| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? 12:37 - Jun 19 with 4175 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
If it is him, which it may not be but if so, would he be the least popular appointment we have ever made?
I remember a large section of support singing "You can stick Joe Royle up your @r53" and he did a pretty decent job so whoever it is we should get behind them but for me GON is a weak and short sighted appointment.
OGS not exactly setting my pulse racing but can see the thought process there. |  |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 14:46 - Jun 19 with 732 views | Lion |
Joe Royle's team and tactics were some of the most entertaining I have ever seen at Portman Road. It was yeah we might let 4 in but we'll score 5. But he was plying his trade in the championship where we were one of the heavyweights ( although he was dealing with an ever weakened squad as we sold off the jewels in the squad each year ) and not the Premier league which is where O Neil would be.
So big fat Joe was quickly able to turn around the doubters, or at least quieten them down.
You would think it would be harder for GON to do that and i really, really dont want him but of course if we did we would try to get behind him.
But he would be the most unpopular appointment ever and I could only see it going one way and that. along with us, is down. |  |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 14:59 - Jun 19 with 690 views | keighleyblue |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 14:08 - Jun 19 by hype313 |
Do you think now is the time to gamble on a young and upcoming manager? This isn't League One, and I'm not overly Enamored with GON, but he does have a body of work that suggests he gives us a fighting chance. |
Carrick seemed to do ok at Utd |  | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:05 - Jun 19 with 663 views | DrissaDiallo |
How was John Duncan's appointment greeted by fans at the time? I started supporting ITFC in 90/91 so can only remember Lyall onwards. |  | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:07 - Jun 19 with 652 views | N2_Blue |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 14:13 - Jun 19 by andyblue231 |
It’s just interesting the phrasing - a young foreign coach is a gamble but GON is a safe pair of hands. There’s no real evidence to suggest this. Young coaches from abroad come in and do well
In the league all the time. Glasner Iraola, hurzeler, Perreira, Silva, Frank.
I’m not sure us being a newly promoted club means we can’t appoint someone like that. To me the language reflects people’s priors and some prejudice. GON is British, knows the league and we need to scrap and fight so he’ll be good for that. Foreign managers are risky and unknown and dangerous.
I’m just not sure the data backs these theories up.
They’re both gambles so yes I’d definitely go for the gamble with a higher ceiling. |
jeeze, if people are calling GON a safe pair of hands the world has truly gone bonkers. |  |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:09 - Jun 19 with 636 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:05 - Jun 19 by DrissaDiallo |
How was John Duncan's appointment greeted by fans at the time? I started supporting ITFC in 90/91 so can only remember Lyall onwards. |
It was very much a period of - Duncan Out chants | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:10 - Jun 19 with 630 views | positivity |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:05 - Jun 19 by DrissaDiallo |
How was John Duncan's appointment greeted by fans at the time? I started supporting ITFC in 90/91 so can only remember Lyall onwards. |
memories may vary, but i think he was fairly well received, being an up and coming with a good record in the league below.
i was pretty young at the time, so, happy to be overruled on this one! | |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:12 - Jun 19 with 599 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:07 - Jun 19 by N2_Blue |
jeeze, if people are calling GON a safe pair of hands the world has truly gone bonkers. |
People must look at bournemourths fishing position as the single and only reason hed be a perfect match
Hes career as a manager is a car crash waiting to happen.
Jobs for the boys if he gets the gig |  |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:20 - Jun 19 with 566 views | NedPlimpton |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:12 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
People must look at bournemourths fishing position as the single and only reason hed be a perfect match
Hes career as a manager is a car crash waiting to happen.
Jobs for the boys if he gets the gig |
He finished 14th in his first season at Wolves having lost Ruben Neves, Matheus Nunes, Raul Jiminez, Joao Moutinho, Adama Traore and Connor Coady (when he was good) in the summer.
1 place lower than the previous season but 5 points more. Wolves were pretty hotly tipped for relegation that season if i remember rightly
He's also doing well at Strasbourg.
I get he's not the most exciting appointment but he's hardly the "car crash" people are making him out to be |  | | |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:27 - Jun 19 with 541 views | Scuzzer |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:05 - Jun 19 by DrissaDiallo |
How was John Duncan's appointment greeted by fans at the time? I started supporting ITFC in 90/91 so can only remember Lyall onwards. |
John Duncan was a bit of an unknown at the time. The fans did give him a chance but it was quite soon that the fans realised that he wasnt up to the job. Some pretty dreadful transfer dealings, including the infamous Graham Harbey I believe.
I don't think I ever grew to like him. |  |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:45 - Jun 19 with 504 views | Lion |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:12 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
People must look at bournemourths fishing position as the single and only reason hed be a perfect match
Hes career as a manager is a car crash waiting to happen.
Jobs for the boys if he gets the gig |
Well, yesterday I was really angry it could be O Neil. Today i am just gutted and flat. Its like a nightmare. Imagine you had been in a coma since the end of the season and when you went under we had KM and when you came out of it we had O Neil. Phil has alluded he thinks it will be him so I have accepted it will be. I really hope he and any poster on here who has wanted him gets the opportunity to shove it down my throat at the end of the season when we stay up. My gut and my head says it is a wrong, incompetent, wholly uninspiring and lazy appointment. I really, really hope i am wrong as i have been before, examples:
Mowbray - he was one of our highest salary players when we signed him ( circa 5k a week at the time i think ) and was injured for the first half of the season. I used to see him driving around Town in his white Mercedes with Mogga plates on it and i used to think who the f@ck does he think he is, hes done f@ck all for us apart from take our money - he came good and i was wrong.
Kuqi - i though he was an absolute donkey when we signed him but he kicked on the next season and he became one of my fave players - i was wrong.
McAteer - I thought he was an absolute waste of money for what we paid for him and although his transfer was very high, he showed there was a player there the last third of the season, i was potentially wrong.
And I hope I am wrong again, I really do. But if Phil says he thinks its him, i think its him. And for me, for the first time, the jury is out on MA. It doesn't feel a 'very extensive search' to me if he has just appointed someone he already knows, it does feel a bit job for the boys. This is our club, Ashton is just a custodian and it isnt about him or who he feels comfortable working with, it is about who is best for the club. I bet he is very aware of the noise - we the fans are the noise - so maybe he just has very big boll@cks and is convinced that of all the potential managers in the world, someone who he just happens to have worked with before is the best possible manager we could get. Lets see. I hope he is right. | |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 16:02 - Jun 19 with 476 views | jayessess |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:12 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
People must look at bournemourths fishing position as the single and only reason hed be a perfect match
Hes career as a manager is a car crash waiting to happen.
Jobs for the boys if he gets the gig |
I mean, that season did happen, didn't it? It is evidence of his ability. Does it not count? |  |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 16:18 - Jun 19 with 426 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 16:02 - Jun 19 by jayessess |
I mean, that season did happen, didn't it? It is evidence of his ability. Does it not count? |
No
Again
He was at the club 18 months before he got the job.
Signings had already been made for him
He didnt join them from strasburg having to then build a whole new team himself.
For me thats the key difference | |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 16:22 - Jun 19 with 422 views | NedPlimpton |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 16:18 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
No
Again
He was at the club 18 months before he got the job.
Signings had already been made for him
He didnt join them from strasburg having to then build a whole new team himself.
For me thats the key difference |
You've mooted Ange as someone you'd prefer to have but O'Neil has a far more impressive record in the prem than him
Also worth highlighting that O'Neil did so well in his first season at Wolves that he was offered a new contract
https://alwayswolves.co.uk/gar | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 20:03 - Jun 19 with 330 views | jayessess |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 16:18 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
No
Again
He was at the club 18 months before he got the job.
Signings had already been made for him
He didnt join them from strasburg having to then build a whole new team himself.
For me thats the key difference |
Again.
It's the most analogous situation to our own.
Managers don't do talent ID anyway.
I don't know why it's necessary to pretend it wasn't an impressive achievement to keep Bournemouth up. To the extent that we're pretending it was somehow an advantage to succeed Scott Parker and inherit his team that had just lost 9-0 and had 3 points from 4 games . | |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 20:08 - Jun 19 with 310 views | Parky |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 15:12 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
People must look at bournemourths fishing position as the single and only reason hed be a perfect match
Hes career as a manager is a car crash waiting to happen.
Jobs for the boys if he gets the gig |
Unlike you to write a manager off before they’ve even held a training session at the club. | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 20:23 - Jun 19 with 289 views | BloomBlue |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 16:18 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
No
Again
He was at the club 18 months before he got the job.
Signings had already been made for him
He didnt join them from strasburg having to then build a whole new team himself.
For me thats the key difference |
Lots of people want Thomas Frank, but if you look at his record at Spurs, that was appalling.
That's the problem with looking at stats when it comes to managers.
As I said on this chat Sir Bob was an appointment unpopular with probably 90%+ of fans at the time - if those fans are honest. He had just been sacked by Fulham and Town fans were very unhappy about appointing a manager sacked from his last job.
Not saying GON is going to be another Sir Bob, but the Cobbolds felt Sir Bob's personality/ ideas would work at Ipswich even if they had failed at Fulham.
Like Frank, it worked for him at Brentford but a complete failure at Spurs. Most Spurs fans think Frank was one of the worst managers in Spurs history, and they've had plenty of them. That's why im struggling that some people are cherry picking GON poor period at Wolves but ignoring Frank's poor period at Spurs |  | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 20:32 - Jun 19 with 247 views | Freddy |
Very disappointing choice if its him | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:20 - Jun 19 with 164 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 20:08 - Jun 19 by Parky |
Unlike you to write a manager off before they’ve even held a training session at the club. |
Have a look around. Am i the only one? | |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:21 - Jun 19 with 169 views | Waig |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:20 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
Have a look around. Am i the only one? |
Nope, we just have to accept dealing with him until October when we get a better replacement | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:26 - Jun 19 with 149 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:20 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
Have a look around. Am i the only one? |
Some of our fanbase needs to get a grip |  |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:30 - Jun 19 with 150 views | Parky |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:20 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
Have a look around. Am i the only one? |
No, you’re not. Unfortunately our recent success has drawn in some idiots. Have your opinion, fine, but we’re in the Premier League and not kicked a ball, get behind the team. | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:32 - Jun 19 with 137 views | Waig |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:30 - Jun 19 by Parky |
No, you’re not. Unfortunately our recent success has drawn in some idiots. Have your opinion, fine, but we’re in the Premier League and not kicked a ball, get behind the team. |
Idiots for having a different opinion to the TWTD regulars? Who in the main are the minority?
I hope we are wrong about this awful appointment but just know we won’t be | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:33 - Jun 19 with 131 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:30 - Jun 19 by Parky |
No, you’re not. Unfortunately our recent success has drawn in some idiots. Have your opinion, fine, but we’re in the Premier League and not kicked a ball, get behind the team. |
Not one person has said they arent behind the team. We are talking about a person who may be manager. | |
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| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:37 - Jun 19 with 130 views | Parky |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:32 - Jun 19 by Waig |
Idiots for having a different opinion to the TWTD regulars? Who in the main are the minority?
I hope we are wrong about this awful appointment but just know we won’t be |
Nope, that’s not what I said, is it? | | | |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:40 - Jun 19 with 119 views | Parky |
| Would GON be the most unpopular appointment ever? on 21:33 - Jun 19 by FrimleyBlue |
Not one person has said they arent behind the team. We are talking about a person who may be manager. |
“Not one person” - there’s a separate 3 page thread with idiots saying GON will never be accepted.
Not to even mention this clown: | | | |
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