Rachel

Exactly. This run in is going to be brutal but if we at least still had Des i’d have felt a bit more optimistic about the future either way.

This is v interesting & reinforces what i’ve been thinking and feeling… just so gutted that Des didn’t get an opportunity to turn it around with an easier run of fixtures, exactly as he did post bolton last season

Just one thing, the cardiff H win is in DB column when it should be in GRs.

A totally joyless experience. A few more of those and we’ll be wandering whether Des falling on his sword was really worth it. (i may already be there)

On the other hand if we can find the formula for the Blackburn performance again, all will be more than fine.

i mean, who didn’t ? any why the hell didn’t they ?

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awful, if true.

I have no idea whether it’s true but i read somewhere today that Des was sacked by phone.

I am sure that our senior management would have acted with more class than that. Wouldn’t they?

this did make me laugh.

I can guarantee that i won’t be needing a new folder for all my Gary Rowett pics that’s for sure.

So Gary Rowett. I get it. It makes sense. Im at acceptance stage in the grief cycle and will be right behind him as we all should be.

Singing Rowetts yellow army is however gonna feel like one step too far for me for a while.

#oufc

they do. Also it took a little while for them to replace those who had left (head of sports science and the analyst) for Des, at least they’ll be already there for the new guy.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

See you on the flip side 💛

I still can’t read the last line from Des’ statement

‘i’ll always be one of you. Yellows’

without a bit of a lip tremble.

i know i’ll get over it and stop being a big mush at some point. Just maybe not today.

that is a good way of looking at it 💛

That would have been desperately sad tho still not convinced it needed to be that way. In my mind he had another 3 seasons with us, leading us to the new stadium and eventually moving on with our thanks and best wishes to Prem Lg or England. I need to do less daydreaming obviously!!

I wish him nothing but the utmost success and happiness, one of the good guys and ‘one of us’. Incredibly hard to move on from that.

exactly. It sounds like the new guy will have to do the same based on the line about the ‘fantastic experienced coaching staff already in place’

i sincerely hope the faith the board have in Ed and his recruitment proves to be correct.

But this is all feeling a bit hollow right now. A statement designed to placate the fans whilst making it clear that Des alone was the issue - he’d had all the support he needed.

Yeah not having it.

i really hope it doesn’t come out that there were dressing room issues as i’m already feeling the connection that was built with the current squad diminishing a bit.

i remember Des mentioning Mous and others getting new deals and wandered if there was anything in it that we didn’t do the same for him.
i also wander whether he did in fact speak to Wales feeling that he was on relatively thin ice. but as you say, all speculation.

i agree. i’ve listened to some of those old interviews and for somebody who was, at the time, pretty untouchable Des mentions being sacked a lot. he also says several times that he’ll stay ‘as long as he feels wanted’. Like they said on the Dub, i wander if they were ever truly sold.

i’d normally have them on alert, right now i feel like muting them. (i do know it’s not admins fault!)

very little gets in the way of my unconditional loyalty to OUFC but they are currently testing that in ways i hadn’t anticipated. The disrespect is unreal and right now im ashamed.

Honestly the thought of that Ed goat meme makes me
feel sicker than i do right now. How has it all fallen apart so badly

I cant bring myself to post a picture because it hurts too much but thank you Des Buckingham for the magic that was April and May, August and September.

#OUFC legend forever 💛

I’m still processing the Des news and i can’t come up with anything that makes sense.

The run was brutal but this is the Championship, was always going to be really fucking tough.

He has to have fallen out with Ed, Grant or Tim over something. Or walked before it got really toxic.

effervescence - need more of it

Wise words. i hope we give it a bloody good go but the most important battle this season by far is off the field🤞🏼

i like that although i worry about the physicality of the central midfield trio and wish Bennett was available at LB

i wouldn’t be surprised to see phillips again, i’m holding out hope he can still do a decent job.

i’ve re-watched it so many times and never fails to makes me happy and proud.

i honestly believe we can make a difference which is why it is so frustrating when we don’t - or do in a negative sense.