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That and Rav's Jim White mock up.....
#QualityBants
I would replace Guest with Sam and days with years....
I thought he did great by us but by the end I wanted to look forward to seeing us play again...
So there will be a zillion and one 'stories' over the next few weeks, all based what the journos who are reading the coverage in The Sun think will be clickbait.
Me, I'm not clicking.
I'd prefer to either read the whole thing, or nothing at all, than rely on being drip fed what someone else thinks makes good headlines.
;biggrin
I do however think he really does have his work cut out with the squad he has inherited.
He needs more than a point a game to keep them up. If he manages to do that, he really will go down as the best ' Keep you in the Premier League' managers.
;lol
NOBODY saw this one coming
ALLARDYCE ON NOLAN
Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce also said in his first press conference that he is considering bringing Kevin Nolan to the club, his former captain at West Ham United.
Nolan has been training with League Two club Leyton Orient in order to stay fit, and Allardyce admits he may look to the 33-year-old if his current players fail to impress.
He said: "I have to assess the squad and whether I need another midfield player. Kevin and me go back a long way but I need to assess the ability of the squad and then take it from there.
"If I feel Kevin may be someone I can look at in the future, and will give us something, then that may be a line I enter down."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/west-ham/11930499/.html
;lol
Wow, Sam. Can't you just let it go...
;whistle
The bloke got such an easy ride. In his four years, other than the odd chant here and there, the WHU were very patient and content. 30,000+ in the Champ, 34,000 in the PL, sell-out away fans, supporting the club, very few protests (look at Newcastle and Pards), he was applauded in his first match, cheered and applauded when it was announced he signed his new deal (I was as the game and cheered him). Despite several terrible results (6-0 at City, 5-0 at Forest etc) he was never really vilified.
If he thinks the WHU way is winning, then he has no clue. Bilic is doing a good job at understanding the WHU way. It ain't that hard.
And anyway, on winning, how many victories did we achieve in his last 20 games?
I'd suggest he starts with the Daily Mail, then moves on to The Sun. ;thumbsup
Some fans like a manager, some don't. There are even a few on here not sold on Bilic. It's normal.
I think it's more the press going through his new book and picking out quotes from it, those which are most likely to get people to read their poor excuse for a paper.
I'm personally not going to buy his book, but no doubt there is also good stuff in there about his time at WH, but the papers looking for click bait aren't going to run with the headlines about how much he admired the away support for example, no idea if anything like that is actually in there.
But you get my point.
Well at least you got a point ;lol
WOW ;wink
Easy ride?
He knew as much as anyone, no matter what he did many would never accept him, right from the start.
Ask Curbs how he felt when you're getting boo'd at home, struggling in a game (you ultimately win) when all you actually need is the fans to give the players an extra lift/support.
Avram Grant while probably a nice man, was the most bland personality out there, he didn't attempt to go anywhere near anything contraversial. He served up a standard of football that was naive at best, woeful at worst.
He got a fraction of the abuse that Sam got, and he was the main reason we ended up with Allardyce to fix his mistakes.
Did Grant have any songs sung about him telling him to "leave"? Did he get boo'd when winning a game? He even managed to survive a lot of criticism when being relegated caused our arch rivals to fly a plane over the ground we'd just thrown a 2 goal lead away at. Did grant have a banner unveiled reminding him while stabilizing he was actually "killing our club"?
Grant had the easy ride in comparison to Sam
I'm just glad it's nearly all over, once this book had died down, then we can focus on Slaven again, until we play SAFC anyway
;ok