Article on WSC website

The fella has got a point with regards to Jewell – whenever he made any sort of comment in the press about the club’s fans or the town it was usually derogatory. In fact the most surprising thing about that recent 4-4-2 feature on Latics was the defence he gave of the club & its fans to the lazy, snide comments that usually get thrown at us.
He would also freely admit he used to write the games off against the “big clubs” & you could tell this in the vast majority of the performances, line ups he put out, tactical changes etc..
He doesn’t slate his abilities as a manager & actually says he’d rather go down with a club managed by Bobby than stay up with one under Jewell

As for stripeyrichards comment that we would have gone down in 06/07 without Paul Jewell’s management that day. Comments like that really get my goat – it may well have a ring of truth to it but if you’re gonna credit him with saving us that day, then on the flip side he deserves flak for getting us in that mess in the first place – some of his purchases & tactical decisions that season were shocking. Putting a video on before a game of some speech from a film doesn’t alter that

He does however (IMO) deserve legendary status at Latics due to where he brought us from & where he took us to, and I’d agree that a statue would be fully deserved as long as its not one based on that gruesome photo that greeted me on in the inner pages of the news of the world that particular Sunday!!!

Oh & I’m still waiting for him to fling that season ticket back at me

He took the team up to sheffield that day and delivered the result the club needed simple as that.
Whether he is a nice man or not has nothing to do with it he simply is the finest football manager our club has ever had.
Goals by Scharner and Unsworth as well as Heskeys finest ever performance as a player (all Jewell signings)ensured we stayed up in what has to be the most gripping relegation game ever shown on TV.
Give me a n’sty arrogant b@stad who delivers(although i would dispute this also given people i know who have met him) over a soft one anyday -who does the soft one remind me of?

Statue please!!!
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I agree entirely that I would rather have a nasty arrogant git of a manager who delivers than a nice pleasant one who doesn’t – having never met Paul Jewell I wouldn’t know which, if either, category he comes under.

With regards to comments he made about the club, town & fans I think you’re letting time gloss over many of them coz they involved far more than just saying he struggled to attract players. His comments were often criticised on here & in the fanzines & its why, despite all he achieved, that he never really had that cosy a relationship with the fans (IMO).
You’re right however that he does seem to defend the club in the press these days which is why I mentioned it & why I said i was surprised by it coz it now contradicts some of the stuff he said whilst in charge – particularly what I read in 4-4-2

i did also say that he deserves legendary status at the club for the rest of eternity for what he achieved but that doesn’t make him immune from criticism.
in 06/07 he took a team that had finished 10th & reached a major cup final to one that stayed up by the skin of its knackers on the final day of the season. That’s regression not progression. His signings were poor, his selections were at times baffling as were his tactics and the situation we were in prior to that Sheff Utd game was a mess & he had taken us there
By his own admission he’d reached the end of the road at Latics & his own strengths & weaknesses as a manager had taken the club as far as he could so I aint saying anything that Jewell himself hasn’t already admitted
It was also somet that was accepted by the majority of latics fans at the time

Its debatable where we would be without Jewell I agree but as I’ve already pointed out it doesn’t make him immune from criticism

eeeeerm i dont think any soul in the town can disagree with anything the greatest manager this club as ever had achieved or tried to achieve with us. THAT SEASON, a la Sheff Utd, West Ham saga, he kept us up in a league where u huge percentage of newly promoted clubs went straight back down. We set a trend, look at the clubs in the last few years, not just second season but straight back down. I would love Jewell back, A man with true grit, Although Martinez and Jewell may have the same goals for the club there is only who will not take any sh1t, step forward Mr. Jewell. Please come back

Griff you are nit picking, you know what i mean :character-beavisbutthead: