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Post by sallycat on Apr 30, 2019 9:43:45 GMT
Erm he said maybe back at Sutton in 3 or 4 years. Not back in football, actually even said would be back soon. Not wanting to get anyone's hopes up because we all know Dos can change his mind about things (especially and quite rightly if his personal circumstances change), but he is on a 3 year contract at H&W and in their interviews he has dropped one or two quite strong hints that he currently intends to stay there only for those 3 years. That could of course change, but I do believe what he said to us was genuine. The trouble with Dos is he tends to make quite strong assertions about the future based on his current vision and that doesn't always take into account that circumstances can change! |
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Post by trev on Apr 30, 2019 10:07:50 GMT
According to a friend of mine, in the Football Manager game Dos invariably ends up taking the Havant & Waterlooville job towards the end of the season, so clearly this has been on the cards for some time as pre-ordained by our overlords and masters, the machines...
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Post by davethegrave on Apr 30, 2019 16:08:07 GMT
wow,he didn't take a 'much needed rest for 3 or 4 years',did he! and his travel time saving will be about 40 mins each way,which isn't very much! I wonder if he'd been approached before he decided to take a rest from us. |
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Post by tonyd on Apr 30, 2019 16:26:56 GMT
There’s a lot of very cynical people about! You’d think that Dos had been st Sutton long enough to have earned our trust. Call me naive but I believe Dos when he said that he needed a break and would be back next season. I also understand that having felt the benefit of not spending 4 hours a day travelling to the club, he realised that he didn’t want to start doing it again. I also believe him when he said that the Havant chairman only contacted him last weekend. So an we stop with the conspiracy theories, please?
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Post by sallycat on Apr 30, 2019 17:23:45 GMT
Honestly Tony, with the number of people saying it felt like a bereavement I'm beginning to think the 7 stages of grief are starting to crop up. We seem to be somewhere between denial and anger at the moment....
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Post by johnnykwango on Apr 30, 2019 17:50:42 GMT
Some of the grief and mass hysteria on here is more suited to the insanity of Pyongyang.
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Post by Andy K on Apr 30, 2019 18:01:35 GMT
Some of the grief and mass hysteria on here is more suited to the insanity of Pyongyang. Trust me this is a positive haven of calmness and sanity compared to some of the utter bollocks I've seen in Facebook groups the last few days! |
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Post by sallycat on Apr 30, 2019 18:24:35 GMT
Not that I'm trying to minimise people's feelings because it's natural and perfectly valid to feel a sense of loss at the end of something amazing you've shared with others. No shame in that. Or in discussing it here. We're still in it together and always will be. It's just some of the comments (mainly on facebook, to be fair) coming across almost as if people think we own Dos or that he has let us down because of personal circumstances he couldn't have foreseen. Give the guy a break, he's done enough for us.
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Post by trev on Apr 30, 2019 18:28:55 GMT
Yet another reason why I'll never regret deleting my Facebook profile.
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Post by os on Apr 30, 2019 20:23:21 GMT
Not that I'm trying to minimise people's feelings because it's natural and perfectly valid to feel a sense of loss at the end of something amazing you've shared with others. No shame in that. Or in discussing it here. We're still in it together and always will be. It's just some of the comments (mainly on facebook, to be fair) coming across almost as if people think we own Dos or that he has let us down because of personal circumstances he couldn't have foreseen. Give the guy a break, he's done enough for us. We had 11 years of Dos, we cannot complain if he chooses for whatever reason to leave, he owes us nothing, we owe him a lot. The sense of loss is not for a manager but someone who basically became a friend to many of us. |
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Post by sallycat on Apr 30, 2019 20:38:05 GMT
Oh yeah, I'm definitely feeling that too. If he were just a manager we might have been a bit shocked and upset about him leaving but this is a lot more.
Even as a friend, though, he hasn't let us down. Quite the reverse as he went so far as to tell his new club he was a Sutton fan and wouldn't do anything at our expense to achieve success elsewhere. So here's the thing, we haven't really lost him as a friend of our great club.
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