Possibly. More likely that the club is trying to make it go away by ignoring it and not feeding it, so that the players aren't unsettled at all ahead of two big games. After all, they've had all week to have meetings in anticipation of an approach, so to call one at the exact time of the weekly presser looks more like they're wanting to say nothing to avoid anything he does say being twisted into a story. Part of me hopes its a massive trolling exercise by the club, just to set the press on a huge speculation jaunt, just for fun, while TS and Evans watch from the boardroom and **** themselves laughing. or he could be going, in which case the day before a weekend of two huge games is terrible timing.
I just have a feeling that TS comes into his office this morning with an official approach on his desk from Peterborough. I suppose only time will tell - but already Radio Sheffield are "high" on fuelling the 'Internal Meeting'.
Agree with Radio Sheffield spinning around in great excitement. Which actually illustrates the point I was making yesterday about how the relationship has changed.
Today, all they can do is speculate about what the great Internal Meeting means, because they're at arm's length. 15-20 years ago, they'd be part of the club, so they'd ring up at lunchtime and get told what's what.
The "Internal Meeting" is a stunt. They've pulled him from the press conference. If he was going to leave (or said he'd wanted to), they'd never have let him do the interview with Millers' Player, talking about Charlton; they'd have massaged that. They just don't want to have him have to answer the "Are you off?" question 40 different times and have people pick over it to see what he means and have the players read it as they get on the bus to head south and lose focus for Charlton and Brighton.
Of course, pulling him from the press conference implies that they're not certain he's not interested, because otherwise you'd put him up there, he'd say "I'm not interested" and that would be that. And I guess TS will want clarity while everyone's here, on home ground, because I assume they don't want to have to deal with Peterborough while we're shuffling about dealing with two away games. (Or it could mean that TS has lunch with a business contact and then a round of golf, so he wants to move the daily meeting forward).
All I hope is that if he wants to go, he goes. The worst case scenario is that we have him wanting to go but not being able to because of compensation or conditions or whatever. If he's not interested in Posh, then he's (obviously( deserved a crack at turning the abysmal performances around (but he shouldn't get extra slack for turning that job down when we assess if he's the right man, should the new players fail to turn the tide or we continue to lack any form of structure or fight or evidence of coaching or strategy). The other important thing is to deal with it quickly. It's likely we'll not get much out of the next two fixtures, on paper, but Cardiff at home is a decent chance for some points, you'd think. We don't want this hanging over us into next week.
-- Edited by DavidR on Thursday 10th of September 2015 12:00:44 PM
Lets see what happens, but it could all be a smoke screen for the press to deflect away any press intrusion away from the players, due to the lack of a win so far this season.
Who knows, i know i dont
-- Edited by WorcesterMiller on Thursday 10th of September 2015 01:58:29 PM
The "Internal Meeting" is a stunt. They've pulled him from the press conference. If he was going to leave (or said he'd wanted to), they'd never have let him do the interview with Millers' Player, talking about Charlton; they'd have massaged that.
It was the Twitter feed showing him being videoed and offering quotes. I haven't got a sub to player so just assumed it was on there. The point stands: why tweet a load of stuff about Charlton if his plan was to do one?
