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 19.6%

  • No

    Votes: 164 80.4%
  • Total voters
    204
Even with the above humble pie schadenfrueder factor, surely this thread should be in the same archive as the "Was Major Buckley right to give monkey glands to Wolves players?" or any other, currently out of date, thread.
 
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This is going to turn into the 50,000 people that were at Chorley, isn’t it?

“Nah, I always believed in the manager with next to no experience who had a poor start, blamed everyone else at the beginning and was probably a couple of defeats away from the chop.”

Hindsight Wanderers.

Delighted for Gary. Never wanted him, and wanted him gone after a defeat against City, but he’s doing a great job after the formation shift. Fair play to him.
 
TheConcourse said:
This is going to turn into the 50,000 people that were at Chorley, isn’t it?

“Nah, I always believed in the manager with next to no experience who had a poor start, blamed everyone else at the beginning and was probably a couple of defeats away from the chop.”

Hindsight Wanderers.

Delighted for Gary. Never wanted him, and wanted him gone after a defeat against City, but he’s doing a great job after the formation shift. Fair play to him.
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I remember talking to someone who said he went to Chorley. He said he never thought he would see the day that the Wolves were beaten by a non league side in a ground that wasn’t even up to the standards of the league they played in.

I mentioned that the game was played at Bolton Wanderers ground. So now down to just 49,999 who went. :)
 
I was very skeptical about this makeshift coaching team to begin with but you've got to hand it to them, we've seen some of the best football since this first 2 seasons back in the prem.

Well done to the lads and long may it continue, we could have something special with this lot.
 
Frank Lincoln said:
I remember talking to someone who said he went to Chorley. He said he never thought he would see the day that the Wolves were beaten by a non league side in a ground that wasn’t even up to the standards of the league they played in.

I mentioned that the game was played at Bolton Wanderers ground. So now down to just 49,999 who went. :)
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Absolutely correct. I have frequently mocked those that said they were at Chorley. Why would you be there when the game was played at Bolton?

Incidentally, I wasn't at Chorley or Bolton. Much to far to travel!
 
TheConcourse said:
This is going to turn into the 50,000 people that were at Chorley, isn’t it?

“Nah, I always believed in the manager with next to no experience who had a poor start, blamed everyone else at the beginning and was probably a couple of defeats away from the chop.”

Hindsight Wanderers.

Delighted for Gary. Never wanted him, and wanted him gone after a defeat against City, but he’s doing a great job after the formation shift. Fair play to him.
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Ipswich City?

Truth is some people back the club hierarchy whatever they do and some of them love to tell you when they are right. Most of them wouldn't have sacked Lage until it was too late. We took a huge gamble, forced on us by our own financial mismanagement. It seems (touch wood) to have worked out well so far. Let's just hope that continues.
 
Supadavewolf said:
"Struggling with fan abuse", eh?

Hope he didn't read the Mix thread about him.

Maybe, just maybe, he's made a positive contribution to the way we've improved?
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I didn't read this thread until now, but from the first post obviously designed to take the ****, I wondered if he worked at Ostersunds at the same time as Graham Potter. They did amazing things with literally nothing.
 
martin120863 said:
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.

and finally...

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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September 2023. They can’t say they weren’t warned can they?
 
Sa hasn’t got any better since Cutler came in.
 
Wolf316 said:
Sa hasn’t got any better since Cutler came in.
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Sa is technically a very poor keeper, so coaching on technique at his age with all the gaps in his game, you are asking too much of cutler.

Sa is a great reaction shot stopper, but technically and when he has to think and make a decision he is so poor.
 
I look at that lot and compare them with Nunos team and despair. Oh for the days when we had a good relationship with Mendez
 
old wittonian said:
Sa has arguably got worse.
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A lot of that is down to teams targeting him as there is more video to study on him.

He has so many flaws and holes, he is a very easy keeper to plan for.

He has significant footwork and placement issues

He has issues and slow footwork and ability to change direction while running

Has a major weakness to headers and strikes that are hard and low back towards his centre line if he has moved across the ground into his set position.

That doesn’t take into account his glaring issue with decision making to forward/diagonal passes low into the box that a striker runs onto.

His ineptitude with passing and his excellent reaction times are what glosses over the issues I listed above and stops many seeing them as the problems that they are in his game:

Cutler is a much better coach, than what Jose Sa will allow him to show.
 
Might be an unpopular opinion but if I was Chairman of a Championship team, I'd possibly be willing to give him a shot once he'd had time to cool down, think about his mistakes and learn from the WWFC job.

I still think there's a good manager in there somewhere, just not for us, he needs to learn his trade in the lower leagues / abroad.
 
StaffordWolf said:
I was very skeptical about this makeshift coaching team to begin with but you've got to hand it to them, we've seen some of the best football since this first 2 seasons back in the prem.

Well done to the lads and long may it continue, we could have something special with this lot.
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This hasn't aged well...
 
wolfslair said:
A lot of that is down to teams targeting him as there is more video to study on him.

He has so many flaws and holes, he is a very easy keeper to plan for.

He has significant footwork and placement issues

He has issues and slow footwork and ability to change direction while running

Has a major weakness to headers and strikes that are hard and low back towards his centre line if he has moved across the ground into his set position.

That doesn’t take into account his glaring issue with decision making to forward/diagonal passes low into the box that a striker runs onto.

His ineptitude with passing and his excellent reaction times are what glosses over the issues I listed above and stops many seeing them as the problems that they are in his game:

Cutler is a much better coach, than what Jose Sa will allow him to show.
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You should approach Steve Borthwick for a job.
 
I put this on another thread, but if Shi truly believes that GoN is the man for him and won’t sack him so be it, but for gods sake help the man out by expanding the coaching team with some top level experienced coaches because GoN seems out of his depth and has been unable to to improve us throughout the season so something has to change and this is the cheapest way of doing it which is another one of our traits.
 
old wittonian said:
The substitutions were GONesque.
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Me and my old man were saying that hahaha

The difference is borthwick was an excellent player at club and international level and actually won a major honor as a coach.

I can also see signs of the team improving under him after some of the damage done by Eddie jones (some of the stories I heard were so bad).

But his use of subs has been GONesque for some time…… his inability to close a game out is identical lol
 
GateWolf said:
I put this on another thread, but if Shi truly believes that GoN is the man for him and won’t sack him so be it, but for gods sake help the man out by expanding the coaching team with some top level experienced coaches because GoN seems out of his depth and has been unable to to improve us throughout the season so something has to change and this is the cheapest way of doing it which is another one of our traits.
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IMHO if Fosun aren't going to sell they need to sack GON, put their recruitment of buy to sell on hold for two season (at least) and invest in established players. Having done that we should have enough experience and the spine of a team to then revisit buy to sell.
Andre was an excellent signing. He's not getting game time and we didn't really need except to sell. He must be getting dissilusioned.
 
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