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Life under Locke & Brown
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Floyd
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12-07-2014, 01:09 AM -
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They were the footballing equivelant of The Chuckle Brothers.

Locke would've signed more of his pals from his days at Killie and we would be sitting around about 6th or 7th while he continued to "experiment" with that fun game of which player who isn't a striker gets a shot at being a striker, week in week out.

Scares the fucking shit out me, it really does!!!
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12-07-2014, 01:25 AM -
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I fairly got my arse felt that time I had this as my signature.

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12-07-2014, 01:28 AM -
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I also got a 20% warning for this Le Chat classic

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12-07-2014, 01:30 AM -
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12-07-2014, 02:02 AM -
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(12-06-2014, 11:43 PM)Morph Wrote: It's hard to say because Locke never had any budget at all to make signings.

I wanted brown launched but it would've been interesting to see how Locke would've been under Leveins guidance.

No point on dwelling on the past though and I'm over the moon with the management team and owners we have now.


No it fucking wouldn't have been Laugh Levein binned him within a nanosecond of taking over for a reason - that reason being he was utterly clueless and didn't deserve to be anywhere near HMFC in a coaching capacity.

Absolute cretin of a man and very nearly ruined the best group of young players we have produced in decades. Guid Hertz laddie working "in impossible circumstances" though. Give him a 5 year deal Laugh
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12-07-2014, 02:09 AM -
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Club in dire straits and in danger of going out of existence appoints two bad managers. Rescued club suddenly on the up and properly managed from the top appoints good manager. It's that simple.

Blaming Gary Locke for what happened last season, or John McGlynn for what happened the season before, or Billy Brown for anything at all really, is as stupid as thinking Valdas Ivanauskas was the reason Hearts finished 2nd and won the Cup in 2006. No: Romanov was, in all cases.

Now the club is run professionally, competently and efficiently, with a clear vision and long term plan - and its managerial team is only another great symptom of that.
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12-07-2014, 02:22 AM -
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Not Romanov's fault John McGlynn double fist pumped a fucking 0-0 draw with Hibs at Tynecastle.

He should have been fired on to Jupiter with a rail gun after that.
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12-07-2014, 02:31 AM -
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(12-06-2014, 11:30 PM)Alan Partridge Wrote: It's a truly terrifying thought.

Where would we be right now?

Hammill and Stevenson our key players?

Think we would be below Hibs to be honest. Unreal that we were fairly close to that being a reality.

To be fair, they/we were stuck with those players.

Locke's greatest crime was that semi-final against ICT - how folk expected him to be kept on after that is beyond me.
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12-07-2014, 07:16 AM -
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Refreshing.

30 posts and no drivel to be read from "True Hertz Lad" Locke's fanny club

I can't wait for him to join here.... Big Grin
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12-07-2014, 07:28 AM -
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Romanov didn't even check our results on Teletext by the time Gary Locke pitched up FFS Laugh He was a bit busy trying to avoid getting found bound and gagged in a bin with his throat cut.

I wonder when he'll get the big managerial breakthrough that we were all told was coming last season. Back to doing what he's good at for now, folding bibs for one of his pals from his playing career.
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12-07-2014, 07:33 AM -
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(12-07-2014, 07:28 AM)Francis Begbie Wrote: Romanov didn't even check our results on Teletext by the time Gary Locke pitched up FFS Laugh   He was a bit busy trying to avoid getting found bound and gagged in a bin with his throat cut.

I wonder when he'll get the big managerial breakthrough that we were all told was coming last season. Back to doing what he's good at for now, folding bibs for one of his pals from his playing career.

Laugh

Maybe Tomorra
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12-07-2014, 08:48 AM -
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(12-07-2014, 02:09 AM)shaun.lawson Wrote: Club in dire straits and in danger of going out of existence appoints two bad managers. Rescued club suddenly on the up and properly managed from the top appoints good manager. It's that simple.

Blaming Gary Locke for what happened last season, or John McGlynn for what happened the season before, or Billy Brown for anything at all really, is as stupid as thinking Valdas Ivanauskas was the reason Hearts finished 2nd and won the Cup in 2006. No: Romanov was, in all cases.

Now the club is run professionally, competently and efficiently, with a clear vision and long term plan - and its managerial team is only another great symptom of that.

Two things. Firstly massive disservice to Valdas, for all his faults he did a great job reinstating some harmony in the dressing room, getting us 2nd and winning the cup. His second season was when he lost control and it fell apart.

Secondly nobody is to blame for Locke's failing apart from Locke. He left the bench and in turn the club short last season rather than bring youngsters in just to prove a point. Any time he had questions asked of him tactically he was found wanting. Lastly the much heralded improvement at the end of last season came about simply because Paterson asked to be moved back to RB and with no other options Locke put Carrick up front, both were a revelation in spite of Locke not because of.
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12-07-2014, 08:55 AM -
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Bloody Hell - CB is correct, there's none of us who should take anything away from Valdas - he guided us to the cup, masterminding one of the most memorable wins ever - however Locke managed himself into oblivion, not reacting to what he saw on the park, adopting a "I know best" philosophy near the end of his tenure...

I like Locke, however he is NOT management material
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12-07-2014, 09:33 AM -
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Nobody will deny that Locke had to deal with very difficult circumstances, but even considering that, Locke did a horrendous job, and lacked dignity at a time when it was needed the most.

Now is an excellent time to look at some parallels. At this time both this year and last, we suffer a demoralising hammering at home to Celtic in the cup (although this years wasn't as severe). Neilson brushes it off and gets his players focussed on the next match. Locke, instead if trying to pick his players up, decides to say "a hammering was always coming at some point" - heads are only going to go down after shite like that, and the team never recovered for a good 2-3 months. Even yesterday, with an injury crisis, Sean McKirdy and Nathan Flanagan made the bench, with the latter even making the pitch. Unless I'm mistaken, both laddies are 16? By contrast, Locke decided to make a shite point by leaving 2 spaces on the bench and throw a hissy fit about our registration ban, which stripped him and the club of any dignity (and any fan defending it by saying 'subs cost money' Rofl).

Despite being a massive Hearts fan, etc, Locke was a horrific manager, who is rightfully back putting down the cones at Kilmarnock.
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12-07-2014, 10:06 AM -
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Imagine holding back the rebuilding project for that numbnut and dinosaur Bill.

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12-07-2014, 10:33 AM -
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(12-07-2014, 02:09 AM)shaun.lawson Wrote: Club in dire straits and in danger of going out of existence appoints two bad managers. Rescued club suddenly on the up and properly managed from the top appoints good manager. It's that simple.

Blaming Gary Locke for what happened last season, or John McGlynn for what happened the season before, or Billy Brown for anything at all really, is as stupid as thinking Valdas Ivanauskas was the reason Hearts finished 2nd and won the Cup in 2006. No: Romanov was, in all cases.

Now the club is run professionally, competently and efficiently, with a clear vision and long term plan - and its managerial team is only another great symptom of that.

Are you a fucking utter mongo like Locke? How the fuck can you blame Vlad for Locke being special needs?

McGlynn was a sort of thought out appointment by the club, it didn't work out. They knew they had no money so they went for a guy who had a good rep as a coach. Atleast he tried to play football while trying to get folk like Sutton to try and run for the ball. It was him that had to deal with all the shite off the field at the time.

Locke was a bizarre appointment, and a snake at the same time, bad mouthing Mcglynn to the board to take his job. The mongo was just able to put cones out in a straight line and was never the right man. I wasn't as gutted at losing the final to St mirren as i was on the bus back when it was announced that he was given the job permanently. We had good folk at the club leave like Murray because they were sick of watching thier ball playing players being bypass by the dino football on show.

If that mongo had spent less time doing stuff with his pal boyd and actually took training then we won't have found ourselves in the fucking championship. The day he took binned was fucking glorious, and his bender of a brother can do one do going on about fucking loyalty!
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12-07-2014, 10:37 AM -
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(12-07-2014, 10:33 AM)The Prince Wrote: Are you a fucking utter mongo like Locke? How the fuck can you blame Vlad for Locke being special needs?



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12-07-2014, 10:42 AM -
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Laugh

Say What You See, Say What You See.

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12-07-2014, 10:42 AM -
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Boot stuck in there Rofl
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12-07-2014, 10:43 AM -
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