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Speed Steps Down From Coaching Role

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Therefore nobody will disagree with LSL for dropping them.

 

correct

 

however

 

what bothers me most is the length of time it's taken to drop them

 

why did it take Lee so long, was he scared of dropping them in case of a reaction like this, only for his hand to be forced with them going behind his back?

 

either or, he's lost control, which is a shame because when he finally had the balls to do it his way with his players, we played well

agreed totally, shame its taken so long deffo.

a reaction like this rarely ends up with everyone happy, so will be interesting to see the outcome over next few days.

if it is a case of so called senior players whispering and calling "union meetings" behind LSL's back then i would just fcuk them off anyway, can;t be doing with all that crap, and this is definately where gartside has to earn his corn as was mentioned earlier.

correct

 

however

 

what bothers me most is the length of time it's taken to drop them

 

why did it take Lee so long, was he scared of dropping them in case of a reaction like this, only for his hand to be forced with them going behind his back?

 

either or, he's lost control, which is a shame because when he finally had the balls to do it his way with his players, we played well

 

 

it might be like one of them american family movies now he shown he has osme balls the whole team rally round and we win the league beating united of manchester in over-time of the paly off finals.

 

(in the sequel we win the world cup and discover oil........texas tea)

it might be like one of them american family movies now he shown he has osme balls the whole team rally round and we win the league beating united of manchester in over-time of the paly off finals.

 

(in the sequel we win the world cup and discover oil........texas tea)

 

And Dioufy recovers from his life threatening cancer illness to score the winner in the cup final - made even more remarkable by the fact he now only has one leg.

And Dioufy recovers from his life threatening cancer illness to score the winner in the cup final - made even more remarkable by the fact he now only has one leg.

 

not forgetting sammy lee's nippers get to keep the talking dog they found lying injured and dying whilst they were playing in the woods!

not forgetting sammy lee's nippers get to keep the talking dog they found lying injured and dying whilst they were playing in the woods!

 

your getting silly now i was buying it until the talking dog!!

your getting silly now i was buying it until the talking dog!!

:-k

 

sorry i think i may have wseen too many soppy disney family films.

i was going to say the match is also shown first on match of the day....

i was going to say the match is also shown first on match of the day....

and all tickets are a tenner? and the yoof are all singing, all dancing performers

Welcome back to gallows humour .......

:drinks:

Sammy Lee " Nolan and Speed you are dropped for being fooking shite all season"

That is all he needs to say.

Worrying article in the Guardian today, if it's true...

 

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2189221,00.html

 

Isolated Lee left looking over his shoulder as Speed gives up coaching duties at Bolton

 

 

Daniel Taylor

Friday October 12, 2007

The Guardian

 

Sammy Lee's position at Bolton Wanderers was looking increasingly fragile last night as the club's board contemplated the repercussions of his falling-out with Gary Speed. Phil Gartside, the Bolton chairman, was deeply unimpressed that Lee had alienated a consummate professional such as Speed and that concern was shared by the club's owner, Eddie Davies.

 

Speed relinquished his duties as first-team coach yesterday after a series of arguments culminated in him being left out of the squad, along with the captain Kevin Nolan, for Sunday's 1-0 defeat against Chelsea. Lee is now facing something approaching mutiny among his players, many of whom sympathise with Speed, and Nolan, and have expressed their concerns to an exasperated Gartside. The chairman in turn has spoken to Davies about how much longer they should give a manager who has taken only five points from nine Premier League games.

 

Everyone associated with Bolton is entitled to fear the worst in their next game, against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium tomorrow week, but Gartside is looking to the game against Aston Villa on October 28 as the one to determine whether Lee is sacked.

 

Lee can hardly complain after winning only one league game since replacing Sam Allardyce towards the end of last season. The feeling within the dressing room is that he had begun to see Speed as a "threat". Sources close to the midfielder have gone as far as calling Lee "insecure and paranoid".

 

Speed had recently agreed, but not signed, a new contract which would have made him assistant manager, but he has been sceptical about Lee ever since the manager's appointment. Although Bolton claimed, somewhat disingenuously, that Speed had been "relieved of his coaching responsibilities", the decision was very much his own, in protest at Lee's management. "I decided it wasn't working out," he said. "It is up to me now to work hard, get back in the team and give 100%, as I always do."

 

Increasingly flustered in interviews and sensitive to any form of criticism, Lee is upset by several leaks from inside the club, describing them as "malignant rumours emanating from the dressingroom". One story is of senior players refusing to do interviews after the defeat to Birmingham City last month because they did not want to offer Lee their backing.

 

"Who are these people?" Lee demanded to know last night. "It's time for these 'senior sources' to stand up and be counted. I know it's not everybody, but I'd like those one or two to come and knock on my door."

 

He added: "I hear things about my methods but I've been with these lads for two years and I've been at the FA and with Liverpool. All I'm trying to do is make sure we can compete on all fronts. It's bitterly disappointing these things are leaking out. People are trying to undermine what we are trying to do."

how does the writer know gartside was unimpressed?

 

how does the writer know the villa game could be his last?

 

i dont see a quote from gartside? he doesnt even say he's spoke to gartside...

 

why do people read this shite and take it as fact???

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