Gartside backs Coyle.

comment by Holden's Hairstylist (U1689)

posted 44 minutes ago

There is apart of me that thinks it would be good for us to drop down, sort ourselves out on a business and footballing front.

Selling some players will free up wage bill, reduce costs and give us chance I blood through some younger players. Interesting to think about.. Depends on what you think is best..

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We cant afford to go down. The dept we have right now is bad enough despite how much is owed to ED. I understand the sentiment of what you are saying, and maybe trying to put a positive spin on a potentially horrible situation. I personaly don't even want to think about relegation as a possibility, its too depressing and besides we are only a few
points off mid table, if we can put together a run of results we can rapidly climb out of danger.

I'm glad Gartside has backed Coyle, and im convinced Coyle will come good. Some people on here seem to have very short memories,
if Coyle is so tactically inept, how come he saved us in his first season in charge, and how did he mastermind our best season in years
last season (despite our finishing position)? Also remember he has tried 4-5-1 this season and he has chopped and changed the squad around.Even dropping the formally undroppable Kevin Davies. Nothing has worked properly and a lot of this has to go down to our injury crisis. Our defense has been decimated this season, and our midfield ruined by the injures of our two best players. Along with finishing 5 games with 10 men this season hasn't helped, and all of these situations are beyond Coyle's control. We have been desperately unlucky this season.

I'm not saying Coyle is perfect, he has made mistakes and some odd decisions, but what manager hasn't. Your telling me that Big Sam never made a mistake? This season every decision is magnified due to our plight, if we had won even two more games it wouldn't seem any where near as bad.

So for me Coyle is still the man for the job he will turn this around I am convinced of this. He has shown me enough in the past for me to believe this.

COYWM!!!!!!

apologies for the poor formatting on the above post, not sure what happened there.

Isn't Gartside coming out saying Coyle doesn't need a vote of confidence, actually giving him a vote of confidence?

comment by ONLY ONE O IN COYLE (U1737)

posted 3 minutes ago

Isn't Gartside coming out saying Coyle doesn't need a vote of confidence, actually giving him a vote of confidence?

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I believe the sentiment is there but you know what they say about the vote of confidence...... So I think this is actually more of a vote of confidence than a actual vote of confidence, if that makes sense?

Some very interesting points from everyone here, I am simply hoping Owen can just take things one game at a time and actually change the players around to face Villa it is obvious to all of us fans who are not football managers that the players being used are not up to the job.
Yes we have a huge injury list and the red card situation is not helping the team out in anyway but with such a dodgy defence why are we not trying to clog up the midfield more by playing 4-5-1 and simply doing the basics keeping the ball and passing it around in midfield and building from there instead of always lumping it forward to Davies who loses it straight away and then the pressure is back on a bad defence.

We pretty much all know how Coyle will line up the team to face Villa Saturday and if it is how we all think i doubt we will get anything from the game but if he can actually see sense and try a new set up maybe we would be less obvious and be able to get something from the game.

I would like to see some of the lads rotting on the bench get a game.

Jussi
Steinsson Knight Boyata Robinson
Eagles Reo-Coker Muamba M.Davies Kakuta
Klasnic

With this sort of formation a 4-5-1 that turns into a 4-3-3 when attacking it means Klas at least gets some back up in Eagles and Kakuta who can use the wings to cause some problems and with 2 ball winning midfielders in the team maybe we can pass the ball about a bit better and try and keep it and keep the pressure of the defence.

if Coyle is so tactically inept, how come he saved us in his first season in charge, and how did he mastermind our best season in years
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by doing the same thing he did with Burnley - and they became unstuck, just like we are now, he goes gung-ho at teams just attack, attack, attack with no real 'tactics' in place.

teams have realised how coyle sets up his teams and does not change it (hence why teams come and muller us now)

sorry...

Didnt Gartside say something about those people who know football etc when he hired hwmnbn? Gartside will have one eye on his position on the FA board and if anything threatens that he will act....

Personally I would stick wih OC no matter what.....

He has got a vote of confidence off Jason Mcateer as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16036054.stm

That's what he might think but if we continue to lose so badly and god only knows what the return of the big teams will bring fans will get sick of it and turn. There are more and more turning on here as each game goes by. Once coyle loses the fans gartside will begin to change his mind.

Petrov, I've really missed your cheer.