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[tamig]

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Cannot understand the fixation with JC as a manager of HFC
It's a fact (from all the reliable sources) that he did/does not have the man management skills to manage a top class football club.
I personally know this from people who had to work with/for him

Draw a line under it if you want to. Up to you. However, as a matter of interest, are these people you know who worked with/for him what you might term some of the "more experienced pros"? Because I know for a fact that a lot of the younger guys loved working with/for JC.

[tamig]

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72,73 & 74 I think, haven't looked it up tho.

All the way through to the 79-80 relegation season.

[millarco]

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Draw a line under it if you want to. Up to you. However, as a matter of interest, are these people you know who worked with/for him what you might term some of the "more experienced pros"? Because I know for a fact that a lot of the younger guys loved working with/for JC.

The likes of Morais, Curier, Hogg, Stevenson, McCann and Benji have all talked about Collins being an excellent man-manager. Fact.

[alex74]

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All the way through to the 79-80 relegation season.

was turnbull the manager when we got relagated

[jane_says]

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Since when were we in a position to complain about winning a single cup and missing out on a double?

I think Mowbray blew the best chances of winning a Scottish cup by the way. If he'd not got us pumped 4-0 by the Pink Ones we'd have had a Gretna final.

think he blew it more when we were beating a bottom of the table dundee united with less than 20 minutes to go in the semi 2005

[California-Hibs]

So come on whats happening? I'm really wanting Clarke in as manager now with Stark assistant, i think we will really kick on with these two appointments. It would be a total breath of fresh air aswel! I'm at the stage that i'll be dissappointed if its anyone else who has been linked accept them now!

[orourke]

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Draw a line under it if you want to. Up to you. However, as a matter of interest, are these people you know who worked with/for him what you might term some of the "more experienced pros"? Because I know for a fact that a lot of the younger guys loved working with/for JC.

Rodders will certainly not be talking to JC this week as JC is in Monaco on a weeks holiday !!

[FranckSuzy]

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Anybody else out there thinking that, in order to maximise the crowd on Saturday, the new manager/management team could be announce on Friday and paraded at ER on Saturday? I think that scenario would fit perfectly into Rod's operating style....increased revenue and the rabbit out of the hat.


Forgot to add that, although I don't post a lot, I'm defo not a Yam...just love reading the posts and cannae type as fast as most of you folks.

IMHO it's sad that folk think they have to post this disclaimer on here, just for contributing to a thread

[tamig]

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was turnbull the manager when we got relagated

No. He was in charge at the start of that season and gave up half way through when we looked doomed despite having George Best. Willie Ormond took over from him.

[RickyS]

todays Irish Herald quotes O'neill

O'Neill plots long Rovers tenure
By Aidan Fitzmaurice
Thursday October 14 2010

MICHAEL O'Neill has restated his commitment to Shamrock Rovers despite reports linking him with the vacant manager's job at Scottish Premier League side Hibernian.

Scottish bookmakers this week made O'Neill the favourite to take over from John Hughes at Easter Road, but former Hibs player O'Neill said he not only wants to see out his contract at Rovers but is also keen to sign a new deal with the Hoops.

"I came here on a three-year contract and I envisage I'll be here for three years and beyond to be honest," said O'Neill, as he prepares his side for Sunday's FAI Ford Cup semi-final with St Patrick's Athletic.

"I think we've made a lot of progress in the time we've been here and there's still a long way to go in terms of the progress I believe we can make as a club. I intend to be here to oversee that.

"When a job comes up in Scotland, the media try to get hold of me and get a comment, which they never get.

"I can't help what people link me to. That's not my job, that's the job of others. It doesn't concern me at all," added O'Neill, who will put the club's faltering league title bid aside for this week and focus on the Cup clash with Pats.

"You could put all sorts of spins and permutations on it but our only focus is Sunday's game," added O'Neill.

"We'll address the league when it comes. Everyone is saying about the league but it is played over 36 games, not 34 games.

"We'll look at the league after 36 games. We're in the semi of the cup so we'll look at that as an individual thing. We're not trading them off against each other."

[ScottB]

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todays Irish Herald quotes O'neill

O'Neill plots long Rovers tenure
By Aidan Fitzmaurice
Thursday October 14 2010

MICHAEL O'Neill has restated his commitment to Shamrock Rovers despite reports linking him with the vacant manager's job at Scottish Premier League side Hibernian.

Scottish bookmakers this week made O'Neill the favourite to take over from John Hughes at Easter Road, but former Hibs player O'Neill said he not only wants to see out his contract at Rovers but is also keen to sign a new deal with the Hoops.

"I came here on a three-year contract and I envisage I'll be here for three years and beyond to be honest," said O'Neill, as he prepares his side for Sunday's FAI Ford Cup semi-final with St Patrick's Athletic.

"I think we've made a lot of progress in the time we've been here and there's still a long way to go in terms of the progress I believe we can make as a club. I intend to be here to oversee that.

"When a job comes up in Scotland, the media try to get hold of me and get a comment, which they never get.

"I can't help what people link me to. That's not my job, that's the job of others. It doesn't concern me at all," added O'Neill, who will put the club's faltering league title bid aside for this week and focus on the Cup clash with Pats.

"You could put all sorts of spins and permutations on it but our only focus is Sunday's game," added O'Neill.

"We'll address the league when it comes. Everyone is saying about the league but it is played over 36 games, not 34 games.

"We'll look at the league after 36 games. We're in the semi of the cup so we'll look at that as an individual thing. We're not trading them off against each other."

So once he's sure he aint in the running to get a job he releases a statement saying he never wanted it... How original

[Hibbyradge]

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So once he's sure he aint in the running to get a job he releases a statement saying he never wanted it... How original

He didn't say that.

[brydekirk]

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No. He was in charge at the start of that season and gave up half way through when we looked doomed despite having George Best. Willie Ormond took over from him.

george best cost the man his job. FACT END OFF

[greenginger]

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george best cost the man his job. FACT END OFF

Turnbull left Hibs after the 5-0 defeat by Celtic in the Scottish Cup Semi in April 1980. We were already " relegated" by that point and Ormond took over for the last few games of the season.

Hibs were bottom of the league when Best joined the club in November 1979. He did'nt save Turnbull's job but neither did he cost him it !

[scoopyboy]

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george best cost the man his job. FACT END OFF

Turnbull had no input to the George Best signing so I would be interested how you come to that conclusion.

[Ray_]

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72,73 & 74 I think, haven't looked it up tho.

12th July 1971, what a great day to be a Hibby.

[Speedway]

Ultimately I think that, if the new manager is not announced today, there's every likelihood that we'll have to wait longer to find out who it's going to be.

[Hibbyradge]

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Ultimately I think that, if the new manager is not announced today, there's every likelihood that we'll have to wait longer to find out who it's going to be.

[ahibby]

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Turnbull had no input to the George Best signing so I would be interested how you come to that conclusion.

Turnbull has always stated that the Best deal cost him his job. He didn't want him and him forced upon him by the director. Turnbull had to accept it but he said the problem was compounded by the board setting Best up in a Hotel in the centre of Edinburgh. He thought giving Best's reputation for wine and women the centre of Edinburgh was perhaps not the best place for him to be based. He also said that it caused unrest in the dressing room. Best was on £2000 per game iirc plus bonus for wins and goals he scored the other players were know where near that kind of money. When watching the games Best played in I noticed there was no love lost between him and others especially Stuart McLeod. Disharmoney might have played it's part in our relegation that season as the players we had weren't all that bad really.

[SouthMoroccoStu]

Getting back onto topic.....

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Stark's resigned.

Clarke will be at ER on Saturday in the stand.

IF TRUE...........

This is great news.

Happy to see the drive and ambition by the club when we need it most.

This management team could be the envy of all in Scotland and most of the English Championship.

[YehButNoBut]

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Ultimately I think that, if the new manager is not announced today, there's every likelihood that we'll have to wait longer to find out who it's going to be.

That wins the top prize in the "Stating the Obvious" competition.

[...WentToMowAnSPL]

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Ultimately I think that, if the new manager is not announced today, there's every likelihood that we'll have to wait longer to find out who it's going to be.

Excellent !!

[Cropley10]

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Ultimately I think that, if the new manager is not announced today, there's every likelihood that we'll have to wait longer to find out who it's going to be.

Spot on!

[Ray_]

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Turnbull has always stated that the Best deal cost him his job. He didn't want him and him forced upon him by the director. Turnbull had to accept it but he said the problem was compounded by the board setting Best up in a Hotel in the centre of Edinburgh. He thought giving Best's reputation for wine and women the centre of Edinburgh was perhaps not the best place for him to be based. He also said that it caused unrest in the dressing room. Best was on £2000 per game iirc plus bonus for wins and goals he scored the other players were know where near that kind of money. When watching the games Best played in I noticed there was no love lost between him and others especially Stuart McLeod. Disharmoney might have played it's part in our relegation that season as the players we had weren't all that bad really.

After we beat Dundee 5-2 in what I think was the first home game of the season, we were very very poor from then on in. Hibs had been on the decline from the mid seventies & after Harper left, we had nobody who scored goals on a regular basis, with the exception of Ally McLeod, who was by far our talisman and he played in midfield.

Ally McLead didn't like George Best, because it took the spotlight away from him, but the fans did & they came from afar to see a player who at one time had been the world's best & nobody could ever have dreamed of having such a star in the hibs colours.

Best didn't get hibs relegated, as much as admire his team from the first half of the seventies, ET hadn't been well for a long time & stayed in charge too long at Hibs. When ST Mirren emptied Alex Ferguson, I was preying that Tom Hart would move ET upstairs and bring in Fergie, sadly it never happened & I long since came to the conclusion that it would never have worked, with two such strong willed characters, Tom Hart would have had to get rid of Ned & at that stage, I doubt he would have been able to do it.

[Hibs On Tour]

News just received from within HOT Towers is that HOT has not, I repeat NOT, been approached as yet to take over the reigns at Hibs.

HOT was quoted as saying "Hibs are a great club with a great tradition of bringing through young players and playing the game the way it should be played and I'm flattered to be linked with such a club. That said, I have a job to do here at HOT Towers and my focus is on continuing to do that job to the best of my abilities. Until and unless someone tells me that there has been an approach and that approach has been accepted, I don't have anything else to think about or any decision to make. As with any other Hibs fan, I just hope that the lads get back to winning ways starting this weekend."

My source within HOT Towers is close to the heart of things so if anything changes I'll keep you all posted...

<feel free to replace HOT with any other name of your choice because the story is basically the same - NONE of us have any idea who the club will appoint ultimately - we're all hoping for a bit of ambition from the club with a bit of experience, a bit of tactical nous, some contacts hopefully and ideally some pedigree in the game - whether we get that or some cheap option time will tell>

[Lucius Apuleius]

Stein would have been the best if he had not jumped ship when he did. Turnbull was the best IMO, but Lexo won us a trophy too remember

[Sudds_1]

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todays Irish Herald quotes O'neill

O'Neill plots long Rovers tenure
By Aidan Fitzmaurice
Thursday October 14 2010

MICHAEL O'Neill has restated his commitment to Shamrock Rovers despite reports linking him with the vacant manager's job at Scottish Premier League side Hibernian.

Scottish bookmakers this week made O'Neill the favourite to take over from John Hughes at Easter Road, but former Hibs player O'Neill said he not only wants to see out his contract at Rovers but is also keen to sign a new deal with the Hoops.

"I came here on a three-year contract and I envisage I'll be here for three years and beyond to be honest," said O'Neill, as he prepares his side for Sunday's FAI Ford Cup semi-final with St Patrick's Athletic.

"I think we've made a lot of progress in the time we've been here and there's still a long way to go in terms of the progress I believe we can make as a club. I intend to be here to oversee that.

"When a job comes up in Scotland, the media try to get hold of me and get a comment, which they never get.

"I can't help what people link me to. That's not my job, that's the job of others. It doesn't concern me at all," added O'Neill, who will put the club's faltering league title bid aside for this week and focus on the Cup clash with Pats.

"You could put all sorts of spins and permutations on it but our only focus is Sunday's game," added O'Neill.

"We'll address the league when it comes. Everyone is saying about the league but it is played over 36 games, not 34 games.

"We'll look at the league after 36 games. We're in the semi of the cup so we'll look at that as an individual thing. We're not trading them off against each other."

I remember a certain Tony Mowbray saying very similar things , shortly before he abandoned Hibs and went South.... .

[Speedway]

I take this that O'Neill has chosen to speak now because he hasn't got the job.

This means someone HAS got the job.

[HenryMonk]

i find it very strange that SFA are holding things up because of stark being a no 2!!

why would they when houston is levin's no 2 while managing DUTD?

Stark being lined up as no 1 more like

[cockneymike]

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I take this that O'Neill has chosen to speak now because he hasn't got the job.

This means someone HAS got the job.

Possibly - but it could also be becuase with a cup semi coming up, his team's lost 4 out of last 5 in the league, he has to say anything to get some positive spin on the shamrock rovers story!