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Jon Stead

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fasterthanjesus said:
you havent played anybody yet. your next set of fixtures will see your true standing.

ive nothing against derby, its just that stumpy is a mediocre manager who inherited a good team from a good talent spotter (craig brown).

he then scraped to the play offs with a couple of good signings, but replaced some of our better players with below average.

1 million for a 30 year old isnt good.

either way stumpy does it, you lose.

1. you start doing well, he will be off at the first sniff.
2. you start doing bad, your stuck with him.


come back in 12 weeks and speak to me then.
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I'm going nowhere, I didn't come to this forum to brag about getting BD and I won't be crying off if it doesn't go well.

On your point about us not playing anybody yet, I would say that in this division, the vast majority of teams are nobody. So much so, in fact, that a mediocre manager such as BD can lead a team to consecutive scraped play-off finishes of 5th and 4th, somehow getting away with only losing 6 games in a whole season. Some guys get all the luck don't they? 🙄

£1m for a 30 year old isn't great, but when you consider we had Pesch as our only striker for a full 6 months, then desperation takes over. If Howard scores enough goals to keep us up and buys time to bring on our highly-rated Academy boys, then IMHO it's money well spent. He certainly works hard, and he's now starting to score goals too.
 
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LondonRam said:
that a mediocre manager such as BD can lead a team to consecutive scraped play-off finishes of 5th and 4th, somehow getting away with only losing 6 games in a whole season. Some guys get all the luck don't they? 🙄

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Re: Jon Stead

fasterthanjesus said:
ive nothing against derby, its just that stumpy is a mediocre manager who inherited a good team from a good talent spotter (craig brown).

he then scraped to the play offs with a couple of good signings, but replaced some of our better players with below average.
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Billy Davies a mediocre manager????????

Is this the same manager that has I would wager the best record at this level of any manager for the last 40 odd years? This good team that you say he inherited, is this the same one that was close to the relegation zone when he took over, but not only made the play offs, but reached the play off final, and almost repeated the following season?

Come off it FTJ, maybe Davies is a prick of the first order, but no one can truly say that he is a mediocre manager. In the two years he was in charge, other than Chelsea, I doubt if there was a harder English team to beat than Preston North End. He did brilliant for PNE............no doubt about it!
 
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Albertan said:
Billy Davies a mediocre manager????????

Is this the same manager that has I would wager the best record at this level of any manager for the last 40 odd years? This good team that you say he inherited, is this the same one that was close to the relegation zone when he took over, but not only made the play offs, but reached the play off final, and almost repeated the following season?

Come off it FTJ, maybe Davies is a prick of the first order, but no one can truly say that he is a mediocre manager. In the two years he was in charge, other than Chelsea, I doubt if there was a harder English team to beat than Preston North End. He did brilliant for PNE............no doubt about it!
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Absolutely correct - exceptionally manager - big prick (bad juxta position that😱 ). Whilst I don't wish Derby fans any ill I personally hope he fails miserably there for the way he left PNE (not that he left but the way he left). Initial success has been followed by spectacular failure for lots of little men (Napoleon, Hitler, Genghis Khan et al) so let's hope the dwarf carries on with his failed tactics at crucial times (Playoffs etc).
 
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