dagnogo
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Post by dagnogo on Feb 15, 2015 22:46:51 GMT
Overall charge perhaps but LL was DOF so surely in control of player recruitment? Yeah, but if LL comes in and says "I want Danny Coles for £4k a week" a lot of clubs in the lower 2 divisions would never dream of paying such wages. They'd have given him a budget.
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 16, 2015 21:07:30 GMT
Maybe, but the story NH told was that he trusted LL to pay reasonable wages, whether that was BS or not his anybodies guess.
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Post by laughinggas on Feb 16, 2015 21:40:48 GMT
We just don't no but IF the DOF is given a bug et then he should be able to plan with it. Sorry if he overspends it his responsibility. To my mind that should be in the job spec.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2015 21:45:00 GMT
Maybe, but the story NH told was that he trusted LL to pay reasonable wages, whether that was BS or not his anybodies guess. If Higgs said it then there's every chance that it was BS but even so, that explanation is laughable.
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Post by fanatical on Feb 16, 2015 23:18:35 GMT
Did he sleep with your Mrs or something? Obviously he wasn't perfect, his man management style didn't always work, and results really tailed off after Lennie left. But "virtually bankrupted the club"? Think of the prize money and TV money and gate money from Wembley, Cardiff, the FA Cup run, playing teams like Leeds and Norwich in the league... Also, you have to ask who allowed such wages to be paid. Nick, Geoff, Barry, Toni or any of them could have said no - they didn't. Maybe he doesn't manage becausr he knows he's a better coach than he is a manager - you said he inherited Atkins' team - Atkins wasn't coaching them to promotion so maybe PT is a good coach? Spot on. Trollope was originally appointed as a coach because that is what he his. Yet another of Higgs's amazingly successful decisions propelled him to manager, something he never was and never has been since. The fact that he has coached in the top two divisions since he left us and we have dropped two levels and into non league football is an endorsement of how good he is. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story - remind me who was Chairman when Trollope became manager? and Lennie was in position long before Nick Higgs was even on the board
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dagnogo
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Post by dagnogo on Feb 16, 2015 23:32:32 GMT
Spot on. Trollope was originally appointed as a coach because that is what he his. Yet another of Higgs's amazingly successful decisions propelled him to manager, something he never was and never has been since. The fact that he has coached in the top two divisions since he left us and we have dropped two levels and into non league football is an endorsement of how good he is. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story - remind me who was Chairman when Trollope became manager? and Lennie was in position long before Nick Higgs was even on the board You misunderstand. Higgs (ratified by his fellow board members I assume) changed PT's role from head coach to manager after he sacked LL in 2010. PT was therefore in charge of buying players etc as well as his old coaching duties.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2015 0:07:05 GMT
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story - remind me who was Chairman when Trollope became manager? and Lennie was in position long before Nick Higgs was even on the board You misunderstand. Higgs (ratified by his fellow board members I assume) changed PT's role from head coach to manager after he sacked LL in 2010. PT was therefore in charge of buying players etc as well as his old coaching duties. Correct.
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