Coaching Staff Culled?

akagreengull wrote:

Muppets the lot of them, lets hope Adams can bring a more positive professional aspect to the club.

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Plymouth Argyle chairman James Brent says he would like the new manager Derek Adams to keep some of the club's current coaching staff

He got his wish, one staying for the moment

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rhys wilmot ‏@rhys5689
Officially confirmed by #pafc today that I'm not retained as the GK coach good luck to #luke#James and #pafc this coming season

Pathetic he first finds out via Twitter, absolute shambles.

its hard to be shocked by how unprofessional argyle are these days. Gordon Sparks is a shadey character at the est of times but even he should have kept it quiet before he knew for a fact they were informed first if he had to tweet it.

Angry wrote:

its hard to be shocked by how unprofessional argyle are these days. Gordon Sparks is a shadey character at the est of times but even he should have kept it quiet before he knew for a fact they were informed first if he had to tweet it.

He does work for a radio company though, this is absolutely the fault of whoever has made the leak.

In normal circumstances, I imagine Sparksy thought that those concerned would have surely known before he himself did.

But then Argyle doesn't do 'normal'.

Jun 12
Gordon Sparks ‏@SparksyOnRadio
My sources inform me John Harbin, Sean McCarthy & Rhys Wilmot have left #pafc Paul Wotton, with 12 months left on current contract, remains.

rhys wilmot – ‏@rhys5689

@SparksyOnRadio news to me! And your source Gordon?

I wonder if he received an answer@

Dick Trickle wrote:

Damon.Lenszner wrote:

Sparksy on Twitter and Paul Hart of the Legends on facebook both announce this before the club has spoken to all those who have apparently lost their jobs. This club just gets worse.

After Carl Fletcher having to do a post match interview and then announce he'd been sacked you would have thought people would have learned their lessons.

This place really is a feckin shambles.

I remember the tears flowing down Fletcher's cheeks in that interview, you couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

The fans knew about 6 games before Brent fired the bullet that Fletch had to go, but why they told him before a scheduled post match interview god only knows. Appalling.

Paven wrote:

Angry wrote:

its hard to be shocked by how unprofessional argyle are these days. Gordon Sparks is a shadey character at the est of times but even he should have kept it quiet before he knew for a fact they were informed first if he had to tweet it.

He does work for a radio company though, this is absolutely the fault of whoever has made the leak.

whats that got to do with anything? its not like he is working for reuters

Angry wrote:

Paven wrote:

Angry wrote:

its hard to be shocked by how unprofessional argyle are these days. Gordon Sparks is a shadey character at the est of times but even he should have kept it quiet before he knew for a fact they were informed first if he had to tweet it.

He does work for a radio company though, this is absolutely the fault of whoever has made the leak.

whats that got to do with anything? its not like he is working for reuters

I think the point is, Gordon Sparks works in the media where it is his job to inform his listeners/followers of local news.

It is not Gordon Sparks's job to stop reporting news he is hearing, so that he doesn't upset two or three individuals, because the Argyle management can't run their organisation efficiently.

The solution to it all is that Argyle tell the coaches that have served them for years that they are no longer needed, before telling the media and embarrassing our own clueless employees along with the club in the process.

Paven wrote:

Angry wrote:

its hard to be shocked by how unprofessional argyle are these days. Gordon Sparks is a shadey character at the est of times but even he should have kept it quiet before he knew for a fact they were informed first if he had to tweet it.

He does work for a radio company though, this is absolutely the fault of whoever has made the leak.

Sparksy is no David Conn. He should have seen that the "scoop" was not that important and checked to see if the people concerned knew.

And as far as I can see he never replied to Rhys directly.

Everyone blames the club! The club may have had plans to inform the coaches etc but someone leaked to Sparksy.
Sparksy is showing total disregard for employees and being very unprofessional in tweeting the leak.
Sparksy out

What a way to run a football club. At Newcastle Carver and Stone were informed the day before a new manager was appointed. Jeez, even Mike Ashley is streets ahead.

Dick Trickle wrote:

Paven wrote:

Angry wrote:

its hard to be shocked by how unprofessional argyle are these days. Gordon Sparks is a shadey character at the est of times but even he should have kept it quiet before he knew for a fact they were informed first if he had to tweet it.

He does work for a radio company though, this is absolutely the fault of whoever has made the leak.

Sparksy is no David Conn. He should have seen that the "scoop" was not that important and checked to see if the people concerned knew.

And as far as I can see he never replied to Rhys directly.

Why would Sparksy even suspect he has been told that Argyle staff have been released, before the club have even bothered to contact those (former) employees in person?

In learning that the coaches have been let go, the news implies the act has already been done and contact has been made. It's not Sparksy's fault he learned this before the coaches did.

ejh wrote:

Angry wrote:

Paven wrote:

Angry wrote:

its hard to be shocked by how unprofessional argyle are these days. Gordon Sparks is a shadey character at the est of times but even he should have kept it quiet before he knew for a fact they were informed first if he had to tweet it.

He does work for a radio company though, this is absolutely the fault of whoever has made the leak.

whats that got to do with anything? its not like he is working for reuters

I think the point is, Gordon Sparks works in the media where it is his job to inform his listeners of local news.

It is not Gordon Sparks's job to stop reporting news he is hearing, so that he doesn't upset two or three individuals, because the Argyle management can't run their organisation efficiently.

The solution to it all is that Argyle tell the coaches that have served them for years that they are no longer needed, before telling the media and embarrassing our own clueless employees along with themselves sin the process.  

There is Chris Errington a "journalist" telling everyone the club is hiring Derek Adams from a club source 24 hours before its official which is fine and something i consider newsworthy worth breaking to fans as its interesting for the fans to know.

Then there is gordon sparks a radio dj telling everyone from probably the same source as errington's that 3 guys are being fired 24hours before they were even told about it and one of them found out from twitter he was out of a job which is in very poor taste and it doesnt show he club in a goodlight at all. My point is he should have asked his source if it was common knowledge ie have they been told before he had to tell his twitter followers.

Sparksy is blameless.  It is his job to report 'news'.  If he believes his source is correct (and he probably knew by who told him, that it was) why does he need to check any further?

The club are to blame for not telling those concerned, before telling those not involved.

It really is that feckin simple.

Gordon is a moron and he says 'go' instead of 'goal'

What a way to run a football club. At Newcastle Carver and Stone were informed the day before a new manager was appointed. Jeez, even Mike Ashley is streets ahead.

Rickler wrote:

Sparksy is blameless.  It is his job to report 'news'.  If he believes his source is correct (and he probably knew by who told him, that it was) why does he need to check any further?

The club are to blame for not telling those concerned, before telling those not involved.

It really is that feckin simple.

because its not his job to tell club staff they have been fired via twitter before they even get wind. The source should have kept his mouth shut till he understood those guys were informed before feeding his snitches. So the source is too blame.

The coaching staff should have been informed before the club announced Adams as manager. The way this club is run is all wrong.

Sparksy is probably very embarrassed by that tweet.

More than probably seadog. It's not Sparksy's fault.

Angry wrote:

because its not his job to tell club staff they have been fired via twitter before they even get wind. The source should have kept his mouth shut till he understood those guys were informed before feeding his snitches. So the source is too blame.

I am not sure he did tell the club staff? Do they follow him on Twitter? If not someone else told them. Anyway... It is Sparksy's job to tell the world, news. And he did!

Now.. If he knew that those who had lost their jobs didn't know, and went ahead with his tweet anyway, then he's a bad egg.

But I suspect that isn't the case...

Rickler wrote:

Sparksy is blameless.  It is his job to report 'news'.  If he believes his source is correct (and he probably knew by who told him, that it was) why does he need to check any further?

The club are to blame for not telling those concerned, before telling those not involved.

It really is that feckin simple.

How do you know that the club told those 'not involved'. As I said earlier, any plans the club had to tell those involved were thrown out of the window when Sparksy tweeted following a leak .. probably!
Sparksy tweeted with zero thought for those involved - guy should know better
Sparksy out
Kay Burley in

Rickler wrote:

Angry wrote:

because its not his job to tell club staff they have been fired via twitter before they even get wind. The source should have kept his mouth shut till he understood those guys were informed before feeding his snitches. So the source is too blame.

I am not sure he did tell the club staff?  Do they follow him on Twitter? If not someone else told them.  Anyway... It is Sparksy's job to tell the world, news.  And he did!

Now..  If he knew that those who had lost their jobs didn't know, and went ahead with his tweet anyway, then he's a bad egg.

But I suspect that isn't the case...

Rhys Wilmott found out from his tweet Directly since then he has refuse to address the unprofessional mannar of reporting this news when it was made to him the club havent told the guys in question first that's what i dont like.

Gordon Sparks isn't a journalist he is a radio DJ/football commentator at the end of the day and i accept he did this purely to gain new followers and a couple extra rt/faves on the back of this news many would do in his position but its in very poor taste.
Plus what annoys me most, is him Naming names like he did and the info he posted could lose him his inside source! only a few people would have had access to that news so the spy within will be found now  probably will be shot too i dont know.
sparks has alot to learn about Chinese whispers lol.