Ollie on relegation

Hes been waiting to stick the knife in again since the Pompey home game.

Firstly about GC, Starnes outwardly said Mansfield made 2 approaches for GC all of which were rejected until the 3rd one on the morning before the Ipswich game turned his head.  He literally shot himself in the feet with both barrels and then his reputation went with him 12 games later at Mansfield.  Now hes coaching kids again.  If he was any good, in demand or location wasnt an option, he would have been in the running for the managers job at any FL club and if he didnt burn any bridges, including us in Feb.  Hes not the first manager to do it to himself and he wont be the last.

It's utter nonsense to suggest otherwise.  We were top 6 with January incoming and plenty of budget to spend as evidenced by Garner signing 7 players in the window.

As for Ben Garner, we know hes a fan but it was BG who assembled and coached this club to 4 wins in 30 games which left us 3 points above the drop zone after getting hammered 4-1 at home by Fleetwood without a shot on goal (whats his opinion on that). His view on Tisdale about being the right man was totally misguided after he started playing centre halve as a wingers and midfielders, left wingers as right sided strikers, completely fudged the transfer window and we were getting thumped most games, 6-1 away at Accrington for example (no opinion on that either)

Absolutely the recruitment has been terrible but by the time Joey got here and tightened us up, half the squad were injured, the other half knackered and their confidence shot with a total lack of professionalism throughout the squad if we are to believe what JB is saying.

The only way to prove any of this is to allow JB to build a squad, in L2 and see how he performs with structure actually under a football professional whos fresh from playing at the sharp end of the pyramid in the modern era.

Only disagree with the last part of that.

It's a shame he doesn't open up completely though so that he tells us exactly what he knows.

That's precisely my point.  You said GC left because he was told there was going to be a change in recruitment policy and he wasnt allowed creative players.  Garner, GC's replacement, signed 7 players in the Jan window, 2 weeks or so after GC had left.  

I have it absolutely first hand, from one of the players who is a customer of mine, that GC actually wanted to stay on and asked for a stay of execution, but the board decided his position was untenable after his outburst, and rightly so.  

I think its a whole lot easier for you to to accept that GC is a disloyal backstabber rather than some kind of suffragette.

I don't think Ollie knows anything, it's only his opinion. He is being paid to write newspaper articles, just like Mr Frost with the rules of the game is click bait!
Ollie hasn't been involved with L1 football for some time and it not a current manager. The current Gillingham manager had this to say this week.   “When I look at Bristol Rovers, bottom of the table, I really shake my head. I think they have good enough players, we have played against them and watched them many times, I don’t know what has gone wrong there. manager. "Bristol Rovers - who lured away a couple of Gills players with great fanfare last summer - are all-but relegated." i.e. Ehmer and Hanlan who he presumably didn't want to lose.
So in summary two outsiders have different opinions and the three manager of The Gas had all stated at various points in the season the players are good enough for this division. The managers blamer someone else and the someone else blames the manager. I wonder what the players think? Did the player all reject all 3 managers. Even the fans blame everyone else except the tea lady as she can't be blamed as there was no tea to serve this season. UTG well next season I hope

my understanding is completely different, he did not leave for that reason, I don't want to say the reason because I am not 100%

Ollie sticks up for the previous managers, yet they presumably let the tobacco Snus thing go on right under their noses

You're right, under the top lip to be precise.

If you don't believe that Ollie has spoken to all three of this seasons managers then ok.

Is that what I have said?  

I am saying a senior first team pro spoke to Coughlan and was told by Cogs that he didnt want to leave.   I'm happy to call it as I see it, praise and criticism in equal measure.  I'll see through any lies, trust me.  I have no reason to disbelieve what I have been told, as it fits perfectly with logic and his outburst in which he made his own job untenable.

It was the greatest act of public professional suicide you can ever watch.