StockholmSyndrome

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!! For all the reasons 4ize has listed above.

D'oh. Lucky us...

And even if he's not playing week in week out, he has a lot of very valuable experience that can be passed on to the younger players. We should definitely be capitalising on that.

Ha! I knew someone would say something about that eventually!

Call me hard-hearted, but I don't feel sorry for them. As the man said, the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; what goes round comes round, what's for you will no go by you etc etc. After years of mismanagement and spending money they didn't have this is only what they can expect.

A terrible draw, IMO. Not looking forward to this one bit! :thumb04:

Oh well, at least I'm over 100 posts now, so I don't look like a complete n00b any more. I suppose I could make some blog postings, like you suggested Scotty, but I don't know if I've got anything to say that people would want to waste time reading! Does the blog have to be about football, or can you write about anything you want?

If that happens it will be an utter travesty.

If Livvy do "do a Gretna" I don't suppose too many people will be that upset. They didn't exactly make themselves popular on their way up the leagues.

Interesting that you should say that, caleyboy. I have a friend who works for Tullochs and a few years ago she also told me that in her opinion David Sutherland wasn't really a football man. This isn't to badmouth him or anything, just interesting that more than one person has this opinion of him.

BTW, why is my post at the head of this topic? It doesn't make a lot of sense in this context and I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that I had seemingly started a topic I had no knowledge of!! For a moment I thought someone at work had hacked into my account Back on topic, I was quite disappointed when Sutherland and Savage couldn't work together, as IMHO this has hampered the club's progress. The public falling out they had after Savage resigned was needless and didn't make us look good, not least because they appeared to be behaving less like experienced businessmen and more like a couple of small angry boys arguing over a toy. As to what Sutherland's real intentions are right now, I guess only he knows that.

If that's true then it's pretty paltry. Even I earn quite a bit more than that!

That's as may be, but it's remarkable how, even in tough times, individuals and organisations can find the resources to do something if they really want to do it. Anyway, as you've pointed out, Brewster's contract is up at the end of the season, so it surely wouldn't cost that much to pay him off now?

If the board really wanted to do it they would find the money somewhere.

Yes, very constructive Ralph. :thumb04: Unfortunately, it seems pretty obvious that Mr Brewster's man-management skills are not what they should be. To be brutally honest, I'm quite glad that he's not my boss.

It frustrates me that this same pattern gets repeated year after year after year. At best the club is incredibly naive in this respect, and I would agree that Bennett is not doing his job. We've lost so many good players over the years because of this kind of incompetence.

I'm not baring anything, I intend to wrap up as tightly as possible this winter! Seriously though, we cannot go on the way we are now, as it can only lead to disaster. Right now I would jump at the chance of having Robbo back: I have tremendous respect for him and his record while he was with us speaks for itself IMHO. I'm not a huge fan of taking back former managers, but he's the one I would take back if it were up to me. If the board had had any sense last year they would have employed him or someone like him.

I still find it hard to believe we play 4-5-1 at home!! I miss us actually playing football like we used to. We used to be real good at that once...

Top Gear!

To be honest, I don't see how this discussion could make things worse. Brewster presumably already knows what was said to him, and by some of the comments here it also seems to have been pretty obvious to anyone else in the vicinity as well. Any damage will have been done by now. What I will be interested to see is what, if anything, will happen next between Brewster and the players.

However, up until now it has always been a rarity at our club. In fact, I can't recall ever having seen our players talking back to or swearing at the management, and the fact that they now seem to have started doing this makes me suspect that things are definitely going very wrong in the dressing room.

I don't think there's anyone at all who welcomes failure. Jay_7 hits the nail on the head when he says that ICT are not performing as well as we know they can. That, IMHO, is why there are so many disappointed people on here. An awful lot of what's been on offer this season has been sub-standard and lacklustre, not exactly the sort of thing most people enjoy; "endure" would be a better word. Most of the "moaning" is because we know we can do better, but have consistently failed to do so this season.

1. Ability to work with people and motivate them. 2. Ability to put personal differences aside and be dispassionate when making decisions, so that what he decides benefits the team, not just him. 3. Good communication skills. 4. Logic, tactical knowledge and ability to apply that knowledge. That's four that are most obvious to me, but there's lots of skills involved in being a decent manager, quite a lot of which Mr Brewster seems to lack, IMHO.

Very little. I'd make my excuses and leave, as I doubt he'd enjoy my opinions about the way he runs the team.

You sound quite bitter, Johndo. I can't say I blame you, in fact I agree with most of the points you make. I've felt increasingly over the last couple of seasons that the club has lost the "family" feel it used to have. There is no bond with the supporters any more, no feeling of "togetherness". It's very sad, and also very worrying for the future.