Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Just get better and better.

Made me laugh,he’s spot on about officialdom.

Although to suggest Dubai as the place he wants to retire to. I suppose no-one's perfect.

OyinbO wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:42 am Although to suggest Dubai as the place he wants to retire to. I suppose no-one's perfect.

Is a truly corrupt place.

Should also put to bed the morons who say he doesn’t have a plan B

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:10 am Should also put to bed the morons who say he doesn’t have a plan B

He is a master at tactics. He sees things happening very quickly and reacts accordingly. He is passionate person who will go right to the top.We are so lucky to have such a manager. Long May it continue .

Hearn used to call fans morons.
Also, no way will RW 'go right to the top'.

Love it.

Going to be a Premier League manager one day, no question.

Chief crazy horse wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:47 am Hearn used to call fans morons.
Also, no way will RW 'go right to the top'.

He will if he takes us to the premier league!

Good to see him single out Ru-el for the praise he deserves after that performance.

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:07 am Love it.

Going to be a Premier League manager one day, no question.

I would be far from disappointed if he did make it. But I would also be very, very surprised if he did. Let's see..

I don't think he's going to be the next Fergie and return Man Utd to European domination. But could easily see him taking over at a struggling Leicester.

Such a good interviewee, a media person's dream. As said elsewhere, the *passion* stuff would sound like BS or the mark of a throwback manager from most other people but he's ably demonstrated that he also has some real nous and knows what he's doing. So lucky to have him for however long this era lasts.

Chief crazy horse wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:47 am Hearn used to call fans morons.

Back in the old West Stand days a chap sitting near the front gave me an "I'm an Orient Moron" badge which I found most amusing and kept on for ages.

The "morons" been proven right in the end with Hearn having shown just how many assets there were to strip for his pension fund's benefit

Monkey Boy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:35 am Made me laugh,he’s spot on about officialdom.

The more they try to teach him and lesson and silence criticism the more RW slates the officials and those bringing in the pointless new rules, love it

This season more than most IFAB and PGMOL (the with EFL etc in tow) are getting more and more out of touch with everyone else involved in the game.

Players, managers, pundits, fans... none of them want all this new ultra fussy, schoolmaster esque approach and flip-flopping changes to added time. The suits need to butt out and leave the beautiful game alone, they can take their VAR and blue card nonsense with them.

Tactically miles ahead of anything we have ever witnessed at the Orient.
More passionate than any manager we have ever had too.
Best football ever played by an Orient team.
3 great reasons to buy a new season ticket that will go up 10%? I think so.

gshaw wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:34 pm

Chief crazy horse wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:47 am Hearn used to call fans morons.

Back in the old West Stand days a chap sitting near the front gave me an "I'm an Orient Moron" badge which I found most amusing and kept on for ages.

The "morons" been proven right in the end with Hearn having shown just how many assets there were to strip for his pension fund's benefit

Monkey Boy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:35 am Made me laugh,he’s spot on about officialdom.

The more they try to teach him and lesson and silence criticism the more RW slates the officials and those bringing in the pointless new rules, love it

This season more than most IFAB and PGMOL (the with EFL etc in tow) are getting more and more out of touch with everyone else involved in the game.

Players, managers, pundits, fans... none of them want all this new ultra fussy, schoolmaster esque approach and flip-flopping changes to added time. The suits need to butt out and leave the beautiful game alone, they can take their VAR and blue card nonsense with them.

Thing is I think some of the changes they introduced make sense. On pitch dissent from players should be treated more strictly. Adding on additional minutes to discourage time wasting was a good step that I'm baffled they've dropped. More yellows for fouls that clearly are intentional are appropriate imo.

But they've been applied so inconsistently it's infuriating.

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:21 am I don't think he's going to be the next Fergie and return Man Utd to European domination. But could easily see him taking over at a struggling Leicester.

SAF at the same age had won a lot more BUT that was in Scotland so doesn't count for as much AND it was much easier back then to upset the applecart compared to these days.

moonwalk19 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:37 am

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:10 am Should also put to bed the morons who say he doesn’t have a plan B

He is a master at tactics. He sees things happening very quickly and reacts accordingly. He is passionate person who will go right to the top.We are so lucky to have such a manager. Long May it continue .

Absolutely . The club needs to do all it can to keep him .

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:57 pm Thing is I think some of the changes they introduced make sense. On pitch dissent from players should be treated more strictly. Adding on additional minutes to discourage time wasting was a good step that I'm baffled they've dropped. More yellows for fouls that clearly are intentional are appropriate imo.

But they've been applied so inconsistently it's infuriating.

Thing is the question isn't being approached why players and managers are so frustrated with the refereeing and you nail it in your last paragraph, inconsistency

We have managers and pundits all baffled at what constitutes a handball now, armpit offsides that no-one asked for with VAR and the added time changes that seem to have been reverted mid-season with no announcement of why.

Some weeks we're getting 7-9 mins added and others barely 3-4 even with subs and injuries where you'd expect more. It's all over the place.

Similarly as RW is pointing out in the same game one manager can wander out their technical area and nothing is said but the other gets carded, there's no excuse for that.

Instead of bringing in more daft rules (drop this blue card nonsense asap) PGMOL & co need to get back to basics and have constructive dialogue with managers to find something that works for the game, rather than this top down attempt at authority that's having the opposite effect to what they hoped to achieve (respect for officials)

Ritchie was right, it was never a sending off, perhaps a yellow card, but you are dealing with an authoritarian body who want to show they are the boss, and the last thing they want is some clever Dickie exposing their intellectual inadequacies or just lack of plain common sense. So he will have to suffer the consequences, beans on toast for a month, a fine and 4 games away from the touchline, fortunately the consequences won't be as great as critics of Putin or Kim Jong Un.

I would love him to become a long term manager here and oversee the eventual new era in a bigger stadium and leave us as a bigger club with bigger prospects and ambitions. But football rarely works out like that in the lower leagues. 2 years is a long time. Slade did well with 4 and half years. If the board trust him and back him even in the tough times then he could be but he will get snapped up by someone like Leicester eventually. It would be an amazing long term project for him to complete though.

The Voice of Reason wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:47 pm Ritchie was right, it was never a sending off,

It's a red card.

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