| Blue Monday on Gary O’Neil 11:40 - Jun 15 with 3891 views | SmithersJones |
Joe put together a compelling case for GON based on his time at Bournemouth and his first season at Wolves. Have a listen as I can’t really do justice to it in the written form.
Can’t say I came away thinking he was the messiah (Gary, that is, not Joe) but can see the logic in it more than I could before. |  | | |  |
| Blue Monday on Gary O’Neil on 08:10 - Jun 16 with 256 views | ITFC_Essex |
| Blue Monday on Gary O’Neil on 13:38 - Jun 15 by tcblue |
We did the "tried and tested hands" when trying to get out of the Championship before McKenna. If you think about it....it worked.
I think the club is stable enough behind the scenes to go rogue again with the head coach, and stretch our thinking. I hate the thought that PL survival is the ends, that leads to us trying to find any means necessary |
Is it really going rogue though? Blackburn did just that back in the day, similar to what we did by nabbing a highly rated coach, Bryan Kidd (Manchester United coach), they were then relegated and nearly went down again the season after. Middlesbrough did similar with Steve McClaren (another top Manchester United coach) and had a good deal more success with that appointment. More recently both ourselves and Middlesbrough nabbed the top two young Manchester United coaches, one is now the Manchester United manager, while McKenna has stepped away from Ipswich.
However, the Premier League is a different beast, what you can get away with in the EFL you can't always get away with in the Premier League. If we appointed an unknown, they are going to have to bring in a whole new squad, on one of the leagues smaller budgets, get them playing his way, all wile adapting to a brutal division. It won't be considered a free-hit like last time, Ipswich supporters won't want Ipswich to turn into another Norwich or Burnley, and won't be swayed by the whole "yeah but look how much money our shareholders made", we want to be in the top flight, and ultimately win trophies again.
Being a hapless yo-yoer and going the way of a Norwich will not be tolerated here in the same way without something to show for it. We want to be Brighton, Brentford and Fulham and not be fodder. The new manager, unlike McKenna, won't have the same level of credit in the bank and will be expected to achieve that. |  |
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| Blue Monday on Gary O’Neil on 08:37 - Jun 16 with 170 views | Chris_ITFC |
| Blue Monday on Gary O’Neil on 11:58 - Jun 15 by Bellevue_Blue |
My opinion but I just don't think you can overlook his last few months at Wolves.
He had 16 Premier League games with a squad far far more talented than ours. He won 2, drew 3 and lost 11 for 9 points.
In the next 16, his replacement Vítor Pereira won 8, drew 2 and lost 6 for 26 points.
I know Wolves are a basket case but he clearly lost the dressing room, he failed to motivate/ improve the players, he threw the ownership under the bus and he wasn't tactically good enough to win points against the teams better than them.
I just can't understand why would you take the risk that that was an isolated incident?
If he failed here, everyone would turn around in unison and go 'of course that was going to happen, look at what at happened with Wolves'. |
Give O’Neill some credit.
This season is all about survival - and up to the point Wolves sacked him, O’Neill was doing a brilliant job at keeping Town in the Premier League. |  |
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