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Post by scfc73 on Jul 5, 2023 9:00:54 GMT
Rebecca Welch was good, but not quite the shampoo advert you suggest; I thought Bobby Madden was the best referee I saw. I,d agree about that. It wasn,t a difficult game for her to control and the best thing she did do on the day was not trying to make it difficult for herself as can happen by looking for stuff that aint there. Easily the best ref I saw last season. Didn't make the game all about her unlike some of her male counterparts. I also felt the players behaved far better than normal i.e. very little rolling about feigning injury, maybe they didn't want to seem mard in front of a woman although the couple of times they did try anything like that early on to her credit she completely ignored it which set the tone for the rest of the game.
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Post by orkneyhatter on Jul 5, 2023 9:14:14 GMT
On the one hand she's apparently been in charge the academy for years so could well be the most experienced member of staff in place to take the caretaker role, and if it were any other club you could leave it there. But it's FGR, the hobby club for Dale Vince, who rides a Ducati one day then does a Just Stop Oil march the next, who uses his company that's propped up on eco-grants to fund his toy well beyond their sustainable level. He's the definition of virtue signalling, and will know full well that tomorrow's press will be lauding the move instead of asking why he's sacked Ferguson shortly after giving him a five-year deal. If this had happened at any other club but them i,d have thought it was a good idea and hoping she,d do well. I,d guess he has some support on here and other places but like you said a virtue signaller and one of the chiefs of that as well. Hope she does OK. OK, he might be virtue signalling but she has experience so may be its a natural step up. Can't understand all the fuss just because she's a woman, same as "the first black/south Asian/etc etc" . The only thing that matters is that the person is appointed on merit. BBC are the worst for this sort of thing. I wish her well as I would anyone taking on a new position. Someone has to be the first. Anyway need some new blood in the management field rather than recycling the usual suspects
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Post by desmond on Jul 5, 2023 9:15:40 GMT
If this had happened at any other club but them i,d have thought it was a good idea and hoping she,d do well. I,d guess he has some support on here and other places but like you said a virtue signaller and one of the chiefs of that as well. Hope she does OK. OK, he might be virtue signalling but she has experience so may be its a natural step up. Can't understand all the fuss just because she's a woman, same as "the first black/south Asian/etc etc" . The only thing that matters is that the person is appointed on merit. BBC are the worst for this sort of thing. I wish her well as I would anyone taking on a new position. Someone has to be the first. Anyway need some new blood in the management field rather than recycling the usual suspects Hope she does awful, not because she’s a woman but because she’s in charge of FGR.
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Post by orkneyhatter on Jul 5, 2023 9:18:03 GMT
Hope she does OK. OK, he might be virtue signalling but she has experience so may be its a natural step up. Can't understand all the fuss just because she's a woman, same as "the first black/south Asian/etc etc" . The only thing that matters is that the person is appointed on merit. BBC are the worst for this sort of thing. I wish her well as I would anyone taking on a new position. Someone has to be the first. Anyway need some new blood in the management field rather than recycling the usual suspects Hope she does awful, not because she’s a woman but because she’s in charge of FGR. and if it was another club?
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Post by scfc73 on Jul 5, 2023 9:21:58 GMT
Big Dunc was supposedly on a 5 year contract at FGR, sacked after 6 months so paying up his contract I would imagine will take a large chunk out of their transfer budget.
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Post by gibbo on Jul 5, 2023 11:34:37 GMT
Good summarisation. However if we sacked dc and appointed Raynes Allen or Turnbull we wouldn't be surprised. I would. On a caretaker basis we wouldn't be surprised if they were appointed.
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Post by Radcliffe Hatter on Jul 5, 2023 12:03:02 GMT
Hope she does awful, not because she’s a woman but because she’s in charge of FGR. and if it was another club? I can't stand FGR as they force fans to eat mung beans and want footballs to be made of wicker. If it was any other club I'd wish her well. No reason a woman can't manage a team as well as a bloke. No one would care if the results come. I suspect that football is about 40-50 years behind most of the normal working world though so any woman going into management would have similar issues to women back then.
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Post by Duncan McOchin on Jul 5, 2023 12:12:13 GMT
Big Dunc was supposedly on a 5 year contract at FGR, sacked after 6 months so paying up his contract I would imagine will take a large chunk out of their transfer budget. Couldn't get along with the DoF over signings, apparently. Now where have I heard that before?
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Post by desmond on Jul 5, 2023 12:26:56 GMT
Hope she does awful, not because she’s a woman but because she’s in charge of FGR. and if it was another club? Well, there’s a couple of other clubs I’d put in the same category but generally speaking I’d wish her well. That ok with you ?
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Post by philtheglass on Jul 5, 2023 12:33:57 GMT
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Post by CB1883 on Jul 5, 2023 13:35:10 GMT
When they say ‘Early rounds played midweek’ do they mean prelims and qualifying rounds?
The magic of the FA Cup is certainly disappearing as the years go by.
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Post by mat1scfc on Jul 5, 2023 13:36:02 GMT
Huh
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Post by mat1scfc on Jul 5, 2023 15:19:15 GMT
More game changers already.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Jul 5, 2023 17:00:23 GMT
Hull are playing Galatasaray away tonight in a pre season friendly...only one way to get there!!
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Post by Philcounty on Jul 5, 2023 17:43:22 GMT
Big signing for Puggy's lot.
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