Uh Oh! Someone's Been Fired!

Big Ange Postecoglou has been shown the door after only just 39 days into his stint at Nottingham Forest, which got us thinking: what's the fastest you've ever been fired?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the fits In in Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
How quickly did you have to sack someone from the job?
I'd love to hear from here because this is Ange.
Postacoglu is one of our greatest coaches and there's a
level of pride there because for Ange even to get
a job in the English Premier League and he took Tottenham.
They won the year Europa League last year. I know
they didn't do too well in the EPL, but it's
an amazing effort. So off the back of that success

(00:23):
winning the Europa League for Tottenham, Ange was asked by
a guy called evangelist Marinarchus to take over Nottingham Forest, Kate,
so this is another English Premier League side. Unfortunately, Ange's
just been given the sack after thirty nine days. Thirty
nine days. In that time, they've lost eight games, Is

(00:45):
that right?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Fits?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah? Eight games?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
So out of how many games? That's what I need
to know. If they played five thousand games, then eight losses.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Is not but I think it was eight out of nine.
But this is the thing. How do you bring in
your game style away and expect the team to actually
know what they're doing. That's what you're not programming robots.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I agree with if it's.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
This guy, evangelist Marinarkas, He's got a couple of soccer
teams around the world. He's a very very successful businessman, billionaire.
Have a listened to Craig Foster, he's an ex soccer
and he talks about how many coaches this guy has
turned over? Have he knew? And we all know that
Marinarchas sacks coaches like this. I think is that it

(01:27):
will be the ninth coach in the last eight years.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
And across in Greece where he owns Olympia COROSST sixteen
in fourteen years. Right, is there an issue? Who's the
issue here? I mean, I don't know much about it,
but as you said, we like the turnover part of
the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's, you know what, like to imagine the pressure on
you to go, Okay, I'm going to give you the role,
but you need we need to get success straight away.
When he should stop paying and sacking coaches and go
and just buy a better place. Yeah, good call, you know,
just an outside the square sort of thinking. That's what
I'd be doing. I mean, we all were not suited

(02:09):
to certain jobs, but ange Pastor Coogloo is a great coach.
You've got to give him a little bit of time.
More than thirty nine dos. One of them.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
With Melmoninger's political career fits.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Actually remind might be in there. So he said he
was going to run for parliament and obviously maus are
very very like. He's a very popular man.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
And especially north of the border.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Footy fans love him. So he just thought I'll do this.
So he held his first press conference, went in a
little bit nervous and then I thought I think he
thought to himself about twenty seconds in this this is
not for me.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
He did because I think he got asked his first
question and he says something like not for me and
then walks out of the room.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, and that's it. Doesn't put the jacket back on.
Billy Brownless, who used to play for for Geelong in
the AFL as well. There was talk that he was
going to go into politics because he was a very
popular man around the Geelong area and then a journalist
asked him what his policies would be and he said,
I haven't really thought about.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
It's a classic example of all your friends, I would imagine,
or family members or maybe even your agent who is
in their best interest getting in you. You're saying, I reckon,
you could do that?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Do that? Have a go? And then you step into
the circle and actually, now that he's looking for a job, Kate,
do you reckon the men I hawks could use.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know what? Those those girls they don't need to
cut they are they are, they are every role. Well,
they would eat him alive.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
If you're a good friend, you'd make a phone call
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