Title is only half serious, I'm against the sacking of Coyle until someone can present a decent replacement however I have had an idea. So one of our main strengths last week against B'Burn was that we had decent fullbacks who would push up and wee not useless in attack. However they are now injured so Could we play 3 at the back? we shift Mavies (who I think has been excellent recently) in behind the Strikers and put Eagles out wide which gives us more width and lets Mavies carry on dictating the game and pushing us forward without sticking him out wide and limiting his options. A lot of the issues that I have seen with regards to Mavies is that he is wasteful however I don't think that is fair as playing him wide right and letting him drift in you need to give him an option to his right which Steinsson did. when he has not had that good RB he has only had the option to go forward or left and that just leads into traffic. Also with 3 CB's we should be secure enough at the back with NRC and Muamba covering and allows us to utilise our fit players better.
So what do you think could it work or is it a no go
Don't sack Coyle Sack Robbo
posted on 27/12/11
LB ....Just to sum up then ....
Moses's plan is to accept Bolton are down, to trust OC to plan wisely for life in the Championship, and hope that the stigma of being the man who took Bolton down is outweighed by his abilities as a Championship quality manager.
Yep ..I'm sure that's right .....
posted on 27/12/11
I genuinely don't think that Mark Hughes is a realistic target, he left Fulham because of supposed lack of ambition (and probably thought he'd walk into the Villa job); the guy was quite heavily linked with the Bayern Munich job as well in the summer. I would have thought that he will choose his next job quite carefully. As has already been said, if we were to try and tempt Hughes with oodles of cash, whilst also having to pay off Coyle, we will have next to nothing to spend in January anyway, even with the Cahill transfer fee.
To me, it is the overall quality of the squad (given injuries, ageing players etc) which is the main problem. I would rather see the money invested in this area.
Just my opinion...
posted on 27/12/11
If we go down Moses, you will not recognise this squad.. Talk of building round Holden and Lee is total fantasy!!
We will be saving millions by selling those players, sacking admin staff, closing top tiers of the ground to save on staff and saying goodbye to the prem for a generation....
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Go back and show me were I have said that we will build our squad around Lee and Holden. I have not said that, I have already said that our squad will be unrecognisable.
You and others think that we will get a new manager in and we will be fine, we will not, we need to spend money on the squad. If Cahill goes, we will have 2 CBs.
Coyle has shown in the past what he can do with a full strength squad.
posted on 27/12/11
McGinlay
Hughes is one name from many.... I'm TRYiNG to highlight that a good manager can keep this team up.
Christ, I'd have got us a point yesterday.
posted on 27/12/11
"Coyle has shown in the past what he can do with a full strength squad"
Actually Moses, Coyle has shown in the past what he can do with someone else's squad and a few borrowed players..
This is his squad, his signings have been nothing short of a nightmare..
Please Moses, saying we need 2 CBs to replace Cahill won't make the problems go away..
Week in week out we are on here wondering what the hell he is doing with this formation and that... The last home game v Villa, he didn't even go with Muamba or NRC and we got cut to bits....
Then when he replaces Mumaba yesterday, wonders why it's happened again!!! He doesn't learn from a single mistake because he thinks he's blessed with the ability to out play teams with bosmans and loans...
A proper manager would look at our limitations and adapt us to be hard to beat...
Christ, we had Ian Marshall and Gareth Farrelly under Big Sam.. He decided firstly become hard to beat.... Then hope for a break or play the stats and get 1% extra by doing something crazy...
Not passing it pretty then wondering why we are opened up every time a team turns up..
posted on 27/12/11
This is his squad, his signings have been nothing short of a nightmare..
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From the starting line up yesterday, Jussi, Robbo, Knight, Cahill, Muamba, Mavies, Klasnic weren't Coyles signings, barely his own squad.
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Please Moses, saying we need 2 CBs to replace Cahill won't make the problems go away..
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It won't I was just using that as an example, we need to strengthen our squad, just saying Hughes could keep us up or you would have got us a draw isn't good enough, they are both baseless opinions.
posted on 27/12/11
Baseless options??
Ok here's a fact..
29 points from the last 36 games..
That will get clubs relegated.
Debate that Moses and tell me how this club gets 28 points from the next 20 games!?
I'd love to know...
PS: if you're not bothered to read the last comments and thoughts on Mark Hughes, you're either not bothering reading, or ignoring.
posted on 27/12/11
After yesterday I would take anyone as manager. Ian Holloway, Gus Poyet, Fungus the Bogeyman, Sven Goran Erikkson or Sally Webster. Just sack Coyle now.
posted on 27/12/11
"From the starting line up yesterday, Jussi, Robbo, Knight, Cahill, Muamba, Mavies, Klasnic weren't Coyles signings, barely his own squad"
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And why is that??
Because Pratley, Wheater, Eagles and Tuncay where on the bench... HIS signings can't get in HIS team...
He took off Muamba (Not his signing) and put Eagles on..
The rest is history.
posted on 27/12/11
From the starting line up yesterday, Jussi, Robbo, Knight, Cahill, Muamba, Mavies, Klasnic weren't Coyles signings, barely his own squad.
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If you've been a manager at a club 2 years, and those players are still there, whether you signed 'em or not ... they are clearly YOUR players, and YOUR squad.