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Slade interview

hawksmoor
hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
in General Charlton
Forgive me if this has been already posted, but, yeah, it seems he underestimated the task ahead.

standard.co.uk/sport/football/russell-slade-charlton-lacked-leaders-but-now-were-up-for-the-fight-a3310706.html

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  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Says he couldn't get out of the training ground quick enough on his first day.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited August 2016
    hawksmoor said:

    Says he couldn't get out of the training ground because he got stuck in a doorway.

  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,293
    “It is a bigger job than I thought it would be, in terms of where the club is at. You looked at Charlton from the outside and thought they should not be in the position they are in. Then when you come into the club you understand why they were relegated.

    I thought the fella was a bit more clued up. Did he not talk to other people who have been at the club in the last 2 & 1/2 years?

    Failed to do his due diligence and now fighting from within to get what he wants.

    Was life that bad at Cardiff?
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited August 2016
    Good read. Although he could have just said his 2 bosses were absolute cu*ts.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,168
    hawksmoor said:

    Says he couldn't get out of the training ground quick enough on his first day.

    I think he's saying that when he started at the club it was the Players who couldn't get away from the training ground quick enough hence why he created the Code of Conduct there
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,210
    shirty5 said:

    “It is a bigger job than I thought it would be, in terms of where the club is at. You looked at Charlton from the outside and thought they should not be in the position they are in. Then when you come into the club you understand why they were relegated.

    I thought the fella was a bit more clued up. Did he not talk to other people who have been at the club in the last 2 & 1/2 years?

    Failed to do his due diligence and now fighting from within to get what he wants.

    Was life that bad at Cardiff?

    Well, it is in Wales......
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,863
    I don't get why you bring someone like him in and then not back him.

    If they're going to treat him like this they might as well have kept a network no mark.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    ForeverAddickted said:

    hawksmoor said:

    Says he couldn't get out of the training ground quick enough on his first day.

    I think he's saying that when he started at the club it was the Players who couldn't get away from the training ground quick enough hence why he created the Code of Conduct there
    I just re-read it. You're quite right.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,001
    Either he's a complete idiot or he's got some very lucrative severance clauses in his contract, or he just doesn't care if they make him look stupid. Unbelievable that anyone would claim to be surprised by what a shambles we are - maybe he got Mark Clemmit to do his due diligence for him.

    This week's excuse for not having a proper squad in place is:

    "We are short on the recruitment side. In an ideal world you want players in at the start of the season, but after relegation there was always going to be a transitional period."

    That old chestnut, the "transitional period".

    Next week's Charlton transfer rumours - a club insider tips off Rich Cawley that we have 3 big money deals in place, just need to dot the i's and cross the t's on the contracts. The following week all three deals mysteriously fall through and Henk Van Der Schittshow signs on a season-long loan from St Trinians.
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    I guess you can read this two ways. The first is that he has already identified one of the main issues and that is a demotivated, disinterested squad that is not putting the effort in pre-season and hence in it's current form will struggle. additionally we are again threadbare without a big enough squad to enable us to absorb injuries and loss of form.

    Alternatively he is getting his excuses in early so when both the above start to manifest themselves as bad results he can say "I told you there are problems". The main issue is that RD works with his "budget" and again, as with the last two seasons, the manager cannot recruit enough players of the required standard to get success. It's the same old, same old and is bloody depressing.

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,421
    So he likes a bit of poetry?

    Russell... Russell... Russell Slade
    Russell... Russell... Russell Slade
    Russell... Russell... Russell Slade
    What a feckin choice you made...
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,863
    If there's an enforceable code of conduct you can bloody recall Watt for starters
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,555
    So Miere and RD recognised there needed to be change! What they haven't recognised is that it's them that need to be changed. I see also that the four new signings are now expected "this summer" rather than the start of the season!
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Only read the headline...now we are up for the fight....remind me when are we playing Millwall away?
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,387
    Bla bla bla, then the bit that made sense. 3 year contract.

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