Many thanks Simon Davey

Not had chance to post properly all weekend, now i've got a spare 1/2 hour.

Anyway thank you Simon for all your effort in your time with the club, i honestly believe 100% you had the club and supporters best interests at heart every step of the way and never once did i question your loyalty. I imagine you put a hell of a lot of extra time in as well as you tried your hardest on a modest budget to get this football club back into the upper end of the championship.

I thank you for somehow tactically out mastering Benitez and Grant and giving a south yorkshire pit town the biggest scalps for years and bragging rights that we still live off today. The following trip to the new Wembley in a FA Cup SEMI FINAL yes a SEMI FINAL will stay with reds fans forever and something that i'm sure many thousands thought they would never see in this day and age of inflated wages and bottomless pits of money.

You also showed in the foreign transfer market that you had an eye for a bargain and have brought some players to this club for a fraction of the money we would have got them domestically. And not just bargains, keeping players such as JCR, Steele etc you showed great convincing skills that the future here is bright and this is where their footballing careers should continue. Also persuading Hume, Gray, Hammill, Anderson and Halfredsson that Oakwell is the place to be has given us a really good squad on paper, its just a shame you couldn't find the magic formula, that i believe your successor will to turn us into a very very competitive side in this division without looking over our backs.

Again thanks for all the effort, hope you get fixed up somwhere soon and learn from the ups and downs at Oakwell, i'm sure you will

(Y)

 

Well put Swinton Red ... all points that even the most "Davey Out" of supporters must agree with.

 

aye, he did make history at the club..taking us to wembley and beating liverpool and chelsea, credit for him but i think he had to go some point this season

 

Cheers, the lack of responses show it either

a) wasn't controversial enough to gauge a response

or

b) was too kind and thought out and its confused them

 

Swinton...

I posted something on the same lines and got a lack of response too

 

yes many many thanks :'(

 

RE: Many thanks Simon Davey- Well done, agree 100%

Makes such a change from some of the comments we've read. The bloke had a passion for the club, and did his best.

 

How is Ward Green nowadays? nt

 

i am ready for the slating but i think we where only a week or two from marching up the table davey didnt get chance for a settled side what with injuries , international clearences and injuries all the best simon and please dont return and bite us in the arse

 

Those 2 games are his finest moments...........

and I do believe he tried his best, but, two and half years is a very long time in football and with my hand on my heart I cannot say I've come away from Oakwell during that time thinking I've had my money's worth above 6 times, his win to games ratio is staggeringly poor.

 

Well said

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I agree with all of that Swinton Red, very well put!!!

Much better than my attempts over the last few days!!!

Davey was 100% & had some very HIGH points at the club, but after all his results let him down!!!

Thanks for the memories though Simon!!!

 

Aye - beating liverpool and chelsea was incredible

...for all the stuff that lead to him having to go, those two games alone, and the anticipation of wembley, were pure magic.

 

I agree 100 percent with everything Swinton Red writes and wish Davey all the best. Yes it was time to go. the team this season has been a shambles but he was a decent bloke and worked beyomd te call of duty for the club. Those who met him at schools, clubs, hospitals etc all agree what a decent bloke he was. The agony as been piled on him so lets all give him a break now and move on to the future. He was not a Parkin or Spackman. They achieved nothing. We have memories of Davey..some bloody awful ones but 3 or 4 brilliant ones..for those Simon..Thanks!

 

Great post

100% agree
And as one of the ones who never asked for daveys head......... tho i did think it for the best he went...... I think he did a good job and put all his heart and soul into this club and no one can ever question the effort and indeed time he must have put in without any of us knowing it.

Once again great post

 

RE: Cheers, the lack of responses show it either

Or.......

C) There's already been a number of similar threads in the four days since he left where most people have already said the same.

 

great post, I agree though I think the club made the right call in the end

 

RE: I agree too!

I rarely doubted the man, mainly, because rightly or wrongly I thought I understood why he did what he did with the team.</p>

I couldn't understand his persistant used of KO, a player surely destinied for League 1 or 2 now or why the defence wasn't strenghened.
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I wasn't happy with the way his sacking was handled and felt in view of the recent signings he had made he should have been given at least 10 games to turn things around. </p>

It won't belong before Simon is back in a managers job, and you never know taking 3 points off us at Oakwell.</p>

I wish him well.
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Yeah cheers Dreamboy, sorry don't spend 24/7 on it like you nt