| Time to go Jim. The turning point 16:36 - Feb 22 with 10922 views | ThreeLions |
Losing to the team on top and in form is no great shame but the way you do it by playing absolute dross is clearly on show this afternoon. Today has to be the turning point that the owners see it's not working and we need a change if we are to save the season.
Crowds are falling, the players look totally demotivated and drained of any spark they once held. I've given him a bit longer to sort it out after him sticking with us last season when we were on the brink of nonexistence but you can't run a football team off the past and the current and future holds more importance.
Thanks for everything Jim we appreciate it but it's just not working. |  | | |  |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 21:19 - Feb 25 with 2557 views | joecooke |
Times up for me on the manager. |  |
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 21:41 - Feb 25 with 2281 views | dalepunch |
It’s time for him to go he is out of his depth and has run out of ideas. The team is poor Rodney is shocking how he is in the squad I don’t know. Jim if you love the club please just go. |  | | |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 07:13 - Feb 26 with 1854 views | rochedale |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 20:48 - Feb 25 by TalkingSutty |
The reason he was sacked was because he took on the whole fan base and said that they were wrong to have expectations in respect of the play offs and also belittled the club in a post match interview.They were in the play offs at the time. The Chairman had very little choice but to replace him. Constantly picking fights for no reason. Their fans forum was very telling at the time, the fans hated him even though he had them at the right end of the table. He did the same with the Bolton fans on Radio Bolton after they lost 7-1 at Accrington and stated the fans should realise where the club was...they had one of the largest budgets in the league at the time and just been taken to the cleaners by Accrington. A bit like McNulty telling us how great part time Tamworth are. [Post edited 25 Feb 20:56]
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Like I said, I couldn’t care less what he says in post match interviews, I actually found quite a lot of them enjoyable, rather than the media trained PC rubbish most come up with. The likelihood is, he would do a job for us, one that he’s done both other times, one which nobody else has.
Why are people so bothered about what he says post match? It’s about what he does on the field. Yes, I agree it wasn’t great at the end, but it’s telling that nothing has been since, which tells you also it’s due to something deeper at the club, which we all know already.
Bring him back! It’s worth a shot, as nothing else is coming close to what we had when he’s been here before. |  |
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 10:01 - Feb 26 with 1579 views | wheniwasyourage |
Keith's - Best manager in my time, I loved his post match comments. I don't even bother with Jim's or even BBS - too boring.
But I don't think Keith will manage a team again... I just don't think he enjoys it anymore. | | | |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 10:04 - Feb 26 with 1564 views | Nigeriamark |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 10:01 - Feb 26 by wheniwasyourage |
Keith's - Best manager in my time, I loved his post match comments. I don't even bother with Jim's or even BBS - too boring.
But I don't think Keith will manage a team again... I just don't think he enjoys it anymore. |
Looks like he will be a speaker at the April Curry night. That'll be an interesting night !!! |  | | |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 10:56 - Feb 26 with 1438 views | Bainesy15 |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 20:39 - Feb 25 by rochedale |
Ah, should’ve known!
I really didn’t feel inclined to comment, as I said, I wasn’t there. He heard through a friend who was there something along those lines, I had absolutely no reason to comment on Chinese whispers.
FYI, I commented on KH’s departure from Tranmere, based on facts/league position when he left. Not many managers get sacked in a play off position, certainly in the lower leagues. |
I was there, he said about this being a different generation of people let alone footballers and that his methods wouldn't work.
That should be the end of it. It didn't work when he was last here, it wouldn't work 7 years later.
This constant desire to get a has-been manager back at the club is exhausting - if he came back, he'd only serve to spoil his phenomenal legacy at the club.
Managerial change yes, Hilly no. |  | | |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 12:10 - Feb 26 with 1257 views | D_Alien |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 10:56 - Feb 26 by Bainesy15 |
I was there, he said about this being a different generation of people let alone footballers and that his methods wouldn't work.
That should be the end of it. It didn't work when he was last here, it wouldn't work 7 years later.
This constant desire to get a has-been manager back at the club is exhausting - if he came back, he'd only serve to spoil his phenomenal legacy at the club.
Managerial change yes, Hilly no. |
As if on cue, an insight into the current generation of footballers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cge17835e3eo |  |
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 12:33 - Feb 26 with 1162 views | judd |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 10:56 - Feb 26 by Bainesy15 |
I was there, he said about this being a different generation of people let alone footballers and that his methods wouldn't work.
That should be the end of it. It didn't work when he was last here, it wouldn't work 7 years later.
This constant desire to get a has-been manager back at the club is exhausting - if he came back, he'd only serve to spoil his phenomenal legacy at the club.
Managerial change yes, Hilly no. |
Bows & arrows have won us a few wars. |  |
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 13:34 - Feb 26 with 988 views | EllDale |
The ironic thing is that I remember reading an interview with BBM in an Irish newspaper when he got the job at City where he said that his footballing philosophy was partially moulded by Hilly who force fed them videos of the original Pep Barcelona team, enthusing how they’d footballed opponents to death. | | | |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 15:07 - Feb 26 with 785 views | kel |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 10:56 - Feb 26 by Bainesy15 |
I was there, he said about this being a different generation of people let alone footballers and that his methods wouldn't work.
That should be the end of it. It didn't work when he was last here, it wouldn't work 7 years later.
This constant desire to get a has-been manager back at the club is exhausting - if he came back, he'd only serve to spoil his phenomenal legacy at the club.
Managerial change yes, Hilly no. |
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 17:00 - Feb 26 with 473 views | AtThePeake |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 18:30 - Feb 25 by TalkingSutty |
With one of the top budgets in the league. I think Bolton lost 7-1 at Accrington when Hill was managing them. That scoreline needs some digesting. [Post edited 25 Feb 18:33]
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I don't want Hill back but in all fairness to him that budget was not huge by all accounts and he was hired about 30 hours before the end of the deadline just after the takeover had gone through. They'd only signed one player all summer then signed 8 on deadline day. I'm not defending the job he did there cause he still underperformed IMO but I don't think it's particularly fair to point to his budget without mentioning those constraints too. |  |
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 17:30 - Feb 26 with 384 views | TalkingSutty |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 17:00 - Feb 26 by AtThePeake |
I don't want Hill back but in all fairness to him that budget was not huge by all accounts and he was hired about 30 hours before the end of the deadline just after the takeover had gone through. They'd only signed one player all summer then signed 8 on deadline day. I'm not defending the job he did there cause he still underperformed IMO but I don't think it's particularly fair to point to his budget without mentioning those constraints too. |
Fair point but I'm willing to bet his budget at Bolton was still well in excess of Accringtons. Scunthorpe was a total disaster. He gave us the best time ever as Dale fans, thats what he should be remembered for, in the end he'd lost the plot though. [Post edited 26 Feb 17:34]
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 18:35 - Feb 26 with 205 views | AtThePeake |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 17:30 - Feb 26 by TalkingSutty |
Fair point but I'm willing to bet his budget at Bolton was still well in excess of Accringtons. Scunthorpe was a total disaster. He gave us the best time ever as Dale fans, thats what he should be remembered for, in the end he'd lost the plot though. [Post edited 26 Feb 17:34]
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Possibly, but it's hard to build a squad in a few days. When we beat them that season at their place I don't think they'd won a game yet and they still looked like a team of strangers and kids. I think there were accentuating circumstances at Bolton but the Scunthorpe spell showed he's a busted flush. | |
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| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 18:51 - Feb 26 with 148 views | TalkingSutty |
| Time to go Jim. The turning point on 18:35 - Feb 26 by AtThePeake |
Possibly, but it's hard to build a squad in a few days. When we beat them that season at their place I don't think they'd won a game yet and they still looked like a team of strangers and kids. I think there were accentuating circumstances at Bolton but the Scunthorpe spell showed he's a busted flush. |
Yes, very true in respect to that game. | | | |
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