Larry whinging

southshore

southshore

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According to him SS stated objectives were to rebuild over 2 to 3 years and would be given time, so feels it unfair he was sacked.
Also said SS didn't expect us to be promoted in year one, but team should be 'in amongst it' .

What part if lower mid table on a dreadful run is 'in amongst it' Larry?
 
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I wasn't expecting promotion first season and I don’t think many others were either, but the football was piss poor and we were on one of the worst runs I’ve seen whilst supporting the club. He can’t have too many complaints surely
 
The 50-year-old, who had overseen a dismal run of just one win in 12 games prior to his exit, told the EFL’s official podcast the sacking was “tough” to take.

He said owner Simon Sadler had initially claimed the aim was to consolidate and build for the next two or three years, only for expectations to increase once the side sat in the play-offs at the start of December.

Recalling his brief seven-month tenure at Bloomfield Road, Grayson revealed: “The Blackpool job became available, I met the owner and I felt it was a good opportunity.

“Not just because I was going back to the club, but it was more about what the future could entail.

“Everything the owner was saying was about how we were going to rebuild the club, because it’s been built on sand for years and years, so we’ve got to make sure we build it.

“He said we had no aspirations of getting promoted this year but we’d like to be in amongst it, then over the next two or three years we want to keep building the club, get the supporters back and build a new training ground.

“As long as he could see the team was getting better and building and building, that’s all he was looking for. Some people talk like that and then…

“We go two points off the top two in December and the expectancy levels went through the roof and probably by doing that, the expectancy levels went too high and you end up losing your job off the back of it.

“Sometimes it’s best to keep your side in the lower expectancy levels and not get too carried away, but that’s just football and that’s how it’s changed over the number of years.

“People want success, they’re hungry for success, but sometimes they’re not ready for success how they want it to be.

“It’s been tough to take because I went from having someone say I’m going to be given a long time to do this, that and the other, but you weren’t, and the club didn’t ride a little bit of criticism from supporters when we went through a tough time.

“It makes you think ‘do I need to go through all of this?’”
 
I think the paper has done one interview and because there is no news spreading it out on Tuesday- Simon Grayson it could be my last managerial role(rollocks).Today -sacking was tough to take what next Nuts will play for England one day. 😂
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If he wants to carry on deluding himself, then that's his choice. His career ain't going to move in a positive direction until he acknowledges that he is responsible and takes action to address it....He was coasting at Blackpool...Too fat and comfy!
 
In my honest opinion ,,,he was a Rookie manager who was carried by his backroom staff ,,,Tony Parkes and Thommo !!He left Pool in the lurch with loan players going back to their clubs, leaving Pool to field a makeshift team in the 3rd round of the FA cup against Torquay !! I was not too impressed with him being brought back to Blackpool, should have got a young hungry manager !!
 
" . . . . As long as he could see the team was getting better and building and building, that’s all he was looking for . . . ."
That's the statement, the team rode its luck in the opening games, but never once under his tenure could you say that the team was getting better and better. there was the odd game where we dominated and the following week we would be under the cosh, there would be an opening half or twenty minutes where the team looked great and then they would capitulate as a one nil lead was defended. As a fan you could see that, even wearing very tangerine tinted glasses, as the individual financing it . . . . well.
 
I was certainly up for re-employing Larry, I thought we should have given more time but I could see why folk were arguing otherwise.

For what it's worth, I am now moving towards we were right to get rid and shouldn't have taken him back.
 
I think he became lazy.... ‘sandbagging’ he knew what the objective was, to keep us up and rebuild. Basically he turned up for work and subjected himself, his players and us to the same old boring, turgid route one shite week after week! As long as he was grinding out some results I really do think he thought his job was safe. If you've lost the dressing room, the fans and ultimately the people who pay your wages, times up!
 
We needed a young, energetic, hungry manager.
We got a middle-aged, slow, fat one.
Everybody got really bored, really quickly.
2-3yrs of that? No thanks, Larry.
 
Grayson has no right to whinge whatsoever. From Day 1 SS made it clear attacking football was key. Grayson failed to provide that. We weren't 'around it' we were dropping like a stone. He's a football dinosaur, his tactics were disastrous. Whichever club employs him next really are making a mistake. He may however make a good scout - he always seems to have an eye for a decent loan signing (whether it was first time around or the most recent time) and he clearly has some pretty good contacts in the game. By the sounds of it he maybe realises he's not suited for management anymore himself.
 
When it just becomes a day to day job with little drive and hardly any vision, a "well I'm safe for two or three seasons then" kind of gig, you really are just going to stand still or drop like a stone.

The football, using the word in it's widest possible form, at Wycombe was a shapeless mass reminiscent of an under 8s lower division game.

I hope for much more from Larry but it seems his future is all in the past. It happens in all walks of life, the edge goes, and a decision has to be made.

It was and we move on whilst Larry gets to spend more time with his significant pay off.
 
Don't think he' s doing himself any favours with that interview. His own words :

As long as he could see the team was getting better and building and building, that’s all he was looking for. Some people talk like that and then…

The team was getting worse, the results were dreadful and he showed no sign of having he ideas or drive to turn it around.
 
911_Kirky said:
I think he became lazy.... ‘sandbagging’ he knew what the objective was, to keep us up and rebuild. Basically he turned up for work and subjected himself, his players and us to the same old boring, turgid route one shite week after week! As long as he was grinding out some results I really do think he thought his job was safe. If you've lost the dressing room, the fans and ultimately the people who pay your wages, times up!
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And on top of that, I think it dawned on SS just how much it costs to run a football club. I suspect the need to be promoted became more important.
 
The only mistake Simon Sadler made was not sacking Grayson but appointing him in the first place. Sorry to be a smart arse but I was one of the few who said that at the time. Unfortunately it took others a lot longer to recognise that.
 
He should have been sacked as soon as Everyone saw Nuttall in action. How anybody could have watched him on numerous occasions and thought yeah I’ll have him as my centre forward. You’d query his judgement and football knowledge on that decision alone.
 
‘As long as he could see the team was getting better and building and building, that’s all he was looking for’

that’s all everyone was looking for, players and fans included.

We were going backwards so quickly we’d end up meeting ourselves on the way down. Sadler was very patient...far more patient than the fans. Ask Grayson where we were improving and he’d struggle to answer it directly.
 
clappers said:
‘As long as he could see the team was getting better and building and building, that’s all he was looking for’

that’s all everyone was looking for, players and fans included.

We were going backwards so quickly we’d end up meeting ourselves on the way down. Sadler was very patient...far more patient than the fans. Ask Grayson where we were improving and he’d struggle to answer it directly.
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Ah right, but we didn't see what was going on on the training ground. Thank god for that I say.
 
The players definitely looked down in the dumps playing for Grayson even when we were getting results.
 
Only heading in one direction under Grayson. Fans wouldn’t moan about Grayson if results were good and the performances were decent.

We lost against Tranmere but the performance was decent. That’s half the battle. Entertain the fans and get them on side. Grayson never did that this time around
 
Disappointing that from Larry. He clearly lost the dressing room, lost the fans, the football served up was dire at best and it was difficult to understand his team formation and tactics. However, he expected to see out his 3 year contract serving up non entertaining football against one of the requirements of his boss!
 
seasideone said:
The 50-year-old, who had overseen a dismal run of just one win in 12 games prior to his exit, told the EFL’s official podcast the sacking was “tough” to take.

“Sometimes it’s best to keep your side in the lower expectancy levels and not get too carried away”
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Well he achieved that 😖
 
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Unfortunately I did. Thought it was a very good appointment. Got it badly wrong.
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Ditto, I was pleased with his appointment. However, the football was dire and let's be honest, baring 2 or 3 teams this division isnt that good. Some of his signings were poor
 
Quite an arrogant piece of work isn’t he? Clearly thought he could serve up any old rubbish and pick up a nice wage for 3 years.
Not really worth picking the bones out of that interview, if he wants to delude himself that’s fine, not our problem anymore.
 
Negative, mundane, boring football. That was why Larry. It always seemed to be that we would go 1 nil up, panic and defend a 1 goal lead for our lives and end up losing. I know there are a couple of games such as Cods at home where we went for it and looked ok, but in the main it was get a one goal lead, sit back, invite pressure and try to see the game out. Crap.
 
"As long as he could see the team was getting better and building and building, that’s all he was looking for. "

The fact is Larry when we were winning it was tripe, so when we were losing and it was still tripe, the writing was on the wall!
 
“Sometimes it’s best to keep your side in the lower expectancy levels and not get too carried away...”

That’s a very telling opinion. Basically SG was happy for mediocrity. Without enthusiasm and that desire to become the best, he really should not be in the game anymore.
 
“Sometimes it’s best to keep your side in the lower expectancy levels and not get too carried away...”

That's what got Tony Parkes sacked!
 
Wasn’t my 1st choice but when announced I thought it was a reasonable solid choice. Sorry Larry but whilst I along with nearly all the other fans were not expecting us to run away with the league in the 1st year we did expect more than what you served-up. Long ball, negative football especially at home was only going to end one way.
 
southshore said:
Tony Parkes wasnt sacked, he was offered an insultingly sh*t contract and turned it down.
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TP did a remarkable job to keep us up after Larry jumped ship at the exact time all the loan army went home. He was then offered a shxt contract, and when he didn't accept, Koko told the world it was because he wanted to spend more time with his poorly wife.
 
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