Will Ruben Selles ever win another League game?

[Snowflake Royal]

It's a tricky one, but I'm inclined to think, 'no'.

[Brogue]

No

[blythspartan]

No, he’s oxf*rd clueless.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Nope. He's everything most of us thought he would be, and what Saints fans warned us about.

[scumbag]

He’s a oxf*rd cünt

[CountryRoyal]

I’ve been super decisive and gone with maybe. I guess it depends how long the ownership saga goes on for, you’d imagine he’d be be gone within one or max two weeks afterwards.

[Brogue]

Should never have sacked pauno

[Snowflake Royal]

Should never have sacked pauno

We could certainly do with 8 defeats in a row, including a 7-0 thrashing and a humiliating cup defeat.

[Royal_jimmy]

I was never optimistic about this appointment, an inexperienced team with an inexperienced manager who barely knew any of those players was always a massive risk.

Whilst he's quite young, I don't think first team manager is the role for Selles. He's an assistant at best. He doesn't learn from mistakes which if he did I'd have more faith.

[traff]

Could he outlast a Romaine Lettuce?

[Sutekh]

I was never optimistic about this appointment, an inexperienced team with an inexperienced manager who barely knew any of those players was always a massive risk.

Whilst he's quite young, I don't think first team manager is the role for Selles. He's an assistant at best. He doesn't learn from mistakes which if he did I'd have more faith.

He's a coach not a MANager. Nice guy with ideas but naff all experience or understanding in managing a team or gameplan and Reading have been continually saddling themselves with these "problems" since relieving BM the second time. It's like the owner deliberately set out for the club to fail.

[leon]

I was never optimistic about this appointment, an inexperienced team with an inexperienced manager who barely knew any of those players was always a massive risk.

Whilst he's quite young, I don't think first team manager is the role for Selles. He's an assistant at best. He doesn't learn from mistakes which if he did I'd have more faith.

He's a coach not a MANager. Nice guy with ideas but naff all experience or understanding in managing a team or gameplan and Reading have been continually saddling themselves with these "problems" since relieving BM the second time. It's like the owner deliberately set out for the club to fail.

Let's be absolutely honest, inexperienced = cheap

Paying a decent manager who knows what to do costs money.

[under the tin]

I was never optimistic about this appointment, an inexperienced team with an inexperienced manager who barely knew any of those players was always a massive risk.

Whilst he's quite young, I don't think first team manager is the role for Selles. He's an assistant at best. He doesn't learn from mistakes which if he did I'd have more faith.

He's a coach not a MANager. Nice guy with ideas but naff all experience or understanding in managing a team or gameplan and Reading have been continually saddling themselves with these "problems" since relieving BM the second time. It's like the owner deliberately set out for the club to fail.

Let's be absolutely honest, inexperienced = cheap

Paying a decent manager who knows what to do costs money.

The bizarre thing is that throughout this period of decline, the amount of money chucked at the playing assets has grown significantly.
Dai has reputedly put £200M into the club. It's all been spent in the wrong areas.
Expensive players on high wages, conversely punts on unknown managers with little or no track record in English pro football.
Using that logic, Dai reckons that if he bought himself a set of "Ping" clubs, he could beat all the world's top golf pro's

[Snowflake Royal]

He's a coach not a MANager. Nice guy with ideas but naff all experience or understanding in managing a team or gameplan and Reading have been continually saddling themselves with these "problems" since relieving BM the second time. It's like the owner deliberately set out for the club to fail.

Let's be absolutely honest, inexperienced = cheap

Paying a decent manager who knows what to do costs money.

The bizarre thing is that throughout this period of decline, the amount of money chucked at the playing assets has grown significantly.
Dai has reputedly put £200M into the club. It's all been spent in the wrong areas.
Expensive players on high wages, conversely punts on unknown managers with little or no track record in English pro football.
Using that logic, Dai reckons that if he bought himself a set of "Ping" clubs, he could beat all the world's top golf pro's

I reckon the managers have earnt quite a lot too.

Bowen, Clarke, Clement and Selles were all PL coaches and three were PL managers.

Stam was a big name coming from coaching at a top flight European team.

What we've done is massively overpay mediocrity, at best, in the playing, coaching and managing staff.

[karbota]

I was never optimistic about this appointment, an inexperienced team with an inexperienced manager who barely knew any of those players was always a massive risk.

Whilst he's quite young, I don't think first team manager is the role for Selles. He's an assistant at best. He doesn't learn from mistakes which if he did I'd have more faith.

He's a coach not a MANager. Nice guy with ideas but naff all experience or understanding in managing a team or gameplan and Reading have been continually saddling themselves with these "problems" since relieving BM the second time. It's like the owner deliberately set out for the club to fail.

Let's be absolutely honest, inexperienced = cheap

Paying a decent manager who knows what to do costs money.

But above all else, we need a British Manager, Parky, Jimmy Quinn, Mick Gooding, or even give Noel Hunt another go, but he has to be British.

[LUX]

er..................


thicko

[Hound]

Ffs

[morganb]

Playing Devil's advocate here but...

He may have a point (bear with me on this one) -

Footballers are renowned for being a bit thick (stereotyping with a broad brush)

Try explaining something complicated to them in the classic BBC British accent

Now do the same using a broad regional British accent

Which will they understand the easiest?

Same applies to any strong accent (or even where English isn't your first language). Add any additional speach-based complexity and footballers just won't comprehend.

Look at all the best British managers, all perfectly clear to understand without the overhead of a strong accent - take Alex Ferguson for example and compare him to Frank Lampard.

(I'm joking by the way, just trying to understand how being British helps)

[Snowflake Royal]

Playing Devil's advocate here but...

He may have a point (bear with me on this one) -

Footballers are renowned for being a bit thick (stereotyping with a broad brush)

Try explaining something complicated to them in the classic BBC British accent

Now do the same using a broad regional British accent

Which will they understand the easiest?

Same applies to any strong accent (or even where English isn't your first language). Add any additional speach-based complexity and footballers just won't comprehend.

Look at all the best British managers, all perfectly clear to understand without the overhead of a strong accent - take Alex Ferguson for example and compare him to Frank Lampard.

(I'm joking by the way, just trying to understand how being British helps)

The answer to your final query is racism, is howit helps. Pure and simple.

[Stranded]

Selles will see out the season. We will be relegated on 13 pts, picking up just 6 more draws all season.

We will also win the EFL Trophy and be the first 3rd tier side to win the FA Cup.