peter reid sacked

Beggars belief overused, but so appropriate to this news. I hope Reidy soon feels relieved this is over and gets some good TV or football work pronto.

I haven't looked at pasoti and find it incredible to hear that people are turning against him after Ridsdale's announcement. Surely they had their on pitch concerns over his management before? Coz the man has been such a damn good servant to a crumbling wreck not of his own making. Unlike Ridsdale, who is getting paid handsomely for his role.

i am actually quite pleased we havent got to go there to play at present,i have a feeling it will now get very hostile and intimidating down there,the natives are more than restless,it could explode anytime

I think whats going on at the Greeks shows what happens when you pare the budget too much (not that I blame them in any way for doing it to balance the books). Harley and Cureton did well last season and havnt exactly been replaced. The rest of the squad looks pretty threadbare.

I'm actually surprised there has been so much sympathy for him. At the end of the day, if you don't do your job properly, you can expect to lose it, regardless of how much you've put in the kitty yourself. Regardless of all the financial issues, that Argyle squad on paper shouldn't have got relegated from League 1 last year. And the fact is, other than at Sunderland, Reid's track record in management isn't good - a win rate of just under 35% over 5 clubs which includes all his success at Sunderland; at his last 3 clubs (Leeds, Coventry and Argyle) it has averaged 28.6%; and his win rate at Argyle was 26%

How does he keep getting jobs? Any young up-and-coming manager would not get another job after 1 poor stint at a club, let alone another 2 similarly bad ones. Honestly, I've been wondering how he does it - he is very overrated and has been riding off the job he did at Sunderland for the past decade (or perhaps something more sinister). He shouldn't be allowed to survive due to good will - far from sacking him being the clincher, I think keeping him would simply have sent them down with weeks to spare. Sacking him and replacing him with a player-led management team may well give them more of a chance of staying up

I'm surprised it has come this soon, though - given their links, I didn't think he'd go until Ridsdale went. Part of me wonders if this is a term of the takeover

That is a cracking point, very interesting!

Well, it makes sense - they can't afford to have any of their players just sitting in the stand! ;D

I wonder if this a sign that Buttivant's bid is gaining traction.

This is the man who was sent off in his last game for head-butting an opponent and claimed that the pressure had all got too much for him. Isn't being a manager a bit more stressful than being a player? A cool head in a crisis?

Of course, they couldn't bring in anyone who needed paying which limited their options.

The cynic in me thinks that giving the job to Fletcher and Larrieu is a convenient method of heading off future strike action from the players. Despite the "Brent love in", there is no sign of him coughing up any cash any time soon. Fletcher and Larrieu, as senior players, were clearly at the front of the last strike threat. They are far less likely to cause any further trouble if they are "on a promise" (whatever Ridsdale promises are worth) of being in the running for the permanent jobs.

It seems pretty clear that Brent must have been consulted on the decision to sack Reid. He has shown an utter mastery of spin in all his dealings so far, so it is no surprise to see him not want to be viewed as the man who sacked the hero.

The comments about Tisdale for Argyle by the Chairman of the Trust were not appropriate to someone in a position of reponsibility. They may have been made purely and simply in a childish attempt to goad Exeter fans, but they appear to portray an utter failure to understand the depths of the problems that Argyle face even if Brent does pull off the deal to avoid liquidation - which I am now pretty sure he will.

Plymouth may draw bigger crowds than Exeter - although I think the removal of the "this could be our last game" factor may see a drop rather than a rise in attendances, particularly if there is no overnight transformation of results on the field. But they have already waved goodbye to huge chunks of TV and season ticket money pledged against old debts. Argyle's "massive crowds" will not result in a massive player / management budget overnight.

All this billy big balls willy waving is exactly the reason why quite a lot of people would really like to see Argyle suffer a nice long stay in the Conference. As I have said before, I have nothing against the ordinary Argyle fan, but if someone who is supposedly playing an active part in the desperate Contingency Plan is prepared to go on the radio suggesting that Argyle could nick Exeter's manager because they are such a massive club, you do think that he needs a few seasons of trips to Alfreton and Braintree to sober him up.