Interesting comment from Conway in Mail article on Stendel

Pathetic. In fact not even that good. Conway should aspire to pathetic, because that would be better than what he's done here.

 

The tampering reference relates to him speaking to Huddersfield without permission perhaps.

 

I guess if there's a disciplinary procedure being followed due to some alleged incident, for which he is still being paid but suspended pending the investigation it might make sense, although appointing someone in his place kind of gives it away - so I can only imagine they put him on garden leave, but had no intention of bringing him back - because the issue was clear and significant enough for them to be confident he could no longer carry on. The "honorable" thing to do - if you are just sacking him because of the results on the pitch, is to pay him off in one go and let him get another job, but if there is some other reason (like in Robins case because of a disagreement which the club feel is not their "fault") then retaining him so that you can get compensation is perfectly fine in my eyes.
The communication has not been great, while there are some who unreasonably expect a total and open sharing of all information from the club, the complete silence on the matter is too much the other way. To then give some of it away in an interview with The Mail is bizarre.

 

Agree with this. Utterly bizarre.

 

I think you’re right here.

There’s more to it, but the club’s hands are currently tied. Although perhaps they could have done better with the original statement. Time will tell though once Stendel actually does leave.

BFC is no.1 to me, players and managers are 2nd. If we mitigate losses by Garden Leave etc, then so be it.

What I am surprised at here, is that folk believe the Daily Mail quote in full. No one knows what was fully said and in what context to who.

In time it’ll come out what happened.

 

Don’t come on here with your business sense.

 

It’s right though ain’t it. From a pure business sense, if what I’ve surmised is correct, then I take my hat off to them. Not many clubs sack a manager and get money for it.

 

completely agree with this.

 

As I thought right from the start....there is clearly more to DS departure than meets the eye. Its noted that both Chris Stern and Dale Tonge have been released with the usual thank you's in comparison to DS.

ps your comments about the Daily Mail are spot on!

 

Conway is a nob.

Can't stand him.

"We will fight them and we will win"

Just shut up mate.

 

What a fine way to run a community football club in the wider football community! Sure we want to win on the field, although I'm not even sure that Conway and Co actually see that as their main objective. But winning in court cases and crowing about it just looks and sounds horrible.

 

The fact they've thanked the other two coaches makes them sound really bitter. As does that article.We haven't had the write up to the supporters meeting yet but it seems they are willing to say more to the papers than they were to them

 

Thats the sentence that stood out for me too!
Sounds very unprofessional..."my dads bigger than your dad, so ner ner ner ner ner".

 

From Hearts forum

Imagine sacking your manager then as soon as he gets a new job, publicly greeting about it in the press, then reporting it to the FA, instead of dealing with it behind closed doors first. Stay classy Barnsley.



Hearts will of course pay compensation if they have to but I’m sure our lawyers will be looking for any loopholes in the law first.

 

I can’t be bothered but can someone sign up for their forum, apologise for our board and tell them they’ve got a gem of a bloke as their new manager

 

They've been looking at our forum and have quoted your post so job done!

 

As a pure guess, it could be the club are saying he resigned/left and he is saying he was sacked/relieved of duties and that’s where the ongoing legal issues referred to and until resolved he is on gardening leave.

As someone else said he was also on a very long gardening leave from his last job.

 

I accept there was a jump to a conclusion of your thought process.
But given the OP was about an article about Hearts interest in DS it’s fair to say my assumption on this was correct.
Which leaves the second part of my assumption about “Its a legal matter we can’t talk about it” if it wasn’t about him being relieved what was it referring to?

 

You claimed I was referring to the club not talking about why Stendel was sacked. The only time I've ever heard the club give an explanation for the statement they put out on Stendel's departure and the silence since was at a club meeting when they claimed they were unable to speak about any aspect of the situation due to legal reasons and were following legal advice to the letter. The question put to Dane Murphy that day, by Hooky Fella who posts on this board and reported his interaction, specifically stated he wasn't asking for reasons for the "separation" but why the tone of the statement and why the continued silence, which has remained until this abortion of an interview. And clearly, legal reasons can take a running jump if there's cash to be had and a complete tw@t to be made of one's self as Conway has done here. Or what we were told was garbage.

 

Thank you, so I was right it was two different things, just I got the second thing wrong.
I’m not condoning what has happened and more importantly the wall of silence since BTW