Criticism of O'Neill's approach


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so we sack him..then what

we get a new manager in, he wants his own players and the whole sorry saga starts all over again.. another season of transition while the manager gets in his own team..and so on and so on

Or we wait & watch awful football for however long .....
 
Problems:
We panic in possession and hoof it forward to Sess and Fletcher often in the air.
The gap between Fletcher and the rest of the team is enormous, we sit to deep.
Our defensive headers always go to the opposition.
When crosses come in we're lucky if there a 2 red and white shirts in the box, usually against 6 defenders.

Solution:
Play as a unit. Go forward as a unit come back as unit, unless there is a chance to counter quickly.
Pass and move, give the man in possession more than one option.
Head the ball to a red and white shirt from defence.
Get players in the box. See Man U usually 5 in or around the box for crosses.
Stop hoofing it forward.
 
I don't know I'm in two minds on the whole thing.

For me, its a bit like Big Sam, MON's football is only worth it if its successful and he is usually successful so we just need to hold our nerve through the transition stage to the fruitful stage.

Get the impression we didn't do much in January as we think we are safe and you get more value in summer. Think the summer is big for him if we want to progress to a steady top 8 team not constantly looking over our shoulder.
 
i have been a happy clapper the whole time, putting faith into MON 100% but im sad to say im starting to question him. His decisions during a game and in the transfer market baffle me. We all kept saying "wait til he signs the players he wants" etc but given the opportunity to strengthen it seems he has failed. Obviously we dont know what players we were in for and maybe they turned us down.
I hope to god he shows us all that he is still the man for the job.

this is not a knee jerk reaction either, we are playing some of the most dire football i have ever seen and I'm sick of it.

I'm sorry mate but you're STARTING to question him? It's not meant to be smug, but I've been saying the same thing for months and been pilloried for it. He is most definitely NOT the man for the job; and I'd feel the same even if he won the next four games with this desperate shit system of his. Nice fella but I'd be happy to see the back of him and get a younger, more progressive manager in.
 
I'm sorry mate but you're STARTING to question him? It's not meant to be smug, but I've been saying the same thing for months and been pilloried for it. He is most definitely NOT the man for the job; and I'd feel the same even if he won the next four games with this desperate shit system of his. Nice fella but I'd be happy to see the back of him and get a younger, more progressive manager in.

I wanted him , have backed him but his style of football & lack of ambition in the transfer market has changed my mind
Sick of watchin boring ,repetative , negative, football
 
It certainly is a depressing picture, but I did expect some quality in the last window. We seem to be back to the Bob Murray type signings. I have been suspect about Short's signing policy for some time now, difficult to tell whose t is but he is the common denominator between SB and MON Having seen two of the three signings, I can't see things changing, same old, same old.

Yes, I am jealous of those up the road. Yes, I would like us to play like Swansea with bit more punch. Etc., etc., etc..
 
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so we sack him..then what

we get a new manager in, he wants his own players and the whole sorry saga starts all over again.. another season of transition while the manager gets in his own team..and so on and so on

I think the team wouldn't do that bad if we just changed the tactics a little. Would be able to cope against sides such as Reading definitely.

But sadly MON just won't change 'his' tactics.
 
If you score two goals it takes three to beat you that is my football philosophy, we have only scored 2 or more goals in games 5 times this season.

Not good enough to win football matches regularly.
 
Football is about opinions.....and my is .....100% people on here are a million times less qualified than O'neil to run the SAFC football team :cool:
 
i have been a happy clapper the whole time, putting faith into MON 100% but im sad to say im starting to question him. His decisions during a game and in the transfer market baffle me. We all kept saying "wait til he signs the players he wants" etc but given the opportunity to strengthen it seems he has failed. Obviously we dont know what players we were in for and maybe they turned us down.
I hope to god he shows us all that he is still the man for the job.

this is not a knee jerk reaction either, we are playing some of the most dire football i have ever seen and I'm sick of it.

I think this is the issue. I did not see today's game but many times this season we have been lucky to get a shot on target never mind score.
 
Key word.

Sadly, it's not allowed on here these days.

Will take seconds before you're called a ****.

Place has definitely changed. Ironically RAWK gets mocked for its intolerance of dissent.

I'm stalked for being critical of O'Neill, sure I'm not alone.
 
Not every good manager is successful at every club they go to. This may be the case here. He'll keep us up this season and maybe he'll get the squad he wants by the end of the summer transfer window and we'll start to get consistency and move on a bit. Or it just wont work out.
 
We consistently set our stall out to not lose, we do not appear to have the confidence to go after teams.

Maybe that will now change with the arrival of another striker, not so sure.

If Mon has a long term plan for how we approach games then all is well.

I hope he is given the time to get it right, but we need to start dictating games.
 
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