Criticism of O'Neill's approach


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hopefully we can get through the season without it turning sour and see what happens in the summer.

roll on next season cos this one is so depressing!

Trouble is, this is what we said last year. I've said it before, but we play the worst football in the league
 
what a bunch of spineless wimps you are , of course he's setting his stall out " not to get beat " he's inherited a team of championship players ffs.
this guy is the best manager this club have had since stokoe !!
we gotta stick with him and when he has his own team we will reap the rewards. As this BS about ndye being crap today , the poor twat had colback as his central midfield partner for the entire 2cnd half . Talk about a bum deal.
 
Well I can see two potential reasons why we are so negative.

1) that's just his tactics at every club and he ain't gonna change now.
2) he recognises football has moved on but does not have enough confidence in the current defense and midfield to allow them to play more openly and attacking.
 
wonder how many arnt renewing next season

I know of 5 - the football is f***ing appalling and one of the lad's mates has been to 8 home games this year for fuck-all, by texting a number

what a bunch of spineless wimps you are , of course he's setting his stall out " not to get beat " he's inherited a team of championship players ffs.
this guy is the best manager this club have had since stokoe !!
we gotta stick with him and when he has his own team we will reap the rewards. As this BS about ndye being crap today , the poor twat had colback as his central midfield partner for the entire 2cnd half . Talk about a bum deal.

Define 'spineless wimps'?
 
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what a bunch of spineless wimps you are , of course he's setting his stall out " not to get beat " he's inherited a team of championship players ffs.
this guy is the best manager this club have had since stokoe !!
we gotta stick with him and when he has his own team we will reap the rewards. As this BS about ndye being crap today , the poor twat had colback as his central midfield partner for the entire 2cnd half . Talk about a bum deal.

we where playing a team of 'championship' players certainly more so than ours
 
what a bunch of spineless wimps you are , of course he's setting his stall out " not to get beat " he's inherited a team of championship players ffs.
this guy is the best manager this club have had since stokoe !!
we gotta stick with him and when he has his own team we will reap the rewards. As this BS about ndye being crap today , the poor twat had colback as his central midfield partner for the entire 2cnd half . Talk about a bum deal.

Well I would say a spineless wimp is someone who blames one player for the manager's failings.

I f the tactics are his they're wrong and if the players aren't doing what he wants them ro; then he can't manage.

And he didn't inherit a team of championship players. Every one of them is good enough to play in the premiership.

I'm glad he's setting his stall out not to lose. It's working, isn't it?
 
Is it safe to assume that we are now allowed to debate how we play without being branded mags or bedwetters?

Completely justified. This negative 4-2-0-3-1 is either absolute shit or quiet effective at gettting points on the board. It is always however, extremely horrible to look at.

As I say we've played Barcelona the last two weeks.
 
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:

So why has he not improved the squad in the 3 transfer windows he's had?

Why do we still not have 1 decent full back of our own?

Why is there still no pace in defence or midfield?

Why does he leave substitutions so late as to be ineffective?

Why can't he change formation/tactics during a game to match the opposition?

Sadly we have a nice dinosaur as manager and we have not and will not progress
 
So why has he not improved the squad in the 3 transfer windows he's had?

Why do we still not have 1 decent full back of our own?

Why is there still no pace in defence or midfield?

Why does he leave substitutions so late as to be ineffective?

Why can't he change formation/tactics during a game to match the opposition?

Sadly we have a nice dinosaur as manager and we have not and will not progress

You missed a question.

Why don't we get you as manager?
 
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.

Agree. There's something sick at the heart of this club and it doesn't seem to matter who manages us. Having said that I'm disappointed with MoN who is looking like a dinosaur. He's not doing it.
 
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Will take 2 years and 4-5 transfer windows to turn things around. In that time we will suffer bad defeats like yesterday, WBA away last season etc
 
Swansea and Reading games looked like post XMAS shite. Thought we may have turned a corner. We got wins as we pressed teams and put them under pressure. Our defensive line was 15 yards higher which meant Sess and Flecther had options and had more support. Last 2 games we have looked to get a draw and really sat back. The pace when pressing has been non existent.
 
Will take 2 years and 4-5 transfer windows to turn things around. In that time we will suffer bad defeats like yesterday, WBA away last season etc

In that time, four of our central defenders will be retired. There will be other problems that will take precedence. There are too many problems that need sorting now. We could easily go back down by then, top ten they are having a laugh.

The quality of our incoming transfers needs to prove from the last window.
 
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