How much damage has Parker done?

…anyway onwards and let’s hope the team regains its mojo after a gritty performance on Wednesday…We still have PL quality players in the squad so just need to blend them along with the younger guns
 
Agree with the damage Parker's done but the board were damned whatever the outcome.

Sack after promotion - they'd get stick
Sack during pre-season - they'd get stick
Sack after laying into the team near the end of the transfer window - they're getting stick
Don't sack - they'd get stick
 
Kudos said:
Agree with the damage Parker's done but the board were damned whatever the outcome.

Sack after promotion - they'd get stick
Sack during pre-season - they'd get stick
Sack after laying into the team near the end of the transfer window - they're getting stick
Don't sack - they'd get stick
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Don’t appoint somebody in the first place who has previous for wanting to discard players at the drop of a hat and then wants tens millions of pounds to replace them- don’t get stick.

The argument here is that did Parker do such a good job last season that it was unrealistic to get in another manager with the capabilities of getting that group promoted- the answer is a resounding no, we could have easily recruited another manager to get that squad promoted.

The board have to take responsibility, it was a short term appointment with little thinking put into what would transpire beyond last season. They wouldn’t have had to have done a lot of research to conclude that Parker being asked to work under tight financial constraints in the top tier would not end well. Parker’s level is of doing an ‘okay’ job and just about scraping promotion with a squad of players who are too good for the level they are playing at. Ask him to be the underdog or God forbid, actually try to improve the players he has or develop a tactical plan to compensate for the gap in quality and he doesn’t have a clue. And our board chased this guy for over a year. Any half decent coach could have achieved promotion with that squad and we could have actually employed one who suited our club ethos. It was a bad appointment, regardless of promotion.
 
KingKieffer said:
Don’t appoint somebody in the first place who has previous for wanting to discard players at the drop of a hat and then wants tens millions of pounds to replace them- don’t get stick.

The argument here is that did Parker do such a good job last season that it was unrealistic to get in another manager with the capabilities of getting that group promoted- the answer is a resounding no, we could have easily recruited another manager to get that squad promoted.

The board have to take responsibility, it was a short term appointment with little thinking put into what would transpire beyond last season. They wouldn’t have had to have done a lot of research to conclude that Parker being asked to work under tight financial constraints in the top tier would not end well. Parker’s level is of doing an ‘okay’ job and just about scraping promotion with a squad of players who are too good for the level they are playing at. Ask him to be the underdog or God forbid, actually try to improve the players he has or develop a tactical plan to compensate for the gap in quality and he doesn’t have a clue. And our board chased this guy for over a year. Any half decent coach could have achieved promotion with that squad and we could have actually employed one who suited our club ethos. It was a bad appointment, regardless of promotion.
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I got 7 words in, and didn't read the rest because I'd hit my bullsh*t quota
 
Kudos said:
I got 7 words in, and didn't read the rest because I'd hit my bullsh*t quota
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What a brain dead response, you seriously think it’s clever to respond like that?

I happen to think that it is the responsibility of the board to appoint a manager who suits our club ethos and expectations, and if they don’t then they have to shoulder some responsibility when it goes tits up. Clearly you don’t, which is fine. But there’s no need to be a pri*k about it.
 
KingKieffer said:
What a brain dead response, you seriously think it’s clever to respond like that?

I happen to think that it is the responsibility of the board to appoint a manager who suits our club ethos and expectations, and if they don’t then they have to shoulder some responsibility when it goes tits up. Clearly you don’t, which is fine. But there’s no need to be a pri*k about it.
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4 words this time :)
 
KingKieffer said:
Don’t appoint somebody in the first place who has previous for wanting to discard players at the drop of a hat and then wants tens millions of pounds to replace them- don’t get stick.

The argument here is that did Parker do such a good job last season that it was unrealistic to get in another manager with the capabilities of getting that group promoted- the answer is a resounding no, we could have easily recruited another manager to get that squad promoted.

The board have to take responsibility, it was a short term appointment with little thinking put into what would transpire beyond last season. They wouldn’t have had to have done a lot of research to conclude that Parker being asked to work under tight financial constraints in the top tier would not end well. Parker’s level is of doing an ‘okay’ job and just about scraping promotion with a squad of players who are too good for the level they are playing at. Ask him to be the underdog or God forbid, actually try to improve the players he has or develop a tactical plan to compensate for the gap in quality and he doesn’t have a clue. And our board chased this guy for over a year. Any half decent coach could have achieved promotion with that squad and we could have actually employed one who suited our club ethos. It was a bad appointment, regardless of promotion.
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Pretty much all managers get sacked eventually. Most without leading a side to the Premier League. He got appointed, he did what he was required to do and then he got sacked. Now we move on. What's the problem?
 
There is an article in the I today which is trying to heap all the blame for Parker’s departure on Max. Obviously written by a friend of his, as it conveniently ignores the public “This team isn’t good enough and I need more players” comments.
Most of the people I have spoken to feel that those sort of issues should have stayed behind closed doors rather than aired in public.
 
Old Cherry said:
I think perhaps the Parker thing..has, as is usual in the modern media and on this Forum been Hyped to High Heaven...
A couple of shell- shock inspired comments after the 9-0 defeat whereupon his players had humiliated him and the club. ..and with no - mark interviewers hounding him with stupid questions.
Managers in the past have said similar knee - jerk reaction stuff....Redknapp.. Ferguson... The great Brian Clough even !
It's all a load of PL bollux now...much more of this stuff to come this season ...media driven crap !

If you refrain from 'going with the flow'...the typical moronic ageing skinhead sheep pen stuff... then you start to penetrate the truths !
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Parker made similar criticisms after the pre season loss to Real Sociadad. And as Fulham boss.
 
rgb said:
This is the board:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06632170/officers

This is the list of persons with Significant Control:

https://find-and-update.company-inf...any/06632170/persons-with-significant-control

I can't see Richard Hughes on either.
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So basically Blake - head of PR and shmooze Mostyn and two cupboard dweller Demin appointees who I can’t imagine have much more than an occasional appearance/involvement. That’s not a functioning Board it’s a closed shop.
 
They were left an incredible promotion worthy squad and two years of parachute payments following relegation with one of the country’s best young managers in situ.

They mishandled the situation where that brilliant young manager wanted to stay to swap him with Parker. They wanted to move to a system where they had control over signings and have a coach train them.

Parker reneged, they were left high and dry and clueless and they appointed Tindall despite senior player concerns. They then thought Parker was coming in the January and sacked Tindall who had lost the squad… but only after… giving him a full transfer window and allowing him to sign three players.. but Fulham won twice and Parker stayed put, we were managerless and appointed Woodgate who had failed miserably at Boro.

We released Woodgate and paid compensation to Fulham for Parker who was going to be sacked anyway. Parker had not only got relegated playing dreadful football but whinged the entire season about lack of resource despite spending 100m.

He bored us up not utlising the potential for great football in the squad. A year later they sack Parker but only after giving him all but two days of the transfer window making the club untenable for a lot of players and despite scrambling around frantically for the final day trying to get a winger and left back so badly needed they landed just one player a sixth choice centre back from our local rivals.

Since moving to sole player recruitment they have signed in excess of 15 players but 7 of the starting 11 against Liverpool were players from Eddie’s day and this would have been 8 had Solanke been fully fit.

So many average signings and plenty more rejected by Parker before his demise. Two expensive heaps of compensation through poor management choices…poorly equipped to deal with the league they are in with the whole strategy torn apart.

In any business they’d have been sacked long ago. Max’s money for sure but our club. We need these two charlatans gone.
 
Neil Dawson said:
They were left an incredible promotion worthy squad and two years of parachute payments following relegation with one of the country’s best young managers in situ.

They mishandled the situation where that brilliant young manager wanted to stay to swap him with Parker. They wanted to move to a system where they had control over signings and have a coach train them.

Parker reneged, they were left high and dry and clueless and they appointed Tindall despite senior player concerns. They then thought Parker was coming in the January and sacked Tindall who had lost the squad… but only after… giving him a full transfer window and allowing him to sign three players.. but Fulham won twice and Parker stayed put, we were managerless and appointed Woodgate who had failed miserably at Boro.

We released Woodgate and paid compensation to Fulham for Parker who was going to be sacked anyway. Parker had not only got relegated playing dreadful football but whinged the entire season about lack of resource despite spending 100m.

He bored us up not utlising the potential for great football in the squad. A year later they sack Parker but only after giving him all but two days of the transfer window making the club untenable for a lot of players and despite scrambling around frantically for the final day trying to get a winger and left back so badly needed they landed just one player a sixth choice centre back from our local rivals.

Since moving to sole player recruitment they have signed in excess of 15 players but 7 of the starting 11 against Liverpool were players from Eddie’s day and this would have been 8 had Solanke been fully fit.

So many average signings and plenty more rejected by Parker before his demise. Two expensive heaps of compensation through poor management choices…poorly equipped to deal with the league they are in with the whole strategy torn apart.

In any business they’d have been sacked long ago. Max’s money for sure but our club. We need these two charlatans gone.
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Anything different to say? Or just regurgitate the same stuff
 
Neil Dawson said:
They wanted to move to a system where they had control over signings and have a coach train them.
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No need to respond to this litany of disaster. They couldn't have done any worse than this so it's no surprise to me that we're languishing in league 2 after all this failure.

What I would say is that it takes some front to come on here and criticise the board for taking power away from Eddie after droning on for years on end that he had too much influence and needed outside help.
 
In his last season at AFCB where our club were relegated after five seasons in the top league, Eddie looked tired and it seemed he needed a well earned break from the constant day in, day out pressures of the game on and off the pitch.

He took 14 months off, spent time with his family and ‘recharged his batteries’.

Eddie came back when the right job came along and he was ready to return to managing a football club.
 
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