Hope I don't sound like I'm gushing or anything but if Barrett decides to call it a day then I hope he becomes part of the coaching staff. The club should put him through his coaching badges as I believe that in the near future it will be in our clubs best interest. He will bring nothing but good to the club IMO.
I think OBL is right. Portsmouth have been rebuffed in their initial attempt to talk to Paul Cook, but Cook is extremely ambitious and he might consider the option of resigning from Chesterfield in order to take the Portsmouth job.
How does that work when Portsmouth are stuck in League 2 and Chesterfield are currently in a League 1 play off position?
How does that work when Portsmouth are stuck in League 2 and Chesterfield are currently in a League 1 play off position?
..so why haven't they done so before?
Overspending .
Few year's ago they were FA cup holders and playing in the prem.
You mean when not if :smile:Promote ok give him a 3 year deal. Fail in play offs 12 month with lucrative promotion and renewal clauses. Don't flame Mrs Blue. I too have changed my views. Ask yourself where Yorkshire Blue is now. Ask again whether the posting behaviour is designed to cover up the fact that YB and Wiggy are the same person, and of the female persuasion. Come on Yorkie, defend the indefensible. Phil and the squad have amazed us all.
The fact that he can leave Prosser out for weeks. Throw him on the bench and into the game without blinking. The fact that he can sub a sub as a tactical move. The fact that he can all this, find time to run, do the media and keep his tan up is impressive stuff.
I'm also not a big fan of RM but he should be given enormous credit for getting us into this position. He has EVERY right to celebrate on the pitch next week if we go up.
How about a massive pay-rise to change clubs ?
Portsmouth can offer the right man sustained championship level or higher backed by big crowds.The new man will have a decent budget with a nice salary for himself,crowds of 15,000 pushing to 20,000 will offer the incentive too.
Whilst I'm not due to eat humble pie because I wasn't amongst those calling for PB's head.................well, only if he failed to get us promoted this season.:smile: I'm completely gobsmacked about what he and the team have achieved this April.
Let's go back to where this all began.............surely that dismal Wednesday March night, in Burton. We managed somehow, embarrassingly, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, after going in to the second-half leading 0-1 and facing ten men. I don't know what was said after that debacle but my God it worked and incredibibly we haven't conceded a goal since! It was as if the Cambridge game was one for reflection, before going on an almost unbelievable run of seven victories in 22 days! You have to really reflect upon those figures to realise the enormity of the task.......and not a goal conceded, to boot!!!
So, even though I don't warm to Phil Brown as I did to Steve Tilson and Paul Sturrock, I'll take his sometimes, somewhat strange team selections and his even stranger substitutions, if he can get us out of this crap division.....and keep us out. Due to his recent exceptional feat, I surprise myself by writing that I would have less objection to him having a new contract even if it does, in the end, all go pear-shaped. Yet, let's not even think of that! Saturday evening, that new contract, which had mysteriously gone missing, will suddenly come to light in Morecambe, of all places......and Phil will sign on the dotted line. That's how all fairy tales end, isn't it? :smile:
Maybe. Apart from that being yet to be proved, it is unlikely one manager will be in charge all tbe way up.
Moreover, surely it would show more ambition to stay with Chesterfield, prove himself at that level, and then move on to a club higher up rather than move down at least one division.
Whilst I'm not due to eat humble pie because I wasn't amongst those calling for PB's head.................well, only if he failed to get us promoted this season.:smile: I'm completely gobsmacked about what he and the team have achieved this April.
Let's go back to where this all began.............surely that dismal Wednesday March night, in Burton. We managed somehow, embarrassingly, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, after going in to the second-half leading 0-1 and facing ten men. I don't know what was said after that debacle but my God it worked and incredibibly we haven't conceded a goal since! It was as if the Cambridge game was one for reflection, before going on an almost unbelievable run of seven victories in 22 days! You have to really reflect upon those figures to realise the enormity of the task.......and not a goal conceded, to boot!!!
So, even though I don't warm to Phil Brown as I did to Steve Tilson and Paul Sturrock, I'll take his sometimes, somewhat strange team selections and his even stranger substitutions, if he can get us out of this crap division.....and keep us out. Due to his recent exceptional feat, I surprise myself by writing that I would have less objection to him having a new contract even if it does, in the end, all go pear-shaped. Yet, let's not even think of that! Saturday evening, that new contract, which had mysteriously gone missing, will suddenly come to light in Morecambe, of all places......and Phil will sign on the dotted line. That's how all fairy tales end, isn't it? :smile:
The strange team selections and subs hasn't really happened since we started this amazing run. Just saying like
Promote ok give him a 3 year deal. Fail in play offs 12 month with lucrative promotion and renewal clauses. Don't flame Mrs Blue. I too have changed my views. Ask yourself where Yorkshire Blue is now. Ask again whether the posting behaviour is designed to cover up the fact that YB and Wiggy are the same person, and of the female persuasion. Come on Yorkie, defend the indefensible. Phil and the squad have amazed us all.
The fact that he can leave Prosser out for weeks. Throw him on the bench and into the game without blinking. The fact that he can sub a sub as a tactical move. The fact that he can all this, find time to run, do the media and keep his tan up is impressive stuff.
I'm also not a big fan of RM but he should be given enormous credit for getting us into this position. He has EVERY right to celebrate on the pitch next week if we go up.