Gary O'Neil - tactics

[SuperGran]

Anyone else really like how GON comes across in interviews and press conferences? Perhaps it's because we have a manager with English being their native language, but I think he is very good at the media stuff.

Agree he handles himself well with the media

 

[JadeWolf]

Anyone else really like how GON comes across in interviews and press conferences? Perhaps it's because we have a manager with English being their native language, but I think he is very good at the media stuff.

Seems very calm. He’s not quite Bruno Lage level of open where he’d pretty much give out the line-up and tactics pre-game. But he seems happy to chat and tells it how he sees it.

 

[brianm]

Anyone else really like how GON comes across in interviews and press conferences? Perhaps it's because we have a manager with English being their native language, but I think he is very good at the media stuff.

We have some body language experts who disagree, but I think he comes across well. Three general impressions: 1. Intelligent 2. Hard-worker 3. Grounded

I just like him, personally. Think he's a good young manager who will do good things with this club.

 

[JadeWolf]

We have some body language experts who disagree, but I think he comes across well. Three general impressions: 1. Intelligent 2. Hard-worker 3. Grounded

I just like him, personally. Think he's a good young manager who will do good things with this club.

And also he’s the kind of manager you want to do well. Obviously we want all Wolves managers to do well but he seems very personable and humble.

 

[Wednesfield:wolfie]

I quite agree, i pointed this out before and was slated by a few as being zenophobic

Far too many on here giving seriously negative vibes on Gary from day 1. At least a fair few are modifying their views after seeing and hearing positive stuff.

He will be sacked at some stage,they all are but give him time i think he is going to be better than expected.

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

I don't really agree, I think some of the stuff he said after Man U and Brighton was ridiculous. Still on the plus side I don't really care, as long as we win I'm fine with someone who talks rubbish. Most of them do as they don't want to be there and know that the more they say, the more likely they are to give something away or upset someone, a news conference is pretty much a no win for a manager.

 

[Golden_Wolf]

I don't really agree, I think some of the stuff he said after Man U and Brighton was ridiculous. Still on the plus side I don't really care, as long as we win I'm fine with someone who talks rubbish. Most of them do as they don't want to be there and know that the more they say, the more likely they are to give something away or upset someone, a news conference is pretty much a no win for a manager.

What did he say after United that was ridiculous?

 

[MasWolf]

Seems very calm. He’s not quite Bruno Lage level of open where he’d pretty much give out the line-up and tactics pre-game. But he seems happy to chat and tells it how he sees it.

I couldn't decipher what Bruno was saying. It was just a bunch of random words to me!

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

What did he say after United that was ridiculous?

I might be confusing pressers, but at some point he said (paraphrasing) when you get a job you always have problems because there are reasons why the last guy was sacked.

Like I said though, they all divert attention away from blame on individual players and that sort of stuff, blame the ref, injuries, the ball, anything, they all do it, it's not a problem.

 

[GoldenHorseshoe]

I couldn't decipher what Bruno was saying. It was just a bunch of random words to me!

I felt the same, it was like he was stringing a bunch of clichés together, "line of 5", "line of 4" etc.
I must say I liked Nuno's press conferences, he did get irritated with some of the reporters questions, but basically it often mirrored my own irritations.

 

[WickedWolfie]

He's such a unit (while still having some good technique) that I fancy him to bundle a few in.

I think a lot of his movement has been pretty good too.

To be honest Sasa is a bloody good striker and if he didn't have such a bloody awful injury record he'd probably be at a top club now. Let's hope that he doesn't break again.

 

[MasWolf]

I felt the same, it was like he was stringing a bunch of clichés together, "line of 5", "line of 4" etc.
I must say I liked Nuno's press conferences, he did get irritated with some of the reporters questions, but basically it often mirrored my own irritations.

Nuno was great up to a point. When he kept going on about "solutions" it got a bit tedious. Also if ever asked about another team, he'd always say "good team, good players".

 

[WickedWolfie]

I wonder if GON will throw his toys out of the pram and walk now that Nunes has been sold against his wishes?

Frankly he is rather less likely to walk into another job....

 

[WickedWolfie]

Nuno was great up to a point. When he kept going on about "solutions" it got a bit tedious. Also if ever asked about another team, he'd always say "good team, good players".

"Solutions" was Nuno's coded language for "I can't bring anyone else in!".....

 

[nomadwolf]

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[Dan G WWFC]

I've seen enough. The majority initial response was correct. He's ****e

 

[hambaps]

I've seen enough. The majority initial response was correct. He's ****e

Hard to disagree so far, creating absolutely nothing.

 

[Perton Wolf]

There's no clue or idea with regard to our purpose in possession, we just knock the ball around at a ridiculously slow tempo. Little penetration, no forwards to aim for in the box, what's the point?

 

[Scallywolf]

We look knackered!

 

[Dan G WWFC]

Hard to disagree so far, creating absolutely nothing.

He should be at Walsall Wood. Not wolves

 

[JamesWolves]

Tried to give him 5-10 games, I just cant, what an awful awful awful appointment

 

[MasWolf]

Yet everyone was praising Matt Hobbs a few days ago. An absolutely awful appointment.

 

[JamesWolves]

Yet everyone was praising Matt Hobbs a few days ago. An absolutely awful appointment.

He can identify players and he's dam good at that, but for manager appointments ****ing hell he has no idea

 

[goldfish]

We look knackered!

That's not on O'Neill, though.

 

[Perton Wolf]

Yet everyone was praising Matt Hobbs a few days ago. An absolutely awful appointment.

Hobbs, and I'm guessing Shi, clearly wanted a yes man that would not rock the boat when the club sold off its best players and replaced them with unproven talent from abroad.

 

[Fenrir_]

He's got tactics??

 

[MasWolf]

He's got tactics??

"Go out there lads and play". That’s what I reckon they are.

 

[maws]

He is the Gary Poundland of the premium league

 

[Kingswood Wolf]

Bloke's a **** house chancer, taking us down unless we're extremely lucky.

 

[BCWolf]

Completely out of his depth at Wolves. Last year's feel good story is a complete fraud.

Going down with him at the helm.

 

[martin120863]

O’neil got the team and the tactics badly wrong.

Picking Sarabia alone is grounds for dismissal in opinion.

It certainly hasn’t taken long for O’neil’s influence to show.

Get him out!

 

[TF2Wolf]

Feels very much like a Lage beginning to the season and you’ve got to question whether these players want to play for GON they look disinterested to me.

The intensity, fitness and movement we saw against Rennes and Yanited seem a dim distant memory.

To not get in a striker given our lack of goals is absolutely criminal.

No mid season World Cup break and doubt we could get a top manager to come in this season to bail us out.

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

I'm waiting for @Flump to come on here.

Laughed and continuously bought up me saying we had one of the worst managers in the league. So, come on?

 

[wolfslair]

"Go out there lads and play". That’s what I reckon they are.

“But don’t be too expressive, or move too much”

 

[Dingle Chris]

Don’t close the door in your way out Gary.

 

[wolfslair]

Hobbs, and I'm guessing Shi, clearly wanted a yes man that would not rock the boat when the club sold off its best players and replaced them with unproven talent from abroad.

I said this on the coms thread.

Jeff is a text book narcissist, he doesn’t like anyone who can threaten his control or show he could be wrong.

 

[JamesWolves]

I said this on the coms thread.

Jeff is a text book narcissist, he doesn’t like anyone who can threaten his control or show he could be wrong.

****ing hell no wonder he raises ticket prices, he must hate the fans

 

[JohnB]

Down in Bournemouth for weekend and all local fans here I bump into ask if we’re happy with GON. I grunt something and they say it was the right time for him to leave Bournemouth and wish him well. Nothing negative but equally very little positive despite him keeping them up.

 

[k-dog]

The interesting thing about GON is that his tactics are so inept that it confuses opposition managers enough to fluke the occasional win. Imagine being a world class manager with your back room staff setting up against something that doesn’t even resemble football, it must be a nightmare.

 

[MasWolf]

“But don’t be too expressive, or move too much”

"Try and score if you can"