yeah something like that, I'd say Grant and Sbragia are similar, except

Ricky bided his time and waited for the right opportunity, and got it. Now he's got a chance with good players, good set up, and 50,000 crowds willing to give him a chance as he's been there two spells

Grant rushed in, and took the first knackers yard job on offer, and thought it might do him some good, but as with most others here, he didn't get the resources, or the time, or the support, and like others, left here with a honours degree of fan spite :o)

(ps, my father's known Ricky for a long time. Many have their ways in football, Ricky's philosophy is to get the message across without shouting or bullying anyone. I guess that's how he stayed in youth development so long with success stories. I love the fact he's in management being like that)

Posted By: pants on April 23rd 2009 at 11:38:01

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Keane again-Sbragia? says "he'll enjoy it, Ipswich is a lovely area to (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Apr 23, 11:19:21
- If you knew Ricky, you'd probably know why he'd be diplomatic (Other Football) - pants, Apr 23, 11:21:36
  - like Rooda did, he's a gent too you know (n/m) (Other Football) - NCFC4life, Apr 23, 12:20:02
  - Shame he didn't get more games for France. All Hoollihey's fault (n/m) (Other Football) - stringersrevenge, Apr 23, 11:25:14
  - Is this a case of, "you don't know, you have never been to York games"? (Other Football) - Yellalee, Apr 23, 11:24:03
    - yeah something like that, I'd say Grant and Sbragia are similar, except (Other Football) - pants, Apr 23, 11:38:01
      - Good on him. Although dont be naive enough to think that the Mackems (Other Football) - Yellalee, Apr 23, 11:48:02
        
        they're already doing it (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 11:48:34
        
        Ah, dint see your post. (Other Football) - Yellalee, Apr 23, 11:48:57
        
        thank god you accidentally clicked it off for a minute ;) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 11:52:20
      - Come on son. Grant had backing, he just used it badly. If we had given him any more time (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 11:43:15
        
        Peter Grant - Right person wrong time IMO (n/m) (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Apr 23, 12:04:31
        
        When would have been the right time? (n/m) (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:13:34
        
        when hell froze (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 12:16:54
        
        He hardly got a pot to piss in (Other Football) - Old Git, Apr 23, 11:46:39
        
        He spunked quite a lot relatively. (n/m) (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 11:50:34
        
        made alot of signings for a man with no money (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 11:48:19
        
        Lot of signings for no fee (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Apr 23, 11:50:07
        
        Jamie Cureton ?800k! No further questions your honour. (n/m) (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 11:51:35
        
        I'm just going to go back into my time machine, to erm, january (Other Football) - pants, Apr 23, 11:59:08
        
        that's irrelevant (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 12:13:08
        
        pants also said Grant had no resources (Other Football) - duke of york, Apr 23, 12:14:02
        
        I didn't realise the relevance of the smiley. Soz if you were joking but no-ones had a pop (n/m) (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:16:44
        
        here is where I'd like to post a "lol" (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 12:16:16
        
        Cureton was not good enough to replace Earnie. (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:08:05
        
        yeah but his year at forest has come to what? (Other Football) - pants, Apr 23, 12:09:59
        
        He scored shed loads for us and kept us up lest we forget. (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:15:20
        
        It felt a bit like buying a lottery ticket with the same numbers as last week's (Other Football) - Old Git, Apr 23, 12:17:48
        
        Last week's winning numbers, that is (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Apr 23, 12:18:13
        
        how can you call an injury a "choke"? (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 12:13:39
        
        Injuries have buggered him this season really (Other Football) - duke of york, Apr 23, 12:12:59
        
        Except the hoooge flaw in that (Other Football) - Yellalee, Apr 23, 12:05:16
        
        Marshall - near ?1 million? (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 11:53:12
        
        Marshall was the biggest error I think. (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 11:56:59
        
        Marshall was a bargain at ?1m..Worthy made the worst signings towards the end of his time (n/m) (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Apr 23, 12:07:33
        
        I like Marshall but we had a good young keeper there who could have saved us ?1m. (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:09:40
        
        Yep in hindsight you are right but thats the problem the (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Apr 23, 12:12:51
        
        Difficult balance for them to strike but that was a glaring one for me. (n/m) (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:18:18
        
        Darel Russell, David Strihavka (who cost either ?0.01 or ?1.2m depending on what way the w (Other Football) - Yellalee, Apr 23, 11:52:51
        
        Didn't we get the money back for Dave? (n/m) (Other Football) - Garry Brooke, Apr 23, 11:55:32
        
        Brellier (massive wages apparently) which as Nobcaster reminds us is part of the overall c (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 11:54:37
        
        Will you fuckers top presenting me with evidence which disproves my post? (Other Football) - Old Git, Apr 23, 11:57:12
        
        Wouldn't it be great (Other Football) - duke of york, Apr 23, 12:01:40
        
        Wouldn't it be great (Other Football) - pants, Apr 23, 12:05:24
        
        Oh, I didn't realise you didn't mean any of this (Other Football) - duke of york, Apr 23, 12:10:14
        
        Well not all of it (Other Football) - pants, Apr 23, 12:13:49
        
        OK (Other Football) - duke of york, Apr 23, 12:16:35
        
        apart from when he called the fans a disgrace (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 12:24:01
        
        Agreed (n/m) (Other Football) - duke of york, Apr 23, 12:24:58
        
        Poorly prepared case, didn't anticipate the defences arguments and ignored salient facts. (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:01:37
        
        Evidence often gets in the way of a good case (Other Football) - Old Git, Apr 23, 12:09:30
        
        Never mind, where to for lunch, the Garrick? (n/m) (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:11:12
        
        Boodles today (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Apr 23, 12:16:47
        
        Oodles in Boodles, nice. (n/m) (Other Football) - jafski, Apr 23, 12:21:07
        
        Spend oodles at Boodles (n/m) (Other Football) - duke of york, Apr 23, 12:18:00
        
        lol. Post in haste... (n/m) (Other Football) - Yellalee, Apr 23, 11:59:00
        
        I'll top if you top (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 11:58:36
        
        his team was 5 times worse than Roeders (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 11:46:04
      - I wish him well (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 23, 11:42:29
      - Bit like the opposite of Roeder? (n/m) (Other Football) - stringersrevenge, Apr 23, 11:39:04
        
        haha, I'm intrigued by summit (Other Football) - pants, Apr 23, 11:43:20
        
        No it was because from your posting with tombs was like you didn't realise he was a scumme (Other Football) - stringersrevenge, Apr 23, 12:15:47

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