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Search on for a short-term replacement as McCall splits from his beloved Bantams


City will not rush to replace Stuart McCall.

The Bantams boss will officially walk away from Valley Parade today, when McCall meets joint-chairman Julian Rhodes to finalise a compensation pay-off on the 17 months left on his contract.

The T&A understands that City plan to bring in a short-term manager who will take charge for the rest of the season.

Names such as Peter Jackson and former Brighton boss Russell Slade have already cropped up.

But the club will take their time over a full-time appointment – and could well wait until the summer.

With City unlikely to go up or down, the board can consider their options over the next couple of months without being pressed into a quick decision.

McCall’s immediate replacement would obviously be in the running should City finish the season well but they expect plenty of applicants and are prepared to go through a full interview process however long that may take.

McCall decided to call it quits after Saturday’s 1-0 loss to Bury at Valley Parade.

It was his 133rd game in charge in a reign that began in May 2007, making him the 20th longest-serving current boss. He said: “I don’t regret coming back for a second. I’d have regretted it more if I hadn’t taken the job.

“It’s been fantastic in one way but ultra-hard in another because you’re carrying the hopes of everyone. You should see some of the letters I’ve had.

“Without being big-headed, I’m fortunate that I’ve never failed before in my career.

“I’ve always been successful as a player and when I went to Sheffield United as reserve manager we won the league first year. Then everything snowballed and the club got promoted to the Premier-ship when I was assistant to Neil Warnock.

“But the place where I really wanted to do well was here and it hasn’t happened for me.

“The pressure I’ve put on myself because I want to succeed here has been immense at times. I loved being manager of this club but it’s a results-based business and the results have not been good enough.

“I still believed that all things being equal this season we could have got in the play-offs.

"We’ve needed that bit of Lady Luck with injuries and certain games and just not had it. But it’s not about me, it’s the club that matters. Hopefully now with the squad back fit they can rally round and pick up some wins.”

The board are reluctant to say too much until McCall’s farewell is finalised. Joint-chairman Mark Lawn said: “Obviously I’ve only heard this through the grapevine. Stuart hasn’t spoken to me.

“The club can’t make any comment until we’ve sat down and discussed the situation with him.”

Comments(63)

Old Dave says...
8:26am Mon 8 Feb 10

Last time we sacked a manager and couldnt go down, we did with Todd. If jakes and Wetherall are in charge for longer than a week, then we go down! We need a manager who has a track record of working at lower league clubs with lower league budgets, perhaps who has links with clubs in the prem or championship so we can get some loans in!
Oh, and by the sound of it, we need a new joint chairman, or at least for Lawn to put up or shut up!

tyker says...
8:28am Mon 8 Feb 10

agreed:neither are anu good as coaches never mind managers.

Lancashire Branch says...
8:32am Mon 8 Feb 10

Please,please,please come and help us in our hour of need Paul Jewell.

bremmers the bantam says...
8:47am Mon 8 Feb 10

we need to be realistic in who we can actually afford and who has a track record and one lad that springs to mind is chris casper. he knows the set up at vp and did an alrate job at bury as well.

skyblogger says...
9:31am Mon 8 Feb 10

look stop being blinded - its all about cut backs. Look at chris casper shown the door. What kind of foundation is that, Things like this has caused the split.

Lawn wants to be more involved in team affairs, aka zesh and topp, asian support??? haha pakistani captain - lots of income?? where is it? new asian ambassador at VP.. Dont make me laugh. I guess this will all be stuarts fault to if you listen to a drunken lawn.

The people close to Lawn are also friends with mccall. Yet he constantly belittled him every time he had a drink. Not onlt to mccalls friends, his players and ordinary fans.

If we were not desperate at the time he would have never been allowed to go on his ego trip, take back his money then enjoy a nice wage out of the club.

Time you lot looked into the real lawn.. A city fan yes.. A good chairman NO!

You will see lawn face in the media when things go well, you wont when things dont.

An investor - ha ha, more of a taker! or undertaker if we dont find a real money man.

2storey says...
9:43am Mon 8 Feb 10

skyblogger wrote:
look stop being blinded - its all about cut backs. Look at chris casper shown the door. What kind of foundation is that, Things like this has caused the split. Lawn wants to be more involved in team affairs, aka zesh and topp, asian support??? haha pakistani captain - lots of income?? where is it? new asian ambassador at VP.. Dont make me laugh. I guess this will all be stuarts fault to if you listen to a drunken lawn. The people close to Lawn are also friends with mccall. Yet he constantly belittled him every time he had a drink. Not onlt to mccalls friends, his players and ordinary fans. If we were not desperate at the time he would have never been allowed to go on his ego trip, take back his money then enjoy a nice wage out of the club. Time you lot looked into the real lawn.. A city fan yes.. A good chairman NO! You will see lawn face in the media when things go well, you wont when things dont. An investor - ha ha, more of a taker! or undertaker if we dont find a real money man.
get a life or a job you big t----ser you know nothing, i take it from your comments you have tried to be a free loader from the club and he has worked you out and told you to do one.

claytonbantam says...
9:44am Mon 8 Feb 10

if wayne jacobs is manager my season ticket will be sent to valley parade with a tub of vaseline for them to stick it up their arse. every saturday he looks like a supporter who has won a season ticket to sit in the dug out so the minimum at least get somebody by saturday

East_Bowling_Bantam says...
9:48am Mon 8 Feb 10

LAWN OUT!!!!



CTID

2storey says...
9:50am Mon 8 Feb 10

East_Bowling_Bantam wrote:
LAWN OUT!!!! CTID
why??????

skyblogger says...
9:55am Mon 8 Feb 10

lawn will destroy this club, a man on an ego trip sits drunk and blames everyone bar himself!

has no pr skills and is basically disliked from all that work at VP.

HAVE YOU EVER ATTENDED A FANS FORUM- will even shout down his own paying customers if you dare to question.

macca1969 says...
9:57am Mon 8 Feb 10

2storey i have no problem with your support of lawn everyone sticks up for their partner or in your case sticks it up, but Lawn has brought a lot of this ill feeling on himself if he didn't want him he should have let him walk last summer. Yes as you have pointed out Rhodes had a say as well but if Stuart had known he didn't have the full backing of both chairmen then he wouldn't have stayed as he knew it could not work.Also i remember Stuart saying at the time that he would rip up his newly signed 2 year agreement and not take a penny so why did Lawn beg him to stay

2storey says...
10:01am Mon 8 Feb 10

skyblogger wrote:
lawn will destroy this club, a man on an ego trip sits drunk and blames everyone bar himself! has no pr skills and is basically disliked from all that work at VP. HAVE YOU EVER ATTENDED A FANS FORUM- will even shout down his own paying customers if you dare to question.
i think he has upset you, as i work at vp and have done for many years and he is very hands on and everybody likes him, even the professor has only good words for him, he shares an office with jr and they are best of mates,even asked him to be god father to his child so get your facts right waster

skyblogger says...
10:01am Mon 8 Feb 10

everyone forgets when things were g
oing well last year it was lawn that re-negotiated mccalls new contract.

What lawn said in the board room or to mccalls face, or the press for that matter is not the same words spoken to his friends (who were mccalls friends too), mcalls players (undermining the manager) the fans that visited him when drunk etc etc.

He is a big mouth who I would suggest holds very little respect to all that really know him.

skyblogger says...
10:05am Mon 8 Feb 10

2storey we all have an idea who you are. ;-) we know you work at VP lol

2storey says...
10:08am Mon 8 Feb 10

good, so you know i am telling the truth, and you havent a clue, but i know who you are!!!!!

irish bantam says...
10:09am Mon 8 Feb 10

Why would stuart bother speaking to you Lawn ??? He will speak to the proper people at the club who have respect from the supporters.

gspot says...
10:10am Mon 8 Feb 10

i dont really want to believe what has been said above about Lawn but i cant help but think it's right - i hope it's wrong for everybody involved.

2storey - if you are who i think you are then you're doing Lawn no favours at all by commenting what you are on here....unless he has asked you to for some strange reason.

skyblogger says...
10:14am Mon 8 Feb 10

TELLING THE TRUTH!

What truth is that?

That stuart signed zesh, or it was a pr stunt, that zesh was made captain, or a pr stunt, that casper was shown the door due to finance yet mccall was trying to build a foundation, what? oh tell me that mccall sneaked into lawns office and offerd two years contracts when indeed we could only budget for one aka boulding, mclaren, lee and brandon.

Oh and the topp fiasco. Tell yourself this would it not be easier removing the chairmans sign on your door to the managers sign?

skyblogger says...
10:18am Mon 8 Feb 10

irish bantam wrote:
Why would stuart bother speaking to you Lawn ??? He will speak to the proper people at the club who have respect from the supporters.
And respect of the manager, hence why lawn was asked not to attend.

thecitygent says...
10:23am Mon 8 Feb 10

Bring back Bob Martin, all is forgiven

albion says...
10:36am Mon 8 Feb 10

It`ll be Waynus.

thecitygent says...
10:50am Mon 8 Feb 10

skyblogger wrote:
2storey we all have an idea who you are. ;-) we know you work at VP lol
Can we assume that 2storey is now away from the keyboard with his ear to the door at VP or is he connected by webcam?

gspot says...
10:53am Mon 8 Feb 10

2storey wrote:
good, so you know i am telling the truth, and you havent a clue, but i know who you are!!!!!
have you nothing better to do then to spy on posters on here???

windasboy says...
11:02am Mon 8 Feb 10

i cannt believe all the trash and rubbish i am reading on here, we call ourselves city fans, and yes our legend of a manager has gone,but we all have to stick together, and why the slating of our chairman, wether it was a loan or an investment he still saved our club

Thee Voice of Reason says...
11:06am Mon 8 Feb 10

It's all been downhill since we sacked Colin Todd.

farsleyct says...
11:08am Mon 8 Feb 10

"With City unlikely to go up or down"

We are going down, no question, so ack quickly please!

nowt fresh says...
11:11am Mon 8 Feb 10

Jaks takes over as temp manager, god forbid it wont be for long !!!.

gspot says...
11:21am Mon 8 Feb 10

jakes in charge...lol - obviosuly only short term but how funny would it be if we climbed the league??
I'm not there on Saturday becasue Whitley Bay is calling but it would be intetresting to see if he justs stands leaning against the dug out with his arms folded!!!

nowt fresh says...
11:23am Mon 8 Feb 10

gspot wrote:
jakes in charge...lol - obviosuly only short term but how funny would it be if we climbed the league?? I'm not there on Saturday becasue Whitley Bay is calling but it would be intetresting to see if he justs stands leaning against the dug out with his arms folded!!!
Been done before AKA Camy took us to Wembley (dont hold your breath)

bingbrad says...
11:40am Mon 8 Feb 10

We got to go for Stan Ternant, even short term.Good Manager AND coach, knows the club, will not stand for the under-performance we have seen, I think he is local & available. Its time for experience, not another emotional old boy appointment such as Windass or Jake who both messed up this season at Darlo / Lincoln.

windasboy says...
11:56am Mon 8 Feb 10

just heard that stuart had a meeting with both chairmen

Bantam58 says...
11:56am Mon 8 Feb 10

bingbrad wrote:
We got to go for Stan Ternant, even short term.Good Manager AND coach, knows the club, will not stand for the under-performance we have seen, I think he is local & available. Its time for experience, not another emotional old boy appointment such as Windass or Jake who both messed up this season at Darlo / Lincoln.
But he is an old boy, he has been here before, he also turned Huddersfield into a shambles

Bantam58 says...
11:58am Mon 8 Feb 10

Jake ? / Lincoln ?

gspot says...
12:02pm Mon 8 Feb 10

bingbrad wrote:
We got to go for Stan Ternant, even short term.Good Manager AND coach, knows the club, will not stand for the under-performance we have seen, I think he is local & available. Its time for experience, not another emotional old boy appointment such as Windass or Jake who both messed up this season at Darlo / Lincoln.
good call. the best names i'd heard mentioned are:

Martin Allen
Stan Ternant
John Still
...i'd like the Accrington boss John Coleman!!! Don't know much about him apart from the fact he's doing a very very very good job with them.

I bet jakes will praying lots this week....i wonder if he'll have the players saying prayers in the centre circle as part of the warm up??

BD16 says...
12:13pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Bantam58 wrote:
Jake ? / Lincoln ?
Jacko/Lincoln I assume.
Just seen on the City website a statement from the club confirming the Stuart has officially left.

Not sure who I fancy now. Martin Allen, Stan Ternant short term perhaps. Not John Still in a million years. He justs has the ball hoofed forward.

Kramer says...
12:13pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Jacobs in charge? I hope he can staedy the ship but I fear we are close to dropping out of the Football League. Premier League to Non-league in a little over 10 years.....?

windasboy says...
12:14pm Mon 8 Feb 10

gspot wrote:
bingbrad wrote: We got to go for Stan Ternant, even short term.Good Manager AND coach, knows the club, will not stand for the under-performance we have seen, I think he is local & available. Its time for experience, not another emotional old boy appointment such as Windass or Jake who both messed up this season at Darlo / Lincoln.
good call. the best names i'd heard mentioned are: Martin Allen Stan Ternant John Still ...i'd like the Accrington boss John Coleman!!! Don't know much about him apart from the fact he's doing a very very very good job with them. I bet jakes will praying lots this week....i wonder if he'll have the players saying prayers in the centre circle as part of the warm up??
why are you slagging off jakes, mccall brought him so he must have thought he was good,and you rate mccall

gspot says...
12:21pm Mon 8 Feb 10

not really slagging him off just find it funny in truth...sorry

Kramer says...
12:28pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Possible managers?? What about Chris Wilder (Oxford United)

windasboy says...
1:01pm Mon 8 Feb 10

skyblogger wrote:
everyone forgets when things were g oing well last year it was lawn that re-negotiated mccalls new contract. What lawn said in the board room or to mccalls face, or the press for that matter is not the same words spoken to his friends (who were mccalls friends too), mcalls players (undermining the manager) the fans that visited him when drunk etc etc. He is a big mouth who I would suggest holds very little respect to all that really know him.
can you tell us which pub this happens in as i woiuldnt mind having a few words face to face myself

ilkleyborn says...
1:31pm Mon 8 Feb 10

I think I would go for Chris Casper short term see how he does to the end of the season, if he does ok then give him a 2 year contract. I dont think Jacko is the right man, and definatly not Windass. We should edge away from bringing ex players in,saying that theres Dolan tand Jewell I might think differently if one of them came back short term.

BradfordBoy-Heaton says...
1:46pm Mon 8 Feb 10

I would bring in martin allen until the end of the season, He would defo get the players to pull their fingers out of their ar5e. (no nonsense manager) or even jacko or peter taylor.

Reckless says...
3:44pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Lancashire Branch wrote:
Please,please,please come and help us in our hour of need Paul Jewell.
yes agreed, I have a mate who plays golf with PJ, maybe I should send him a text and ask him to give him a push ;-)

Jewell would be EXACTLY the right man to sort out these pretenders - discipline required.

pudsey.bantam says...
3:46pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Just read on the Straits Times ,a Singapore Press paper,that Mc Call has accepted a financial settlement from City,which is by no means as much as he was entitled to.

allannicho says...
4:04pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Paul is not going to leave cushy Sky is he?

cookie_brighton says...
5:01pm Mon 8 Feb 10

I have listened to mccall on the video above and i have just listened to him on b.b.c. news.......he does not look like a man who is upset to be leaving HIS BELOVED city.Also now by looking at jacobs in charge.we will be playing non league football next season.I think we need CLARKE KENT to survive this season.Get rid of the plumber,hairdresser and shelf stacker and give us the team we deserve.............
....Never forget lads....football is now a business and not a sport as it was years ago.............CTID

Bantam992 says...
8:48pm Mon 8 Feb 10

cookie_brighton wrote:
I have listened to mccall on the video above and i have just listened to him on b.b.c. news.......he does not look like a man who is upset to be leaving HIS BELOVED city.Also now by looking at jacobs in charge.we will be playing non league football next season.I think we need CLARKE KENT to survive this season.Get rid of the plumber,hairdresser and shelf stacker and give us the team we deserve.............

....Never forget lads....football is now a business and not a sport as it was years ago.............CTID
So you're saying you want to get rid of our top-scorer, only half decent defender and a good prospect for the future that is very clever! I am personally glad McCall is gone and just wish Jacobs had followed him out of the door. Still a month or two too late! We were going nowhere with those two at the helm! Lets get an experienced manager in and make something of Bradford City Football Club! ...CTID

nowt fresh says...
8:57pm Mon 8 Feb 10

cookie_brighton wrote:
I have listened to mccall on the video above and i have just listened to him on b.b.c. news.......he does not look like a man who is upset to be leaving HIS BELOVED city.Also now by looking at jacobs in charge.we will be playing non league football next season.I think we need CLARKE KENT to survive this season.Get rid of the plumber,hairdresser and shelf stacker and give us the team we deserve............. ....Never forget lads....football is now a business and not a sport as it was years ago.............CTID
Try Spec Savers Mate CTID my arse

Waynus71 says...
9:53pm Mon 8 Feb 10

cookie_brighton wrote:
I have listened to mccall on the video above and i have just listened to him on b.b.c. news.......he does not look like a man who is upset to be leaving HIS BELOVED city.Also now by looking at jacobs in charge.we will be playing non league football next season.I think we need CLARKE KENT to survive this season.Get rid of the plumber,hairdresser and shelf stacker and give us the team we deserve.............

....Never forget lads....football is now a business and not a sport as it was years ago.............CTID
One word needed, just one...... "KN0B"!

Waynus71 says...
9:54pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Stuart McCall is NOT a legend. You may ask why I say that, as he is someone I admire greatly. The word legend means, "a person whose fame or notoriety makes him a source of exaggerated or romanticized tales or exploits". Personally, I don't think his tales need any exaggeration!

Stuart McCall is a honest, hard-working bloke with the utmost integrity. I may have knocked his ability as a manager/coach (which by resigning, he is now admitting), but I have never knocked Stuart McCall the man.

I will always respect the fact that he put his all into the job, worked as hard as he could and when he realised he couldn't deliver, he was man enough to stand down.

What most people will remember him for is his ability as a footballer, notably at City. we will all remember how happy he was when we won promotion to the Premiership, the infamous falling off the car roof etc. However, the real supporters will remember him for something much more important than that. That is, the way he has handled himself over the tragic events of 1985. He never stopped caring about those that perished or the ones they left behind. It will always stay with him and as such, we will always have a special bond.

I would like to think that McCall will go away, continue to learn more coaching methods and manage reserve sides/youth teams/non-league teams and one day, return to complete unfinished business, once he is actually ready.

Waynus71 says...
9:54pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Stuart McCall is NOT a legend. You may ask why I say that, as he is someone I admire greatly. The word legend means, "a person whose fame or notoriety makes him a source of exaggerated or romanticized tales or exploits". Personally, I don't think his tales need any exaggeration!

Stuart McCall is a honest, hard-working bloke with the utmost integrity. I may have knocked his ability as a manager/coach (which by resigning, he is now admitting), but I have never knocked Stuart McCall the man.

I will always respect the fact that he put his all into the job, worked as hard as he could and when he realised he couldn't deliver, he was man enough to stand down.

What most people will remember him for is his ability as a footballer, notably at City. we will all remember how happy he was when we won promotion to the Premiership, the infamous falling off the car roof etc. However, the real supporters will remember him for something much more important than that. That is, the way he has handled himself over the tragic events of 1985. He never stopped caring about those that perished or the ones they left behind. It will always stay with him and as such, we will always have a special bond.

I would like to think that McCall will go away, continue to learn more coaching methods and manage reserve sides/youth teams/non-league teams and one day, return to complete unfinished business, once he is actually ready.

Waynus71 says...
9:56pm Mon 8 Feb 10

If you are all so sure this is down to Mark Lawn (thge new scape goat), why don't you start the chant on Saturday;
"Stuart McCall's Bradford Army.
we want Lawn Out".

Waynus71 says...
9:58pm Mon 8 Feb 10

albion wrote:
It`ll be Waynus.
???? What will be waynus?

dannbradfc says...
10:43pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Waynus71 wrote:
If you are all so sure this is down to Mark Lawn (thge new scape goat), why don't you start the chant on Saturday; "Stuart McCall's Bradford Army. we want Lawn Out".
You have had enough goats to start your own farming business

Waynus71 says...
10:52pm Mon 8 Feb 10

dannbradfc wrote:
Waynus71 wrote:
If you are all so sure this is down to Mark Lawn (thge new scape goat), why don't you start the chant on Saturday; "Stuart McCall's Bradford Army. we want Lawn Out".
You have had enough goats to start your own farming business
You'd know. For every one that I had, you countered it with another!

McCall - Jacobs
Daley - Colbeck
McLaren - Bully
Clarke - Lee
TJ - Rehman
Then you have also picked fights with me over the abilities (scapegoats) of Boulding & Conlon.

As I said, you are not whiter-than-white!

Waynus71 says...
10:54pm Mon 8 Feb 10

Waynus71 wrote:
dannbradfc wrote:
Waynus71 wrote:
If you are all so sure this is down to Mark Lawn (thge new scape goat), why don't you start the chant on Saturday; "Stuart McCall's Bradford Army. we want Lawn Out".
You have had enough goats to start your own farming business
You'd know. For every one that I had, you countered it with another!

McCall - Jacobs
Daley - Colbeck
McLaren - Bully
Clarke - Lee
TJ - Rehman
Then you have also picked fights with me over the abilities (scapegoats) of Boulding & Conlon.

As I said, you are not whiter-than-white!
Oh and not forgetting Mark Lawn!!!!

lonniejockstrap says...
12:18am Tue 9 Feb 10

Waynus71 wrote:
Stuart McCall is NOT a legend. You may ask why I say that, as he is someone I admire greatly. The word legend means, "a person whose fame or notoriety makes him a source of exaggerated or romanticized tales or exploits". Personally, I don't think his tales need any exaggeration! Stuart McCall is a honest, hard-working bloke with the utmost integrity. I may have knocked his ability as a manager/coach (which by resigning, he is now admitting), but I have never knocked Stuart McCall the man. I will always respect the fact that he put his all into the job, worked as hard as he could and when he realised he couldn't deliver, he was man enough to stand down. What most people will remember him for is his ability as a footballer, notably at City. we will all remember how happy he was when we won promotion to the Premiership, the infamous falling off the car roof etc. However, the real supporters will remember him for something much more important than that. That is, the way he has handled himself over the tragic events of 1985. He never stopped caring about those that perished or the ones they left behind. It will always stay with him and as such, we will always have a special bond. I would like to think that McCall will go away, continue to learn more coaching methods and manage reserve sides/youth teams/non-league teams and one day, return to complete unfinished business, once he is actually ready.
And yet, you couldn't find it in you to be loyal, to understand that besides HIS mistakes there were many other factors that contributed to our situation that were out of his control. You were not prepared to forgo your own selfish needs long enough to see what he could do with a full fit squad and a run of 'ref-free' ****-ups. You couldn't refrain from calling for the head of the man you NOW praise. You wanted your Golden Goose and you wanted it now, and if you wasn't going to get it you were going to screem! And boy did you screem for the resignation or sacking of Stuart McCall. Talk about people who 'know the cost of everything but the VALUE of nothing'. Your word are empty Waynus, you kicked Stuart when he was down. You even have to take CREDIT in your being smarter than McCall because he is now 'admitting' that YOU were right all along, he didn't know that he couldn't 'Manage/coach' but YOU did. Why didn't you tell him that before he took on the job, that way you wouldn't have had to ask for his resignation? Give us a break, with 'loyal' jelly legged fans like you there is no way I would want Stuart to come back here and have to put up for a second time with the impatient, short-term, short-sighted, cheapskate, kick-you-when-your-d
own, philistines that represent a significant number of supporters at VP. Hope the Willy Wonkers, Lawn and Rhodes, will let you have your Golden Goose next time around Waynus.

Waynus71 says...
1:15am Tue 9 Feb 10

lonniejockstrap wrote:
Waynus71 wrote:
Stuart McCall is NOT a legend. You may ask why I say that, as he is someone I admire greatly. The word legend means, "a person whose fame or notoriety makes him a source of exaggerated or romanticized tales or exploits". Personally, I don't think his tales need any exaggeration! Stuart McCall is a honest, hard-working bloke with the utmost integrity. I may have knocked his ability as a manager/coach (which by resigning, he is now admitting), but I have never knocked Stuart McCall the man. I will always respect the fact that he put his all into the job, worked as hard as he could and when he realised he couldn't deliver, he was man enough to stand down. What most people will remember him for is his ability as a footballer, notably at City. we will all remember how happy he was when we won promotion to the Premiership, the infamous falling off the car roof etc. However, the real supporters will remember him for something much more important than that. That is, the way he has handled himself over the tragic events of 1985. He never stopped caring about those that perished or the ones they left behind. It will always stay with him and as such, we will always have a special bond. I would like to think that McCall will go away, continue to learn more coaching methods and manage reserve sides/youth teams/non-league teams and one day, return to complete unfinished business, once he is actually ready.
And yet, you couldn't find it in you to be loyal, to understand that besides HIS mistakes there were many other factors that contributed to our situation that were out of his control. You were not prepared to forgo your own selfish needs long enough to see what he could do with a full fit squad and a run of 'ref-free' ****-ups. You couldn't refrain from calling for the head of the man you NOW praise. You wanted your Golden Goose and you wanted it now, and if you wasn't going to get it you were going to screem! And boy did you screem for the resignation or sacking of Stuart McCall. Talk about people who 'know the cost of everything but the VALUE of nothing'. Your word are empty Waynus, you kicked Stuart when he was down. You even have to take CREDIT in your being smarter than McCall because he is now 'admitting' that YOU were right all along, he didn't know that he couldn't 'Manage/coach' but YOU did. Why didn't you tell him that before he took on the job, that way you wouldn't have had to ask for his resignation? Give us a break, with 'loyal' jelly legged fans like you there is no way I would want Stuart to come back here and have to put up for a second time with the impatient, short-term, short-sighted, cheapskate, kick-you-when-your-d

own, philistines that represent a significant number of supporters at VP. Hope the Willy Wonkers, Lawn and Rhodes, will let you have your Golden Goose next time around Waynus.
Blah, blah, blah. You have been waiting for me haven't you. You are so sad, you wait for my posts, just so you can respond in your own unique way.

I admit I didn't recognise McCall's managerial abilities and I stand by the fact he has left without 'succeeding'.

For the record, McCall walked because of his own failings, NOT because I knocked his skills on a T&A message board. There is a difference between admiring a man and bowing to every thing he does, even if they are poor decisions!

You keep mentioning these, "many other factors that contributed to our situation that were out of his control". I am still to be convinced what these factors are.

His first season was a waste of time and he admitted as much. He didn't know the league or the players needed. We all respected this and hoped he learn from any mistakes he made in that first season. However, he went out and spent big. You can deny it all you want, but he spent lots of Lawn/Rhodes' money and failed for a second time.

Then, when everyone gave him a 3rd chance (and I include myself in that), he signed Matt Clarke, Zesh Rehman, Leon Osbourne & Luke Sharry before looking around for better recruitments. Although Osbourne & Sharry won't have been on top bucks, their combined salary would have helped us bring in a player that would genuinely challenge for a first team slot. Neither of them two are good enough to do so. As for Clarke, the least said about him the better.

But my biggest reservations about McCall's management was the way he panicked when things weren't going right. We would go from bossing a game and creating nigh on 30 chances, to completely changing our style & formation in the next game. Why???? As I said previously, all clubs go through a bad spell, but hard work and keeping to your principles usually help you through it. When McCall got into a rut, he didn't know how to get out of it and made some disastrous decisions to try to force something to happen. As a result, the players lost confidence and the rut just got bigger.

Doesn't mean I will stop admiring him as a person, just because I don't agree with his managerial abilities.

cookie_brighton says...
6:44am Tue 9 Feb 10

Bantam 992....what i was saying is.........lets get a team together to get us out of this division........whic
h is in fact the old 4th division.Granted that the plumber,hairdresser and the shelf stacker are good enough for this division,but not,in my view good enough for any higher. CTID

cookie_brighton says...
6:49am Tue 9 Feb 10

nowtfresh.........be
en to specsavers,been a city fan for 45 years. i was probably stood in the shed before u was even thought of, and who are you to say that i am not city till i die.

cookie_brighton says...
6:53am Tue 9 Feb 10

Waynus lmao.........obvious
ly that word you used was to describe yourself. CTID

nowt fresh says...
11:56am Tue 9 Feb 10

cookie_brighton wrote:
nowtfresh.........be en to specsavers,been a city fan for 45 years. i was probably stood in the shed before u was even thought of, and who are you to say that i am not city till i die.
Dont think so cookie used to stand in the boys section (now where the players run out) 50 years of supporting the lads so wrong again cookie.......he does not look like a man who is upset to be leaving HIS BELOVED City it was pretty obvious he was emotional to anyone but you thats the reason I told you to go to Spec Savers

Waynus71 says...
3:52pm Tue 9 Feb 10

cookie_brighton wrote:
Waynus lmao.........obvious ly that word you used was to describe yourself. CTID
No, only a KN0B would not see how McCall was distraught at the fact he had failed. And to suggest we are going to get relegated in one breath whilst suggesting 'the hairdresser, plumber etc' not be good enough for the division above is a joke.


Stuart McCall bids an emotional goodbye to City fans at the end of Saturday’s home defeat to Bury Stuart McCall bids an emotional goodbye to City fans at the end of Saturday’s home defeat to Bury

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