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Post by countyfan on Mar 1, 2021 10:21:42 GMT
What annoyed me about JK was towards the end of the game he said "Simon Rusk needs alot of praise for today, all his subs have come on and influenced some part of the game" While I am happy about the win and getting 3 points I don't see how 45 minutes of football in the 2nd half can out weight over 8 hours of utter dross we had to endure before that! So i'll give the manager praise when he's put a run of wins together and actually deserves praise.
I don't know if i'm the only one when I say this though but I still feel numb about watching County at the moment! I didn't cheer or get excited when we scored like I used to do! I think when JJ scored the first goal my reaction was "Oh nice, well done JJ" and when the 2nd goal went in i thought "there goes my points for predicting no 2nd goal scorer on Ceef's prediction game"!!
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Post by gazz on Mar 1, 2021 13:22:53 GMT
I don't feel the same either, CF and I'm not sure I ever will under this regime. It's bland, corporate, sterile and seems to have deliberately distanced itself from what County is really all about - the fans.
I felt the same after Danny was binned off. My eldest son being born in 1995, then his younger brother coming along not that long after put paid to my seeing a lot of the Dave Jones era, as Saturday afternoons were my time to spend with them and nothing was coming between that.
I did go to a few games each season, mainly midweek ones or when their mum was off work on a Saturday, but my heart wasn't in it as much as it was under Danny. Yes, Jones was kind of 'County' as he'd been part of Danny's coaching staff, but I still felt an incredible loyalty to Danny and found it really hard to look beyond how the club treated him and how Jones came into the job.
I'd have been far happier had Danny got us up and I know I'd have felt a little more disappointment at not making every game like I used to had he still been in charge, but even during 'that' season, I didn't feel any urge to have someone mind the kids so I could get to a game on a Saturday.
It's been done to death how the Burnley game seemed to have broken Danny's spirit and, if the club just said to him 'look, it's not working, Danny, I think we need to part ways', I'd still have been gutted but I'd have understood.
I still went to games with the same frequency after Jones left, but when the kids got older I started to take them to games, so could go a little more often.. However, it only really started to feel like County again when Jim came back, it just felt right, but I guess Jim being one of my favourite players under Danny helped there
I think what I'm trying to say here is that I felt an incredible loyalty to Danny. I absolutely loved those amazing years with him in charge, with Jim being a huge part of that, so when he came back as manager it felt like Danny's spirit was back at the club. That spirit has now been unceremoniously exorcised and it just doesn't have that same feel for me now.
For all my faults, and I'm big enough to admit that I've got a few of them, I'm an incredibly loyal person. I don't forget when someone I love (family), care about (friends) or have a lot of time for (good people like Jim) gets shat on. I don't see Rusk as a Dave Jones, as he had a huge connection with the club when he got the job.
Simon Rusk will always be the manager who Jim - a club legend, a hero of mine and a f***ing decent, honest man - was dumped for, and I'll never forgive those involved or see his immediate replacement as anything other than the manager of the club that benefitted from his removal, regardless of what he achieves.
If we go up this season (and it's a big bloody IF), I'll be having a drink to Jim, because if it wasn't for him, Rusk wouldn't have come anywhere near this place.
My question to all those saying 'let's move forward, Jim has gone' - where would we be right now if Jim hadn't come back for this third spell? Seriously, do you think Stott would have come anywhere near the place?
Whatever you think of Jim, we're where we are (back out of regional football, on the way back to where we belong and on a far healthier footing financially) more BECAUSE of him than anyone else - don't ever forget that.
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Post by gazz on Mar 1, 2021 13:35:48 GMT
I absolutely f***ing hate smartphones.
I've now proofread my post and corrected the vast amount of ridiculous autocorrects.
Note to Samsung: STOP autocorrecting 'of' to 'if' and vice versa, because it's pissing me OFF!
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Post by hermannsays on Mar 1, 2021 16:22:57 GMT
I think we all knew that new ownership was required to bring back a FT setup, but there will likely never be a time it feels remotely right that a man doing well in his dream job, and who has dedicated much of his working life to the Club, gets sacked, while his 'superior' will remain here until the project no longer excites him.
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Post by harrogatehatter on Mar 2, 2021 9:41:00 GMT
I agree with what’s been said here. I’m glad County won on Saturday and hope we can go on a run up the league to finish the season with promotion. But I still feel detached and like, as someone else has said, someone else’s team.
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Post by hermannsays on Mar 6, 2021 22:02:13 GMT
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Post by countyfan on Mar 8, 2021 11:18:02 GMT
It is what it is!!! Listen, stop saying that!!
And as for saying "credit to Weymouth, they hung and and got their result".........a team DOESN'T hang on for 87 minutes!! They kept our chances to a minimum and stopped us from scoring for 99% of the game after taking the lead!!
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Post by gazz on Mar 8, 2021 11:29:27 GMT
"it is what it is" is the art of saying something without actually saying anything - a bit like "Brexit means Brexit". It's the stock response my old boss used to use when he had no answer to a question I asked him.
It's nothing more than a verbal shrug, a slicker way of saying "whatever!" How about telling us what IT is, Simon? It's YOU that's being paid to find the solution, not us.
For 'culture', read 'ambiguity'.
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Post by hermannsays on Mar 10, 2021 7:58:35 GMT
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Post by gazz on Mar 10, 2021 9:26:00 GMT
Sorry, I can't listen to him.
"You're right"
"You're right"
"But, you're right"
"You're right to point out"
"Rub of the green"
"This has been coming" - has it, has it really?
"The goals were there for me tonight" - wtf does that actually mean?
Sorry, but it's one game against ten men. However, from now on I'm going to let the results speak for him and not listen to these cliche-ridden, spoonfed interviews.
The interviewer is dire, not only in his tone but also in his questioning. I mean, "been coming"? If he'd took his head up from his list of pre-approved questions and actually watched a game or two, he'd see that really wasn't the case.
I'm letting the results talk for Rusk from now on, because I can't buy into this 'you're right to point out' crap at all.
I'm giving him until the end of the season and, although I'll still criticise when we're sh*t, it's only right to see where we finish before deciding whether or not he has been a failure.
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Post by countyfan on Mar 10, 2021 9:53:54 GMT
Phew!! I was just about to listen to the interview until I read that post Gazza!! Don't think i'll bother now
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Post by gazz on Mar 10, 2021 10:00:17 GMT
Phew!! I was just about to listen to the interview until I read that post Gazza!! Don't think i'll bother now It's the 'it's been coming' statement that got me, CF, but it really hasn't. Also, wasn't Rusk claiming bad luck and "uncontrollables" following our games where we went down to ten men? I'm sure their manager will be thinking the same thing about last night. Last night was as much a case of luck balancing itself out as it was anything else. I won't be getting carried away with this.
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Post by countyfan on Mar 10, 2021 10:09:29 GMT
If a team lost their first 37 games of the season and then won the last game of the season the manager would say "it's been coming" as it's phrase number 1 in the "end of a bad run book of quotes" so Rusk saying that is water off a ducks back for me.
I'm not getting carried away either pal and we'll see over the next 2 games if it really has been "coming".
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Post by countyfan on Mar 10, 2021 10:10:45 GMT
I'm also glad it was away last night so I didn't have to listen to JK going on about "how it's been coming" and "the manager needs so much credit" for the last 70 minutes!!
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Post by gazz on Mar 10, 2021 10:25:06 GMT
I'm also glad it was away last night so I didn't have to listen to JK going on about "how it's been coming" and "the manager needs so much credit" for the last 70 minutes!! Oh, you've got that to come on Saturday! Jon 'I'll say anything to keep this job' Keighren certainly won't disappoint on that front, mate
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