Eagles next coach

Why do you think its a good move for the Eagle that Fab has left?

Last season with a rookie coach with next to no experience of senior coaching Royals won a trophy and got to playoff final

Season before with a rookie coach with next to no experience Cheshire won a trophy

Last three seasons with a budget way in excess of vast majority of other clubs and a very experienced coach Eagles won nothing and didn't even come close to winning anything being realistic

There's lots of ways to skin a cat

And Eagles have a budget to spend on coaching and on players.

This is just sport and business to me?

Mac - your way of seeing how those conversations may have happened may be the correct one. It's plausible. And it speculation as well.

Doesn't change my overall observation that this appears to suit both Eagles and Fab,

And any of you who prefer to think it's all in Fabs favour and eagles had to let him go etc and wished they hadn't. And it doesn't suit them as well.

You are all entitled to believe that if you want to. I'm not stopping you. Or trying to shut you down.

That is four consecutive responses in ten minutes, three to yourself. Says it all. I'm out....

I'm out too. At least half or my posts are when other come on and want to argue the point or attack me. No point me responding to all of them I guess.

Also, at a time when everyone else in the BBL, fans, players, coaches are celebrating his achievements and wishing him well, you are obsessed with pointing out where things have went wrong. And you wonder why people don’t reply or find you arrogant. Thank god your obsession with Fab will stop now.

Sadly I dont think it will. To be frank whatever I say this person will profess to know better and will skew whatever is said to address what appears to be a fixation of some sort.

against my better judgement I will respond directly to the issue of the quote that appears to have been twisted beyond all reasonable comprehension by someone who I, too my knowledge, have never met and who certainly has not met Fab.

However I am not going to get into discussions over basketball systems with someone who does not appear to know what a pick and roll is or budgets with someone who has no knowledge of them at all but professes to do so or indeed the history of winning 81 medals and 574 games entirely depending on Charles Smith popping in a few threes. Its all risible, execrable uninformed nonsense and doesn`t warrant a response.

Fab and nick obviously know each other. Last year by invitation he was embedded for a couple of weeks with the team during international breaks and covered summer league. This year again present at summer league. As much as anything this presented a magnificent learning opportunity for him and by extension us as a club. We positively encouraged it. Anything else would be the most self centred betrayal of him imaginable and we dont operate that way (I of course appreciate that your `40 year knowledge of sports organisations` says different - who to believe : hey hum) If he was ever to be offered a job there would be no question of us standing in his way. As an organisation we believe in trying to offer people the opportunity to better themselves, that is the nature of being in a mid level european league.

and eventually he did get offered a job. I`m told that nick would have definitely offered him that job in July (nice working knowledge there of NBA assistant coach hiring practices) and this was all a big plan to get him out the door. By someone who has no idea. Its unadulterated bollocks.

Everyone in Newcastle and basically 99% of the BBL is utterly made up for him. Everyone here is desperately sad to see him go. But we all know that he had to give this a shot.

Life is about personal advancements, it isnt about counting pots or getting one over on someone. Its not all about gaming the system (although politics at the moment may suggest otherwise). There is room for basic decency in professional sports. Please don`t look at our club through the viewing sphere of your own jaundiced glasses.

I`m out.

Hope every has a great season and will see many of you guys around on the circuit.

Dave

Great response Dave. I'm sure yourself and Ian will do a great job in the interim and possibly longer term.

Just extraordinary how this is twisted. What an opportunity for Fab and well earned! The fact that he hasn't done the Euroleague route or been a GB coach (why not?) makes it even more remarkable. He's someone with a proven track record who is always there and doesn't shy away from hard work--what an example, and absolutely fabulous for the BBL, who have Nick Nurse as their most famous alum. Maybe it's hard to fathom values of loyalty and hard work, and instead try to reduce things to 'it's who you know and not what you know' and other belittling quotes. Nick Nurse does know him and knows that Fab delivers; he knows what Fab knows is valuable to the NBA; he's got other NBA assistants for other areas of knowledge (Scariolo, for example); the NBA is all about special skills and breaking down areas of expertise knowledge. Nurse knows many coaches and ex-players; interesting that he chose Fab out of all those global options of people 'he knows.' It's a testament to coach Flournoy earning that call up to the NBA. And it's a testament to the Eagles that they encourage him to realize his NBA dream. But rather than celebrate all that, it's just pure spite and small-minded insularity from a couple of people here.

My thoughts exactly. 
I watch HoC debate last night and heard more sense from JRM and BJ there than i hear from IRF here. And for the record I have zero tolerance for any of the arrogant views of JRM and/or BJ - both vile abominations of the human race.