The Lovely Side of Roeder

[Camuldonum 0]

I''ve met The Lovely Side Of Roeder on several occasions - all at charity events.  Once the Lovely Side of Roeder was seated to my left side on a charity do dinner table and between the interdeminable wait for courses we got chatting. 

"If it''s a loss it is truly terrible.  Honest, it''s bad.  It goes on all weekend and if it''s that bad into Tuesday.  Sometimes walking about talking to yourself.  Absolutely far too much wound up.  I try the forget it thing but it doesn''t work."

It''s not helpful in football terms but we both agreed that the....errr....Spring Chicken was not of the Spring and both of us might have done better with Arrdee''s sausages had they been available or had either of us at that time then known about them.

Step forward Mrs Roeder who is a Smashing Gal.

"He''s not good at coming across well but he really does care but he''s ridiculed. It doesn''t matter to him but it matters to me and frankly I''d rather he did something else.  Some of the things the fans have said....he just ignores and he says they say what they say and it doesn''t matter to him but it matters to me and sometimes I find it hurtful.  It doesn''t hurt him but honestly I don''t think they realise how hard he tries.  He gets so wound up that I wish he didn''t."

(Early West Ham days, dinner for charity we both support).

At which point a Mrs Graham Gooch (husband of an Essex cricketer) to my immediate right interpolated: "Loses? You''re lucky.  If he wins but scores under 30 it''s a nightmare weekend as well."

The food was crap, the conversations interesting.

 

[canary cherub 1]

Wonder what sort of weekend this is turning out to be?

 

[Paul Spector 0]

Interesting post. I can very believe it tbh, he''s always seemed like a caring guy to me.

[Unlucky Fried Kitten 0]

I saw him at the fan''s forum at the recent club open day and was quite impressed by the way he spoke. He showed that he does have a sense of humour, but his clipped East London trainspotter''s voice does him no favours when it comes to people''s judgement of his character - it probably makes some think he is slightly lacking in charisma.

On the other hand, I still don''t understand why he had to shoot himself in the foot with the incompetent way in which he dealt with Huck''s departure. It was sheer folly. I only he hope he thinks about it and therefore makes a conscious decision to handle any future situations much more smoothly. That way, he will make far more friends.

[Old Boy 0]

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On the other hand, I still don''t understand why he had to shoot himself in the foot with the incompetent way in which he dealt with Huck''s departure. It was sheer folly. I only he hope he thinks about it and therefore makes a conscious decision to handle any future situations much more smoothly. That way, he will make far more friends.

[/quote]I''ve been trying not to get into this "Hux''s departure" furore, but what else could he have done? He couldn''t have announced it before the last home game for 2 reasons - firstly, we weren''t safe from relegation (he''d said that contract issues were on hold until that was off the agenda), and secondly because a pro-Hux demonstration would have made for a very bad atmosphere at a critical game. He could, and maybe should, have announced it before the Sheff Wed game though, and given the travelling faithful the chance to give Huckerby a send-off. He''d still have faced criticism for not giving Hux a home send-off though.

[beachball 0]

I like His wife wish he would give up to

[Unlucky Fried Kitten 0]

I know what you''re saying, Old Boy, but there is no good reason why Roeder''s decision to release Hucks couldn''t have been announced prior to the Wednesday match - none whatsoever. I''m not 100% convinced that it would have had an adverse effect on the team''s confidence if it had been mentioned even earlier than that, but there you go. I reiterate, I hope Glenn has learnt from this and tries to handle this kind of thing somewhat better in future. These are my last words on this subject, as it is time to move on and look forward to next season now.

[AndyJR 0]

[quote user="JaundicedJockGeorgy"]I know what you''re saying, Old Boy, but there is no good reason why Roeder''s decision to release Hucks couldn''t have been announced prior to the Wednesday match - none whatsoever. I''m not 100% convinced that it would have had an adverse effect on the team''s confidence if it had been mentioned even earlier than that, but there you go. I reiterate, I hope Glenn has learnt from this and tries to handle this kind of thing somewhat better in future. These are my last words on this subject, as it is time to move on and look forward to next season now.[/quote]What difference did team confidence make for the Wednesday match in anycase?  A team that was to be disbanded during the summer.  Should have been announced prior to the game.  That is all.

[Old Boy 0]

[quote user="beachball"]I like His wife wish he would give up to[/quote]Wha.....?? Oh well, back to the thread - the thing is that football managers aren''t allowed to have any human failings at all. There are very few - sorry, NO managers who keep all the fans happy all the time. I''ve heard Arsenal fans on phone-ins bitching about Wenger, who for my money is as near football-manager sainthood as it''s possible to be. How important, in reality, is Roeder''s accent or any of that? He seems like a decent bloke, he''s committed to the job, and he''s also the best manager we''ve had since O''Neill.

[King Beef 0]

I was lucky enough to meet Glenn a few years back, whilst managing West Ham, he visited our local football team (Stansted Mountfitchet FC) as he was a life long friend of the president of the club. It was a charity event, and there were many people there, and he took the time to talk to each and every person there, even if he didnt have a clue who they were. But there was one little girl in particular who was in a wheelchair, I believe she was paralysed from the waist down but she just caught his eye and he took all the time in the world to try and make her a bit happier. I remember he was sitting there, chatting to her for a good hour, and in the end he gave her family enough money for her to get cared for, for the foreseeable future.

An absolute gentleman at heart, I dont care what anyone says.