| Come back Mick please..... 17:10 - Oct 24 with 3192 views | Bloots |
....rid us of this fraud of a manager. |  |
| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 18:39 - Oct 24 with 809 views | MattinLondon |
Mick leaving was the right decision. The two appointments after him were wrong. |  | | |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:17 - Oct 24 with 771 views | Jimmy86 |
| He can pick and choose.... on 18:01 - Oct 24 by Bloots |
....he's waiting for the right job.
Obviously. |
Absolute Pish.... no one employs him as his style of football is absolute dross! And no one wants to go near him... Bristol City and Forest could've gone for him... but they didn't. ROI are now having to change their playing style as his brand of football was dire and he didn't exactly pull up any trees there... if he was that good they would have qualified out of their group, but like with us they limped into the play offs
He's a spent force and no football savvy owner or director of football will take him on. Fact he has to tout himself about for jobs shows how irrelevant he is.... he fancied the Bristol City job, that went well for him...
He did a great job with us, under the hand dealt to him by Evans, but parting of the ways was still the right thing to do at the time... it's amazing that clubs have to pick up the pieces after the mess he leaves behind... |  | | |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:23 - Oct 24 with 754 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:17 - Oct 24 by Jimmy86 |
Absolute Pish.... no one employs him as his style of football is absolute dross! And no one wants to go near him... Bristol City and Forest could've gone for him... but they didn't. ROI are now having to change their playing style as his brand of football was dire and he didn't exactly pull up any trees there... if he was that good they would have qualified out of their group, but like with us they limped into the play offs
He's a spent force and no football savvy owner or director of football will take him on. Fact he has to tout himself about for jobs shows how irrelevant he is.... he fancied the Bristol City job, that went well for him...
He did a great job with us, under the hand dealt to him by Evans, but parting of the ways was still the right thing to do at the time... it's amazing that clubs have to pick up the pieces after the mess he leaves behind... |
I like the way you make out us ‘limping’ into the playoffs was a bad thing, when it’s the best season we’ve had in the last 15 years. A period which has seen 7 different permanent managers at the club |  |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 21:24 - Oct 24 with 749 views | Swansea_Blue |
The manager isn't the biggest problem imo (well he is in the short term, but it's the guy who chose him who's dragging us down). |  |
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| He can pick and choose.... on 21:25 - Oct 24 with 747 views | Mullet |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:17 - Oct 24 by Jimmy86 |
Absolute Pish.... no one employs him as his style of football is absolute dross! And no one wants to go near him... Bristol City and Forest could've gone for him... but they didn't. ROI are now having to change their playing style as his brand of football was dire and he didn't exactly pull up any trees there... if he was that good they would have qualified out of their group, but like with us they limped into the play offs
He's a spent force and no football savvy owner or director of football will take him on. Fact he has to tout himself about for jobs shows how irrelevant he is.... he fancied the Bristol City job, that went well for him...
He did a great job with us, under the hand dealt to him by Evans, but parting of the ways was still the right thing to do at the time... it's amazing that clubs have to pick up the pieces after the mess he leaves behind... |
Especially when you look at how both clubs operate with him in charge and how they try to compensate by making risky appointments afterwards who aren't anywhere near as good.
I know it's embarrassing and inconvenient for so many people, but getting rid of Mick has put us here. You can't argue what you have and deny that. |  |
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| Have you been drinking meths mate? (n/t) on 21:31 - Oct 24 with 727 views | Bloots |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:17 - Oct 24 by Jimmy86 |
Absolute Pish.... no one employs him as his style of football is absolute dross! And no one wants to go near him... Bristol City and Forest could've gone for him... but they didn't. ROI are now having to change their playing style as his brand of football was dire and he didn't exactly pull up any trees there... if he was that good they would have qualified out of their group, but like with us they limped into the play offs
He's a spent force and no football savvy owner or director of football will take him on. Fact he has to tout himself about for jobs shows how irrelevant he is.... he fancied the Bristol City job, that went well for him...
He did a great job with us, under the hand dealt to him by Evans, but parting of the ways was still the right thing to do at the time... it's amazing that clubs have to pick up the pieces after the mess he leaves behind... |
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| He can pick and choose.... on 21:33 - Oct 24 with 721 views | Jimmy86 |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:25 - Oct 24 by Mullet |
Especially when you look at how both clubs operate with him in charge and how they try to compensate by making risky appointments afterwards who aren't anywhere near as good.
I know it's embarrassing and inconvenient for so many people, but getting rid of Mick has put us here. You can't argue what you have and deny that. |
Parting company with Mick at the time was exactly the right thing to do, as his position had more or less become untenable. The relationship between him and the supporters had irretrievably broken down and was beyond repair.
Attendances were about 9k, despite the inflated attendance figures published by the club.
I wasn't anti Mick whilst he was at the club, as I say he did a great job with the hand he was dealt by Evans, which is and always has been the bigger issue.
Ultimately, we were on the slide under Mick anyway and due to the lack of backing by Evans we would have been relegated at some point anyway.
The appointments made since Mick have been the problem, but Evans isn't a football man, parting company with Mick wasn't wrong, as it had run its course, what has happened since has been wrong and led us here | | | |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:36 - Oct 24 with 712 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:33 - Oct 24 by Jimmy86 |
Parting company with Mick at the time was exactly the right thing to do, as his position had more or less become untenable. The relationship between him and the supporters had irretrievably broken down and was beyond repair.
Attendances were about 9k, despite the inflated attendance figures published by the club.
I wasn't anti Mick whilst he was at the club, as I say he did a great job with the hand he was dealt by Evans, which is and always has been the bigger issue.
Ultimately, we were on the slide under Mick anyway and due to the lack of backing by Evans we would have been relegated at some point anyway.
The appointments made since Mick have been the problem, but Evans isn't a football man, parting company with Mick wasn't wrong, as it had run its course, what has happened since has been wrong and led us here |
We finished 4 places higher in Mick’s final season here than we did the one before. Including his final season we’d finished in the top half in 4 of the last 5 seasons
The idea that we were headed towards relegation with him at the helm is entirely made up | |
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| He can pick and choose.... on 21:37 - Oct 24 with 706 views | PJH |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:36 - Oct 24 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
We finished 4 places higher in Mick’s final season here than we did the one before. Including his final season we’d finished in the top half in 4 of the last 5 seasons
The idea that we were headed towards relegation with him at the helm is entirely made up |
But apart from that... |  | | |
| Have you been drinking meths mate? (n/t) on 21:40 - Oct 24 with 700 views | Jimmy86 |
| Have you been drinking meths mate? (n/t) on 21:31 - Oct 24 by Bloots |
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No mate... I realise that you love Mick, fair enough. I wasn't ever Anti Mick, he did a great job with what he had and we never found ourselves here, but he is not without his limitations... he isn't as good as you seem to think he is... he is ultra pragmatic and that is fine if you're looking to avoid relegation, but the football is rubbish and the game has moved on
ROI were in a pretty easy group, but hey, as with us they didn't score enough goals and limped into the play offs.
He also hasn't had a job since and there have been jobs going | | | |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:41 - Oct 24 with 695 views | Mullet |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:33 - Oct 24 by Jimmy86 |
Parting company with Mick at the time was exactly the right thing to do, as his position had more or less become untenable. The relationship between him and the supporters had irretrievably broken down and was beyond repair.
Attendances were about 9k, despite the inflated attendance figures published by the club.
I wasn't anti Mick whilst he was at the club, as I say he did a great job with the hand he was dealt by Evans, which is and always has been the bigger issue.
Ultimately, we were on the slide under Mick anyway and due to the lack of backing by Evans we would have been relegated at some point anyway.
The appointments made since Mick have been the problem, but Evans isn't a football man, parting company with Mick wasn't wrong, as it had run its course, what has happened since has been wrong and led us here |
"About 9k" how many ST's have we sold this season?
We went up the table finishing above Norwich and Leeds before Mick left. You're talking what I beleive the kids call "sh1te".
Getting rid of Mick started the landslide that buried this club. It's not debatable, it's not subjective, it's clear and demonstrable. And people lapped it up because they're weak and arrogant enough not to hold their hands up.
Let's stop sugar coating it. We're lower than we could ever fear being and still people are pretending they're ok with it when they were crying about having to play bloody Preston again or some Prem kid they hadn't heard of 3 months before was on the bench.
Where's that entitled directionless anger now? | |
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| He can pick and choose.... on 21:52 - Oct 24 with 668 views | Jimmy86 |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:41 - Oct 24 by Mullet |
"About 9k" how many ST's have we sold this season?
We went up the table finishing above Norwich and Leeds before Mick left. You're talking what I beleive the kids call "sh1te".
Getting rid of Mick started the landslide that buried this club. It's not debatable, it's not subjective, it's clear and demonstrable. And people lapped it up because they're weak and arrogant enough not to hold their hands up.
Let's stop sugar coating it. We're lower than we could ever fear being and still people are pretending they're ok with it when they were crying about having to play bloody Preston again or some Prem kid they hadn't heard of 3 months before was on the bench.
Where's that entitled directionless anger now? |
Easy fella... as I said to you, I wasn't ever anti Mick... he did a great job with what he had at his disposal, but I do think Mick's time at the club had run its course... Evans had decided Mick wasn't going to be kept on... the appointments and decisions made after Mick are what has led us here.
There is life after Mick, I'm afraid to say... | | | |
| He can pick and choose.... on 22:15 - Oct 24 with 643 views | longtimefan |
| He can pick and choose.... on 21:52 - Oct 24 by Jimmy86 |
Easy fella... as I said to you, I wasn't ever anti Mick... he did a great job with what he had at his disposal, but I do think Mick's time at the club had run its course... Evans had decided Mick wasn't going to be kept on... the appointments and decisions made after Mick are what has led us here.
There is life after Mick, I'm afraid to say... |
“There is life after Mick, I'm afraid to say...”
But not as we know it Jim! [Post edited 24 Oct 2020 22:16]
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| Come back Mick please..... on 23:03 - Oct 24 with 618 views | TheBoyBlue |
Good idea. Then he will stay forever, never ever leaving. Which seems to be the situation that some think we were robbed of by him leaving previously. | |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 23:38 - Oct 24 with 584 views | jeera |
| Come back Mick please..... on 17:19 - Oct 24 by Churchman |
Just because Lambert couldn’t run a bath, doesn’t mean I’d want McCarthy back, even if he was insane enough to want to come. MM was woeful in so many ways and the fact that ME would have done better appointing Fozzy, Beaker and Animal from the Muppet Show over the other clowns he’s appointed doesn’t change that for me. |
That's just stupid.
Neither Beaker nor Fozzy would be of any use to us as football managers.
Animal on the other hand, maybe. |  |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 23:49 - Oct 24 with 567 views | jeera |
| Come back Mick please..... on 23:03 - Oct 24 by TheBoyBlue |
Good idea. Then he will stay forever, never ever leaving. Which seems to be the situation that some think we were robbed of by him leaving previously. |
It may have been wise to hold on until something better was found though. | |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 23:56 - Oct 24 with 563 views | strikalite |
| Come back Mick please..... on 18:39 - Oct 24 by MattinLondon |
Mick leaving was the right decision. The two appointments after him were wrong. |
Yep, he has form of getting everything bloody wrong, Mick should have gone after the FA Cup replay defeat at Lincoln...it's always Lincoln, that ridiculous five year plan thing was handed to him at Lincoln too when he actually should have been sacked.. |  | | |
| Come back Mick please..... on 00:07 - Oct 25 with 559 views | TheBoyBlue |
| Come back Mick please..... on 23:49 - Oct 24 by jeera |
It may have been wise to hold on until something better was found though. |
I think we could've held onto Mick for a century and Evans - who seems to look for managers via Wikipedia - would've got the decision wrong. Mick is the only one he's ever got right. | |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 00:20 - Oct 25 with 546 views | jeera |
| Come back Mick please..... on 00:07 - Oct 25 by TheBoyBlue |
I think we could've held onto Mick for a century and Evans - who seems to look for managers via Wikipedia - would've got the decision wrong. Mick is the only one he's ever got right. |
In truth I would have liked to have seen a smooth transition, even where some key players may have wanted to stay.
A transition where Mick knew and understood his time was over here but could oversee things as the club moved from one phase to another.
He pretty much held the team together on a tight budget so there's no arguing his worth there.
What happened and the way it happened was as far from being in the interests of the club as possible. Yes, Evans should have had enough business knowledge, if nothing else, to have handled things differently. [Post edited 25 Oct 2020 0:31]
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| Come back Mick please..... on 01:40 - Oct 25 with 505 views | pointofblue |
| Come back Mick please..... on 00:20 - Oct 25 by jeera |
In truth I would have liked to have seen a smooth transition, even where some key players may have wanted to stay.
A transition where Mick knew and understood his time was over here but could oversee things as the club moved from one phase to another.
He pretty much held the team together on a tight budget so there's no arguing his worth there.
What happened and the way it happened was as far from being in the interests of the club as possible. Yes, Evans should have had enough business knowledge, if nothing else, to have handled things differently. [Post edited 25 Oct 2020 0:31]
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Evans did try that create that kind of transition but the fans weren’t keen on burying the hatchet... or wanted to bury it somewhere painful. | |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 08:30 - Oct 25 with 439 views | MonkeyAlan |
| Come back Mick please..... on 17:13 - Oct 24 by reusersfreekicks |
Good forward thinking! ffs |
Forward thinking has done us a lot of good. |  | | |
| "He just gets it" (n/t) on 09:12 - Oct 25 with 428 views | gazzer1999 |
| "He just gets it" (n/t) on 17:14 - Oct 24 by BlueBadger |
The Matchday Experience Is Brilliant Now. |
Yes the attendance is probably the same now as if Mick had stayed. |  | | |
| Come back Mick please..... on 09:21 - Oct 25 with 419 views | Mullet |
| Come back Mick please..... on 01:40 - Oct 25 by pointofblue |
Evans did try that create that kind of transition but the fans weren’t keen on burying the hatchet... or wanted to bury it somewhere painful. |
He really didn't. He was absent from club affairs and things moved far too slowly, both whn Hurst tried to do things (regardless of them being wrong) and when almost the whole staff at the club were so horrified and tried to wanr him.
As per people who go on about Solbakken at Wolves as some sort of parallel, they completely miss the point. The reason us and Wolves failed so dismally is because they allowed Mick to do so much, that replacing him with a manager who was neither anywhere near as good, or capable of doing everything because it was cheaper allowed them to collapse.
Anyone who went to the away game after where we completely took the piss out of them can tell you that. Just saying "it was right for Mick to go" misses the point completely and shows the lack of understanding or consistency these people have. Leaving aside the uter hypocrisy of trying to still pretend this is not even worse than every single criticsim they had of MM's era to the nth degree. | |
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| Come back Mick please..... on 09:52 - Oct 25 with 403 views | pointofblue |
| Come back Mick please..... on 09:21 - Oct 25 by Mullet |
He really didn't. He was absent from club affairs and things moved far too slowly, both whn Hurst tried to do things (regardless of them being wrong) and when almost the whole staff at the club were so horrified and tried to wanr him.
As per people who go on about Solbakken at Wolves as some sort of parallel, they completely miss the point. The reason us and Wolves failed so dismally is because they allowed Mick to do so much, that replacing him with a manager who was neither anywhere near as good, or capable of doing everything because it was cheaper allowed them to collapse.
Anyone who went to the away game after where we completely took the piss out of them can tell you that. Just saying "it was right for Mick to go" misses the point completely and shows the lack of understanding or consistency these people have. Leaving aside the uter hypocrisy of trying to still pretend this is not even worse than every single criticsim they had of MM's era to the nth degree. |
I do wonder how different things would have been had Mick been able to stay until the end of the season, though. We were left in limbo after Mick left then it took us an awfully long time to get Hurst through the door, due to the play offs.
I will stand by it was time for Mick to leave as there was far too much toxicity and ill-feeling in both directions. I do agree the handling of what followed is what killed us, and Evans’ approach of trusting the manager above all else to cover so much ground without a ‘football man’ in place to review and sign off each decision. | |
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