Hunts gone

[hughsies no.1]

Shame to see him go but ultimately the job felt too big for him. Club legend status strengthened if anything by taking over during the mess last season.

Chants on Saturday were awful, writing was on the wall for him - embarrassed for those that were chanting it.

Next manager.

95% convinced it’ll be Bloomfield with Wycombe connection and no compensation payment needed. He’s inherited very strong sides at Wycombe and Luton and done nothing of note at both in my opinion. Will of course back him if he gets it but wouldn’t be my pick.

Gary O’Neil, Luke Williams, Tony Mowbray and very unrealistic Carrick would be my freebie picks.

If we were to pay a fee (which just wouldn’t happen imo) I’d look at Wellens,

[Stranded]

As I said at the time of his appointment, the only thing it guaranteed was that Hunt would leave the club sooner rather than later - I would have hoped because he was poached due to good performance, but a sacking was always more likely - it always is in football.

I think the fact that portions of the crowd vocally turned at the weekend did for him as 4 points from 2 home games is a funny time to fire someone but it was probably overall about the right time to make a change that was very likely to happen at some point.

This is a big appointment now, arguably the clubs first where the owners have a relatively free choice since Paunovic?

[Mid Sussex Royal]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

[Hound]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

Embarrassing and well off the mark

[Snowflake Royal]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

Bloomfield or Ainsworth analysis header. Followed by almost zero mention or analysis of either and a the sort of final paragraph you'd expect from a petulent 12 year old on twitter. Classic Dellor.

I really don't miss listening to the useless pcunt

[leon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

Embarrassing and well off the mark

Yeah he's completely misread the room there and just looks like Noel Hunt's mate. Not his finest journalistic hour.

[Forbury Lion]

Very good statement rather than the usual 6 liner clubs issue. Nothing about the 2 coaches though...they're just as responsible for what goes on on the pitch.

I guess there's no point releasing the other coaches until the new manager comes in because they may actually rate them and want to keep them, plus you need some coaches to keep things ticking over in the meantime, maybe even to act as caretaker manager if the next appointment is going to take a few games.

[Forbury Lion]

From an investor/chairman point of view, Hunt is a relative unknown. If they had a proven experienced manager getting the same results then they might be more inclined to believe the manager was not the issue. They might also have more confidence in their ability to turn things around.
There is some logic in getting a proven experienced manager in to remove that unknown.

Obviously wanted Noel to do well as I do with every Reading manager, but I assume he got his contract paid up and hope he has a nice break before finding his next position.

[RoyalBlue]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

Embarrassing and well off the mark

Yeah he's completely misread the room there and just looks like Noel Hunt's mate. Not his finest journalistic hour.

If he ever needs to find work outside journalism, I would suggest he steers well clear of bridge construction!

Can't see him being invited by the owners for a friendly chat over coffee any time soon.

[leon]

Embarrassing and well off the mark

Yeah he's completely misread the room there and just looks like Noel Hunt's mate. Not his finest journalistic hour.

If he ever needs to find work outside journalism, I would suggest he steers well clear of bridge construction!

Can't see him being invited by the owners for a friendly chat over coffee any time soon.

It doesn't serve RFC fans well at all for the link into the club to alienate himself from the owners and senior management by being a petulant twat.

[Brogue]

dellor has never done an interview with couhig. he will only talk to Lewis Coombes of bbc south today. He burnt his bridges slagging him off during the takeover saga. So really he has nothing to lose in slagging them off now. its actually quite refreshing for him to say it as it is. by that i mean the stuff about Wycombe. the hunt stuff he's wide of the mark. but the wycombe stuff he's bang on. the sooner couhig and his wycombe buddies fcuk off the better. they are the reason this season has gone to shit. poor recruitment and late recruitment oxf*rd noel over. I dont think noel was ever going to take us to the next level, but we wouldn't be where we are at the moment if couhig and JJ hadnt fcuked around so much in the transfer window, penny pinching and leaving far too late in the window to bring anyone in.

[royal67]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

Embarrassing and well off the mark

^^ This.. ^^ Dellor really seems to have had his nose put out of joint by this. The last paragraph is really weird to put into the public domain, perhaps he was having a little tantrum when he wrote it?

[Hound]

dellor has never done an interview with couhig. he will only talk to Lewis Coombes of bbc south today. He burnt his bridges slagging him off during the takeover saga. So really he has nothing to lose in slagging them off now. its actually quite refreshing for him to say it as it is. by that i mean the stuff about Wycombe. the hunt stuff he's wide of the mark. but the wycombe stuff he's bang on. the sooner couhig and his wycombe buddies fcuk off the better. they are the reason this season has gone to shit. poor recruitment and late recruitment oxf*rd noel over. I dont think noel was ever going to take us to the next level, but we wouldn't be where we are at the moment if couhig and JJ hadnt fcuked around so much in the transfer window, penny pinching and leaving far too late in the window to bring anyone in.

I’ve no real issues with them bringing in people they know and trust. That pretty much happens at every company or club

Agree the recruitment was a mess though, Hunt should take some responsibility as well though. Never seemed to be a clear plan. I don’t think we were ever intending bringing in Marriott, Williams and maybe Ritchie. Signed because other signings weren’t good enough.

Doyle was then back up plan for Knibbs leaving but they aren’t similar. MoM and Jacob signed because we could and S Hunts clients . Academy players offered contracts and then never played

All a bit of a mess

[RoyalBlue]

Yeah he's completely misread the room there and just looks like Noel Hunt's mate. Not his finest journalistic hour.

If he ever needs to find work outside journalism, I would suggest he steers well clear of bridge construction!

Can't see him being invited by the owners for a friendly chat over coffee any time soon.

It doesn't serve RFC fans well at all for the link into the club to alienate himself from the owners and senior management by being a petulant twat.

Agreed, We end up having to rely completely on in-house reporting which, for understandable reasons, can be a little bland.

[South Coast Royal]

Shame to see him go but ultimately the job felt too big for him. Club legend status strengthened if anything by taking over during the mess last season.

Chants on Saturday were awful, writing was on the wall for him - embarrassed for those that were chanting it.

Next manager.

95% convinced it’ll be Bloomfield with Wycombe connection and no compensation payment needed. He’s inherited very strong sides at Wycombe and Luton and done nothing of note at both in my opinion. Will of course back him if he gets it but wouldn’t be my pick.

Gary O’Neil, Luke Williams, Tony Mowbray and very unrealistic Carrick would be my freebie picks.

If we were to pay a fee (which just wouldn’t happen imo) I’d look at Wellens,

Agree on all counts.
This morning I was wondering if O'Neill would come.
He has spent quite a bit of his time in football down South including at Portsmouth and Bournemouth and Liverpool thought he was good enough to be their U21 coach.

I often wanted him here as a player and I think there were times when such a transfer was close.

For all the conjecture I agree that the most likely is Bloomfield with the past connection to both the owner and Jacobsen and managing Luton does appear from the outside to be a difficult job-that has been his "failure" but on the plus side he did get Wycombe up to serious contention for promotion.

[Mr Angry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

That final paragraph is beyond cringe; I cannot believe that, re-reading it, Dellor isn't thoroughly embarrassed by his words.

[RoyalBlue]

dellor has never done an interview with couhig. he will only talk to Lewis Coombes of bbc south today. He burnt his bridges slagging him off during the takeover saga. So really he has nothing to lose in slagging them off now. .

He could be the bigger man and, as a local BBC journalist, probably should. Rather than continuing to slag them off, apologise for some of what was said during the takeover period, which was clearly the result of his passion and love for the club.

[Lower West]

Football has become a soulless money driven business. The club's investors just want a return on their money. Building something takes time. Multiple transfer windows to achieve the right blend and create stablity. A constant revolving door of managers rarely brings success.

[South Coast Royal]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2l0m355k3o

Dellor's take on things - has a real problem with the new owners and the last paragraph is childish.

That final paragraph is beyond cringe; I cannot believe that, re-reading it, Dellor isn't thoroughly embarrassed by his words.

Yeah, up until then a fair statement of events.

What I don't get is all this stuff about Hunt being a legend-Gilksey was a legend, Parky was a legend, Beavon was a legend, Hunt isn't.
From some of the comments around one would think that Hunt was a Sunday League type manager who volunteered to do a job without pay when in fact he was promoted from a lesser job and presumably jumped at the chance-who wouldn't?.

He was given a contract for two and a half years presumably for a considerable increase on his salary and now he will get a significant sum as a pay-off for his contract cancellation so although there is sympathy for anyone losing their job the money is quite handy and gives him time to get another coaching job here or in Ireland.

We do seem to go in for "nice guys" as managers but maybe it is time to look at somebody who is not quite so "nice" but knows how to manage a football club and has a few better ideas than belting the ball long and hoping for knockdowns.

BTW we all feel that the football industry is crazy in how it is run and , apart from Forest Green, it is very much hire and fire them when it comes to managers with Reading being no different than most of the rest.

Also at this level, unless big money is provided ,such as with Birmingham last year and us and in our Pardew days, a manager has to scrape around replacing good players that are sold with a bunch of new ones, often at no cost and with poor injury records.
It worked ok a couple of years ago for us but this time around it hasn't whereas with teams like Stevenage and Bolton with similar turnarounds it appears to be working.

I do expect the next well paid manager with a guaranteed income for a couple of years to be in place before the Carlisle game and signs seem to point to Bloomfield.

[leon]

Football has become a soulless money driven business. The club's investors just want a return on their money. Building something takes time. Multiple transfer windows to achieve the right blend and create stablity. A constant revolving door of managers rarely brings success.

Or it has become such a low margin and high cost business in the lower leagues due to wage inflation in the premier league (and elsewhere) that investors/owners are extremely risk averse. Let's be honest RFC can't afford any more financial mistakes with the EFL.