zx10racer22
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Post by zx10racer22 on Feb 21, 2024 14:43:55 GMT
Anyone want to play Harris leaving statement bingo. I've got "triffic club" "Cambridge means to much to me and my family" "thanks to the owner" "These things happen in football" added to my card. Millwall were the only club he'd leave us for. |
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Post by flouncingarburyboy on Feb 21, 2024 14:44:02 GMT
I bear some responsibility for this. I was at Millwall’s capitulation to Sheffield Wednesday. My God, they have some angry fans! I think it's pretty obvious that the owners going for him is more a PR play than anything else. There's certainly nothing about his actual managerial record in the past 3 or 4 years that suggests he's the right man to get them out of the mess they're in, but it shows action, likely mollifies the fans (for a bit anyway) & likely gives the club a lift. Sometimes that's enough. If that helps keep them up it further solidifies his status & reflects well on the owners; if he takes them down, at least they did Everything They Could and are ready to attack L1 with someone who knows and cares for the club at the helm. And who makes an excellent cover for the financial cloth-cutting & turmoil they'll need to go through to sort themselves out. It's basically us appointing Shaggy. Yep, I've looked at a couple of Millwall message boards and the posters who are supportive of Harris' return are saying things such as 'he's a Millwall lreged', 'he's Millwall through and through', 'he knows the club from top to bottom' etc. There's a significant number who are opposed to his return though. Don't know if that's reflective of the whole fan base but it certainly seems like a mixed 'welcome back'. |
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Post by imp566 on Feb 21, 2024 14:48:18 GMT
It’s one of those that he will say is too good to turn down. I think the lack of signings in January hurt him more than he let on. Let’s move forward not backwards, Duff and Rowett are standout options. We targetted 4, we got 3. If that's why Harris is off then the sooner he leaves the better, because that'll be the reality of working within a budget. I doubt that's anything to do with it though. The club he loves has come calling for him - he's hardly going to say no is he? Word I heard that 4th player Harris wanted was signing until his agent put a spanner in the works. |
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Post by imp566 on Feb 21, 2024 14:49:58 GMT
Would this make Harris the first manager to walk out on United since Tommy Taylor went to Orient mid 90s? Tommy Taylor's replacement didn't do too badly.... Roy Hodgson is looking for a job.... |
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Post by stuartk on Feb 21, 2024 14:52:32 GMT
F*ck's sake I've been in meetings all day and just learned of this. I'm told it's 100% a done deal - by the same source who told me Harris was coming here in the first place.
This feels like another Claude Le Roy moment. Whatever his attachment to Millwall, it's really dishonourable behaviour and can't be excused.
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Post by El Goodo on Feb 21, 2024 14:54:50 GMT
Whatever his attachment to Millwall, it's really dishonourable behaviour and can't be excused. Really don't agree with this, personally. It's no one's fault but Millwall's, and even then they have the right to do whatever they think is best for them. |
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Post by danboyb on Feb 21, 2024 15:02:16 GMT
Millwall sack Edwards
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imp566
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Post by imp566 on Feb 21, 2024 15:03:27 GMT
Anyone want to play Harris leaving statement bingo. I've got "triffic club" "Cambridge means to much to me and my family" "thanks to the owner" "These things happen in football" added to my card. 'The only club I would have left for.' |
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Post by Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage on Feb 21, 2024 15:03:44 GMT
WHAT WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN SUCH A THING |
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Post by phil1 on Feb 21, 2024 15:03:50 GMT
Just heard it on Talk Sport - done deal apparently!!!
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Post by El Goodo on Feb 21, 2024 15:05:23 GMT
It would be absolutely delicious if we ended up with QPR and whatever version of A Neil Harris's Millwall he'd managed to cobble together in our division next season, along with Charlton.
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zx10racer22
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Post by zx10racer22 on Feb 21, 2024 15:11:37 GMT
Interesting that Myers has also been sacked from Millwall, so Livermore a cert to reunite with Harris it seems.
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Post by El Goodo on Feb 21, 2024 15:14:51 GMT
"These things happen in football" added to my card. 'The only club I would have left for.' "Club statement: Neil Harris" |
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Feb 21, 2024 15:17:46 GMT
'The only club I would have left for.' "Club statement: Neil Harris" Corner flag photo, match ball, floodlight or the wildcard of a close up a Harris fist pump? Lots of pressure on the social media guy here. |
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Post by El Goodo on Feb 21, 2024 15:20:17 GMT
Got to be the floodlight doesn't it?
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