Steven Pressley Gone

FFS

Not a fan of him mentioning this, players going to see him and upset at peronal circumstances, not football, should not be aired for his excuses at failing miserably.

lummy8 wrote: Not a fan of him mentioning this, players going to see him and upset at peronal circumstances, not football, should not be aired for his excuses at failing miserably.

Yes, I agree with this. Just no need at all to say that. I know he's not mentioned specific players but he could have talked in much more general terms.
I thought mentioning specific players after games, singling them out for criticism to the media was really not on as well. Just no need for that. Keep it in the dressing room or talk privately to the player.

I see he's now banging the location drum for failure to get players as well, something I'm sure he's said time and time again wasn't an issue whilst he had the job

" “In fact, two weeks prior to my departure I was told that the investors were 100 per cent behind me, and there was a pick-up in results."

'Investors...' ? Not the directors... ?

4 grown men crying coz their boss got sacked. As sheriff Buford T Justice once said “what is the world coming to?”

I don’t think it was in that context Dancing, he meant they were in his office while he was in charge.

SP using it as example of new generation of players being harder to work with, which I agree o the mental side, but I know they were in his office for off the field influences, not football, and he should not make that public for his own agenda.

The full podcast is quite good, they're not going easy on him

"You took over Carlisle and they were in 6th place, and you left them and they were in 19th place? How can you not have any inclination?"

I think as well the use of his language and the word "cuddle" is somewhat pejorative and I think uncalled for.
Who knows what was going on for the players and who doesn't need a cuddle every now and again.

lummy8 wrote: I don’t think it was in that context Dancing, he meant they were in his office while he was in charge.

SP using it as example of new generation of players being harder to work with, which I agree o the mental side, but I know they were in his office for off the field influences, not football, and he should not make that public for his own agenda.

Apologies. I was just going off the twitter clip above.

Southernblue wrote: I see he's now banging the location drum for failure to get players as well, something I'm sure he's said time and time again wasn't an issue whilst he had the job

Carlisle's always been in the same place and managers have managed ok before.

Scotch [censored]!

nobbyblue wrote:

Southernblue wrote: I see he's now banging the location drum for failure to get players as well, something I'm sure he's said time and time again wasn't an issue whilst he had the job

Carlisle's always been in the same place and managers have managed ok before.

Scotch [censored]!

Going back to the 1970s, when we had a manager of the calibre of Alan Ashman and a coach of the quality of Hughie Neil in Division 1 and 2, one player was asked whether he minded travelling all the way to Carlisle to play football. His reply, 'I'd walk to Carlisle to play for that club'.

True story.

I've said it before and I'll say it again we have a whole bloody country above us where, players will come and ply their trade because they are so desperate to get into the English game???
You are a Scotsman Elvis could you not bloody well see that???

Bluedazblue, Hughie was chief scout, Dick Young was the coach.

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Bluedazblue wrote:

nobbyblue wrote:

Southernblue wrote: I see he's now banging the location drum for failure to get players as well, something I'm sure he's said time and time again wasn't an issue whilst he had the job

Carlisle's always been in the same place and managers have managed ok before.

Scotch [censored]!

Going back to the 1970s, when we had a manager of the calibre of Alan Ashman and a coach of the quality of Hughie Neil in Division 1 and 2, one player was asked whether he minded travelling all the way to Carlisle to play football. His reply, 'I'd walk to Carlisle to play for that club'.

True story.

And a good indication of how far we've fallen is the calibre and experience of managers that we.re appointing

From an FA Cup-winning manager in the 1980.s to some bloke sacked from Rochdale's academy whose main claim to fame is that he once sold some kid for 25 grand.

Or an fa cup winning manager in the 70s

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tommycoleman1 wrote: Or an fa cup winning manager in the 70s

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He didn't manage us in the 70.s after he won the FA Cup in 1973

"There followed another spell with Rochdale (1979–1980) which ended with the club having to seek re-election to the league and spells with Carlisle United (1980–1985 and 1985–1986). He led Carlisle to promotion to the Second Division in 1982, and in the 1983–84 season they became promotion contenders before a poor run saw them finish 7th. He resigned in 1985, only to be reappointed and resign again seven months later."

I know he didn't manage us in the 70s

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Thanks Bas. You reminded me.

Sad that BS walked away and left us in the lurch every time there was a sniff of better money elsewhere.

"Cuddling for forty minutes"

I bet he was. Full on "cuddling" with his chums Byron & Jack.

howoldboy wrote: Thanks Bas. You reminded me.

Sad that BS walked away and left us in the lurch every time there was a sniff of better money elsewhere.

Aye, and wouldn't that be just about the time AJ was taking over from Jimmy Bendall i.ll bet Stokoe had him sussed out in about 5 minutes.

I'd be greeting as well if I had to listen to Pressley drone on day in day oot.

Listened to the podcast of that Radio Scotland show in full. Pressley will never make a manager. He hasn't got it in him.

I agree ....I said way back he'd be short in the motivation department

nobbyblue wrote: Listened to the podcast of that Radio Scotland show in full. Pressley will never make a manager. He hasn't got it in him.

And if you bother to look back I posted the very same thing the day he was appointed after receiving messages from Coventry and Fleetwood fans as well as a damming resume from the erstwhile RL reporter at the time.

nobbyblue wrote: Listened to the podcast of that Radio Scotland show in full. Pressley will never make a manager. He hasn't got it in him.

1:47 for steven cos it won't let me edit

Pressley can now go into his desired role of a pundit on Scottish media.

He can spend all week analysing the teams and slipping in some of his findings during the commentary.

Some Scottish football chairman will hear him and think 'wow he sounds like he knows what he is talking about' and Pressley is back on the managerial merry go round for another six months.

orfc wrote: 1:47 for steven cos it won't let me edit

147? Should have been a snooker player.

Dancingbear wrote:

orfc wrote: 1:47 for steven cos it won't let me edit

147? Should have been a snooker player.

He's left us so far behind that we need snookers.

Pressley is on Transfer Talk on skysportsnews now. Caption had him as Carlisle manager

That's funny I thought it was Gavin Skelton

According to the OS site he is anyway.

( however as we now have a Head Coach not a Manager the field has to be filled some how, even if it's wrong???)
Mullen get round there

He has jsut said we have a bottom four budget

pigeonpete wrote: He has jsut said we have a bottom four budget

Well that's one thing that he definitely is right about

The blokes name just winds me up these days.

The sad tale of where we were when he arrived and where he left us, then the players he let go and the players he signed.

munchymagic wrote: The blokes name just winds me up these days.

The sad tale of where we were when he arrived and where he left us, then the players he let go and the players he signed.

Same. Pisses me off even thinking about it, but it’s the idiots who extended his contract that I’m more angry at.

I’ll only be able to move on from this disaster once this season is over and we’ve (hopefully) survived. Then we can forget Steven Pressley ever happened.

pigeonpete wrote: Pressley is on Transfer Talk on skysportsnews now. Caption had him as Carlisle manager

He couldn`t manage but he could talk the talk, so I`m not surprised he`s on some yakety yak programme.

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seesaw50 wrote: That's funny I thought it was Gavin Skelton

According to the OS site he is anyway.

( however as we now have a Head Coach not a Manager the field has to be filled some how, even if it's wrong???)
Mullen get round there

O/S lists Beech as Head Coach and Skelton as Assistant Head Coach...

Ohhhhh....somebody been busy it didnt the other day!

seesaw50 wrote:

CCU wrote:

seesaw50 wrote: That's funny I thought it was Gavin Skelton

According to the OS site he is anyway.

( however as we now have a Head Coach not a Manager the field has to be filled some how, even if it's wrong???)
Mullen get round there

O/S lists Beech as Head Coach and Skelton as Assistant Head Coach...

Ohhhhh....somebody been busy it didnt the other day!

Kes probably did it when Clibbens left his lap top unattended to create something to moan about

CCU wrote: Interesting piece:

BBC Sport ✔ @BBCSport

It's a whole different world when you get sacked... What's life like as an unemployed manager? Find out 👉… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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The bloke had a simple task keep/get back the four loan players and he.d probably have won the championship but he obviously thought he knew better.

Hell if he'd come to me I .ve still got enough shit on Andy Pilley that hed of been asking if there was any more of his players we.d like on loan rather than pissing us about over the ones that we had.

Claims he doesn’t know why he was sacked, doesn’t take genius does it. Now a painter decorated.

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CCU wrote: Interesting piece:

BBC Sport ✔ @BBCSport

It's a whole different world when you get sacked... What's life like as an unemployed manager? Find out 👉… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

17 May 2020 12:44

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The bloke had a simple task keep/get back the four loan players and he.d probably have won the championship but he obviously thought he knew better.

Hell if he'd come to me I .ve still got enough shit on Andy Pilley that hed of been asking if there was any more of his players we.d like on loan rather than pissing us about over the ones that we had.

I honestly don’t think we would have. He was such a terrible coach and manager I think even with Yates Nadesan and Sowerby he still would have done his ‘tweaks’ that he used to mention all the time and would have still managed to ruin the team. We probably would have got in the playoffs but no more. He still had O’Hare who was a cut above this level but still failed.

Terrible manager, terrible coach, deluded and he still wonders why he got fired. He’s even more stupid than I thought.

If he still doesn't know why he was sacked, we can now add delusional and constantly being in denial.

CCU wrote:

NORTHERNSOUL wrote: The bloke had a simple task keep/get back the four loan players and he.d probably have won the championship but he obviously thought he knew better.

DH’s department that!

Well if I was a football manager I wouldn't even consider working for a club that employed a Head of Recruitment [ or whatever they're calling themselves this week ] that I hadn't brought with me.

Can you just imagine Bob Stokoe or Bill Shankley putting up with a jumped-up shit like Holdsworth You.ll notice he came nowhere near the club while Curle was here as i.d bet hed of of had his arse one way or the other too.

topstepwhinger wrote: If he still doesn't know why he was sacked, we can now add delusional and constantly being in denial.

He seems to talk about management a lot, shame he's crap at it.

Can’t watch or listen to owt SP says. Keep trying to forget about this tosser. What a disaster! Said at the time he was a bad appointment. Didn’t think he’d turn out to be as bad!