Michael Appleton - March 2025 appointed Shrewsbury manager (p124)

ct_addick said:

CH4RLTON said:

It really feels like there is absolutely no way back from here for Appleton regardless of the next few results, can anyone think of any occasions where manager as been at this point so close to the brink then managed to turn it around and go to have success? 

Fergie almost got fired in his first season at Man Utd

He’d actually achieved something prior to being Utd manager mind.

No info but I’m guessing that we’ll have Appleton in place now for at least the rest of this season. Anything other than that is just going to add to the fiasco. 

ShootersHillGuru said:

No info but I’m guessing that we’ll have Appleton in place now for at least the rest of this season. Anything other than that is just going to add to the fiasco. 

i'm still convinced he'll be gone before the weekend.

swordfish said:

If one assumes 3 points for a win across all his 453 games in management so far, then according to Wiki his record is 1.39 points per game, which would leave us on 64 points over 46 games. Nothing special but NOT a serial loser as some insist. He's still won more games than he's lost. Fact. 

I'm not saying he should continue with us because I don't, but I can't understand why some still feel the need to rewrite the record books when all that matters is his record with us.

It's always been the case that the fans on here don't like him. That is not based on the facts that you quite rightly point out Swordfish. Chunes has stated it's nothing personal, well best we look back to how many times Appleton's pic appeared on here with the usual derogatory comment, every time our managerial vacancy was up for grabs. He's not liked by the fans, it is personal, but for the good of the club and himself it's probably best we part company. 

Chunes said:

swordfish said:

Chunes said:

FishCostaFortune said:

Chunes said:

I just want to confirm again, nobody on this entire site has seen any personal abuse of MA anywhere? Because not even MA himself had seen it. He said someone told him about it. And then he proceeded to offer these apparently imaginary people out. 

- I would say referring to how someone looks would definitely count as personal abuse.

- Maybe it’s just me, but someone saying, ‘they wouldn’t say it to my face’ (which is true for the most part) really is not offering someone out.

We arguably have one of the most family oriented, nicest fanbases in the country and for me the comment and subsequent damnation were unneeded. Every public figurehead, particularly of such a failing ship as ours, is going to get comments in 2024 and something about tattoos or whatnot hardly warrants a "say it to my face" in a press conference. 

Describing someone as a useless piece of shit is downright offensive. You wouldn't take exception to someone saying that to your face then? Well they wouldn't would they? and that's the point he was making. Fair comment in my opinion.

Someone on here even said he probably got beaten up or picked on as a kid, or words to that effect, in a ridiculous half baked attempt to psycho analyse his character now. Some of it seems absurd, unnecessary and OTT, but I guess what one finds crosses a line another doesn't.

But if people genuinely find this offensive, then why is it never challenged at the time.

I have never seen someone on here, when a poster has said "MA is a useless prick" say in reply: "That's offensive / out of order" etc. 

All other offensive behaviour is challenged on this forum?

Exactly. Look, I think we spend enough time arguing as it is on here without challenging everything we don't like to see. I only commented on it now because MA's comments seem to have caused some to feel, well not threatened as such, but certainly affronted.

TeeC said:

Todds_right_hook said:

TeeC said:

Airman Brown said:

Callumcafc said:

Fortune 82nd Minute said:

Callumcafc said:

DDOUBLEE said:

Michael Appleton being compared with SAF 😂😂😂 absolutely seen it all now 

Almost 15 years ago, there was a manager in League One who went on a run of 2 wins in 19 games. He was almost sacked by his club but he hung on to his job and the following season he got his team promoted as champions.

His name is Chris Powell.

Is that a more satisfactory answer?

Sorry but that is nonsense.

No-one as far as I am aware ever said Powells role at the club was in danger when he was first appointed. 

Wasn't it accepted that he was just going to see that season out and make a decision on who he would keep? (And it didn't take him long to work out not many were worth keeping!)

Fairly sure Airman’s been on here in the past and said that Jimenez had to be talked out of sacking him…

Powell did win his first four games, which is context, as is that awful 2010/11 squad. He was certainly at risk in the spring of 2011.

MA only lost 2 of his first 16

How many did he win?

how did the next 10 go? 

Don’t know mate - look it up. Making the point that he had a reasonable start and a poor period after it, like Powell.

I’d take Powell back in a heartbeat - just not buying the ‘clueless’ narrative about MA and still hoping he somehow turns it around. 

The difference is that most people called this when he was appointed

Bailey said:

Chunes said:

swordfish said:

Chunes said:

FishCostaFortune said:

Chunes said:

I just want to confirm again, nobody on this entire site has seen any personal abuse of MA anywhere? Because not even MA himself had seen it. He said someone told him about it. And then he proceeded to offer these apparently imaginary people out. 

- I would say referring to how someone looks would definitely count as personal abuse.

- Maybe it’s just me, but someone saying, ‘they wouldn’t say it to my face’ (which is true for the most part) really is not offering someone out.

We arguably have one of the most family oriented, nicest fanbases in the country and for me the comment and subsequent damnation were unneeded. Every public figurehead, particularly of such a failing ship as ours, is going to get comments in 2024 and something about tattoos or whatnot hardly warrants a "say it to my face" in a press conference. 

Describing someone as a useless piece of shit is downright offensive. You wouldn't take exception to someone saying that to your face then? Well they wouldn't would they? and that's the point he was making. Fair comment in my opinion.

Someone on here even said he probably got beaten up or picked on as a kid, or words to that effect, in a ridiculous half baked attempt to psycho analyse his character now. Some of it seems absurd, unnecessary and OTT, but I guess what one finds crosses a line another doesn't.

But if people genuinely find this offensive, then why is it never challenged at the time.

I have never seen someone on here, when a poster has said "MA is a useless prick" say in reply: "That's offensive / out of order" etc. 

All other offensive behaviour is challenged on this forum?

It probably wasn't challenged because the good majority on here don't like him, it has nothing to do with his ability or his record, I'd like a pound for every time his pic appeared on here before he even got anywhere near the club.

I think that's true. And I think another reason it's not challenged is that everyone knows, this is just how people talk about football and it's how they've always talked about football. So why challenge that? Calling someone a useless prick isn't actually meant personally any more than calling them a donkey is meant literally. 

Having watched MA's pre-match interview I was struck by how calm and measured he was, which is in sharp contrast to the panicked and depressive sentiments that appear to be infesting this board. Even the journos who were interviewing him came across as jittery and nervous. And yet he came across as an oasis of calm in the eye of the storm. It's like looking at parallel universes. I find the difference between the two utterly comical.

With all the negativity around, i think we're nailed on to win tonight!!!

Gravesend_Addick said:

With all the negativity around, i think we're nailed on to win tonight!!!

A 6 - 0 romping followed by the covered end chanting ‘Michael Appletons Black and White Tattoo’s’ as he does the tunnel jump. 

Tony Webster Shed - What crisis? For me a crisis is being cut adrift at the bottom of the table, 10 points from safety. I've seen 6 relegation sides over the decades of watching Charlton. All of them had the kiss of death about them. This side doesn't even come close and I'm confident that once the new players are fully integrated into the team that this will turn around and sharply. It may even start this evening. 

DONVANVLIET said:

Tony Webster Shed - What crisis? For me a crisis is being cut adrift at the bottom of the table, 10 points from safety. I've seen 6 relegation sides over the decades of watching Charlton. All of them had the kiss of death about them. This side doesn't even come close and I'm confident that once the new players are fully integrated into the team that this will turn around and sharply. It may even start this evening. 

Did you see the Burton game?

We were absolutely dire in the second half and the display in that half had relegation written all over it.

StanTheMan said:

Top stats from Robroy, you cannot hide behind them, can you???

Some will

valleynick66 said:

fenaddick said:

Chunes said:

I just want to confirm again, nobody on this entire site has seen any personal abuse of MA anywhere? Because not even MA himself had seen it. He said someone told him about it. And then he proceeded to offer these apparently imaginary people out. 

There have definitely been comments about his tattoos and how he looks. There haven't been many though.

In life generally we are all (and I do mean all) judged by how we look / behave/ what we say. 

If anyone chooses for their own reasons to go outside of what most perceive to be the ‘norms’ it’s going to provoke comment sometimes. 

It is what it is and the individual can’t be surprised if it is sometimes commented on. 

Not sure going to the gym, having tattoos and shaving your head is outside the norms anymore mate

TonyWebstersShed said: 

DONVANVLIET said:

Having watched MA's pre-match interview I was struck by how calm and measured he was, which is in sharp contrast to the panicked and depressive sentiments that appear to be infesting this board. Even the journos who were interviewing him came across as jittery and nervous. And yet he came across as an oasis of calm in the eye of the storm. It's like looking at parallel universes. I find the difference between the two utterly comical.

If you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs, you clearly don't understand how big a crisis you're in

MA after today’s game: https://youtu.be/1TPVtl6Xoew?si=dMfyLh-0Yx9GYOGe