O'Neil Confirmed

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Seems like Hodge is pretty firmly in with the first team unless a new CM arrives.

It’s frustrating that we haven’t given Cundle a chance instead.

How fit is Jordao? He is better than Hodge FFS.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Seems like Hodge is pretty firmly in with the first team unless a new CM arrives.

Has to be by default. Two spots (if we stick with the current shape) and seems we're largely considering Matheus as a wide option for now. So he's 4th out of 4.

He shouldn't be of course.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It’s frustrating that we haven’t given Cundle a chance instead.

How fit is Jordao? He is better than Hodge FFS.

Cundle couldn't play CM in our current system, no chance (that's not to say Hodge can either).

Might maybe be able to play where Sarabia did first half against Rennes.

 

[Alan]

It’s frustrating that we haven’t given Cundle a chance instead.

How fit is Jordao? He is better than Hodge FFS.

I think it's reasonable to guess that the club do rate Cundle higher than Hodge, even still. Whichever of the two of them stayed surely would not get regular minutes and rather would/will plug holes as needed. We may simply think that Cundle should have more or less guaranteed minutes at Argyle to keep growing.

Again, I'm clutching from the strawman of blind optimism.

 

[SSB]

I don't typically watch these as I have no idea what use any of the drills are, but stuck it out because I'm desperately looking for positives to cling to. Ended up just being nostalgic for football practice back in high school. Never thought I'd look back on that fondly.

Seems like Hodge is pretty firmly in with the first team unless a new CM arrives.

Whatever you do, don't play the "Let's Go!" drinking game.

 

[sycophantia]

Apologies for being a football coaching numpty but are all drills pretty much universal amongst individual coaches?

 

[Kenny]

The stuff they release for us plebs to see will just be basic drills.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Real elite coaches have all the attackers lined up on the six yard box battering shots at the keeper.

It was interesting how O'Neil used Billing last season for Bournemouth but equally we don't have a player like that in the current squad.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Yeah Billing was excellent in a kind of free role.

 

[Kenny]

Real elite coaches have all the attackers lined up on the six yard box battering shots at the keeper.

Coaches that get on the front cover of the German FIFA game?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Tiny, tiny sample size but I look at how Joao Gomes took his goals vs Southampton and Rennes and hope we don't waste him just parked 10 yards in front of our slowcoach centre halves. He's so much more than that.

 

[Alan]

I wouldn't have guessed that Billing would have been nearly as good at that as he was, so that's kind of a feather in GO'N's hat.

As Dan says, though, we don't really have that profile of player. Bouba could maybe do something similar but he's not quite the tank that Billing is.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Tiny, tiny sample size but I look at how Joao Gomes took his goals vs Southampton and Rennes and hope we don't waste him just parked 10 yards in front of our slowcoach centre halves. He's so much more than that.

He is, but who else plays there? I'd ideally want 2 sitting in front of our dodgy centre backs.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He is, but who else plays there? I'd ideally want 2 sitting in front of our dodgy centre backs.

If we go full on Mancienne/Henry circa 2010 then we'll get relegated.

 

[The Bear]

I'm hoping he plays Cunha in that Billing role just off the striker. Perfect for him.

 

[big mean bunny]

I have been very down on this change, but I watched the video and O'Neil seems to have the same illuminous yellow whistle from Decathlon that I used as a coach and when I taught PE. That's his first win, people with black whistles it's like "what are you, the ref? Get some joy in your life... ".

Just need his views on puma kings, subbuteo and if he thinks Sega Rally is the best racing game of all time, and then me and him can officially be boys...

 

[WsWolf]

O’Neil | ‘We have a good chance of doing something this year’

Gary O’Neil has praised the efforts of his Wolves players during his first two days at the club and believes the talented squad at his disposal will be...

www.wolves.co.uk

Doesn't really tell us a lot but gives a bit more insight.

 

[Johnny75]

Cundle couldn't play CM in our current system, no chance (that's not to say Hodge can either).

Might maybe be able to play where Sarabia did first half against Rennes.

He's more of a 10, plays instead of Cunha when he's gassed or as the most advanced of a 3 in a tight 433 as he did at Swansea.

Very successful too.

 

[Johnny75]

I'm hoping he plays Cunha in that Billing role just off the striker. Perfect for him.

That's where Lop had played him in the 4-4-1-1

 

[Alan]

He is, but who else plays there? I'd ideally want 2 sitting in front of our dodgy centre backs.

4-2-x-x formations are wildly out of fashion at the moment, innit. I'm struggling to think of the last Prem side I saw play a proper double-pivot.