O'Neil Confirmed

[prawnking]

I'd be surprised if our line-up and approach at Old Trafford doesn't regress to newly-promoted-small-club-day-out mentality

 

[Kenny]

It looks like we are all going to overthink about his overthinking!

Hopefully half of his tinkering was down to the quality of player he had and trying to get the best out of them against better opposition.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I watched the Everton v Bournemouth game last day of last season and I remember being impressed with their desire in what was a dead rubber for them.


One thing he did do was bring on Moore with 30 mins or so to go and start getting the fullbacks to bang it into him...prior to that they were playing some quite nice stuff without really creating anything.

 

[prawnking]

It looks like we are all going to overthink about his overthinking!

Nah, it's simple thinking...and harmless prediction.

Tinkering could be due to lack of confidence, or just the fact he was (and still is) cutting his teeth.

However good he is (probably not very), by virtue of his massive inexperience he'll be finding things out on the job when there are vital PL points at stake. Another reason why it's a huge gamble we didn't have to take.

He's gonna be the Fabio Silva of managerial appointments. Too inexperienced and not actually good enough for where we should be aiming, but we'll get gaslit by the club and some other Wolves fans that he's exciting and full of potential. But it's really just bad decision making for non-football reasons

 

[Templeton Peck]

I think the key thing is that he keeps the squad really fit, something Lage failed to do. We are going to have to fight hard for points and if the players are blowing out of their arses after 70 minutes we’re stuffed.

His Bournemouth team out ran most of the Prem last season. You can have lots of pointless running though...

 

[Sniffer]

You can have the best plans and game management but if your players are bottom 6 quality the chances are you will still lose a fair few matches. To keep Bournemouth up was a huge achievement and everyone recognised that at the time. It could go horribly wrong but if he can get enough of a tune out of the squad that he had last season then I would hope that he'll be able to replicate that here.

 

[prawnking]

To keep Bournemouth up was a huge achievement and everyone recognised that at the time.

He deserves credit for that, no doubt, so why didn't little Bournemouth decide to keep him and build on that?

 

[Sniffer]

He deserves credit for that, no doubt, so why didn't little Bournemouth decide to keep him and build on that?

Designs above their station? It'll will hopefully end in tears for them at some point.

 

[prawnking]

That's what I'm hoping too, but I'd rather my club had ideas above their station than ideas below, which is what we have now

 

[Wilf Wolf]

His Bournemouth team out ran most of the Prem last season. You can have lots of pointless running though...

Pointless running is better than not being able to run.

 

[sycophantia]

Designs above their station? It'll will hopefully end in tears for them at some point.

I heard a radio piece talking to the American owner just after sacking Gaz and he did come across as wanting the club to play a more exciting brand while maintaining their Premier status not sure thats possible for a club like Bournemouth.

 

[WsWolf]

His Bournemouth team out ran most of the Prem last season. You can have lots of pointless running though...

Bit of a byproduct of playing direct though. They didn't keep the ball for any period of time.

 

[Kenny]

GO here demonstrating what he will do if he ever meets that Johnny75 chap

 

[Templeton Peck]

Playing devil's advocate in regards to the Bournemouth videos we've seen I would say that they both seem to overstate the quality of their squad. Probably the weakest or joint weakest at the start of the season. There seems to be a view that anyone could have kept Bournemouth up based on the quality of their players and I can't agree with that. One of them also talks about overly relying on Tavernier moments of magic like he's Napoli era Maradona. A stretch to say the least.

Their post Christmas results weren't just about the new arrivals either. They spent 54m on 3 players but O'Neil didn't use them that often.

On the vid I posted the view seemed to be that any wins they achieved were because the opposition were shit but every loss was down to O'Neil.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

On the vid I posted the view seemed to be that any wins they achieved were because the opposition were shit but every loss was down to O'Neil.

I can't imagine that will change at Wolves.

 

[Templeton Peck]

I can't imagine that will change at Wolves.

Well yeah. Every football fan ever probably.

 

[WsWolf]

I laughed at the 'Tavernier masterclass: comment. Not even the best footballer in his family.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

The more I dwell on it, the angrier I am that we have appointed Gary O'Neil as our manager. Without trying to sound too snobby, he should be nowhere near a club of our size.

I wonder if I type 'Fuck off Fosun' on here at least once a day it will make me feel any better.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

If we'd been mid table in the Championship and appointed O'Neil we'd have been underwhelmed.

We shouldn't be surprised though, Hobbs wanted Beale, it was only luck and his enormous ego that stopped that mistake.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Well yeah. Every football fan ever probably.

Unless they like/respect the manager.

Under Nuno we regularly walked away from one of our "don't play in the first half win the second half" or comeback games thinking it was a masterclass from Nuno.

When many neutrals probably came to the conclusion we were lucky.