joshwiggy91 wrote:I really do not get all of this? Buckle left at the end of last season and moved on. He did wonders for the club, took us from nothing and took us up in two years, kept us up and then took us somehow to the play-off final.
We didn't go up no but he wanted to move on. Got offered a job at a team which has a much higher budget, has plans to build a new stadium. Who can blame him?
Everyone has such a short memory. The guy will go on to bigger and better things as he has proved in the last four years he makes mistakes but overall does a good job.
He did wonders here and should be remembered for that
Of course. He did do well, but was a pr!ck. Everyone knows it.
He left our club, yes, in the right way? nope. Forget about lie-ing in interviews about no deal done with Rovers, but more the fact we were in a play offs and he had already agreed to move on, if he was professional he would have said come back after the play offs.
He did a pretty decent job for us, and would have gone with our best wishes if he'd behaved in any way decently. But he treated our club with complete contempt and for that reason it's his own fault that he will now be regarded by most with distain. He's an ego maniac, who's only consideration throughout the move was himself. He used the circumstances at our club to further his own career, completely ignoring the affect his behaviour was having on the club. He never gave any credit to the other people at our club for his success and sought all the plaudits. Apart from that, i think he's a really good bloke and he's welcome round mine for a cup of tea anytime.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Buckle did a good job at us. He took us from having just four players to a promotion, two sets of play-offs and an FA trophy final. If any other manager had done that they would be having their name chanted constantly from the stands, but this was never the case for Buckle, which sums up what the fans thought of him. He did a good job, but as a person he left a lot to be desired unfortunately. The way he left for Rovers sums everything up about the man. If he hadn't clearly been in talks during our play-offs, or at the very least not had his mind on it when it should have been wholely focussed on us, then he would have gone with my blessing. But he let the club down when he really could have made himself a hero by taking us up.
So whilst I shall forever be grateful for what he did in bringing us back to the league, I won't forgive him easily for letting us down the way he did towards the end of his time here
I won't be booing Buckle at the Rovers game, but won't applaud him either. My gratitude to him for getting the Gulls out of the BSP as manager is balanced by how pi**ed off I am with him at the way he left, so my overall feelings are neutral. I have no such balance for fatty fat ba**ard from Crawley and his cheating sidekick, who I hope will be given stick at every opportunity when Gatwick Town visit Torquay.
