from a orient fan

Ignoring any legal crap, Slade will either get it all together and get you into the premiership this year or he'll hoof-ball you down with us. It's feast or famine with him, you just never know what you're going to get.

If any of your big names cross him, they'll be isolated in double quick time, never to be seen again. He has been our best manager in my lifetime (I'm 63) but sometimes you just want to throttle him. Barry Hearn knows how to handle difficult people and loose canons, he also knows how to put together a cohesive and effective organisation, he improved our set up beyond all recognition. I feel this is where you may run into problems and you really don't need the kind of problems Russell Slade can cause you if he gets the notion. I promise you this: it won't be boring.... unless he loses his bottle and reverts to hoof-ball and a big lump at No 9.

I think this is what we need none of this keep players happy nonsense a hard nut manager and Russell Slade is just that.

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Last edited by Beasty1988 on Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

More hoofball. Great!, So that's his plan b?.

Ignoring any legal crap, Slade will either get it all together and get you into the premiership this year or he'll hoof-ball you down with us. It's feast or famine with him, you just never know what you're going to get.

If any of your big names cross him, they'll be isolated in double quick time, never to be seen again. He has been our best manager in my lifetime (I'm 63) but sometimes you just want to throttle him. Barry Hearn knows how to handle difficult people and loose canons, he also knows how to put together a cohesive and effective organisation, he improved our set up beyond all recognition. I feel this is where you may run into problems and you really don't need the kind of problems Russell Slade can cause you if he gets the notion. I promise you this: it won't be boring.... unless he loses his bottle and reverts to hoof-ball and a big lump at No 9.

You have pointed out the one element why Slade should never have been appointed her end why it worked at Orient- Barry Hearn, a hands on chairman who obviously gelled with Slade. He won't get that here and that's why it will all go downhill for him.

Is hoofball his thing? Oh ffs, what's point of the club getting ravel, guerra and mats if we are gonna play hoofball? Smh at the club jumping from one playing style to the next. Seems like they have no long term plans for how the club should play.

I've had a scan through their several forums and it doesn't make for a satisfactory aggregate conclusion on Slade's fit, even though they are just forum comments but you can usually pick up a few clues at he least. Comments similar to 'Why did they settle for him' resonate with me and also 'he never has achieved a promotion, so why choose him' too. Good points seem to be a down to earth motivational man-manager that can galvanise a squad. Bad points that he is unproven at this level (a la OGS) and appears never to have actually played (former PE teacher) which is not ideal. There also seem to be the expected change politics of the O's inbound owner which is usual but the elephant in the room for me is that if he is really good, why wouldn't the new owner retain him? They seem to be making the noises of electing a new manager who can match their ambitions which brings me back to the question on exactly why we are appointing someone, who apparently cannot match the ambitions of a newly acquired League One Club that has, errr, ambitions? I usually like to post funny shit to lighten the mood but this present scenario is ruining my current project of somehow convincing Dr Who's Carla that I can scientifically bum her into the next universe.

should be a fun ride,
if this doesn't pay off it will be one huge mistake

Is hoofball his thing? Oh ffs, what's point of the club getting ravel, guerra and mats if we are gonna play hoofball? Smh at the club jumping from one playing style to the next. Seems like they have no long term plans for how the club should play.

Watched them on Sky a couple of times last year and they def did not play hoofball

"I usually like to post funny shit to lighten the mood but this present scenario is ruining my current project of somehow convincing Dr Who's Carla that I can scientifically bum her into the next universe."

This is more like it, you have to tease that inner genius out from under the fug of despair and downright seriousness