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Peter Houston
I'm normally a positive person and try and look forwards, however the situation is beyond fubar.
Peter Houston - why did he leave and was that the turning point for modern day United?
I've never seen the much talked about press conference where he said that with the budget cuts and sales we'd be relegated, looking back was he correct? Could we have kept him? If not, I recall Steven Pressley was in the running for the job, would be in a better position now if he had? Mentored by Tommy McLean and then Levein so decent footballing education, hard to see us starting the season with no experienced keeper under him
- TheShed
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Re: Peter Houston
Never actually watched his interview either, does look like he was right about ST tho.
There were other things he got wrong aswell tho.
Problems been the poor recruitment since he went and the fact the good work Levein and Houston did as a management team has been allowed to be destroyed, and I don't mean first team on the park stuff, I mean the whole footballing setup. Jackie did a huge amount of damage, Mixu was never the man to fix any of it.
- Andy
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Re: Peter Houston
I heard an interview on Sportsound with Houston recently, earlier in the month I think, and he talked highly about United and took no joy from our current predicament.
He said that he was wrong to leave, and he was wrong about fighting relegation with the budget cuts he was being offered. He didn't think the young players were ready to play every week and he was big enough to say he got that very wrong.
The presenter then suggested he wasn't wrong but that he was just 18 months out with his prediction, but he seemed to genuinely think he was too hasty to leave and could have done well.
He also said it was never about his wage, he said he was the second highest paid manager in Scotland and even on the new terms offered he would have been the third best paid. He said working for United had allowed him to buy his house and set him up for retirement as well as win a major trophy (he even said he won it with Leveins team) so there is no bad blood.
- PatReilly
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Re: Peter Houston
Think Houstie had run out of steam, ideas and luck at United. Mind the subbies in his last game? It seemed a right 'fuck you' to fans.
- TheShed
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Re: Peter Houston
PatReilly wrote:
Think Houstie had run out of steam, ideas and luck at United. Mind the subbies in his last game? It seemed a right 'fuck you' to fans.
It was time for us to part ways, I agree, although I liked Houstie.
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Re: Peter Houston
Think Houstie had run out of steam, ideas and luck at United. Mind the subbies in his last game? It seemed a right 'fuck you' to fans.
Thought it was more a 'Fuck you' to Thompson.
As in 'I'm having to take off my two best players and look what you've left me with' kind of a thing.
The main reason Houston departed was the complete breakdown of his working relationship with Stephen Thompson imo. He just couldn't say that at the press conference.
- Andy
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Re: Peter Houston
Agree with that TEK, and he aluded to it in his interview, but also said that Thompson was the first person to text him his congratutions and wished him luck when he got to the cup final.
Also agree with Pat and Shed, it had run its course and it was time to go our separate ways, it was a shite way to do it though.
- played4won4
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Re: Peter Houston
Agree with that TEK, and he aluded to it in his interview, but also said that Thompson was the first person to text him his congratutions and wished him luck when he got to the cup final.
Also agree with Pat and Shed, it had run its course and it was time to go our separate ways, it was a shite way to do it though.
The Interview was exactly as you described in your first post. EVERYBODY on Mad was shouting for Houston's head and thought he'd given up. At the time it seemed he thought he'd got too big for us. Too late now. BUT if there's a lesson to be learned from all that's gone on since AND 99 - 2006 til Craig Levein came is that we need a vision and a strategy. It's clear the current chairman has neither. SO we have to get the fans' voice heard. How and which fans? Now that's a challenge.
A' hes eggs are double yoakit!
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Re: Peter Houston
I can understand a certain nostalgia for PH but.....
.....further we got from signing targets probably identified by Levein the worse they got.....Miller....Gardyne.....and the Irish boy.....almost as shit as JM at his worst...
......and remember just how bad our defending was in his last season....
.....oh and he chucked it because he didn't want to take a £30kpa haircut (which would have still left him as 3rd best paid manage in SPFL) and thought he'd walk into another job...
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- Andy
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Houston's time was up, no doubt about it Scarpia, no nostalgic view from me.
My point was I think he regrets chucking the toys out the pram and tbf to Thompson McNamara was a popular appointment.