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Ferguson parts company with United

  • 09-11-2009 6:38pm
    #1
    jaykay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,594 ✭✭✭


    It seems like Peterborough have parted company with Fergie Jr. Hopefully he will get another chance elsewhere.

    Peterborough United have parted company with manager Darren Ferguson, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire reports.

    The 37-year-old Scot led Posh to back-to-back promotions from League Two to the Championship after taking over in January 2007.
    But the London Road club have struggled in their first season back in the second tier and are currently bottom after winning just two games.
    Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Newcastle was their third defeat in a row.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/p/peterborough_united/8351399.stm


Comments

  • #2
    Seillejet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Seillejet


    English guy I work with is a huge Posh fan. He was at the Newcastle match. Reckons the chairman is a clown and hasnt backed Ferguson financially at all.

    Presume Barry Fry will step in. Entertaining anyway but I think Ferguson will get another chance at Championship level.


  • #3
    CHD
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭CHD


    Lovin the thread title


  • #4
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Back to back promotion and doesn't get half a season? Harsh.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #5
    flahavaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,235 ✭✭✭✭flahavaj


    LOL@ thread title. Re-cork those champagne bottles lads.;)

    I was under the impression he was doing a good job for them. Giving him the boot afetr promotion 2 years in a row is pure madness.


  • #6
    Aidric
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    Club in panic sacking shocker!


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  • #7
    Kirnsy
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    well played op. harsh on fergie. back to back promotions and sacked before Christmas?? thats a bit of a joke tbf.

    now alex on the other hand getting the sack.....:D


  • #8
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Verminous team in a verminous city. Hopefully they will descend into a league more fitting, maybe Conference South.

    Much as I dislike them, it's a shame for Ferguson who got them into the Championship, fighting way above their weight.


  • #9
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Damn you!

    My heart actually stopped.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Damn you!

    My heart actually stopped.

    Mine raced


  • #11
    Soby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Damn you!

    My heart actually stopped.
    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Mine raced

    Mine jumped:D


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  • #12
    jaykay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,594 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    Title is a bit cruel but it was crying out to be said. :)
    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Damn you!

    My heart actually stopped.


  • #13
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    Ha my oul fellah just tried the same line on me. It took me an entire 5 seconds to cop what had happened.

    On the football side of things: Madness. Hope he gets another Champo job soon, back to back promotions is a fantastic achievement in any division.


  • #14
    Nalz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,890 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    Ferguson parts company with United


  • #15
    Rob113
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Rob113


    I think this is a joke of a decision. He has just lead them to two successive promotions on a shoestring budget. A lot of the players still in the squad are still league 2 standard players. I think he has done a brilliant job. Let the chairman back him with some money in Jan and bring in a few quality loan signings from the EPL and see can he keep them up. It wouldnt be the end of the world if they went back down to league 1 for a season and came back up even stronger the following season.
    The chairman must be a clown if he cant see the job Ferguson has done. I read on another forum that the average age of the P'boro starting 11 is only something like 23 so he is obviously planning for the future. Give the man a break he has earned it.


  • #16
    event
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭event


    the chairman did back him with money, but he chose not to spend it, instead keeping faith with the players that got them up.

    admirable, but stupid


  • #17
    Rob113
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Rob113


    Well then the money should still be there. Let him go out and spend it now or in Jan. Its not like they are doing a Sunderland under McCarthy. I think he was right to give the players who had gained him promotion 2yrs running a crack at the big time, but to get rid of him because things arent working out only a few games into the season is madness in my view.


  • #18
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Change thread title for god's sake. :mad::pac:


  • #19
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Change thread title for god's sake. :mad::pac:
    Trilla wrote: »
    Ferguson parts company with United
    Trilla's still trying to get his head around it :)

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #20
    The Hustler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭The Hustler


    Rob113 wrote: »
    I think this is a joke of a decision. He has just lead them to two successive promotions on a shoestring budget. A lot of the players still in the squad are still league 2 standard players. I think he has done a brilliant job. Let the chairman back him with some money in Jan and bring in a few quality loan signings from the EPL and see can he keep them up. It wouldnt be the end of the world if they went back down to league 1 for a season and came back up even stronger the following season.
    The chairman must be a clown if he cant see the job Ferguson has done. I read on another forum that the average age of the P'boro starting 11 is only something like 23 so he is obviously planning for the future. Give the man a break he has earned it.

    He spent over 2 million, which, by League One and League Two standards, is enormous.

    As for the players he's left being League 2 standard, George Boyd, Aaron McLean and Craig Mickail-Smith would ALL cut it in the prem, and will probably leave in January for a combined 15 million fee, Boyd in particular already attracting interest from top Prem teams.


  • #21
    syngindub
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    who is this chairman we speak of? Isn't he some Irish Developer or something


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  • #22
    The Hustler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭The Hustler


    syngindub wrote: »
    who is this chairman we speak of? Isn't he some Irish Developer or something

    Aye, Darragh McAnthony.

    I'd put my mortgage on Whiskeyface Jnr becoming the next Hull manager


  • #23
    pierrot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭pierrot


    damn you, I just got sick into my own mouth!


  • #24
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    The Hustler wrote: »
    Aye, Darragh McAnthony.

    I'd put my mortgage on Whiskeyface Jnr becoming the next Hull manager
    Not a bad call..dare i mention the next Pool Boss. That would be interesting:)


  • #25
    The Hustler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭The Hustler


    syngindub wrote: »
    Not a bad call..dare i mention the next Pool Boss. That would be interesting:)

    Oh that would be priceless! :D


  • #26
    Rob113
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Rob113


    syngindub wrote: »
    Not a bad call..dare i mention the next Pool Boss. That would be interesting:)

    That would be priceless. I'd like to see him take over a club with a bit of ambition. If he took the Hull job it could be the ruination of him, they will more than likely do down regardless of who comes in as they will more than likely have to sell to finance the debts they have.
    I'd say he is sick he didnt jump ship and go to either Reading, QPR or West Brom when he had the opportunity, although the Reading position could open back up soon enough.


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