Bad 24 hours for Murphy Out Crew

Like it or not, and I remain undecided, the Murphy Out Campaign has had the wind taken out of it's sails in the last 24 hours.
Liam has the backing of Lennox and, even more crucially, of the City squad (patently obvious from the Rennie article in the Sun and the team's celebrations after George's goal tonight). City played with spirit tonight ( I'm not saying it was perfect football) and fully deserved the win, even if the peno may have been a bit dodgy.

The sheer delight of team and management at fulltime ( even Gaz hugged LM, despite being on the bench all these recent weeks) should ensure that anyone who was there tonight will give the club full backing for the remainder of the season.

(And anyone who comes back on this with a smart comment about being LM in disguise etc can **** off - it's just an alternative opinion)

Gotta agree 100%.

u may not be liam murphy in disguise but r u his secret lover. go on,tell us
mite have veaten shels buts thats only slowing down the inevitable
MURPHY OUT

while i agree there was a marked improvement in last nites game city still have a long way to go b4 they can mount any challenge for silverware we are still short a few players on a playing front,on the management side we have to develop tactics,become more professional work on free kicks throw ins etc in training..if anyone knows anything about soccer they can see that we are being let down by our lack of tactics and murphy isnt the man to take city to another level,crowds have dropped overall the level of entertaining football has disappeared from what we saw at the start of the season its now time for lennox and co. to decide what they want ... a small time club nearly there or up with bohs seting the standards

If you're happy with second best, people like Liam Murphy, Patsy Freyne, Jim Murphy and Noelle Feeney are the ones for the job...

Wasn't down for the game & is likely we will win at home again next week to give an infalted position in the league as we'll have 2 away games to Drogs & Bohs to come.

Anyone think we'll get much out of those games?

From what i've seen theres little tactical direction in the team & unless the team are 100% fired up for a game (kicking & chasing the ball, closing down etc...) we struggle in games. Maybe its the home crowds that fired the team up for games at the cross?

Relying on grunt to win things in the eL is unlikely to work these days. Murphy is limted & over his now two seasons as city manager is not showing signs of changing or improving...

agree Neil one or two of those names are well past their sell by dates time for lennox to start becoming professional and ruthless ..have a good look at those in the backround those who think they are the club male and female!!

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Originally posted by SSS
Like it or not, and I remain undecided, the Murphy Out Campaign has had the wind taken out of it's sails in the last 24 hours.

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Oh get real will you :rolleyes: The criticism of LM didn´t start because of one game, and it´s not going to stop over one game either. Rome wasn´t built in a day, and Murphy´s inadequacies will doubtless be highlighted again ans again until he goes

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Originally posted by scottyshedender
BOTTOM LINE WE ARE THE BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE,SECOND IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH

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Have to strongly disagree with that.

IMO having seen Bohs a few times this year they are by far the best team in the league, after that Id say we are second best and we should be a fair bit ahead of Shels but still behind Bohs.

Second this season will be a good finish for the squad we have.

Eanna, nothing from last night has changed the views of the Murphy Out's, but the factors I outlined above DO mean that the campaign cannot gain momentum for now.

Here's a tough one for y'all - the players support him, big time....I suppose they all need to get real now aswell.
CCFC SQUAD OUT NOW!!

just because george runs to him when he scores doesnt mean the players are behind him john o flynn didnt run his direction when he scored so what does that mean

For God's sake, the point was made.

Do the players show off t-shirts for Napier for every goal they've scored since he got injured. No. They've clearly forgotten about him then and couldn't care less how he's doing now.

If they did it again there would be people here saying it was too much and not genuine..

i miss stephen napier :)

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Originally posted by SSS
Eanna, nothing from last night has changed the views of the Murphy Out's, but the factors I outlined above DO mean that the campaign cannot gain momentum for now.

Here's a tough one for y'all - the players support him, big time....I suppose they all need to get real now aswell.
CCFC SQUAD OUT NOW!!

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You´re totally wrong. The campaign can gain momentum, as it has been doing since murphy got the job, because you can bet on it that murphy will return to his usual mix of ignorance and stupidity within 2 or 3 games.

I can also bet you that players DON´T all support him- as I said earlier appearances can be deceiving.

All i'd say has happened is its a little bit more difficult to "recruit" people to the cause...

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Originally posted by Éanna
You´re totally wrong.

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Oookayyyy...


No, actually I'm not. My core point about the last few days is that LM has been given huge support publically by Lennox and the squad. The win itself is not the issue. It is the manner of this win, where the team fought for it, and by their actions and words before during & after the game ( ref to Dalo) that help LM's position.

BTW, I am not particularly pro LM but neither am I completely Anti LM, but I can recognise, using all the publically available info*,that the players are backing LM for now. This is a setback to the Murphy out campaign. It doesn't change your minds, but it does make your objective a bit harder to achieve and more difficult to sell - you can't point to discontent within the squad to help the cause and can , with some justification, now be accused of being damaging to the club.This does not mean that you will not ultimately be proved correct, but that time has not come.

*sorry James, don't have all your insider stories, and neither do the public at large. BTW, most people bitch about their bosses in private. Doesn't necessarily mean anything in the context of their loyalties.

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Originally posted by SSS

you can't point to discontent within the squad to help the cause and can , with some justification, now be accused of being damaging to the club.

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How do you figure that?

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Originally posted by SSS
*sorry James, don't have all your insider stories, and neither do the public at large.

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*wrong thread - referring to your pronouncement that the players want LM out. There is no such indication in the public domain, particularly after this weekend....so you must know something we don't.

ah yea that .. hmm well, beleive what u like.. base your opinion on what u see hear and beleive to be true, thats how i came up with it

second best isnt good enough
murph out