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I has just heard he has been sacked???
Scouse Mouse
09-11-2009, 17:15
Can't believe I am going to say this, especially about a member of the Ferguson family, but Peterborough Utds loss will be another clubs gain if he has been sacked.
What are the odds that Mr Fry will bounce into the hotseat?
Back of the Net
09-11-2009, 17:17
Shaggy and Paul Mac for the POSH job gets my vote.....
seriously though, massive loss to POSH if he goes at this stage, who else will come in and put up with Fry's nonsense?
Gareth Southgate, champion of the English National Football Team and proud endorser of Bull Boys Shoes!
:lol:
he's let tom williams join qpr on loan today. most assists in the team and mosts defensive assists in the league! he's been out the past 3-4 games and posh have been struggling to score.
i think Darragh has found out he'd been allowed to leave and it was the final straw!! fergie's treatment of some players has also been disgraceful.
fergie has an inability to see the obvious problems and has favourites in the squad who are untouchable. i only think him leaving will be a loss to posh if we end up with a complete clown in charge. he's clearly been out of his depth this season.
He overachieved last year and has only been allowed to bring in more young unproven players. It's hardly a surprise they're struggling.
If he treats the players so badly how come they always play for full 90 minutes even thought there's been little chance of getting anything.
I doubt he'll have any difficulty getting a job and wouldn't be surprised to see CMS, Coutts, Boyd and Mclean follow. As for Tommy, strange decision but first and foremost it's all very well getting assists but he's a defender and Rowe has looked much better in that respect.
oldbloke
10-11-2009, 08:46
as a posh fan of 40 yrs i am not suprised or against the decision! his decisions this season with regards to who takes the blame have been diabolical. MORGAN has been his downfall yet he insists on blaming other defenders! he buys defenders for £ 700,000 and then plays an unfit charlie lee in defence? overall his managerment skills this season have been a joke! hard maybe but our position says it all, mr southgate available?
totally agree oldbloke! i feel really sad as it feels like we've all had great times together over the past couple of seasons but those great times will count for nothing if we crash and burn this season. i think the best man for the job with a consistent track record in this division is iain dowie.
BEZZA1980
10-11-2009, 10:50
Alan Curbishley
i bet some of the players are bricking it now.
they know they won't be getting a game with a new manager.
Glasgow Rangers Champions
10-11-2009, 11:34
its a shame that fergie has gone but unfortunally the buck stops with the manager and he didnt want any so called bigger players and thought he could win things with kids and non league players.
Granted some of them have been fantastic but if the POSH fans are happy with it then it must be the right choice. Steve Coppel, Ian Dowie, Alan Curbishley are all around at the moment as is Alan Shearer so not is if POSH are short on choices and im sure its a job that will have some appeal but 1st things 1st they must break this wage barrier.
Peter Taylor or Steve Coppell for me. Someone who's been there and done it. I am sure that Ferguson will wind-up as Brendan Rodgers' replacement at Reading.
BEZZA1980
10-11-2009, 11:51
Peter Taylor, now thats a shout.
Personally for me think club should have stood by Fergie and russell its to easy to point fingers when things aint going well, the last couple of years (luck or no luck needed) they have been excellent days for posh fans, remember the parade scenes in May when they made the championship. Heard it said before on here but you only have to remember the days when Forinton and Crow were the best we had to offer and St Ledgers/Bleesdales crap on sky. Who were boyd, mclean, mackail-smith, coutts, whelpdale, batt, even lewis to a degree 2/3 seasons ago? They owe a lot to him and the club for taking the gamble with them and they should start showing this potential to keep their side in the league.
Best of luck to darren, he will be another clubs gain if he has gone. You dont know what you got till its gone... we shall see... they need some signings in January for sure.
UP THE POSH
Personally for me think club should have stood by Fergie and russell its to easy to point fingers when things aint going well, the last couple of years (luck or no luck needed) they have been excellent days for posh fans, remember the parade scenes in May when they made the championship. Heard it said before on here but you only have to remember the days when Forinton and Crow were the best we had to offer and St Ledgers/Bleesdales crap on sky. Who were boyd, mclean, mackail-smith, coutts, whelpdale, batt, even lewis to a degree 2/3 seasons ago? They owe a lot to him and the club for taking the gamble with them and they should start showing this potential to keep their side in the league.
Best of luck to darren, he will be another clubs gain if he has gone. You dont know what you got till its gone... we shall see... they need some signings in January for sure.
UP THE POSH
only coutts and batt are fergie signings out of that non league bunch. people need to realise that it was alexander,fry and even macanthony who had deals for the "superstars" in place well before ferguson arrived. coutts, keates(who he has fell out with), zakuani(who he has fell out with), tom williams(who he has fell out with) have been fergusons only real successful signings. and of that little lot only coutts is not among the top earners at the club so his cheap and cheerful policy was quite clearly unsuccessful! add to that anything between 15-30 unsuccessful signings since he has been here it was time to go!!
Wake up and smell the coffee lads, Darren Ferguson is the fall guy, they are trying to paper over the economic cracks at London Road, do you seriously think it would be his decision to keep buying kids, he was a professional footballer for christ sake. He tried to bring in 2 quality players a couple of months ago, 1 went to Celtic and the other to Burnley, both wanted to join Peterborough, both agents wanted them to join Peterborough, so why didn't they??
Tom Williams to QPR? Would Fergie be able to sanction that without Fry and Mcanthony's approval, no he wouldn't.
Why a 24 hour delay to admit he had gone? Cross his palm with silver to keep his mouth shut although I wish one manager would one day say fcuk the money I want everyone to know what is going on, but money talks these days.
He deserved longer, they are not that far off the pace and there's no money for whoever comes in next anyway. We all knew deep down it would end in tears
is that why you have been keeping yourself a free agent Spec?
Tommy Trophy
11-11-2009, 10:05
Can't believe the people who think it was right to get rid of him. 2 succesive promotions with basically same set of players is top drawer and very rare. Club had stretched beyond its ability both on and off pitch and I can guarantee that Darren won't be out of work for too long.
Ever since I moved to Peterborough the goings on at London Road have always been a little unusual and of course you hear all sorts of rumours. There is far more to this than meets the eye and what I suspect it that the outcome of all of this will be that Posh won't be in the Championship next season ans who knows if the whole true financial picture will ever emerge.
I couldn't win anything in the Peterborough Prem Harbs!! Always had a good crowd though....
Tommy, good point, but it always comes out in the end even if we have to wait 20 years for young Ferguson's autobiography!
Have you read the biog "THE BIG FRY" He seems to have spent his whole career around corruption, it will be very interesting to see what is going on behind the scenes.
Eddie Howe being branded about as a possible replacement! What a joke.
oldbloke
11-11-2009, 12:36
respect all opinions but he showed real frailities! loyalty counts for nothing if players dont return it! the lambert fiasco shows real weakness he should have stuck by his guns? if fry really has that much power then fergie is better off elsewhere anyway! always back to the question of why buy or loan players then ignore them? pearce in mind? rose out of position 3 hours after signing? and morgan? well he has made me seriously consider ripping up my season ticket! week in week out a disaster! posh til i die but not with barry fry! it has seroiusly made me lean towards local football on saturdays? 1st time in 40 years.
fergie has been falling out with all the experienced senior members of the squad and their absence during this season has contributed massively to the clubs current position. it seems like father like son and ferguson doesn't like anyone who has a mind of their own and ownly wants "yes men" who are too scared to stick up for themselves!
i have it on good authority and from a number of sources that ferguson and williams actually came to blows on saturday which has a lot to do with both of their depatures.
ferguson has been conducting himself appalingly behind the scenes this season-hence the club statement specifying "not just for football reasons".
on the out side i agree it looks like a ludicrous decision, but with some knowledge on the actual goings on its totally understandable.
jb, if Tom Williams is classed as an experienced member of the squad that says it all, not a bad league 1 player but never cut it with any side in the Championship that's why he kept coming back, Fergie played in the prem was a good championship player as well so he walked the walk.
The bottom line to all of this is that we put the faith in young kids from non league, one out of ten non league players will make a championship player but never all ten, it was a ridiculous gamble made with a small budget that was never going to come off. There is no money at Posh and that is the problem, even the young Manager doesn't want to come now, would rather stay at Bournemouth and they nearly went skint last year.
Glasgow Rangers Champions
11-11-2009, 15:53
well seems there may be more to this story than meets the eye as Barry Fry has come out and said Mr Ferguson has been tapped up by another club.
I wonder if its Hull City. I have been saying this week thats who i reckon who might have had a lil look at him. Guess only time will tell.
i agree spec, i only see one out of work manager that has the credentials to keep us in this division and thats iain dowie. he has a proven track record in this division and league 1 and wouldn't be yet another big gamble as someone like howe would be. maybe howe's not been turned by the relative bright lights of the championship and decided his managerial education would be best served where he is. if that is the reason then fair play to him as too many managers feel the lure to manage higher too great without getting a few years behind him(paul ince anyone?). either that or he's very loyal as he's been at bournmouth for a long time and they've stuck by him when his injury ended his career and gave him his managerial break, or maybe he just didn't fancy the challenge!
mcanthony has said that bournemouth rejected their request to speak to howe
The Bournemouth Chairman also said he told his Manager the situation and gave him permission to talk to Posh out of courtesy, he promptly did and told them he wasn't interested!!
Spec never won anything in Peterborough Prem not becuase he couldn't but because if he had won, he would be director of football at northern star and who would want that job!!!!! haha.
Fergie jr over achieved as did the team unfortunate but that is the way of the world. good luck to him if he already has another job.
Tommy Trophy
13-11-2009, 11:13
Very good Moe, but it would have taken more than a mere single Peterborough Prem title for anyone to have had a shot at ending up in the lofty position that I now occupy.
All of those little trinkets I gathered along the way were the perfect grounding for sitting in a stand at some little dump in Bedfordshire trying to look important while some bloke of 80 tells me about how he started supporting his club before the war and how football has gone downhill since they did away with National Service - not just anyone can do it you know. Good to see Barry Fry giving the Director of Football role such a good name this week with his astonishing performance at the press conference - the man is in a class of his own
Moe, I still miss my Norman Wisdom!! The whole Posh saga is now a complete embarassment, that press conference the other day showed 2 egotistical clowns who haven't got a clue about PR.
Barry Fry slaughtered local businesses a couple of months ago for not supporting Posh financially but you can see why, it's like a bloody circus down there.
Tommy, Wootton wasn't that bad I won a bottle of wine in the raffle!! cost £4 to get in though....
tom flynn
13-11-2009, 15:23
And now they are after Ketterings manager.What a laughing stock PUFC are.:lol:
but they are in the blue square.
thats 3 divs below isnt it?
carefree
14-11-2009, 13:16
i think gazza should get the job.if your going to take the p155 posh do it right.
oldbloke
25-11-2009, 13:12
russell martin gone to norwich on loan new giant centre half from kettering! at least cooperman has spotted the weaknesses! thats a start... cant fault him! dropped morgan as well so all good!
a little birdie tells me the news of the world may be an interesting read on sunday! wikipedia nicola mclean and compare the history of changes to personal info*snk*
14 year old page 3 model? tut tut!
oooops, regardless im still trying to win her im a celeb T shirt that we have up for auction here.
im then going to sleep with it every night.
i'm talking more of the bit that relates to a recently departed ex posh manager! ;)
http://www.kickette.com/nicola-mclean/
what the heck you doing reading websites like that Raph!
you got problems my man!
I didn't look at the rest of the website, just saw the link to a Nicola McLean dodgy photo and remember how much you loved the girl! Only you would look at the rest of the site . . . do some work!
i was trying toil you splashed that rubbish on my screen!
that doesn't actually look anything like nicola mclean.
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