Currently managing a club outside the network in the Belgian 1st division. 2nd from bottom so not quite cutting the mustered, but still, it sort of appears he's learnt his lesson via choice of employer and not waiting around for the douch to call. Hopefully won't go back.
He had a thing for openly slagging off the players in the press which was pretty amateurish to say the least.
But...
Wasn't there rumours that he and Katrien very much disliked each other?
Did Peeters ever stick the knife in via media as a bitter ex employee? Wonder if he would now and what he might say about the regime.
Strikes me as the type to not wana hold much back, but then again, why would he care now.
If he openly says she was shit etc, it might you know, help the cause a bit more.
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I'm fairly sure Peeters wouldn't give a shit about anyway.
See you in 3 months Bob.
I guess once your managing a club in the Belgian pro league division, you've officially "made it" and everything else becomes irrelevant
Iain Dowie May 2006 – November 2006
Les Reed November 2006 – December 2006
Alan Pardew December 2006 – November 2008
Phil Parkinson November 2008 – January 2011
Keith Peacock (Caretaker) January 2011
Chris Powell January 2011 – March 2014 League One Champions (2012)
José Riga March 2014 – May 2014
Bob Peeters May 2014 – January 2015
Damian Matthew & Ben Roberts (Caretakers) January 2015
Guy Luzon January 2015 – October 2015
Karel Fraeye October 2015 – January 2016
José Riga January 2016 – present
Lewis Coaches might be able to help you - coz he had a chat with Bob a couple of months ago whilst in Belgium- and I know that Bob looks out for our scores every week.
When Parky got sacked we were fourth and didnt have a top Striker...
We then hired Powell who had BWP yet took the same squad Parky had down to 13th.
What helped Powell is the fact he had the Jenkinson money to create such a good squad and the fact he knew to sign the right players.
Also had small things gone right for Parkinson in our first League One season we'd have been promoted straight back to the Championship at the first attempt, we battered Norwich when they came to the Valley but they still stole a 1-0 win, had we won that (or had we beaten Exeter) we'd have got second
Not so sure he is any better than a league 1 manager though. He had a bad spell at Hull - that said he probably deserves another crack at Championship level.
He's already taken Colchester from League One to the Championship and felt he should have stayed with them when they got promoted, instead he went to Hull and then Charlton (two sides which had players who werent his squad) which is why I think he flopped yet is now why teams are reluctant to give a shot any higher.
I reckon this season it'll be between Bradford and Walsall for promotion from the Play-Offs and hope he does it and stays with them
If so then I agree... Seeing that Derby at the time were cruising the Championship (even at that early stage) we tore them apart!!
"We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I'm sure you'll be back at
the Va a lley...."
Of course this will apply to any other chump Dutchoven's employed here!
But: Parkinson was unlucky. We still got a tally of points that would have secured automatic promotion in several preceding (and subsequent) seasons, and, of course, Bailey ballooned his penalty over the bar in the shoot out.
Of course he was always going to go when Slater etc. came in because they wanted their own man (I doubt he'd have gone else) yet he certainly got the squad playing for the shirt like that memorable 2-2 draw with Swindon.
Although Millwall will probably do it.
Then there was Swindon (with Charlie Austin up front) and a well managed Millwall as well, L1 was seriously competitive that year.
I get that Parky didn't have much to work with, but the number of loan players he brought in was ridiculous, and the football was often absolutely awful to watch. He just didn't seem to know how to set teams up to score goals. My strongest memories of those days are wondering how on earth we'd get a goal--and yes I realize we had bad strikers and not much of a budget.
He's found his level now with the occasional cup run.