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Well at least he's admitting it was woeful.....!

Maybe it will force a big "look in the mirror" session with all the players.

You could argue another stuttering semi-acceptable performance would have papered over the cracks for another week. Lets hope this blows everything out of the water.

Can't say it's been that much of a shock given the way we finished last season and appeared to have done hardly anything to strengthen in the off season.

But his excuses are still there. "We've taken positives" "we know what we did wrong" blah blah blah.

There comes a point when you just don't want to hear the same sad bleeting anymore. Because all that happens is it's the same words over and over and over again. Nothing changes or will change until McNamara either quits or gets the boot.

No they're not.
He doesn't refer to either of those statements with regard to Sat.

Agreed but he's referring to the previous two games, I guess he's clinging onto the fact that we seemed to hold our own.

I really do worry for us when we come against another good attacking team, us having the ball therefor not allowing them to score is hardly a major positive when we seem clueless in attack.

This is a great quote this one.....



Yeah - it helps us in a number of ways like......

a. being embarrassing.
b. putting a big negative in our points against column.


and, erm???

Well if he isn't capable of telling them they were shocking, maybe the scoreline will



Therefore the team coaches itself and we don't need a head coach...hurrah!

Obviously the second part of his quote was....



Is that not [ihis[/i job then?

Exactly the point i was trying to make

I know. I was agreeing with you.

Great then we all agree, close thread please

Why is he shocked?

I'm not shocked at all that a crap coach who has brought together a crap squad of players and a crap back-room staff is achieving crap results.

You forgot, the chairman is crap, and the board are crap too.

So that's settled, then. We need to sack the coach, the players, back-room staff, the Chairman and the Board.

Is that enough, or do we need to sack the bloke who does the sacking?

Not before he's sacked the stewards, groundsmen and the staff of the Bull Ring store. Oh...and Bullman and Bullboy.

Putting a really big black mark next to his name

Well, if you want to know "erm", then you could have quoted what he actually said, though I'm not surprised you didn't. But what he explained was:


We would (I think) be in agreement (

) that the team should nt, actually, need a kick up the backside, but the point he very clearly made, and which to be charitable you may have missed, is simply this: a player or players might over a period of days after a narrow or not too drastic defeat, persuade themselves that it wasn't that bad, or that there were understandable or acceptable explanations for it. Whereas after a fairly unmitigated disaster like that (which McNamara is the first to admit it was) no such delusion is possible.

I'd say it was a fair point.

I know what he said. I mentioned it further down the post.

In your head, you may have. But not in your post.

Surely no suggestion that the prophet ME is hearing voices in his head...?

He's mystic - he's bound to, isn't he?

There is in fact an official description of this type of statement, claiming that you put something in a post, when it's not really there at all.
I believe they call it "Scotch Mystic".

I suppose you are well qualified to know