Jerry1971
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Post by Jerry1971 on Feb 22, 2024 22:03:01 GMT
We could recoup some of our outlay on Mr Harris overnight by putting his personally marked memorabilia on eBay. 1 Small hardly used tracksuit - slightly worn at the knees. 1 hardly supped mug. 1 booster cushion used for keeping ego warm.... I'm sure I've missed of some items.... 25 sacks of bullshit kept at the rear of the South Stand for press conference deployment; 1 freakishly huge mirror; DVD of Judas Iscariot: The Hero Misunderstood; Reserve ego, too vast to fit inside the human head & so stored in a Transit Van & maintained by the Polish car-wash technicians outside the Supporters' Club; M11 Road Trip Photographic Diary, 1991-present;
1:1 scale laser-scan of Lyle Taylor's bedroom Thatcher mural; Plug-in prosthetic soul, because I DON'T HAVE ONE IN MY FECKING BODY. I could go on. I have to correct you dear Father. The car wash is operated by our Albanian brethren. One takes the chariot there regularly for a spruce up. I should add that they are top gentlemen and undertake a fine job.
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lionel
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Post by lionel on Feb 22, 2024 22:46:04 GMT
On reflection, if you leave Cambridge three days before a Posh derby and whilst we are still trying to secure league 1 status: you are a bad fit for the club.
Say what you like about Bazza Fry; but he would never leave Posh three days before a derby match.
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Post by amberisbackdrink on Feb 22, 2024 22:52:50 GMT
Big thing for me is when the club bought Harris in they kept all the backroom staff who worked under Bonner. If Harris has bought his own people in they would have left us too. A lot to be said for the continuity at the club. Also the majority of our dressing room came in under Bonner and not Harris so not expecting them to be unsettled by it.
Saturday will be tough but we need to get behind Corr and Betsy.
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camloyal
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Post by camloyal on Feb 23, 2024 7:04:03 GMT
Big thing for me is when the club bought Harris in they kept all the backroom staff who worked under Bonner. If Harris has bought his own people in they would have left us too. A lot to be said for the continuity at the club. Also the majority of our dressing room came in under Bonner and not Harris so not expecting them to be unsettled by it. Saturday will be tough but we need to get behind Corr and Betsy. A very good point. That would have been so much more of a car crash. Believe in the system and promote from within.
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Amba Gambla
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Post by Amba Gambla on Feb 23, 2024 8:08:36 GMT
Good riddance
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Post by zx10racer22 on Feb 23, 2024 11:02:48 GMT
A very good point. That would have been so much more of a car crash. Believe in the system and promote from within. 100% this. Instil a culture from the top down and hire the right people to fit into that culture. That’s how clubs like Brighton have kept progressing across multiple managers, multiple turnovers of playing staff, etc. It’s also why Man Utd went through four managers or so whilst keeping a rotten apple like Pogba at the club. The culture was set bottom up instead of top down and the culture was poisonous. From the outside looking in, this is something our club seems to be getting right much more than it used to, and I love that we were strong enough to tell Harris that bringing Livermore in to replace our incumbent assistant head coaches was not an option.
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Matt Phillips
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Post by Matt Phillips on Feb 24, 2024 7:42:24 GMT
I do think that Harris did the job expected of him (a little like calderwood did). We were a team feeling sorry for ourselves, low on confidence and freefalling towards league 2 once again. He came in, instantly got the side working harder, feeling more confident and being more disciplined. Results mixed, but we rarely, if ever, got rolled over. How long that plan would work longer term beyond keeping us up, i dont know but we didn’t/don’t really look like going down and we gave the two top sides in the league a proper scare. I’m probably being naive to how it all works and in truth, Harris doesn’t have any affinity to us (despite the crap he has said in interviews over the last 2 months about the city). But for me, it’s the lack of comment towards leaving us that goads me the most about this whole thing. A 3/4 liner apologising he hasn’t fulfilled his commitment, wishing us well, comment on his short time here etc would have been the least he could have done. But the stance so far is like we never even happened. Which considering the state of affairs he had himself in prior to us, i’m not sure millwall is happening without us. Not expecting a sobbing farewell ainsworth/wycome-esque but something given how much he’s left us in the lurch. As I say, not angry, just dissapointed. I take it back, his interview has just annoyed me more
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Post by zx10racer22 on Feb 24, 2024 8:57:16 GMT
Just a quick thought, does Neil Harris’s time as manager technically get recorded as a “caretaker” role rather than permanent?
I’m fairly sure the football league rules state that you can’t qualify as a permanent Cambridge manager if you’ve never played Harrison Dunk?
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squibbon
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Post by squibbon on Feb 24, 2024 10:20:02 GMT
Just a quick thought, does Neil Harris’s time as manager technically get recorded as a “caretaker” role rather than permanent? I’m fairly sure the football league rules state that you can’t qualify as a permanent Cambridge manager if you’ve never played Harrison Dunk? I don't know if it has been covered anywhere else, but is he our shortest serving 'non-caretaker' manager?
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Post by Andrewlang on Feb 24, 2024 10:26:29 GMT
He is....depending whether you think Le Roy was permanent or not. Or if you count Lings first stint.
Andrew
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malotru
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Post by malotru on Feb 24, 2024 16:47:06 GMT
Come on Southampton, a Neil Harris team aren’t that too difficult to beat.
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Post by spartacus on Feb 24, 2024 16:52:28 GMT
Risk of first pumps looking increasingly high on the south coast.
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Feb 24, 2024 17:02:14 GMT
Well flip.
Sssssssouthampton really let themselves down there.
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Post by fatherjhackett on Feb 25, 2024 1:50:24 GMT
Ladies & gentlemen: it has been a week of unremitting cack.
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