Eustace…he gone…*official*

[Upside Down]

Just now, islander200 said:

No I just wouldn't say anything on togetherness or family or we are In it together when I had one foot out the door 

He's a football manager and that's part of the job.

[JHRover]

Waggott's response to this departure has been to cobble together a pitiful club 'statement' that ludicrously claims to have invested heavily in January - this the same bloke who brags publicly about hiring a new bus and repairing the lifts in the Blackburn End - just total nonsense that anyone with half a brain can deduce.

He's also been busy ensuring that Alan Nixon and no doubt other friendly plants in the media spend their time this week circulating anti-Eustace propaganda. It's working already and he's not even been announced at Derby yet.

That's what he's good at - manipulating the narrative to suit his and his paymasters. 

Give it a week or two, a new managerial appointment of the latest through the revolving door under false expectations/promises and the majority of our fanbase will be over this and looking forward to 'getting behind the lads FFS'.

Consequence is that Venkys, Suhail and slippery Steve get away with it, pocket the compo and buy themselves another year until the next bloke finds out what they are really like.

[Cherry Blue]

Sky confirm he's deffinately not at Pride Pk tonight & say negotiations continue.

[islander200]

2 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

He's a football manager and that's part of the job.

No it isn't. 

He was saying this only days ago when discussions with Derby had taken place. 

"We are in it together " implies despite the issues he is committed to the job in hand.

Guarantee the likes of Travis are absolutely fuming with him 

[martonrover]

We put up with all the shit because we are fans.

Eustace is a paid professional , and I would likely have done exactly the same in his position.

He’s done as good a job as possible in the circumstances.

Focus on the real enemy.

[Upside Down]

1 minute ago, islander200 said:

No it isn't. 

He was saying this only days ago when discussions with Derby had taken place. 

"We are in it together " implies despite the issues he is committed to the job in hand.

Guarantee the likes of Travis are absolutely fuming with him 

See above comment.

[47er]

26 minutes ago, Silas said:

Maybe, but I don't see what purpose my sympathy for them achieves.

I've only got so much emotional energy in a day. 

Jon Dahl probably doesn't give us a 2nd thought. Eustace won't give a crap about Rovers and the players come Friday night when he's in a Derby dugout. 

Despite all the 'he's a team player, just wants the lads to get a new contract,  he always has their back...' stuff.

We'll be an instant, distant memory. 

Don't blame him, thanks for the year John, saved us from relegation, and did some good stuff. 

But I'm a bit over the pity party.....for him. Quite happy to wallow in one for us. 

You seem to expect a manager to behave exactly the same as a fan. Why I don't know.

Why should he stay here  and watch half the squad walk away in the summer because the owners haven't listened to his requests to extend their contracts?

His behaviour is totally logical.

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5 minutes ago, martonrover said:

We put up with all the shit because we are fans.

Eustace is a paid professional , and I would likely have done exactly the same in his position.

He’s done as good a job as possible in the circumstances.

Focus on the real enemy.

Agree let's not lose sight of who the actual villains are here.

Eustace, togetherness, that's not am argument in my book. Mans just doing his media piece. Every manager does it it and waffles on. I'm not holding that against him

 

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[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, islander200 said:

No it isn't. 

He was saying this only days ago when discussions with Derby had taken place. 

"We are in it together " implies despite the issues he is committed to the job in hand.

Guarantee the likes of Travis are absolutely fuming with him 

He gave the Club the opportunity to resolve matters and they completely rebuffed him. Didnt even meet him half way.

And then to add insult to injury just they issued a petty, vindictive statement ensuring he couldnt realistically have a change of heart.

If Travis is pissed off with him, I hope he doesnt mind if he cant get a new contract in 12 months time.

 

[Rochdale_rover]

Has he really done that great a job ?

Baring a 6 game winning run . We've been pretty terrible.

For me it's more of what's next is the worry rather than him going .

 

 

 

[martonrover]

One would imagine there will shortly be a vacancy to fill at Watford.

That will narrow our pool down a bit more.

Not as if they would be interested in Edwards, though.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 minute ago, Rochdale_rover said:

Has he really done that great a job ?

Baring a 6 game winning run . We've been pretty terrible.

For me it's more of what's next is the worry rather than him going .

 

 

 

getting a team full of average players to  6th position in the championship,id`e say he did ok

[Rochdale_rover]

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

getting a team full of average players to  6th position in the championship,id`e say he did ok

But is that more to do with this year being an incredibly poor championship 

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1 minute ago, Rochdale_rover said:

Has he really done that great a job ?

Baring a 6 game winning run . We've been pretty terrible.

For me it's more of what's next is the worry rather than him going .

 

 

 

Well yea he has. He turned us away from relegation, we've give the top teams in our league a bloody good run for their mMoneymore results not gone our way but he's proven we can compete with the top 6 in this league. Just a shame our new lads are in now and we can't all push the last 15 games as we started them. 

[martonrover]

1 minute ago, simongarnerisgod said:

getting a team full of average players to  6th position in the championship,id`e say he did ok

All done with a hotch potch squad, cobbled together, and minus last season’s star player and main goal threat.

[47er]

19 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

He didn’t just speak about togetherness, he droned on about it in every single interview for a whole year, it was his mantra. Upping sticks with 15 games to go and surely denting the players’ chances of reaching the Premier League shows he wasn’t in this together with them at all. Togetherness implies self-sacrifice for the good of the group, he’s put his needs ahead of those of the group, irrespective of the many good reasons he had to be pissed off. Good luck to him preaching togetherness to the Derby dressing room.

Basically you think a manager should just stay win club whose owners ae making it impossible to do his job?

In any field of employment people want job satisfaction. At some point he was bound to see there was no point.

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I think Eustace is a decent bloke and I'm glad he got to see us turn out for the Dingles game and prove there is a fan base here

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[neophox]

Derby a woeful team ...

[dallydally]

Good luck Eustace! Derby are complete crap 

[neophox]

0-0 Derby more and more in too deep shit

[Tony Rover]

17 minutes ago, Rochdale_rover said:

Has he really done that great a job ?

Baring a 6 game winning run . We've been pretty terrible.

For me it's more of what's next is the worry rather than him going .

 

 

 

Yes he has done a bloody good job with the tools provided, remember we were nailed on to be relegated this season. Just imagine what we could of done with Szmodics in the team. The worry is always what next with Venkys at the helm..

[neophox]

Seems we can still be in the playoffs even if we lose tomorrow.

[Forever Blue]

22 minutes ago, Rochdale_rover said:

But is that more to do with this year being an incredibly poor championship 

So why isn’t every team 6th?

 

[47er]

I'm impressed at how well the Club has done in deflecting the blame for what has happened, away from themselves and on to Eustace

That's all they exist for these days.

Absolutely useless at anything else.

 

[Forever Blue]

Just now, 47er said:

I'm impressed at how well the Club has done in deflecting the blame for what has happened, away from themselves and on to Eustace

That's all they exist for these days.

Absolutely useless at anything else.

 

Even worse, our thick-as-mince fans lap it up.