| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. 20:01 - Jun 23 with 925 views | ITFC_Essex |
I really don't want us to be back looking for a new manager come January just because things have not gone well, the Premier League is brutal. We will have had a new manager and squad together just a few months in the toughest league in the world, we can probably expect to be bottom three. That's not me trying to be negative, but it will take some doing to keep us up and not doing so won't make O'Neil a bad appointment at all.
We saw how hard it was to bed new players in, in the Championship, last season and the nature of our transfer business being done relatively late in the window probably cost us the league title last season. The Premier League will be a whole other challenge.
He's got a 3 year contract, lets see him get the time to do as he says, stabilize in the top flight. It might take another go yet to get there, like it did with say Fulham and Bournemouth. |  |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 20:06 - Jun 23 with 881 views | wkj |
I think he'll be given time, but the question is if/when he starts being negative towards others in pressers - that's when I would imagine many people would turn |  |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 20:08 - Jun 23 with 871 views | ITFC_Essex |
| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 20:06 - Jun 23 by wkj |
I think he'll be given time, but the question is if/when he starts being negative towards others in pressers - that's when I would imagine many people would turn |
I agree, I have my reservations due to the Wolves stint... but I don't want us to become a merry-go-round club again like we did under Evans hiring manager, after manager, from the bin heap. | |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 20:12 - Jun 23 with 852 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
I think he will get given a fair shot. I think as long as it gets to Xmas and you are in touching distance you are fine. Even last time we were in the league we were 1 point from safety on new Years day and off the back of some decent results feeling pretty good.
If you get to January and you are dead and buried by then its probably a different conversation but im confident that wont happen. |  |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 12:56 - Jun 25 with 645 views | ITFC_Essex |
| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 20:12 - Jun 23 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
I think he will get given a fair shot. I think as long as it gets to Xmas and you are in touching distance you are fine. Even last time we were in the league we were 1 point from safety on new Years day and off the back of some decent results feeling pretty good.
If you get to January and you are dead and buried by then its probably a different conversation but im confident that wont happen. |
I am ALL IN on O'Neil for the next couple of seasons. I don't really expect us to stay up, so anything above that is good enough. If we do end up back in the Championship then I full expect him and us to win the league, or come as damn close as we can to it. | |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:00 - Jun 25 with 626 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 12:56 - Jun 25 by ITFC_Essex |
I am ALL IN on O'Neil for the next couple of seasons. I don't really expect us to stay up, so anything above that is good enough. If we do end up back in the Championship then I full expect him and us to win the league, or come as damn close as we can to it. |
Depends how we go down really. | |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:02 - Jun 25 with 615 views | FlowerofScotland |
As mentioned earlier there will be an expectation for him to articulate that position in a way which people can understand and accept. Without the communication skills of McKenna that may prove tough. |  | | |
| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:26 - Jun 25 with 528 views | itfc_statman |
He'll be gone before christmas - hard to blame O'Neil for that, there's a reason Championship clubs have opted against hiring him. I don't think he's even a top Championship manager so unlike McKenna we're going to get to Christmas and it'll make sense to "roll the dice" | | | |
| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:30 - Jun 25 with 516 views | jayessess |
If we're have a season like 2024-25 or like Burnley last season, it would take a massive amount of resolve from the board for him to still be in post for the following year. |  |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:32 - Jun 25 with 509 views | nodge_blue |
The main thing against that argument is that GON has said he is 100 percent aure that he will keep us up. So if we are adrift at xmas then he has failed his own criteria.
But in general yes he should get a fair crack. Kmc had a poor premier league campaign and you could argue that if GON beats 22 points its an improvement. |  |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:41 - Jun 25 with 479 views | jayessess |
| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:32 - Jun 25 by nodge_blue |
The main thing against that argument is that GON has said he is 100 percent aure that he will keep us up. So if we are adrift at xmas then he has failed his own criteria.
But in general yes he should get a fair crack. Kmc had a poor premier league campaign and you could argue that if GON beats 22 points its an improvement. |
50% of KM's squad had been recruited in L1 and we had one of the worst injury records in the division. GON should have a better base to work from, so I think it'd be a failure to be near KM's points total. | |
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| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:49 - Jun 25 with 453 views | FlowerofScotland |
| I hope we give Gary O’Neil the time. on 13:32 - Jun 25 by nodge_blue |
The main thing against that argument is that GON has said he is 100 percent aure that he will keep us up. So if we are adrift at xmas then he has failed his own criteria.
But in general yes he should get a fair crack. Kmc had a poor premier league campaign and you could argue that if GON beats 22 points its an improvement. |
The sort of bullishness that Ashton would find hard to refuse I imagine. We've seen managers recover from chastening experiences to succeed,but more often than not there is a loss of confidence which spreads throughout the players and fans.
Lets hope he has some original ideas because this could become a very long and drawn-out painful process. | | | |
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