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Post by newmarketheath on Feb 22, 2024 1:42:18 GMT
Harris =Slime Ball. Crawl back under your rock
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Post by btb on Feb 22, 2024 8:18:03 GMT
He’s elevated himself into the category of United managers who think they are better than they were. Welcome to the club containing Martin Ling and Shaun Derry. Interestingly all sounded like cockney barrow boys, and I shall always hate him as much as them.
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Post by Coconut on Feb 22, 2024 8:30:13 GMT
Neil Harris is only interested in Neil Harris. Just a Southend fan whose so-called love and passion for the city of Cambridge always came across as a bit contrived… and all because he knocked a few goals in for City in the Beazer Homes League when he was 17. He’ll forever be an odious slimeball and I look forward to seeing Millwall slip into L1 and Harris ending up at a National League side in the not too distant future. A classless individual.
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Post by spartacus on Feb 22, 2024 8:31:34 GMT
I thought he seemed a little bit sheepish in his post match interview on Tuesday, he is a devious bastard knowing then as he did his next move would be too clear his desk and walk out the door never to return. I hope he's got some of his personal belongings at the training ground we can bin before he gets chance to come and get.
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Post by malotru on Feb 22, 2024 8:44:23 GMT
Is there a Cambridge City internet forum? Are their 4 fans rubbing the hands in glee congratulating their field operative Agent Harris in completing his mission.
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Post by face on Feb 22, 2024 9:01:46 GMT
Is there a Cambridge City internet forum? Are their 4 fans rubbing the hands in glee congratulating their field operative Agent Harris in completing his mission. Three more than on the Impington Lumberjacks forum, to be fair.
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Post by Wingco's Boy on Feb 22, 2024 10:03:42 GMT
Two kinds of responses have emerged. The Bonner-inners seem quite sanguine:
1) told you so, record wasn’t that brilliant, football was boring, we’ll cope without him just fine. 2) Bonner-outers (such as Wingco’s Boy - see the Harrisesque third person there?): delighted that Harris joined us, began turning around a sinking ship, it’s terrible that he’s gone, and we are at risk of relegation again. My first reaction: shock, please no! Second: toerag. Now: utter betrayal. He’s allowed himself to be winched off the ship (sticking with the marine analogy) by sexy sirens promising him eternal carnal delight in - ahem - Bermondsey. He’s not just a treacherous toerag, he’s a foolish treacherous toerag. They’re going down. Please let it be so.
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Post by Andrewlang on Feb 22, 2024 10:46:14 GMT
Not sure anyone is in a position to say I told you so because nobody did, in fact, tell us this would happen.
I mean, apart from whoever it was that said it a week ago...cough-me-cough-cough.
Anyway, yeah I'm pretty sanguine about it. He's left us in pretty decent shape and we should be fine.
Andrew
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Post by amberisbackdrink on Feb 22, 2024 10:55:09 GMT
Not gutted or disappointed to be fair. I felt worse when Bonner left as he genuinely cared about this club. Harris was just an employee.
He came in got a few results and we got some compensation. Lets move on and back Barry and the coaching staff while we take time to find a suitable replacement.
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Post by danielcufc on Feb 22, 2024 10:55:33 GMT
He’s elevated himself into the category of United managers who think they are better than they were. Welcome to the club containing Martin Ling and Shaun Derry. Interestingly all sounded like cockney barrow boys, and I shall always hate him as much as them. And Tommy Taylor - another cockney turncoat
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Post by Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage on Feb 22, 2024 11:02:32 GMT
It really depends who we end up with next as to how I truly feel. I was fairly underwhelmed with Harris and he did alright, but did I see him doing much more than alright probably too early to tell but I'd veer towards no. This gives the board another roll of the dice to find a gem that can improve us, obviously there's also the chance of a bad appointment which takes us down but as El G hss alluded to the fact that Harris didn't change much and got us comfortable-ish suggests that another alright manager is more likely than a terrible one.
I'd say 15% chance of bad, 20% chance of good then 65% much of a muchness.
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Post by Fred Colon on Feb 22, 2024 11:13:07 GMT
I was disappointed at the thought of losing Harris when the rumours first started circulating but, having slept on it, I've developed a distaste for the man, especially seeing that annoying grin on his chops in Millwall gear as if he hadn't just done a huge dump on us.
I'm more concerned with how Taylor (and, to a lesser extent, Bonne) react now. Taylor is the type that has a huge impact on the dressing room and the atmosphere among the players. Managing him well will be key to us staying in this division.
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Post by eenyc on Feb 22, 2024 11:17:57 GMT
In a fit of self-punishment, I just had a look at weasley Neil's new-manager video from December. I know we're supposed to be grown up and appreciate the hard commercial realities of football, but there's something profoundly depressing about the shallowness and cynicism that seems obvious looking at that chirpy guff in the light of what's happened. As others have said the bitter taste is only made worse by the complete lack of acknowledgment that the U's have been treated a bit shittily by this - just a platitude along the lines of 'thanks for the opportunity, hope you do well in the future, but I couldn't say no to Millwall' would have done. Anyway, it made me go and listen to this.
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Post by El Goodo on Feb 22, 2024 11:21:05 GMT
I'm more concerned with how Taylor (and, to a lesser extent, Bonne) react now. Taylor is the type that has a huge impact on the dressing room and the atmosphere among the players. Managing him well will be key to us staying in this division. I dunno I feel like that angle is being overplayed to quite a large degree. Bonne and Taylor (the latter especially) have been in the game long enough to know how it works and these sorts of things happen. It's the second time it's happened to Bonne this season after all, and it's not like either of them were convinced to sign a long-term contract here off the back of promises made to them by Harris is it? We signed Taylor from Wycombe, 2 places above us in the league, not Wolves. I'd understand that line of thinking more if they'd both signed 18-month deals themselves or had dropped a division to come here, or if we'd sacked Harris, but they haven't & we didn't. They're professionals playing for their next contract, whether that's at our club or another come the summer. I see absolutely no reason why the manager who's been in charge of them for 10 minutes leaving for a job in the league above would cause them to orchestrate discord in the changing rooms.
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Post by andycufc on Feb 22, 2024 11:23:15 GMT
I think once the decision to move on from Bonner was taken, Harris was a sensible appointment. Over the course of the last three months, he's done a reasonable job - probably about par for the course in all honesty. He boosted the confidence of the squad (although the Fleetwood cup game before he arrived suggests that seemed to happen organically, to some extent), turned our away form around and brought in Lyle Taylor (yay/booo) during the January window. On the other hand, we lost important and winnable home games to Orient and Cheltenham, and the football was often quite negative and dull.
In terms of the manner of his departure, I get that he's a Millwall legend etc etc... but to jump ship at this precarious point in the season, less than three months after being appointed and after repeatedly making a point of praising the stability and structure of the club, feels completely disrespectful and lacking in integrity. Harris 100% fell on his feet when we appointed him having been sacked by League 2 Gillingham - if he'd been here a year or so, and actually made a difference, I think it'd be easier to accept him moving on. As it is, all that talk of his connection to the city, the club, the project, Graham Daniels etc has been shown up for what it was: a load of disingenuous, self-serving bullshit.
Ultimately, I'm not overly worried about Harris moving on as I'm fairly sure there are others out there who could do at least as well as he was doing. It's just annoying to see the club treated like this at a time when we're in such a good place overall. Ah well, bring on Millwall next season - although given his supernatural ability to fail upwards, Harris will probably be managing Liverpool by then!
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