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O'Neil aka GONe

"I have no interest in myself or my own ego or Jack, just the club and where the club needs to get to.
"So what's the best decision for the club at this moment? In my opinion, it was to revert back to something that we've done before."
When asked if he will target a replacement, O'Neil added: "Not urgently, no. We'll have a look at set-plays between me and the coaching staff."
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Lol
 
Clearly, the set piece coach was not very good, but he has been scapegoated.
He surely wasn't working with complete autonomy?! It was surely in the gift of GON to mention that he wanted somebody to try and mark the big man loitering at the back post?! And then the set piece coach would work something out with that new parameter
 
Sounds like he bought someone in to delegate that responsibility to and free up some of his time for other things, that turned out to be a bust so they've been moved on and they've returned to the setup from last year. No issue for me, you try something new but there's no point sticking with it if it's failing.
 
The bloke, at least statistically, made it a rather large amount worse, so backtracking probably was the right thing to do. It was pretty stark stuff in those few games that we had become rancid at defending set pieces. Down to GON to at least improve the stat back to last season's levels then.
 
Still managed to concede from a set piece at the weekend, only difference was we decided to leave Bernardo Silva free next to Sa every time, rather than a man at the back stick free.
 
Shi, Hobbs and O’Neil were always pinning their hopes on November, anything less than 7pts is unacceptable.
 
ROVERT47 said:
Shi, Hobbs and O’Neil were always pinning their hopes on November, anything less than 7pts is unacceptable.
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I’m not sure even 7 is enough given how we’ve written off this first quarter of a season. Would depend on if we can with another 3 in December I guess and even that just gets us to 1 PPG rather than any degree of comfort
 
Unless 30 points is going to keep you up again, I think we need 14 pts from our next 8. Would still be behind a ppg even then.

Also worth pointing out that by then we will have played the 3 other teams that at the moment look most likely to be down there all at home, so the second half of the season is tougher.
 
Just noticed that the top 9 in the league are the 9 teams we've faced so far.

Not an excuse for our points total whatsoever but an interesting point nonetheless in what a tough set of fixtures we've had.

Edit - As pointed out it's 8 of the top 9. Spurs the outlier.
 
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Win the next 2 and we still don’t have parity with Everton or Leicester assuming they don’t get anything from their next two games. Pretty much highlights just how desperate a situation we’re in.
The amount of social media clowns claiming this a big tick in the box for GON are fucking delusional. He’s still not won in 13 games, this also isn’t kick start for the season.
 
I’d like to think a loss to Palace would be the tipping point but I’ve a feeling our owners, like the rest of China, have very little interest in football anymore.
 
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