Given Roland's well publicised views on what he thinks football is for - socialising, dancing after the game - and that what happens on the pitch is not important, it leads me to wonder what it is that determines that Roland will sack the manager. If his stated aims are being met - playing young players in the first team, selling those same young players on for big bucks, breaking even - what leads him to conclude that the manager needs to go? Is it when the manager becomes challenging, or when he asks for more players and Roland won't give him any....or when the protests become too embarassing?
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Slade saying "no" to having Chris O'Loughlin in his coaching team.
Result: Slade sacked and O'Loughlin in place before we had a manager.
Powell saying "no" to Driesen's rejects.
Result: Powell sacked
Riga saying "no" to playing Driesen's rejects
Result: Riga's contract not extended
Peeters saying "No, this squad isn't big enough"
Result: Peeters sacked
Fraeye answering "no" to the question "Having you got a clue what you're doing?"
Result: Caretaker sacked
Slade was, my opinion but I've convinced of it, sacked for non football reasons. No, the team wasn't playing great football apparently but results were not in the sackable category, particularly a week after th CEO went on national radio t say they are building the future around Slade. Before the Swindon game where he was sacked (and had to play with key players away on international duty), we had lost 1 in 8.
There were strong rumours at the time that Roland was trying to impose O'Laughlin on Slade. He had been seen in the directors box at the same time. The rumours are that Slade kept saying no, he didn't want him on his coaching team. Slade was then sacked, O'Laughlin installed, and Robinson 'happy' for him to remain part of the team.
Sure someone on here said at Wimbledon O'Laughlin seemed to be quite impacting where it come to subs.
I'm not sure that Congo Chris taking a phone call a couple of minutes prior to each sub had anything to do with it ;-))
o'loughlin will be ur next interim coach without a doubt
He will become our new coach on 6th March should we lose at Northampton and be totally out of any chance of playoffs (if were not now) - and especially if RD is confronted in Belgium , which is also likely if he decides to remain in town for that weekend.
Karel's response 'We were good' always makes me laugh
Result: We're all ******