What was all that about today, keeping the players on the pitch at half-time for there team talk. Suppose it one way to belittle the players and lose the dressing room there on a slippery slope now and that wont have done him any favours with the players

I detest those dumb ear-pieces .... is he controlling taxis at the same time?

Brown (in the style of Sam Allerdyce) is starting to believe in his own hype, his ego is out of control.

Top marks to Phil Brown - he said players who wear the Hull City shirt/badge - should do it with pride.

He showed his fans he does care that they gave up their Boxing Day to support them

So basically it was gesture management then ?

I'm sure the players (who have completely played way above expectation already this season) who he belittled may see things a little differently.

It was attention seeking of the highest order in an attempt to save face after his team were slaughtered.

Thats what i said on the way home today, They have done way better then they ever dreamed they would have this season so to do this I dont think the players will have took it well.

Next manager sacked in premiership PHIL BROWN anyone?

Even if they go down, he wont be sacked. So no in answer to your question.

tony adams has more chance of the sack than brown, his last 2 home results have been awful, against shit sides too

how fickle can you be, there like 7th or summit winning games at spurs and arsenal, and they lose 2 games, and you suggest the sack for him.

Give over!

Or maybe he did it (as said above) to make the players appreciate the large travelling support who have gave up their boxing day and also contribute a large chunk of money towards their wages? You don't go to work and expect to put in a poor show and not be bollocked do you?

And we aren't going through that "punching above their weight" old chestnut are we?

Any team who can beat Arsenal away is more than capable of beating a team in the bottom 3.

Anyway, it worked. They drew the second-half 1-1.

Well done Phil Brown.

I'm sure you'd be able to take heart from us drawing a second half on a day we got hammered 5-1 by a team in the bottom three!!? Who's to say that it wasn't his tactics and playing too open that left them exposed to a hiding? They are surely 'in it together' airing dirty linen in public is egotistical and attention seeking. Anything that he said on that field could have been said in the dressing room. Are you saying they'd have lost 8-0 had he not put on that show? It rarely happens a team who are 4-0 up at half time will naturally ease up and they team on the receiving end will (if they have anything about them) will generally play for a bit of pride, without any half time Circus.

He isn't the first manager to do this and i doubt he'll be the last, i'm sure i recall a championship manager doing it in the last couple of seasons, maybe wolves (Dave Jones or Mark McGhee).

I could be wrong about the club and/or the manager but i definitly remember it happening, also in the lower 2 divisions too, one for the stattos among you, now i'm waffling.

I seem to think Russel Slade did it once??

I was listening to this on five live and they turned to that beacon of football management. Jan Molby who said he disagreed with it and it was poor management. This from a bloke who took Kidderminister out of the league.

Tony Adams is one of the biggest, if not the biggest bounder in football, FACT!

Why would it lose him the dressing room? These are footballers, remember. They prolly never even noticed anything unusual.

I haven't a clue how he got the Pompey job, he was a crap manager when he was at Wycombe and nothing has happened to change my opinion of him.

Nah, it's the Portsmouth Donkey.

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I couldn't give a f-uck

exactly!

and it will cause Pompey their place in the Prem, the fucking idiots. Fancy appointing Adams as their manager, do they not know what Adams did at Wycombe? he was a COMPLETE failure

All out I'm afraid. I'll let you know when I'm restocked.