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How would you rate Luke Dowlings tenure to date (26 may 2021)

Roaring success, we'll be lucky to keep him
2 (1.8%)
Doing well given the limitations he has to work under
9 (8.1%)
Ok
16 (14.4%)
Poor, could be doing better overall
49 (44.1%)
Abject, needs to be fired or walk,
35 (31.5%)

Total Members Voted: 111

Voting closed: June 05, 2021, 12:28:58 PM

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Re: Luke Dowling
« Reply #575 on: May 19, 2021, 10:57:56 PM »
Great shout by Albionic for Roy to take over from Dowling who simply has no idea in my humble

We can but dream. Great idea though 😃👍🏻
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« Reply #576 on: May 19, 2021, 10:58:45 PM »
If I were Lai or Ken, I would have had a long chat with a successful, experienced man who knows the english game intimately and can tell them how to put a structure in place.

Enter Mr Hodgson, let him take Dowlings role and put a proper structure in place.

He'd certainly have experience, contacts, scouts etc. I don't know what the DOF does day to day but if Dowling can do it anyone can.

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« Reply #577 on: May 19, 2021, 11:02:45 PM »
Sam

“The club have asked for my opinion on the qualities my successor will require and I have been more than happy to offer my thoughts."


If the club are asking him to help choose shows how little faith they have in Dowling and if Dowlings asking him to help he's clearly out of his depth.

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« Reply #578 on: May 19, 2021, 11:09:05 PM »
If the club are asking him to help choose shows how little faith they have in Dowling and if Dowlings asking him to help he's clearly out of his depth.
First time I've agreed with you in a while!  ;D

Dowling has to go.

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« Reply #579 on: May 19, 2021, 11:10:26 PM »
First time I've agreed with you in a while!  ;D

Dowling has to go.

Ha ha sums up Dowling, what a joke, next he'll dismantle a top quality youth system, oh wait!

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« Reply #580 on: May 19, 2021, 11:11:21 PM »
First time I've agreed with you in a while!  ;D

Dowling has to go.

Glad to have you on board  8)

In all seriousness whilst Lai is problem number 1 we can't shift him so we need to get rid of problem 2 which is Dowling whom we can shift.

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« Reply #581 on: May 19, 2021, 11:11:42 PM »
We can but dream. Great idea though 😃👍🏻

A pensioner as DOF? Wouldn’t work.

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« Reply #582 on: May 19, 2021, 11:12:57 PM »
Sam

“The club have asked for my opinion on the qualities my successor will require and I have been more than happy to offer my thoughts."


If the club are asking him to help choose shows how little faith they have in Dowling and if Dowlings asking him to help he's clearly out of his depth.

It was Dowling that appointed Allardyce so we can’t have it both ways.

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« Reply #583 on: May 19, 2021, 11:16:40 PM »
It was Dowling that appointed Allardyce so we can’t have it both ways.

Yes the only call he's made that i agreed with. Maybe his superiors are opening their eyes or been watching some football games.

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« Reply #584 on: May 19, 2021, 11:20:44 PM »
Glad to have you on board  8)

In all seriousness whilst Lai is problem number 1 we can't shift him so we need to get rid of problem 2 which is Dowling whom we can shift.

Dowling needs to go Gaz. I hope the Chinese can see that, I really do.

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« Reply #585 on: May 19, 2021, 11:34:20 PM »
Dowling needs to go Gaz. I hope the Chinese can see that, I really do.

I hope so too made. Praying for a Dowling club statement this week

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« Reply #586 on: May 19, 2021, 11:40:17 PM »
I hope so too made. Praying for a Dowling club statement this week

Got my mat out.

Here's hoping!

Oversaw the signings of Diangana and Grant - both useless at Prem level  and stupidly expensive. And that woeful squad to start the season.



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« Reply #587 on: May 19, 2021, 11:43:04 PM »
Got my mat out.

Here's hoping!

Oversaw the signings of Diangana and Grant - both useless at Prem level  and stupidly expensive. And that woeful squad to start the season.

Plus the likes of kipre and Grosiki who have vanished from the club

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« Reply #588 on: May 19, 2021, 11:47:15 PM »
I hope so too made. Praying for a Dowling club statement this week

I shudder at the very thought of what garbage he’ll sign for us next season.

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« Reply #589 on: May 19, 2021, 11:48:48 PM »
I shudder at the very thought of what garbage he’ll sign for us next season.

Dread to think of the price he will pay for them too

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« Reply #590 on: May 19, 2021, 11:49:26 PM »
Plus the likes of kipre and Grosiki who have vanished from the club

The £8million he set fire to by signing Kenneth Zohore is right up there for me 🔥💷

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« Reply #591 on: May 19, 2021, 11:50:30 PM »
Do you think this forum gets translated into Chinese?

I   B L O O D Y  hope so!!!
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Re: Luke Dowling
« Reply #592 on: May 19, 2021, 11:51:39 PM »
This bloke wasn't rated at Forest or Watford was he? I genuinely don't know. I will state that I don't rate him here for clarity.

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« Reply #593 on: May 19, 2021, 11:51:47 PM »
Dread to think of the price he will pay for them too

Or dare I say their weekly wage demands!

*cough Chazza Austin at £50k a week to warm our bench*
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Re: Luke Dowling
« Reply #594 on: May 19, 2021, 11:52:31 PM »
He doesn’t seem to be much good, does he?

I’d sooner have a DoF who had a track record as a successful scout and manager - an Allardyce or a Hodgson - than someone who seems to be greatly their inferior, but is somehow placed in a position as their boss.

By what possible criteria could he be considered more capable and knowledgeable than someone like Allardyce? It’s almost unbelievable.

Maybe he is working under huge constraints. Maybe he is a far-sighted genius hampered by circumstances.

But I’m waiting for the evidence. He seems to have been hugely over-promoted.

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« Reply #595 on: May 19, 2021, 11:54:24 PM »
When you look at his signings regardless of EFL or PL they have been disastrous overall. A far sighted genius would be very flattering I think

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« Reply #596 on: May 19, 2021, 11:54:59 PM »
He doesn’t seem to be much good, does he?

I’d sooner have a DoF who had a track record as a successful scout and manager - an Allardyce or a Hodgson - than someone who seems to be greatly their inferior, but is somehow placed in a position as their boss.

By what possible criteria could he be considered more capable and knowledgeable than someone like Allardyce? It’s almost unbelievable.

Maybe he is working under huge constraints. Maybe he is a far-sighted genius hampered by circumstances.

But I’m waiting for the evidence. He seems to have been hugely over-promoted.

Big Sam as DOF and a young manager in the coach role would work. Would never happen, but it would be better than Dowling.
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Re: Luke Dowling
« Reply #597 on: May 19, 2021, 11:55:21 PM »
He doesn’t seem to be much good, does he?

I’d sooner have a DoF who had a track record as a successful scout and manager - an Allardyce or a Hodgson - than someone who seems to be greatly their inferior, but is somehow placed in a position as their boss.

By what possible criteria could he be considered more capable and knowledgeable than someone like Allardyce? It’s almost unbelievable.

Maybe he is working under huge constraints. Maybe he is a far-sighted genius hampered by circumstances.

But I’m waiting for the evidence. He seems to have been hugely over-promoted.

He looks like a sleazy football agent. Probably just bull****s his way through these jobs.

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Re: Luke Dowling
« Reply #598 on: May 19, 2021, 11:56:02 PM »
I could handle that suggestion. Sam as DOF with a new manager

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Re: Luke Dowling
« Reply #599 on: May 19, 2021, 11:57:10 PM »
The £8million he set fire to by signing Kenneth Zohore is right up there for me 🔥💷

That was the panic buy to top all panic buys. Absolutely dreadful piece of business.
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