[Archived] Savage - The Bad Apple

[AndyC]

ha ha...

Can't you just imagine what Savage was getting up to? Puffed up with Messianic zeal and sporting the arm-band like a military decoration, he'd be hurtling into absurd challenges with the ball only a vague interest, before rising like a awry martyr to give the referee and his bemused team-mates a gobful of abuse. Then, concerned that he was not the centre of attention, with his victim writhing on the floor, he invokes his charisma to make upwards motions with his hands, indicating to the crowd that this example of midfield idiocy is worthy of raucous celebration and reminding everyone that he has an Armani tattoo on his upper arm.

A stroke of his flowing locks later, he is back in his central midfield berth. Paul Jewell is frozen to the spot on the touchline with a nasty churning feeling in his stomach which vaguely reminds him of when he first saw Titus Bramble in training.

If it didn't happen - it should've done...

[roversmum]

That post, Rover6, is an absolute classic !

[blue phil]

It's funny coz it's true ......

[tchocky]

That post, Rover6, is an absolute classic !

Quality indeed.

[T4E]

ha ha...

Can't you just imagine what Savage was getting up to? Puffed up with Messianic zeal and sporting the arm-band like a military decoration, he'd be hurtling into absurd challenges with the ball only a vague interest, before rising like a awry martyr to give the referee and his bemused team-mates a gobful of abuse. Then, concerned that he was not the centre of attention, with his victim writhing on the floor, he invokes his charisma to make upwards motions with his hands, indicating to the crowd that this example of midfield idiocy is worthy of raucous celebration and reminding everyone that he has an Armani tattoo on his upper arm.

A stroke of his flowing locks later, he is back in his central midfield berth. Paul Jewell is frozen to the spot on the touchline with a nasty churning feeling in his stomach which vaguely reminds him of when he first saw Titus Bramble in training.

If it didn't happen - it should've done...

Amusing, if somewhat of a nonsense.

For the record, Titus Bramble has never trained (or indeed played) in a team managed by Paul Jewell.

[RevidgeBlue]

ha ha...

Can't you just imagine what Savage was getting up to? Puffed up with Messianic zeal and sporting the arm-band like a military decoration, he'd be hurtling into absurd challenges with the ball only a vague interest, before rising like a awry martyr to give the referee and his bemused team-mates a gobful of abuse. Then, concerned that he was not the centre of attention, with his victim writhing on the floor, he invokes his charisma to make upwards motions with his hands, indicating to the crowd that this example of midfield idiocy is worthy of raucous celebration and reminding everyone that he has an Armani tattoo on his upper arm.

A stroke of his flowing locks later, he is back in his central midfield berth. Paul Jewell is frozen to the spot on the touchline with a nasty churning feeling in his stomach which vaguely reminds him of when he first saw Titus Bramble in training.

If it didn't happen - it should've done...

Extremely harsh because Derby are arguably the second worse Premiership Club of all time other than Swindon all those years ago so very unfair to blame any further woes on Savage.

I think the stick you get on here for not watching your favourite team in the flesh (hopefully Rovers?) is very harsh but I don't think you need to start criticising a second team from afar as well.

[roversmum]

Oh dear, I know these are worrying times for us, Rev, but I just took it as a bit of fun .

Just found this article

[rover6]

Amusing, if somewhat of a nonsense.

For the record, Titus Bramble has never trained (or indeed played) in a team managed by Paul Jewell.

Mmm... I have to admit that I couldn't think of a Jewell in the Crown that turned out to be dud (I'm sure there have been plenty) - so I looked up the WIgan squad and enlisted the first scapegoat I could find. The Bruce, McLeish, Jewell merry-go-round has seriously disorientated me.

Apparently, Bramble's playing very well now.

[philipl]

Oh dear, I know these are worrying times for us, Rev, but I just took it as a bit of fun .

Just found this article

The final paragraph of that article on Newcastle had me laughing out loud.

[RevidgeBlue]

Quality article throughout. Good find mum.

I liked the references to Savages dog the best.

[T4E]

Apparently, Bramble's playing very well now.

So I'm hearing. I work with a Newcastle fan who also used to sing his praises and maintained that when he was mistake free he was superb.

I think he's a bit Andy Todd like in that respect.

[James No. 7]

Oh dear, I know these are worrying times for us, Rev, but I just took it as a bit of fun .

Just found this article

I've borrowed a quote from that article for my new signature.

"It is said Savage is loathed by Derby’s supporters following his combative tenure at their despised rivals, Leicester City. But one crunching tackle on Cristiano Ronaldo and they’ll come around. It is also said Derby’s players are not overenamoured of their new signing, but as they are, to a man, useless, this doesn’t matter at all."

[LeftWinger]

Extremely harsh because Derby are arguably the second worse Premiership Club of all time other than Swindon all those years ago so very unfair to blame any further woes on Savage.

Derby must be worse.

They've got 7 points in 22 games.

Swindon managed 30 from 42 in 93/94 - which is comfortably better.

Sunderland got 19 in 02/03, and 15 in 05/06 - they are the other contenders.

[thenodrog]

So I'm hearing. I work with a Newcastle fan who also used to sing his praises and maintained that when he was mistake free he was superb.

Wouldn't that apply to just about every CH in football?

[rover6]

carling cup video lounge...!

Is their a funnier Sav incident than when, in that Carling Cup semi, first leg, he clashed on the floor with Smith and Rooney and proceeded to try and bring order by pulling Rooney into a headlock? Rooney hit him with an elbow and then the referee contrives to tumble onto Savage as he tended to his nose.

The incident's from onwards 2.26 mins. :!:

[thenodrog]

carling cup video lounge...!

:!:

Do you rem when Ped scored goals like that regularly?

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

I haven't always been the biggest fan of Robbie Savage - either on or off the pitch - but I do feel some sympathy for him at the moment, having joined the shambles at Pride Park.

When he joined Derby six weeks or so ago, Robbie must have known that it was going to take a miracle for Derby to stay up, but he was probably hoping that the team could at least remain competitive for a bit longer.

I suspect Robbie must have found it quite a shock to realise the true extent of the shambles. In Paul Jewell's own words on Saturday, Derby are "a million miles short" of being a Premiership team, which doesn't bode well for a return to the Premiership. Jewell clearly has a massive rebuilding job on his hands.

Perhaps Robbie would have been better off joining a team with a chance of going up this season like West Brom or Charlton, rather than a team which is undoubtedly heading down and which in Jewell's words again are "an embarrassment and in danger of becoming a laughing stock".

Derby have just 9 points from 27 games and are on a shocking run of 21 Premiership games without a win - their only victory this season coming against Newcastle.

The only realistic target now for Derby is to try to make sure they get more than 15 points this season and don't go down in history as being the worst ever team in the top flight - a record currently held by Mick McCarthy's Sunderland, who finished with 15 points in 2005/06, beating the previous "low points" record of Stoke City with 17 points in 1984/85.

Has there ever been a more damning assessment of a Premiership team from his manager than the words of Paul Jewell after his side lost to Wigan at the weekend? He was clearly furious when he told the Match of The Day interviewer on Saturday that Derby's display was "the worst performance I've ever seen from a so-called Premier League team" and that his Derby side were "pathetic with no desire".

It was "unacceptable and embarrassing" said Jewell, who warned of the danger of Derby becoming a laughing stock. Did Robbie Savage really envisage quite how bad things would turn out to be at Derby? I suspect not. If he had really known just what a shambles it was going to be, he probably would have seriously considered other options away from Pride Park.

As for Paul Jewell, I can't help feeling that he's made a big mistake going to Derby and that he should have bided his time for a bit longer and waited for a managerial opportunity which didn't offer immediate relegation and the real prospect of going down as the worst ever top flight team in history. Such a record won't do his managerial CV much good, even though Jewell was obviously facing a massive task to try to keep Derby up when he joined the club in November.

If Derby get off to a bad start in the Championship next season and the fans start chanting for Jewell to go, then it might not only be Robbie Savage who will be thinking to himself: "Why the hell did I come to this place"?

Link: Paul Jewell's angry words of condemnation

[Alex Rover]

Extremely harsh because Derby are arguably the second worse Premiership Club of all time other than Swindon all those years ago so very unfair to blame any further woes on Savage.

Oh I don't know. Although they finished bottom, Swindon managed 30 points that season (albeit with the consisting of 22 teams that season).

[Billy Castell]

At least Robbie will have the lovliest hair in the 1st division.

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

"Ineffective" Robbie Savage faces the axe from Jewell

The Derby manager says: "Robbie is very low on confidence at the moment" - I'm not surprised given the shambles that Savage has joined at Pride Park.

"I don't care if we finish with the lowest ever points tally as long as we're promoted next season," says Jewell

Paul might find that next season is a struggle for Derby too. He's got a massive job on his hands.

[philipl]

Didn't Sunderland come straight back as Champs after setting the points record Derby are unwittingly trying to beat?

[RevidgeBlue]

"Ineffective" Robbie Savage faces the axe from Jewell

The Derby manager says: "Robbie is very low on confidence at the moment" - I'm not surprised given the shambles that Savage has joined at Pride Park.

As someone who was dead set against Savage leaving Ewood, it's not looking too good for him is it?

However given Savages game is based primarily on athleticism Jewell should realise he's not going to shine if he not fully fit and shouldn't really be playing him in that condition.

As for Jewell, can't for the life of me understand why he took the Derby job - money aside - but surely a much better opportunity would have arisen on similar terms sooner or later.

[1864roverite]

I think £35k a week softens the blow, plus his signing on fee plus his severence fee from BRFC !

I feel sorry for the lad, its a sad situation and he doesnt deserve the lack of effort like there is a DCFC.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Didn't rate him when we signed him, not been impressed with anything he's done whilst he was at Ewood. He's a flop at Derby ? What a surprise ! Not one of Sparkie's smarter moves.

[broadsword]

Robbie's gotten into trouble for driving into training in some 130k supercar. Although it was in club colours, presumably that takes the edge off of it then!

I'd be surprised if Jewel did take the job for the cash, he's well known for his socialist affiliations, perhaps he's a champagne socialist? He's always going on about the potential at Pride Park.