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O'Neil and Coaching Staff - Credentials

Would you employ this management team if you were owner | CEO at a Premier League club? *

  • Yes

    Votes: 40 26.3%

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    Votes: 112 73.7%
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HEAD COACH - GARY O'NEIL

Played almost 500 senior games, many of them in the Premier League. Moved into coaching Liverpool U23s assistant and then became first-team coach under Jonathan Woodgate at Bournemouth. Went on to become manager for most of 2022/23 and kept the side in the Premier League. His reward was the sack, in the following close season, but then he got the opportunity at Wolves on the eve of the campaign.

ASSISTANT - SHAUN DERRY

Played alongside O'Neil at Portsmouth. Was U23s Head Coach at Crystal Palace before being promoted to first team coach in August 2021. Was sacked by Patrick Vieira in February 2023 before being reinstated by Roy Hodgson the following June.

FIRST-TEAM COACH - TIM JENKINS

Also worked with O'Neil at Bournemouth and with Liverpool U23s. Background in analysis, having worked for Prozone and then for Liverpool as Academy Head of Analysis. Promoted to Head of Individual Development with the Reds.

FIRST-TEAM COACH - IAN BURCHNALL

Began coaching at 22 at the University of Leeds and took his first first-team role with Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08 in 2012. After that he became manager of Viking in Norway, Ostersunds in Sweden and then Notts County and Forest Green in England, before six months with Anderlecht. Joined Wolves in September 2023.

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SPORTING DIRECTOR - MATHEW HOBBS

First joined the club in 2015 as scout for the south-west of England. Went on to become Head of Emerging Talent, Head of Academy Recruitment, Chief Scout and Head of Recruitment. In November 2022 he was appointed Sporting Director, taking on "management of the sporting and performance departments at the club."

• Source - Training Ground Guru | Wolves staff profiles
 
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Good thread for summaries of the staff history.
The one that really worries me is Hobbs. Moving in 8 years from area scout to head of football with Wolves .
Explains a lot about Shi . What a weak appointment.
 
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It’s quite unbelievable the downgrade in level of experience from Lop and his team. Made even more unbelievable that the same thing happened when we downgraded from Nuno and his team to Bruno and his.

We have made exactly the same mistake again, only this time he’s English.
 
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Matt said:
It’s quite unbelievable the downgrade in level of experience from Lop and his team. Made even more unbelievable that the same thing happened when we downgraded from Nuno and his team to Bruno and his.

We have made exactly the same mistake again, only this time he’s English.
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I only disagree insomuch as GON makes Lage look like prime Pep
 
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Mile End Wanderer said:
Iv heard other clubs laugh at how badly we are run
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Totally agree a Liverpool fan before the Liverpool game said to me what are your owners about . The stadium is falling to bits and you would think that they would at least sort that out .

I think the project was and always will be young players and then sell for profit .
 
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Hobbs appeared a good appointment because it left Lopetegui and his crew with power.
It’s was by making a weak appointment that reduced likely conflict with a strong manager.
Now we appear to have nothing but weakness. Earth shattering weakness .
 
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Hobbs is the one that worries me the most,if he thought after JL left GON was the best man to take us forward then his judgement must be called into question.
He should stick to scouting players.
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Big question marks over a lot of those too.
 
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Slothmonkey said:
Same, my brother in law worked for a premier league and championship club. For years has been telling me how badly people tell him that we are ran. Only been a matter of time until it all fell apart.
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That won’t make recruiting very easy .
 
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We don't have a lot of visibility on Jenkins, Derry and Burchnall's impact so loathe to be too judgemental. That said, it's a fair question.

Jenkins has an interesting background and seems an Ian Cathro type who'd find work easily enough at another EPL club imo. Derry was a coach already in the EPL although benefitted from the ex-club connection at Palace; that said, Hodgson wanted him to stay fwiw. Ian Burchnall's appointment surprised me a fair bit having followed his time at Notts County. No doubt he'll have some decent ideas on the training pitch but it's a difficult ask credibly putting these into practice in the Premier League which is considerably above any level he's coached at before. Jury v much still out on GON. Hobbs had a decent start and the Jan transfer window was solid but it's been a debacle over the last few months. He was probably as annoyed as Lopetegui when Shi moved the goalposts to be fair but the GON appointment seems rushed and recruitment activity also very underwhelming.

One of the things that worries me about O'Neil is that his post-match remarks are sounding increasingly unhinged. He's already talking about 'the process' and it being early days and needing more time but there's a whole graveyard of managers and coaching teams who've died on that hill rather than follow the pathway labelled pragmatism and results a la Lopetegui last year. In some ways, 'the process' is no different to what Nuno and team were preaching 6 years ago but the main differences are Nuno and co were laying the foundations at a lower level under less scrutiny, were backed financially, had one of the strongest squads in the division and had credibility in the bank to boot.
 
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Jenkins is ment to be good at what he does, the other lot not so much
 
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those were the days said:
We don't have a lot of visibility on Jenkins, Derry and Burchnall's impact so loathe to be too judgemental. That said, it's a fair question.

Jenkins has an interesting background and seems an Ian Cathro type who'd find work easily enough at another EPL club imo. Derry was a coach already in the EPL although benefitted from the ex-club connection at Palace; that said, Hodgson wanted him to stay fwiw. Ian Burchnall's appointment surprised me a fair bit having followed his time at Notts County. No doubt he'll have some decent ideas on the training pitch but it's a difficult ask credibly putting these into practice in the Premier League which is considerably above any level he's coached at before. Jury v much still out on GON. Hobbs had a decent start and the Jan transfer window was solid but it's been a debacle over the last few months. He was probably as annoyed as Lopetegui when Shi moved the goalposts to be fair but the GON appointment seems rushed and recruitment activity also very underwhelming.

One of the things that worries me about O'Neil is that his post-match remarks are sounding increasingly unhinged. He's already talking about 'the process' and it being early days and needing more time but there's a whole graveyard of managers and coaching teams who've died on that hill rather than follow the pathway labelled pragmatism and results a la Lopetegui last year. In some ways, 'the process' is no different to what Nuno and team were preaching 6 years ago but the main differences are Nuno and co were laying the foundations at a lower level under less scrutiny, were backed financially, had one of the strongest squads in the division and had credibility in the bank to boot.
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GON is getting his retaliation in first as Willie John McBride would say.
 
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Bigcheese said:
Hobbs is the one that worries me the most,if he thought after JL left GON was the best man to take us forward then his judgement must be called into question.
He should stick to scouting players.
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Best man that they can afford ...
 
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It fills me with confidence seeing Tim jenkins (next to gon on bench) so focused with his ear piece and ipad during the game. Compare this to sellars and his rudimentary tactics board.
 
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