Up to date Selles poll - in or out?

[Sutekh]

[Millsy]

lol @ a whopping 40% of people here.

[leon]

Fcuk off Selles.

[Snowflake Royal]

So Ruben, about your 10 game performance review. You recall we had a discussion about how performance started promisingly but results must improve?

Could you explain how you think making performances abject and losing the next three games in a row is improving on that?

[Royal_jimmy]

Put Hunt or Bowen in charge until the ownership is sorted out. Selles can go on gardening leave

[NathStPaul]

Judging by his post match interview he knows he is safe, he is saying all the things a manager would say who knows he cannot be sacked.

[Sanguine]

Bindon 0 (0)
Guinness-Walker 28 (19)
Abbey 3 (0)
Azeez 34 (12)
Craig 2 (0)
Ehibhatiomhan 8 (2)

I return to our squad. Those six players above who all started at Charlton, league appearances and (starts) at the beginning of the season. Three of them had never started a league game, ever. The other three, just 33 league starts between them. And you could find fewer starts than that on our entire bench at the weekend.

We've added some useful experience in midfield in Lewis Wing, but you can't carry a comfortable mid-table season on the back of Wing, Harvey Knibbs' experience with Cambridge, and Sam Smith. This squad would be struggling in League Two.

Yes, we have a number of young players without experience of 3rd division football but they are not kids who have only played at Palmer Park or Prospect Park in kids' games.

Abbey for example has played for England at Under 17, 18 and 20 levels.
Bindon has played for USA Under 19s and the New Zealand national side.
Savage debuted for the full Welsh side last week
Mbengue -Senegal Under 23s
Craig-Scotland Under 16s to Under21s
And so on.

The experiences and coaching they have had under international coaches is probably better than they will have had under Ince and Selles at Reading and they have played the game for a number of years so are not football novices even if they are 3rd division novices.

Also our Academy players were those expected to progress to Championship level football and not just Div 1 so we might expect them to be good players even at their current tender ages and able to cope at this lower level.
They are not on their own with Button, Hutch, Wing ,Deane and Knibbs seasoned professionals to form nearly half the team plus the likes of Yiadom, Holmes and McIntyre when fit.

I don't think that it is age nor the system that are the problems it is more that the manager appears unable to get his message across and from the outside there appear to be question marks over his man management ability after the issues with Holmes, NGW and Carroll.

All in all it feels as though this current manager, who has had no success as a number 1 , isn't that good at his job and it is going to take some turnaround to convince the fans and probably both existing and future owners that he is the right man to keep us up this season let alone take us forward.
He may not have had transfer funds but that applies to many at this level however there have been six or seven additions to the playing staff where I guess he would have had some say at least in some of those signings.

Regardless of our current league position and financial constraints there are IMHO still plenty out there who would be confident enough in their own ability to want to take on the role and that might well be sooner than later with November being a favourite month in football for sackings.

It's just coaching. It's not experience of league football, which is vitally important.

I've been wrong about a million things and fwiw I expect Selles to lose his job. I also expect any new manager to get broadly the same results from a squad thoroughly unprepared for this league, or any league.

[The Cap]

Being reported that Selles contract has been terminated with immediate effect.

[Royal_jimmy]

Being reported that Selles contract has been terminated with immediate effect.

GOOD

[MartinRdg]

Being reported that Selles contract has been terminated with immediate effect.

Sauce?

[genome]

Being reported that Selles contract has been terminated with immediate effect.

Sauce?

The Cap

[Winston Biscuit]

has he gone yet?

[windermereROYAL]

Yes I nearly fell for it too.

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[RoyalBlue]

Can we reset the poll again please?

I wanted to give him more time, but having witnessed last night's appalling debacle, I don't think we can afford to wait any longer.

It's OUT from me too now.

[Winston Biscuit]

Can we reset the poll again please?

you want a reset?

[andrew1957]

Can we reset the poll again please?

you want a reset?

I've been warning for years that the great reset would not be a good thing.

[Snowflake Royal]

Has the Charlatan gone yet?

I need to know whether a bet on Pompey is a sure thing.

[Elm Park Kid]

My 'sauce' - who has been 100% accurate so far this season - is telling me that there are currently no plans to sack Selles.

I mean, for one Dai would need to actually be in contact with someone at the club for that to happen!

[Lower West]

I mean, for one Dai would need to actually need to be in contact with someone at the club for that to happen!

Dai has lost interest. You can see why his other football ventures failed and ended in disarray.

[blythspartan]

I reckon we could lose 10-0 at home to Pompey and Selles still wouldn’t be sacked.