last 9.

    His only sustained managing job was at Cercle Brugge. In the three seasons before him they finished 4th, 9th, 9th. Under him they finished 9th, 7th and in the season he got sacked they finished bottom (16th).

    He then went to Gent mid-season. They didn't win a single game in his 11 in charge (five draws, 6 defeats), and he was sacked again (twice in one season) after 11 games. Amazingly, after he was fired Gent stayed up after an amazing run of 12 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats in their last 18 games.
    This record makes me very, very sad.

    In Belgium for work at the moment, I was on a mission last night to find a Standard fan but failed, tonight I'll try and find someone who knows something about Bob Peeters.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    To be fair to him and his Millwall past, it's not as if we're appointing Keith Stevens or Terry Hurlock as head coach!
  • barstool
    barstool Posts: 1,351
    maybe Roland is still upset that Riga saved us from the drop and he has paid the price for the reported extra 4 million!
  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,347

    Cheers needed a good laugh:
    My favourite 2 so far:

    Posted 21/5/2014 08:16
    #1377260 - in reply to #1377247
    Subject: Re: Bob Peeters NW

    can't believe how s**t anoraks are these days



    Posted 21/5/2014 08:25
    #1377264 - in reply to #1377260
    Subject: Re: Bob Peeters NW

    Minus the average away support and free tickets at The Valley and they average around the same as us these days...but by charging about a third less.
    Well it's a fact that we take more in gate receipts than you. You're not a premier league club anymore you know.

    Nice try but it's not true. Your matchday income (£5.4m) was only £200,000 short of Charlton's in 2012/13 (£5.6m, eighth best in the division) because it included your share from an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley and whatever you earned in the run to get there.

    In 2011/12 Millwall's matchday income was £4.6m in the Championship - Charlton's was £5.1m in League One.

    It is true Millwall fans pay more on average (and more than fans of most other Championship clubs) and it may be the correct strategy for the club given its relative inability to expand its support. But it does not as a matter of fact generate more income than Charlton's approach does for Charlton.

    Back on topic, who'd have guessed the best men for the job the next two times it came up after Powell left were both Belgians?
    Fair enough, got gate receipts and turn over mixed up tbh. 13/14 our turn over was bigger than yours. Granted, the cup run probably helped this a bit, but to be honest, I still thought your turn over would double ours seeing as you're such a massive club and we're little old Smallwall. (You had the fifth smallest turn over in the championship in 13/14)
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619

    Cheers needed a good laugh:
    My favourite 2 so far:

    Posted 21/5/2014 08:16
    #1377260 - in reply to #1377247
    Subject: Re: Bob Peeters NW

    can't believe how s**t anoraks are these days



    Posted 21/5/2014 08:25
    #1377264 - in reply to #1377260
    Subject: Re: Bob Peeters NW

    Minus the average away support and free tickets at The Valley and they average around the same as us these days...but by charging about a third less.
    Well it's a fact that we take more in gate receipts than you. You're not a premier league club anymore you know.

    Nice try but it's not true. Your matchday income (£5.4m) was only £200,000 short of Charlton's in 2012/13 (£5.6m, eighth best in the division) because it included your share from an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley and whatever you earned in the run to get there.

    In 2011/12 Millwall's matchday income was £4.6m in the Championship - Charlton's was £5.1m in League One.

    It is true Millwall fans pay more on average (and more than fans of most other Championship clubs) and it may be the correct strategy for the club given its relative inability to expand its support. But it does not as a matter of fact generate more income than Charlton's approach does for Charlton.

    Back on topic, who'd have guessed the best men for the job the next two times it came up after Powell left were both Belgians?
    Fair enough, got gate receipts and turn over mixed up tbh. 13/14 our turn over was bigger than yours. Granted, the cup run probably helped this a bit, but to be honest, I still thought your turn over would double ours seeing as you're such a massive club and we're little old Smallwall. (You had the fifth smallest turn over in the championship in 13/14)
    And yet still finished above you ;0)

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  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    cafctom said:

    I'll start some positivity

    Bobbie Peters Red n White Army!

    Don't.

    It took me until the last home game to finally give in to singing Jose Riga's name FFS.
    Weird
  • iainambler
    iainambler Posts: 963
    This perspective in particular:

    all we need is them to sell that poyet bloke and they will be down.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,221
    edited May 2014

    To be fair to him and his Millwall past, it's not as if we're appointing Keith Stevens or Terry Hurlock as head coach!

    It's got sweet FA to do with what clubs he played for in the past. Roland does not know a good thing when it's standing there right in front of him.

    24 points from 16 games with a team that was rock bottom, a weaker squad from January and he kept us up. What much more could have Riga have done to say to Roland "There you go, how about a new contract?"

    The Belgium press are quoting Riga saying that he wanted to stay, so to me it was a no brainer.

    From the footballing side of things, Roland scares me.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,786
    I must admit I'm disappointed with this if Riga really did want the job, which is what it sounds like. Why not go with the obvious fit RD? I just don't understand sometimes.

    If this does happen only time will tell what Peeters is like. Maybe RD will throw 10 million at him now so he just can't fail. :-)
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,010
    Must admit that from day one i've always been pro-RD but if these reports are true and Riga wanted to stay then i'm finding it pretty difficult to find any positives in RD getting this guy in.

    Hopefully all will become clear soon.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977

    I'd rather have a Romanian.

    Someone nice like Gigi Becali

    If you haven't heard of him he's well worth looking up
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,992
    Hmm, Bob Peeters.

    All we can do is wait & see.

    The good news is I'm not overly impressed and am usually wrong.

    Who'd have thought Lennie Lawrence (no track record), would have been a legend ?

    Who'd have thought Alan Curbishley (no track record), would have been a legend ?

    I thought Dowie might have been ok.

    I was ecstatic when we appointed Pardew.

    Riga ? I'd never heard of him & wasn't optimistic.

    So let's wait & see. He's not even been appointed yet.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619

    Hmm, Bob Peeters.

    All we can do is wait & see.

    The good news is I'm not overly impressed and am usually wrong.

    Who'd have thought Lennie Lawrence (no track record), would have been a legend ?

    Who'd have thought Alan Curbishley (no track record), would have been a legend ?

    I thought Dowie might have been ok.

    I was ecstatic when we appointed Pardew.

    Riga ? I'd never heard of him & wasn't optimistic.

    So let's wait & see. He's not even been appointed yet.


    100% this.

  • scabbyhorse
    scabbyhorse Posts: 2,542
    If true Riga wanted the job and was not given it that would be a strange decision to make from old roly.
  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    We are becoming less and less attractive as time goes on, my tingly senses are heightening, unless Roland passes us some of SL's top boys I can't foresee us bettering this season, would love to eat my words. Our only experience playing at a good level in Championship will be from within our current squad, and some of them will be going. Stick with Riga and lets move forward, Roly.