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The Ryan Lowe Thread!

The Ryan Lowe Thread!

noelpne said:
He just didn't then....and was proved later again at Forest - that he can't ration-out his demands for players..that he wants them there-and-then ,- and if he doesn't get what he wants when he wants it- he will have a massive hissy-fit V The Chairman , and take the Two or Three others that made-up his Back-Room staff - with him . Obviously Derby came calling & they all went together. They got instant promotion ( a season ahead of his schedule) - got the boot before that first Christmas, leaving DCFC with the record tally for least points over the season. Then he went to their Main Rivals in the East Midlands, and made more unreasonable/ unrealistic player demands there. Then....
Gone .
( btw , slightly related, - Forest are the Club who spent the most monies of all the rest of the Champship Members over their (10,12?) seasons in the Champ, trying to return to the Premier. ) Even more than WBA.
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And still when we change managers there’s the usual employ Davies crew 🤷‍♂️
 
And may I ask - who's been the best PNE manager since Moyes?
( Bearing in mind Grayson's success was related to the League below the Champ. )
 
noelpne said:
And may I ask - who's been the best PNE manager since Moyes?
( Bearing in mind Grayson's success was related to the League below the Champ. )
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I guess there are many definitions of best to many beholders
table position
Player purchases
Personality
Style of play
And on and on
I liked Simpson and Irvine in equal amounts but imagine ask the audience would give a much different answer
 
noelpne said:
He just Wanted the MONEY.
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Nowt wrong with that, the last two years has probably been the largest salary of his career (spent largely as a journeyman lower league player) and no one would give that up lightly. With that in mind I feel he was doing his best to keep his job as long as possible and the idea he phoned it in all summer to deliberately fuck us over seems like fanciful revisionist bollocks.

And let’s face it, there’s wasn’t a lot different between between the Lowe giving it 100% and the one supposedly fucking it up deliberately.
 
Lord Edgington said:
The most financially supported, best is a matter of opinion ?
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David Moyes was financially supported but Billy Davies? You are correct though best is a matter of opinion. Mind Davies has been the best since Moyes imo, and by your own post you said there is always a clamber for his return, I’m obviously not on my own.
 
Billy Davies is my personal favourite manager after Moyes in terms of us as a team (I have to ignore his exit).

I don’t understand any clamour for his return though.

His stature as a manager is so far below us as a football club it’s nothing but nostalgia talking.

I’d guess he’d struggle to get a league one gig or surely he’d be managing again by now.
 
janiejones said:
I thought Davies left sooner than pre season, but whatever, he certainly did his best to fuck us over. I hated him at the time, but he was one of the best managers we've had in my 52 years as a supporter.
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northender2 said:
Yes, im pretty sure Davies left not long after the season had ended, Grayson left first day of pre-season
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Thracia said:
Yep, Davies left a month after the play-off semis, 2 months before the new season started, so not after pre-season at all.

www.lep.co.uk

On this day: Billy Davies left Preston North End on June 2, 2006, to become Derby County manager

Fourteen years ago today Billy Davies resigned as Preston North End manager to become Derby County boss.
www.lep.co.uk www.lep.co.uk
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I’ve remembered what happened. Davies left, then on the first day of pre-season he got Ned Kelly and a couple of other coaches to resign and join him after we’d kept them on.
 
B(rad)P(otts)IG said:
I’ve remembered what happened. Davies left, then on the first day of pre-season he got Ned Kelly and a couple of other coaches to resign and join him after we’d kept them on.
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There was something weird about the Ned Kelly situation, think he was on holiday but thought he should have been given the job at PNE, but the board insisted he should be interviewed, he got the hump and I think he was still under contract at PNE and decided to sit at home on gardening leave and couldn't join his mate till the end of the season.

Think the medical guy had to do a three month notice period before he could also leave.
 
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