tolmie's hairdoo said:As promised, I'll try to answer some of your points, questions. I don't ask anything of any poster on here, aside from a degree of civility. Albeit, that even seems to be a stretch for some.
Et cetera, et cetera ....
tolmie's hairdoo said:I am intrigued about the emphasising of the word 'especially' when it concerns information that comes out about Marwood. I'm not sure where you stand on his merits, and you would be misguided if you hankered a belief that I was another one of his 'snouts'. I simply try and get across what I am lead to believe, that Marwood was and is a highly-valued member of the club, is appreciated to the fullest by Khaldoon and our owner, and if was such a bastard, would not be entrusted with the biggest investment in youth facilities the game will ever see. He was the brake to Mancini, the conduit to Khaldoon and Abu Dhabi, as was Cook, Mancini fell out with both of them because, and this is where I agree with Mancini, last summer was the moment to add the jewels to the Premier League crown.
Dribble said:tolmie's hairdoo said:I am intrigued about the emphasising of the word 'especially' when it concerns information that comes out about Marwood. I'm not sure where you stand on his merits, and you would be misguided if you hankered a belief that I was another one of his 'snouts'. I simply try and get across what I am lead to believe, that Marwood was and is a highly-valued member of the club, is appreciated to the fullest by Khaldoon and our owner, and if was such a bastard, would not be entrusted with the biggest investment in youth facilities the game will ever see. He was the brake to Mancini, the conduit to Khaldoon and Abu Dhabi, as was Cook, Mancini fell out with both of them because, and this is where I agree with Mancini, last summer was the moment to add the jewels to the Premier League crown.
Agreed! And this is why Mancini pubicly had a go at Marwood for his failure to land RVP & Hazard. Mancini realised how close we came to losing the title race to ManUre and wanted to put clear sky blue water between us and them. Marwood has no form for player recruitment and fucked it up! Simples......
If you think that Marwood is a highly valued member of the club, how do you view his 'move' to academy head? Do you see it as a step up, a sidewards move or a step down?
For me it is obviously a demotion in all but name because most people support a club for what the first team do, not for the results the reserves get! By your reasoning, if City were to acquire Mourinho or Guardiola, we would install either of them as academy head coach because it's 'the biggest investment in youth facilities the game will ever see'!
If you believe that Marwood's demotion to the academy isn't a sign of what our owners think of his transfer performance last summer, then you're just plainly deluded mate......
So no wonder there was an early season malaise around the place. If I was Mancini, I'd be pissed and demotivated that opportunities like this were fucked up by the ineptitude of Marwood. Mancini predicted that we'd struggle in Europe and that we'd be lucky to retain our title especially as the two main transfer targets that we had identified went on to strengthen our two closest rivals.
Yes, Mancini has made errors this season for which he's apologised, but you're being a bit too quick to criticise him for the fact that our squad may have more depth but the quality hasn't improved. This wasn't for the want of Mancini not trying, this was plainly down to your buddy Marwood and if the reports are correct Arsenal are welcome to him!!!
As I said, if anyone who played a part with the first team was asked to move to academy duties, in my book that is a clear demotion.tolmie's hairdoo said:Dribble said:tolmie's hairdoo said:I am intrigued about the emphasising of the word 'especially' when it concerns information that comes out about Marwood. I'm not sure where you stand on his merits, and you would be misguided if you hankered a belief that I was another one of his 'snouts'. I simply try and get across what I am lead to believe, that Marwood was and is a highly-valued member of the club, is appreciated to the fullest by Khaldoon and our owner, and if was such a bastard, would not be entrusted with the biggest investment in youth facilities the game will ever see. He was the brake to Mancini, the conduit to Khaldoon and Abu Dhabi, as was Cook, Mancini fell out with both of them because, and this is where I agree with Mancini, last summer was the moment to add the jewels to the Premier League crown.
Agreed! And this is why Mancini pubicly had a go at Marwood for his failure to land RVP & Hazard. Mancini realised how close we came to losing the title race to ManUre and wanted to put clear sky blue water between us and them. Marwood has no form for player recruitment and fucked it up! Simples......
If you think that Marwood is a highly valued member of the club, how do you view his 'move' to academy head? Do you see it as a step up, a sidewards move or a step down?
For me it is obviously a demotion in all but name because most people support a club for what the first team do, not for the results the reserves get! By your reasoning, if City were to acquire Mourinho or Guardiola, we would install either of them as academy head coach because it's 'the biggest investment in youth facilities the game will ever see'!
If you believe that Marwood's demotion to the academy isn't a sign of what our owners think of his transfer performance last summer, then you're just plainly deluded mate......
So no wonder there was an early season malaise around the place. If I was Mancini, I'd be pissed and demotivated that opportunities like this were fucked up by the ineptitude of Marwood. Mancini predicted that we'd struggle in Europe and that we'd be lucky to retain our title especially as the two main transfer targets that we had identified went on to strengthen our two closest rivals.
Yes, Mancini has made errors this season for which he's apologised, but you're being a bit too quick to criticise him for the fact that our squad may have more depth but the quality hasn't improved. This wasn't for the want of Mancini not trying, this was plainly down to your buddy Marwood and if the reports are correct Arsenal are welcome to him!!!
Because of how much emphasis the club are seemingly putting into the academy and campus, I would see it as a promotion for Marwood.
Why not just sack him, unless the powers-that-be felt he still retained some core value, that would be my take?
You have me at a disadvantage, only because I don't recall Bobby saying we were going to struggle in Europe and be lucky to retain our title?
Marwood always struck me as a bit of a spare part in some regards once Cook, who was seemingly responsible for bringing him to the club, was forced to step down.
There was definitely a void of some degree, but how big in terms of Marwood's ability to fulfill his remit, not so sure he warrants all the blame.
Your intelligence does not deserve a response, young man.andyhinch said:Has dismal replied? My mum let me stay up late
That will be no then.The Future's Blue said:Your intelligence does not deserve a response, young man.andyhinch said:Has dismal replied? My mum let me stay up late
Sarcasm's not lost on you pal.andyhinch said:That will be no then.The Future's Blue said:Your intelligence does not deserve a response, young man.andyhinch said:Has dismal replied? My mum let me stay up late
Sorry Einstein bet your well clever than me
But that's arrogance.andyhinch said:Yet another no mark I see, first shift in Tesco tomorrow?