As I have always maintained, retaining Parker was a terrible mistake; he should have been sold and the proceeds used to strengthen the team where we were weak.
KUMB come out with some psycho babble in support of their argument but what it boils down to is that Parker was Billy Big Boots at West Ham - as I always maintained - and that the team would have been better off without him had the Board, management and fans looked just half an inch beneath the surface.
Player of the Year? Yeah, player of the year in a team that finished bottom. Tell me, could we have finished any lower had we cashed in on Parker and looked at Plan B? Because Plan A, involving putting all the eggs in the Parker basket didn't work last season did it, so why, exactly, would it work this?
If it IS broke, don't ignore it!
theres so many maybes it more boils down to the fact that the owners made a big point of keeping parker and spending f all last summer and giving that wanker grant the managers job its proved now that grant couldnt manage a bunk up in a brothel but back to parker the owners should have been buying players as good as parker your right selling him we couldnt finish any lower but we needed about 5 parkers not owners who just bought run of the mill players i see we are linked with loads of players goalkeepers bothroyd but we aint got a poxy manager yet how can it be right are they undermining there next manager before they even sign him
ReplyDeleteAnti-Parker and Pro-Grant! Back to your old best HF?
ReplyDeleteParker was the greatest player we had and Grant was the worst manager ever. Isn't it bad enough we are relegated, do we now have to put up with your pathetic "I told you so stories"?
Yeah, how right you were about everything. You are a genius. If only we listened to you (and maybe give Grant another year) or have sold Parker to your friend Harry & Co. Blah, blah, blah....
The only real story today is that Spector and Gabbidon (possibly the worst pair of players in any team) have been offerred a new deal to stay on!!! Truly unbelievable!
And when I thought it couldn't get any worse!
It seems KUMB is now KUMBING around to my way of thinking! Spector and Gabbidon can do a job in the Championship.
ReplyDeleteOh dear. the disease seems to be spreading...
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that Parker was the teams best player by a country mile. Those with a winning mentality would want to hang on to him at all costs and try and find more like him.
Losers would want him out to reduce the rest of the team to the common denominator.
The best chance of success was with Parker. That this failed is down to the motivational skills of the manager.
Sell him to strengthen the team? In fairness to the Board there was no shortage of new players that arrived - a whole team in fact.
Anyway, there is no point dwelling on the past. Much better to start planning for a brighter future. The first job is to get the right manager in place. I expect you hope it is not someone like O'Neill or Allardyce. The team might start winning and there will be nothing to moan about? Lots of recent articles here about the cr*p of the past but very little about the way forward. Surely an article about the next man in charge is the obvious subject for the blog.
If it's broken, don't ignore it. Quite right. Remember to take your happy pills and turn up for your next check up.
HF,
ReplyDeleteYou're making the assumption we didnt buy because we had no money because we didnt sell Parker. That's not true. The chairmen still could have reached a little deeper without selling Parker.
It was right to keep Parker because he is our best player AND we should have stayed up. If we had stayed up, he would have been our fulcrum next season.
As I have proved in my post, selling Parker and bringing in a couple of decent players would have made no difference because Grant achieved less points after our January signings! It was Grant HF, it really was!
You have proved no such thing! As I've stated, Grant was a dead man walking for the second half of the season. He didn't tell the press he was being replaced by O'Neill did he? What chance did he stand from there?
ReplyDeleteall these managers being linked wankers like hoddle mcclaren dont want the job fuck em would they realy have got it anyway jones warnock and a few others being touted i dunno if its my imagination but there dont seem to be any great candidates at the moment so why dont the owners who do seem to like a gamble and make scott parker player manager let him choose his own coaches liverpool won titles with a player manager so why not take a gamble on parker as player manager might meen us getting to keep our best player if it has to be a manager from outside the club what about stuart pearce aint really heard anything about him also hes played for us and knows us well
ReplyDeleteHF i can see where you are coming from but i disagree completely. Considering Grant had a knack for taking sharp looking players and making them ordinary i dont think we would have been any better off selling Parker earlier.
ReplyDeleteObina, Hitz, Ba, and plenty more looked great for the first few weeks but quickly slipped into mediocrity. It much more likely that any new signings, however good, would have gone the same way and our league position would have been no different. That can only be down to poor management and no motivation whatsoever.
Whether Parker deserved POTY is irrevelent. He is one of the very few players who tried throughout most of the season.
Chunky - I'm afraid your comment no matter how good will fall on deaf ears - HF just won't be listening......
ReplyDeleteI'm listening but I can't HEAR Chunky's message no matter how hard I try. I did read it though!
ReplyDeleteWell said Chunky.
ReplyDeleteStop being a pedant regarding Anonymous' comment HF. You should know that words like 'hear' and 'listen' have more than just their literal meaning. What Anony said was perfectly correct.