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Post by whitesince63 on Oct 23, 2019 20:16:21 GMT
Sounds like Parky is carrying on at Sunderland where he left off here, no shots on goal and supporters complaining about too many long balls. To make it worse for Parky, Wyke injured after 45 minutes. Oh dear, so much for your instant hit OM!! First home game. 5-0. Pretty instant id say. Anyone with a Netflix account may disagree but think hes landed the best job in the league and theres no way that they shouldnt go up. Cant take that one away from him OM, but it will be interesting to see if he can keep it up. As you say, he’s landed a cracking job at Sunderland and yes there’s no way that they shouldn’t go up with the squad they’ve got and the ability to strengthen it. One thing is for certain though, which is that there could be no excuses were he to fail there. At the moment you can’t talk about how he will get on in The Championship next year because if he doesn’t get them up he won’t be still there, so like ourselves it’s all about this year. I may be wrong but I just see him ruining it by implementing his usual brand of Hoofball and bingo style team selection. He’s never been any different so I don’t expect him to change now, irrespective of the club he’s at. Time will tell but I genuinely wish him well and hope he has learned from past experience.
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Post by OohMac on Nov 26, 2019 22:53:59 GMT
Will PP ever get a new job after this one? Another defeat at home to Burton. League is so tight that their season is far from over and they still will be among the favourites for promotion but it is not looking good for PP.
Got to admit i got it wrong. I thought he would steady the ship, like with us get a few grafty wins before trying not to lose games.
When he was linked and reported he would get the job i read a few pieces and now my internet browser seems to think im obsessed and my recommended pages shows a lot of unimpressed mackems. Its honestly eerie to see, at such early stages too, the exact quotes as what we were saying. Local rag aptly named Sunderland Echo as their sentiments echoed ours.
One dimensional, hoof it up with no plan, hit and hope, sideways passing. Already chants of sacked in the morning.
For me it was a shocking appointment. Bradford fans warned us, we warned them.
Obviously the healthy minded reaction would be - Live and let live, move on and stop living in the past. Weve moved on....i just feel some of the hyperbole that came out about his miracle work and what he was up against was just wrong. He obviously still doesnt see how his way is neither good on the eye or even productive. Whatever Keith Hill does or doesnt achieve im glad hes not PP.
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 27, 2019 10:57:20 GMT
He’s on his way out OM. I said he’d be gone by the end of the year but I actually think it will be before that now. Seven defeats from eleven games and lucky for it not to be more have left him in a more than precarious position. His implied criticism of players within his comments made after the Burton game will only make things worse for him and I don’t think he’ll get chance to see a window to make changes. Even former players like Stephen Elliot and Michael Gray have been highly critical of the appointment and Parkinson personally and his awful idea of football. That’s a bit rich coming from Gray because when he was a pundit on the EFL highlights show, he constantly excused Parkinson’s methods as caused by what was going on off the field. Strange how he’s now decided it’s just Parkinson himself because it’s Sunderland!!
As you say, we should really move on but there were so many of our fans who constantly defended him despite the evidence both in front of them and historically at other clubs, that I need to see if they were right. They can’t say that now because he’s inherited arguably the strongest squad in the division, just as he did with us, yet still continues with his boring,hoof it, sideways, let’s not lose systems to the total dissatisfaction of the fans. I still can not understand them employing him, it made no sense then and still doesn’t. His only chance is for both results and performances to quickly improve but frankly I just can’t see it. He will always believe he is right, always has, probably always will and as you say he just can’t accept how wrong he is. It was funny though to see the pair of them, Parky and Parkin, next to each other on the touch line, hands in pockets, just like they did here. A bit sad really when you think of it?
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Post by Woppy the Italian on Nov 27, 2019 14:39:50 GMT
I know its sad guys, but I couldn't resist reading the fans reaction to last nights defeat. Chants of "Your getting sacked in the morning" will come as no surprise to most sensible BWFC fans. Sunderland wont mess about, he will be out soon.
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 27, 2019 15:59:01 GMT
I’d feel some sympathy for him if the situation wasn’t self inflicted. I accept you have beliefs but to be successful you have to be prepared to adapt, especially when you don’t have the players to perform the way you want. Despite that Parky just continued regardless of results and surrounded himself with people like Parkin who just agree with him. Looks like his top cohorts who ditched us to join him recently might be regretting it too. Once you lose the fans though, you’re on shaky ground and considering they didn’t want him in the first place it will take something special to turn them around but honestly I just don’t think Parky has it in him or has the type of football to recover it. Next result could be critical but even anything less than a big win will only stem the inevitable.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 18:16:43 GMT
I’m so glad he’s not our manager anymore even though we got a right thrashing on Saturday we have been playing football for the most part and winning games long may it last win a lot get beat the odd time will do for me COYWM
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Post by OohMac on Nov 27, 2019 19:08:54 GMT
The most radical change he ever did was sending Parkin for the post match.
Was surprised when he landed the job but by all accounts a lot of names where pie in the sky Nigel Pearson etc.
Think it came down to 3 genuine candidates inexperienced Kevin Phillips, Gareth Ainsworth and PP. Once you ruled KP out it was a two horse race. On paper PP can put 2x L1 promotions on his CV.
I still think Ainsworth would be nudging ahead and think it came down to compensation for him. Unless a candidate had a much better CV than Phil why part with any cash?
Still think with Phil that nothing was insurmountable here. Even relegation. Not sure what was said in Starbucks but if FV decided they would give him a period to see what he can do ive no doubt he would used whatever budget to bring in 7 or 8 34 year old, 6 foot carthorses and journeymen and start the blue print again. He probably scouted players on the bench opposite the "big and tall" store. "Tell me you can head a ball and i'll buy you that suit!".
Again bitter but glad to see Megson, Freedman out of management. Coyle is a disaster artist and Lennon back north of the border.
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 29, 2019 18:14:37 GMT
Mackems still wanting Parky sacked, just been on their twitter feed and he’s getting some right stick. I see he’s taken Andy Taylor on as a coach today as well so that’s another ex Wanderer back with him. He obviously feels comforted having sycophants around him. What he really needs is someone who will put him straight and tell him his systems just don’t work but then again he wouldn’t employ them if they did?
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Post by Pedro on Dec 7, 2019 19:55:40 GMT
After today's loss - "Defeat means that Sunderland have won just twice in seven league games since Parkinson replaced Jack Ross in charge at the Stadium of Light."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2019 20:29:16 GMT
Is he going to be there at Christmas because I would love us to go up there beat them and Parky gets sacked on the 27th hahahaha COYWM
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Post by davidm on Dec 8, 2019 11:21:37 GMT
How about this comment from about 1,000 negative comments from Sunderland fans regarding Mr Parkinson:-
"I just can't see myself giving my time up to watch that utter shite. It's worse than anything I've seen of any football team I've ever watched how on earth has this guy made a career on making his teams play like this this. Surprised he's still here now really."
and that is a mild comment compared to others!!
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Post by OohMac on Dec 8, 2019 16:05:19 GMT
How about this comment from about 1,000 negative comments from Sunderland fans regarding Mr Parkinson:- "I just can't see myself giving my time up to watch that utter shite. It's worse than anything I've seen of any football team I've ever watched how on earth has this guy made a career on making his teams play like this this. Surprised he's still here now really."and that is a mild comment compared to others!! From RedandWhitessince63?
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Post by davidm on Dec 8, 2019 16:08:31 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2019 17:38:39 GMT
I have just been reading the comments and I thought we gave him a hard time wow they sound just as pissed off as we were 😂😂😂 COYWM
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Post by whitesince63 on Dec 8, 2019 17:49:22 GMT
Well on the Twitter feed it’s now 98% who want him gone immediately which is pretty unanimous. Still can’t understand why Sunderland signed him on let alone gave him a two and a half year contract? You’d have to think they were pretty confident he could do the job but I bet they’re having serious doubts now. Seems like Parky has reverted exactly to type, 5 changes again yesterday, creative players on the bench and predominantly a defensive set up but I think it was his after match comment about a point would have been a great result that really wound the fans up. I mean when a draw is considered a good result for a club like Sunderland, despite their current position, it tells you something. Quite rightly the fans don’t want to hear that, they expect to win and they expect you as the manager to expect to win. I don’t think he’ll ever learn sadly but it all depends on how long management can withstand the fury, however much it will cost them to pay him off. I think they may resist until the January window unless results and performances continue to be bad in which case they may consider paying him off is preferable to letting him waste money on transfers that just prolong the agony?
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