Jimmy Thelin

[BigAl]

1 hour ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Obviously it's just hypothesising but it's perhaps worth a conversation while I wait for my supper to appear.

It's my opinion that we'd be in a far better place now if we'd just kept Thelin in situ until the end of the season rather than replacing him with that hun fud Leven.

Anyone in the mood to profer up their own opinion?

Said this repeatedly to anyone that would listen at the game on Saturday night.

Didn't think it possible at the time but we have regressed in the past two months 

[DantheDon]

I don’t believe that we would be fearing relegation as we are now if we had kept Thelin. But at the same time based on Levens record last time out I expected us to be fine under him. It is much more professional to sack the manager before you start talking to other candidates, It’s just unfortunate that our preferred candidate appears to be unavailable till the summer. It’s easy to say we need someone now, but would we be happy if it was John McGlynn? 

[Potterologist]

Spoke to the agent of one of the Scandinavian players and came here to tell a quote you might find interesting:

"Jimmy was the scapegoat. The players, not only [his client], felt they had let the manager down. After that title they won and all the European travelling... they were tired. Only weeks before Jimmy was sacked, [client] said he was worried about it because any energy they had left they got from him. He knew that players who aren't used to winning titles and going to Europe are hard to energise and he did what he could. The players knew it. The new guy is an angry one. The players can't breathe. They need support and motivation, not blame and worries. [The client] is fine, managers come and go at most clubs and he has seen too much of it to really care, but he thinks they are in trouble as a team. You know that when players and staff no longer speaks in terms of "difficult" but only terms of "bad"."

[RicoS321]

6 minutes ago, Potterologist said:

Spoke to the agent of one of the Scandinavian players and came here to tell a quote you might find interesting:

"Jimmy was the scapegoat. The players, not only [his client], felt they had let the manager down. After that title they won and all the European travelling... they were tired. Only weeks before Jimmy was sacked, [client] said he was worried about it because any energy they had left they got from him. He knew that players who aren't used to winning titles and going to Europe are hard to energise and he did what he could. The players knew it. The new guy is an angry one. The players can't breathe. They need support and motivation, not blame and worries. [The client] is fine, managers come and go at most clubs and he has seen too much of it to really care, but he thinks they are in trouble as a team. You know that when players and staff no longer speaks in terms of "difficult" but only terms of "bad"."

Nilsen is the only one erudite enough for such an opinion. 

[wee toon red]

Surely “the new guy” can’t be Robinson and would have to be Leven,  Robinson hasn’t known the players long enough for such a specific complaint.

[RicoS321]

5 minutes ago, wee toon red said:

Surely “the new guy” can’t be Robinson and would have to be Leven,  Robinson hasn’t known the players long enough for such a specific complaint.

It's fairly obvious that Robinson is a very angry man.

[Potterologist]

2 minutes ago, wee toon red said:

Surely “the new guy” can’t be Robinson and would have to be Leven,  Robinson hasn’t known the players long enough for such a specific complaint.

Yes, this is referring to Leven. Left some dull parts of the larger context out and didnt realise it became a bit vague. We did not talk about the latest beyond "they brought in a new one now, maybe things get better."

[Potterologist]

1 minute ago, RicoS321 said:

It's fairly obvious that Robinson is a very angry man.

Possible - I personally know very little about Scottish football. But Peter Leven was the one the agent meant. No idea what the players think of the Robinson guy but I can ask next time we speak.

[wee toon red]

2 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

It's fairly obvious that Robinson is a very angry man.

That’s just cos of his accent though. Even when they’re being nice they sound angry. But like Germans.