O'Neil Confirmed

[White Wolf]

Granted we have a better squad than they had, but this isn't someone whose reputation comes from improving the players he had available. He did need money to keep Bournemouth in the league. Was Parker gutless? I'm not a fan but he was sacked for criticising the board and pointing out the obvious which was that Bournemouth needed signings in order to stay up, I had thought. As the caretaker O'Neil was there to pick up the pieces and not criticise transfer policy, something which I imagine appeals to Fosun.

 

[Kenny]

His reputation as a manager is somewhat an unknown bar keeping a team up in his only season.

We know why he is here - cheap and available

It will probably prove to be a crap appointment to put the world's biggest cherry on top of the fuck up cake we have been baking since May.

I won't fully go 2 footed on him until evidence of the above is playing out though.
Want him to be a success, really do.

Yes Parker is gutless.

 

[slink]

When you look at the signings Bourenemouth made in January (£50 million) there’s only Vina, Ouattara and Traore that played a significant amount of minutes. Vina and Traore were on loan and Ouattara cost £20 million. Semenyo and Zubarnyi played just over 500 minutes in total between them.

So yes Bournemouth spent money but O’Neill didn’t really use those players, i would guess they were club signings too rather than ones he picked out.

 

[prawnking]

GO Speaks

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1023580278821817

Just got round to watching this and it's so...beige.

Comes off more as a nice guy assistant to me, little engaging or authoritative about him, best we can hope for IMO is the player's just do their own thing this season and hope that's enough to get us over the line.

Yay.

 

[Deano]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689681516090073101

 

[Johnny75]

Just got round to watching this and it's so...beige.

Comes off more as a nice guy assistant to me, little engaging or authoritative about him, best we can hope for IMO is the player's just do their own thing this season and hope that's enough to get us over the line.

Yay.

I thought it was far from beige.

The players have been playing a certain way and he'll be looking to change that to what he wants. He also begs for support. Fuck that, earn it.

This will be horrific for his Nathan Jones style 10 games before he's ousted.

 

[WsWolf]

I thought it was far from beige.

The players have been playing a certain way and he'll be looking to change that to what he wants. He also begs for support. Fuck that, earn it.

This will be horrific for his Nathan Jones style 10 games before he's ousted.

I was getting Brian Clough vibes.

 

[Johnny75]

I was getting Brian Clough vibes.

Yeah, GoN really has nailed charisma.

 

[WsWolf]

Yeah, GoN really has nailed charisma.

Can't wait till he punches Nunes at half time for giving the ball away. Worked.with Roy Keane.

 

[Lupo]

More like Ida Clough

 

[DogWeasel]

My only positive with bringing O'Neil in is that at least we didn't get Lampard or Jones.

Silver linings and all.

 

[Loki]

Well, he`s got his chance. Time to get behind him until he screws up, which would be the case whoever got the job.

 

[Templeton Peck]

In a nutshell

Works very hard
Nice bloke
Good with the players
Poor in game management
No discernible style
Overthinks

 

[Kenny]

In a nutshell

Works very hard - Lage
Nice bloke - Not Lage
Good with the players - Not Lage
Poor in game management - Lage
No discernible style - Lage
Overthinks - Not Lage

50% result on the Not Lage scale. Not overly happy with that result

 

[Wilf Wolf]

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.

 

[prawnking]

Another one here. Don't think O'Neil has enough about him for any fan to hate, but I've seen a few B'mouth fans complaining about constant formation tinkering (including in-game) and lack of identity.

He'll be exposed and out-thought constantly in this league.

 

[The Bear]

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.

It'll be interesting to see if the attacking style of pre-season changes. Man Utd away isn't going to be much of a barometer but after that we'll know a lot more.

 

[Deano]

I'm concerned he might come in and try and change too much, you see managers wanting to come in and make fairly big changes to "put their own stamp on it" sometimes, even changing some things that were already working well. I know they're friendlies but signs were good in terms of performance and chance creation in pre-season, it probably needs small tweaks at best.

 

[prawnking]

My guess is, we'll see some dubious favourites (bet Hwang has the oven on already) and selection choices, lots of caution away from home, over-emphasis tactically on what the opposition is likely to do, an attempt to rekindle 3 at the back with Doc as WB

 

[Wilf Wolf]

It'll be interesting to see if the attacking style of pre-season changes. Man Utd away isn't going to be much of a barometer but after that we'll know a lot more.

Judging him after the MU game would be foolish but we might learn something about his approach. His initial task in a run of tough games is to do enough to still be here once the seemingly easier games arrive. I’d love him to surprise us all but worry his reported tendency to keep tinkering makes that unlikely. The key to success is having everyone knowing what their role is and Nuno and Lop excelled at that.