Michael Beale... NO....NO....NO....

[Woolywolf]

Can you believe he was Hobbs’s recommendation

 

[CelebrityWolf]

Surprised he has gone already. 4-2-5 record, not great but not generally a sackable sequence.

 

[marrs-guitar]

He would certainly have known how to get us out of the division last year.

It remains worrying that we were sniffing around such candidates.

 

[SilverstoneWolf]

Can you believe he was Hobbs’s recommendation

Given Hobbs record, it is surprising he was taken in by this guy. We certainly avoided a car crash….

 

[WickedWolfie]

Can you believe he was Hobbs’s recommendation

There is a pattern with him, Edwards and indeed GON. We got lucky. If GON goes for whatever reason we have cause for concern over the replacement....

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Can you believe he was Hobbs’s recommendation

Hobbs wanted someone up and coming and at the time Beale was…..

Thankfully we got super Julen Lopetegui

 

[WickedWolfie]

Given Hobbs record, it is surprising he was taken in by this guy. We certainly avoided a car crash….

Him, Edwards and GON, all products of the FA coaching system, probably all make similar noises....

 

[Tring Wolf]

Completely the wrong fit for Sunderland. The way he treated Trai Hume after substituting him was the final straw.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Completely the wrong fit for Sunderland. The way he treated Trai Hume after substituting him was the final straw.

Indeed. His excuse after the fact was pathetic.

 

[WolvesinBrum]

Hobbs wanted someone up and coming and at the time Beale was…..

Thankfully we got super Julen Lopetegui

It really is an inexact science. Sunderland were foolish - they had more of a record to look at.

Very much sounds his manner that doesn't give him time.

 

[wolf of sedgley]

Can you believe he was Hobbs’s recommendation

Shi should issue Hobbs a written warning for this.

 

[Ginger Chimp]

Indeed. His excuse after the fact was pathetic.

What did he say?

 

[molineux man]

How bizarre to think that if it wasn't for Les Ferdinand changing Beale's mind, we could now very possibly be languishing in the Championship. Thank you Sir Les.

 

[WickedWolfie]

What did he say?

Basically that he hadn't seen the player offer his hand.... It's not like every substituted player always does that after all, lol....

Sunderland manager responds after clip ‘snubbing’ player prompts backlash from fans

Michael Beale insists he did not see Trai Hume offering a handshake after being substituted

www.independent.co.uk

 

[xbomber]

What did he say?

I took it at face value and that he just had a bit of a mare. Still think he's a dick though.

Ooh "dick" is allowed on here. Dick dickety dick.

 

[wolfslair]

Left Sunderland already

Must have heard Liverpool want him.

He hasn’t booked the press conference yet……. So hold fire!

 

[Sedgley Gold N Black]

There is a pattern with him, Edwards and indeed GON. We got lucky. If GON goes for whatever reason we have cause for concern over the replacement....

TBF, Edwards is doing a remarkable job at Luton.

But Beale is a worry, thankfully a bullet dodged.

 

[WickedWolfie]

TBF, Edwards is doing a remarkable job at Luton.

He did well at Forest Green too. Not a dig but not all apparent up and coming British coaches work out.

 

[Shergar]

Sacked after 9 weeks/12 games in charge. He must be really unappealing up close.

 

[Bossworld]

I'm a season card holder at Sunderland these days (along with my lad). Helps to let me see some live football outside of Newcastle v Wolves, and at £20 a match between the two of us, it's no more expensive than non league.

I'm delighted Beale has gone. I'd have given serious thought to not renewing if he was still there next month.

Sacking Mowbray, in isolation, sort of made sense. Replacing him with Beale didn't.

 

[Minimalist]

Can you believe he was Hobbs’s recommendation

I’m not sure we were ever really keen on him.
We wanted Lopetegui, I suspect the deal we offered Beale was essentially little more than an interim type thing where it would be easy for us to replace him when someone better came along, or lopetegui’s situation changed. I’d guess Beale himself could see that and was why he didn’t take it.

 

[Ewok vs Wolf]

Theres just something really dislikeable about him

 

[Fenrir_]

Worth noting, only just over 20% of people voted that they'd be unhappy with the appointment of Beale...



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[Streathamwolf]

I’m not sure we were ever really keen on him.
We wanted Lopetegui, I suspect the deal we offered Beale was essentially little more than an interim type thing where it would be easy for us to replace him when someone better came along, or lopetegui’s situation changed. I’d guess Beale himself could see that and was why he didn’t take it.

My thoughts too. Hobbs decision making has been excellent recently - fighting for Joao Gomes and pretty much everything since.

 

[Streathamwolf]

I would add that it's good to see Edwards doing well at Luton as well.

 

[Premier Quality]

I would add that it's good to see Edwards doing well at Luton as well.

He’s doing a brilliant job at Luton - and playing reasonable football given the lack of talent at his disposal, similar to GON last season.

 

[wolfgar]

Surprised he has gone already. 4-2-5 record, not great but not generally a sackable sequence.

I think the general vibe is that he is a massive *******. The guy did us an enormous favour turning down our job. Good chance we'd be in the bottom half of the champ currently. Absolute clown

 

[wolfgar]

Completely the wrong fit for Sunderland. The way he treated Trai Hume after substituting him was the final straw.

I just can't fathom why on earth you would do that publicly to a 21 year old player. Like what were you trying to prove? I can't ever recall seeing a coach do that tbqh? Imagine how many decent players here would have been on the phone to their agents after a few weeks of having to listen to that throbber?

 

[WickedWolfie]

Worth noting, only just over 20% of people voted that they'd be unhappy with the appointment of Beale...

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Context is key. People forget, and indeed try to rewrite history, just how far up crap creek without a paddle we were then. The much maligned JL did a superb job in the circumstances.

 

[wolfgar]

Indeed. His excuse after the fact was pathetic.

Clearly a lie

 

[WickedWolfie]

Clearly a lie

Indeed. The photo says it all....

 

[Fenrir_]

Context is key. People forget, and indeed try to rewrite history, just how far up crap creek without a paddle we were then. The much maligned JL did a superb job in the circumstances.

Yeah it's definitely an indicator of how desperate a lot of people were feeling at the time and we'd got ourselves in a right hole (mainly by sticking with the previous incumbent for too long)

8.3% wanted O'Neil in the Mix poll! Similar scenario of desperation after Lopetegui walked but we didn't have as much time for the worry to set in to become so accepting of our fate!

 

[VancouverWolf]

Context is key. People forget, and indeed try to rewrite history, just how far up crap creek without a paddle we were then. The much maligned JL did a superb job in the circumstances.

I beg to differ…….he didn’t do a ‘superb’ job. He did his job.

A superb job would have been where we scored a lot more goals and not hanging on by the skin of our teeth until the final whistle blew and playing horrible football.
I doubt many clubs were impressed with the way he had us playing.
The miracle is that we stayed up anyway.

 

[WickedWolfie]

I beg to differ…….he didn’t do a ‘superb’ job. He did his job.

A superb job would have been where we scored a lot more goals and not hanging on by the skin of our teeth until the final whistle blew and playing horrible football.
I doubt many clubs were impressed with the way he had us playing.
The miracle is that we stayed up anyway.

Chemical Ali lives! We were dead and buried at Christmas. Your post is exactly the sort of revisionist rubbish that l take issue with. Tightening up and grim pragmatism is exactly what was required.

 

[jackdusty]

Worth noting, only just over 20% of people voted that they'd be unhappy with the appointment of Beale...

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To be fair, his stock was high at the time, widely credited with his coaching while with Gerrard and QPR were riding high in the Chump at the time, all relative now with how it's worked out.

 

[WickedWolfie]

To be fair, his stock was high at the time, widely credited with his coaching while with Gerrard and QPR were riding high in the Chump at the time, all relative now with how it's worked out.

Perhaps a cautionary tale about going after flavour of the month....

 

[SuperGran]

I beg to differ…….he didn’t do a ‘superb’ job. He did his job.

A superb job would have been where we scored a lot more goals and not hanging on by the skin of our teeth until the final whistle blew and playing horrible football.
I doubt many clubs were impressed with the way he had us playing.
The miracle is that we stayed up anyway.

We had the 3-0 against Liverpool the rest was pretty dire affairs but he did the job asked of him as did Gary at Bournemouth and dyche at Everton

 

[Shergar]

I bet his mole gets another job before him.

 

[VancouverWolf]

Chemical Ali lives! We are dead and buried at Christmas. Your post is exactly the sort of revisionist rubbish that l take issue with. Tightening up and grim pragmatism is exactly what was required.

I don’t do revisionism……that’s nuts that people do.

Yes we were in a bad way at that Xmas and JL did his job .
I am on record saying, (several times I think), we’ll before that season ended with JL, that I doubted that our GD would be much better than by Xmas in the new season.

By the way, easy on good sir, there’s no need to just label my post as ‘rubbish’ when you consider that both of us have different opinions. You can be very dismissive sometimes.

 

[VancouverWolf]

We had the 3-0 against Liverpool the rest was pretty dire affairs but he did the job asked of him as did Gary at Bournemouth and dyche at Everton

Exactly.