Breaking News Paul Brush Dismissed...

[chapperzUK]

The stadium debacle has nothing to do with dwindling support for Ron. And you say people expect too much, but i don't think it's too much too expect the man in charge to actually run the company properly. Can you show me any evidence that this has been done?

Do you not agree we have been severely mismanaged? Is it not obvious, and i mean blatantly obvious we've been ****ed?

I didn't say that the club wasn't mismanaged but I'm just saying that due to the fact that we tasted the success of the league one winning season and the championship season (wins against top clubs and man utd) and maybe Ron got sucked into this aswell. Our expectations have now risen to a level that is possibly unrealistic.

 

[Tilson_Blues]

i have read everything spent quite a while doing so and i cannot condone some supporters agreeing with this are they fans who have only been fans for couple years i really dont understand even contemplating replacing managers in the short term it would pick up maybe and keep us up but tilly and BRUSH were for the long term!!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Well it happened under Jobson where loads boycotted one game (Notts County at home, way back).

What harm could it do?

Ron is ruining our club, if people dont boycott the game saturday, then have a full scale demo against him during the game, banners, the lot!

Man Utd want the Glazers out
Liverpool want their yanks out
we want ron out

Ron is ten times worse than Jobson, and we had demo's mid game to get him out, so what's different?

So your solution to the problem is to boycott the game and hold demos, a course of action that last time produced a result "ten times worse"?

With 12 games to go, I think an injection of new ideas might just come at the right time. However:

1. No official comment from Tilson. Can't believe this has been done with his blessing. If it's been done over his head, he may decide his position is untenable.
2. I've lost confidence in Martin to the point where I'm not convinced this isn't really about money.

If this has been done with Tilson's blessing (I'm not saying it has), would you really expect him to publicly comment (other than to thank him for his hardwork)? I don't think you can read too much into that.

 

[Gremlin]

i have read everything spent quite a while doing so and i cannot condone some supporters agreeing with this are they fans who have only been fans for couple years i really dont understand even contemplating replacing managers in the short term it would pick up maybe and keep us up but tilly and BRUSH were for the long term!!

26 pages and that's the longest sentence thus far. Well done.

 

[Heskey]

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In a way I kind of back this aslong as Tilly stays and someone with Championship experience joins as assistant!

Who does everyone want?

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

Maybe Colchester can loan us an assistant.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

In a way I kind of back this aslong as Tilly stays and someone with Championship experience joins as assistant!

Who does everyone want?

Dougie Freedman?

 

[Lester Bangs]

Maybe Colchester can loan us an assistant.

Made me laugh more than it should. Thanks for that.

 

[Strykr]

bizzare turn of events, cant be arsed to speculate, just read all 26 pages of this thread and my heads spinning, its done now for better or for worse, to put it simply, thanks brushy for being part of some of the best times this club has seen, and good luck.

 

[bazzashrimper]

I think someone was quoted a few years back saying that "if enough people criticise off the manager then nothing will happen, if enough people criticise the chairman the manager will get sacked". It's disappointing, but 3rd bottom and no victory in 11 games, increased critisism of RM - there was a chance he may have sacked someone (despite the impossible situation of the manager & assistants task). Whether home truths were said by Brush - it wouldn't surprise me, but this will have been running through Rons mind for a few weeks.

Anyway, it's a sad day, best of luck Brushy.

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

Damm Ron Martin. I have 2 guinea pigs called Tilly and Brushy. I am now going to have to go and feed Brushy to the dog.

 

[CocklesShrimps&Whiteweed]

Some have speculated that sacking Brushy would be a ploy to get Tilson to walk. Why would RM feel the need to do this? Answers on a postcard please.....

 

[Mad Cyril]

I have always thought Tilly and Brush sounded a bit Sooty and Sweep. If Tilson does get a new assistant can we have someone who makes our management duo sound a bit more Bodie and Doyle?

 

[Manchester Shrimper]

I'm stunned, absolutely stunned. Came in from work late after doing overtime, had tea while watching that quite good C4 doc about David Cameron blissfully unaware that when I went upstairs and turned my PC on I'd find out Brushy had been sacked!!

I can't be bothered to trawl through all 26 pages of this thread so sorry if I'm repeating what others have said but I can only guess that with us dropping into the bottom 4 that RM had to be seen to be doing something. He obviously couldn't sack Tilly at this point but wanted to be seen to be doing something drastic so Brush was the fall-guy.

Nothing in the OS statement said anything about their being a rift between T&B so I think that conspiracy theory's a non-starter. I just can't believe it. I know it's the done thing in football for heads to roll when teams hit a poor run of form but I always thought we were above that.

Tilson and Brush are responsible for the success we've had over the last six years not Martin. All this rubbish about spirals...the reason for the downward spiral on the pitch is because the management have not been backed financially by the board- it's been over a year since we actually bought a player. How exactly is sacking our assistant manager going to start us on an upward spiral? Does the property developer know what we need to improve the way we play football? Won't this just unsettle the team more?

So long Brush. We'll be eternally in your debt for your contribution over the last few years. All the best in whatever you decide to do next and if that does happen to be football management, I hope you get the Chairman you deserve!!

 

[Richard_Cadette]

Some have speculated that sacking Brushy would be a ploy to get Tilson to walk. Why would RM feel the need to do this? Answers on a postcard please.....

Not beyond the realms of possibility - I guess it depends on how deep Tilly's loyalty is to Brushy. That said, Tilly has a wife and kids to look after, and no doubt, a mortgage, so by walking away himself, what would he achieve? He is certainly no gimme to walk straight into another job right now - his reputation at the moment would almost certainly have been tarnished.

Does Ron want rid? Maybe - If he sacks Tilly, he must know the backlash that would cause amongst the fans, and probably, the playing staff. Again though, to counter that, Ron strikes me as a man that doesn't care too much what others think if he feels it's the right decision to be made.

Maybe, however, it's just that someone has to carry the can for our current plight. I'm not saying it has to be Brushy, i'm not saying it has to be Tilly, but can we really afford to carry on as we are without changing something? It is easy to put all of this on our financial situation - and that is no doubt a huge factor - but can our continued inability to defend properly really be put on a lack of money? No, of course it can't - some things are won and lost on the training ground, and that is one area in particular which we keep getting wrong - who is responsible for training?

Maybe I'm going to get shot down for this, but let's look at Bournemouth - They are in even worse financial state than us, and they are 2nd in League Two with a real chance of promotion this season. I suspect they did not feel sorry for themselves, and let it affect them, they used it as a positive, and something to galvanise them as a unit - why are we not doing that? I hold Ron responsible for a lot of what is going wrong with our club, and think the way it is being run is creating more questions than answers, but he is right in one thing he says - our current playing staff should be good enough to keep us up - and they should.

 

[Ron Manager]

Pages upon pages of this thread...what news to wake up to!

I'm sure all the why's and wherefore's have been gone over several times already so I'll say just one thing - if I were a betting man I'd lay good money on Steve Tilson not being our manager next season. There will be another job come up and I think he'll take it.

 

[Beefy]

Bournemouth have more than one centre-half on the books.

We'd defend a lot better if we were able to have some consistency at the back, which with the constant rotation of loanees we've not been able to get. How many times have we been able to name the same back four for three games running?

 

[McNasty]

Cost-cutting exercise ? One less to pay ( or owe ) and about as much chance of being paid off as not a lot.

 

[Sean 2]

Last time we were down the bottom of the division Tilly and Brush got new contracts.
What's changed?

Good luck Paul and well done mate, you've given your all to SUFC for a while now.

 

[Steveshrimper]

looking forward to the sponsors evening tomorrow night now if there will be anyone there lol