Is it just me who thinks he's not the man that can take us forward??
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Most liked posts in thread: Darragh confirms he's leaving Peterborough this summer
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vin weasel Squad PlayerP.L.23/24 Entrant
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More like £50k if we’re luckyOllylondonbantam, NorthernMonkey and Parader like this. -
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I think he has had enough of the lack of success he hoped he would get and many in Peterborough have seen through his endless chat. Can't blame him for wanting time out and wish him well with family time or whatever but like others I don't get the love in.Idlebantam and Jordan like this. -
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Their rise was completely done by buying the leagues they were in. They took Kenwyne Jones on loan and paid all his £35K a week salary in the champ as well as £3m for Callum Wilson before the FFP rules became a real thing in the champ.
Helped create this yo-yo between clubs that can afford to buy the champ, but don't want to blow their cash completely to stay in the PL. Them, Fulham, Norwich, West Brom, probably add Burnley to that now who can spend 20M in the champ and hope that team can do well in the prem with a few signings. If you're lucky enough to go up with low budgets, you end up doing what Huddersfield did and Forest had to, and buy pretty much a new team.Kevin1954 and NorthernMonkey like this. -
JonButterfield Star PlayerQatar 2022 Entrant P.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
Not really interested in that right now.
Darragh has been stuck in his ways for some time, constantly appointing the same managers, rigidly sticking with the same 'sell your best players' policy, being unable to gamble on the club progressing organically because they're now seen as a selling club who don't keep quality players for more than two seasons.
I get that we'll probably sell over-achieving players too, but it's not our entire business model - I'd be extremely disappointed if we sold Andy Cook in January for a million if it threatened to derail our promotion push. MacAnthony wouldn't be able to sell fast enough, though, and invest in non-league starlets that may or may not work out.
There's no reason whatsoever for Peterborough to still be a yo-yo side - they've got the resources and the capability to perform in the Championship, but their model is holding them back.
Sure, Rupp has been a disastrous failure, but we've landed on our feet for the time being - and I want to ride this train a little longer.Wakefield Bantam likes this. -
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A million quid!!! JeeeeezNorthernMonkey likes this. -
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We’d get promotion without Cook and have a million to spend in league 1NorthernMonkey likes this. -
Ulysses S Grant Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
In terms of managers' he just sticks to the same few, appoint McCann, sack him, appoint Ferguson, sack him repeat. Both have had three stints there and he replaced the manager on average every 15 months.
It's not the perfect club it's made out to be, and they would be lost without Barry Fry,Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Idlebantam likes this. -
Part of me thinks he would do well for us up to a point, but another part of me is onboard with what yourself and others are saying.JonButterfield likes this. -
JonButterfield Star PlayerQatar 2022 Entrant P.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
Having said all this, if we were suddenly up for sale I'd take someone like Darragh who understands football than another non entity that takes six years to get his house in order.
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He got them to the Championship and still the crowds didn’t come. The fanbase simply isn’t there.
It’s like comparing Mansfield to Notts Forest.
With the right backing we’d have a very good chance of being a stable Championship club with full houses every weekHampshire Bantam likes this. -
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Ulysses S Grant Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 EntrantStop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Bantam@{Lancs} likes this.
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Their wages were astronomical and even spent £600,000 on Matt Ritchie 10 years ago in league one!Jordan likes this. -
Loyalbantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Supporter
Swindon though? That was 25 years ago.
Huddersfield were lucky to see the PL and even luckier to stay up but now they’re down they’ll go the way we did, to the basement where dogs liveUlysses S Grant likes this.
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