What has Les Reed really done to upset you @newyorksaint ? As your vitriolic outbursts just don’t seem to be because he fucked up a few signings. But I cannot think for the life of me think what they could be.
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Les is a bellend lets be honest.
Yeah, he’s ruined the club.
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I dont think they are vitriolic - but maybe Im wrong. I just know Reed is a bluffer, very similar to Mussalini. I also think he is holding us back. Plus as I’ve said before I saw him undermining Nigel Atkins to Cortese at Anfield. I saw him do the same at Elland Road and I didnt like it. I felt for Nigel then.
So what would you have liked him to have done?
Holding us back how? Does he have the purse strings now or is it the managing director? I thought his job was to identify the personnel required along with the other people on the board for the signing committee and negotiate the contracts not actually hand the cash over from his own pocket.
We won’t know how good or bad Les is for the club until he leaves, but I for one don’t want to risk it on the say-so of a few rumours and general misunderstandings from some fans. My bet is he’s a major part of our recent success - it would be pretty fucking difficult to achieve what we have with an inept director of football cocking things up left right and centre, as some would have us believe.
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I dont understand your point.
Mr Reeds job is simple. Kruger said he is in charge of the football side of the business. When you go into a Cup final with a third choice CB and a Swindon CB and you are a premier league club you have majorly cocked up. End of story
But that was the managers choice he selected the team not Les Reed. There were more qualified personnel available just not intergrated into the team as per the managers requirement. we got what we got.
You cant be serious. Night night
We are constantly reminded that football is a results driven business. How do you think Reed is doing with this in mind newyorksaint?
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Exactly Goaty. Fact is there’s been only two common threads in terms of personnel from League One to where we are now: Kat and Les.
Quite clearly not as well as we could have done had he done his job properly.
However Im sure he will be preening his feathers with the love-in he has with fans.
What’s quite clear. Can i see a list of times where he clearly hasn’t done his job properly?
Thought he had done pretty well myself. Not perfect, but that’s acceptable in an imperfect world.
Who do you suggest replaces him and why?
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I’m sure Les looks at how he can improve and regrets any decisions that don’t work out. Are you looking for perfection nys? I fear you’ll be disappointed. Always.
As for a ‘love-in’? I very rarely think about Les Reed which is how it should be surely? If a signing doesn’t work out everyone will moan, if our new striker hits the ground running we’ll all cheer.
I look at the results and at the moment it would appear that Les Reed is doing a good enough job for us to sit in 10th place having just had a European campaign for the second season running and just missed out on our first major trophy in 40 years.
If Les is shit and we have no hope then what/who is it that you want?
I’m highlighting this one cos it’s going in the end of year Sotonians quiz (prizes tbc). Q. Which poster thinks Les Reed is “very similar” to Mussolini?
Lot of bros will prob guess Barry, so this could be a real Tiebreaker.
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As we are on the subject of the club’s dalliance with Italian dictators, at Wembley I was reminded by Uncle Goat of a story dating back to when we were working at St Mary’s a few seasons ago.
Our then Chairman was a little ‘fussy’ during the refit and there were a few ‘issues’ with him making his fucking mind up on how to spend Kat’s money. One major sticking point came with the plans for the layout of the toilets in the corporate areas. In addition to not liking the red colour scheme: “I donta lika red, it make ita look cheap”, the chairman also had kittens when we showed him where the disabled loo was going.
“What is this? Disabled?”
“That’s the disabled loos.”
“Why?”
“What do you mean, why?”
“Why is a disabled?”
“For disabled people.”
“I donta want it. Is unlucky.”
“Sorry?”
“Is Unlucky. The disabled is unlucky. Is bad luck.”
If only it weren’t for those damned building regs we may have been able to squeeze in a spoon cupboard.
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