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Just watched a podcast of ex stoke players talking about Tony Pulis and how tough pre season and training was under him. Proper old school. He told them “you might not be the best squad, but you’ll be the f****** fittest.”
We need someone like that here. I don’t want us to have a likeable manager who like, yet us be struggling and playing shite. I’d sooner us have a bit of a “don’t give a shit” gobshite in charge and be playing better and winning games. Someone like Tony Pulis could absolutely turn this club around. Our last 3 managers have had little experience, and we’ve had a mixed bag with them. Richardson, Kolo the Klown, and now Baloney. Can you see the pattern here? Make a proper appointment for a change. Stop looking for easy or cheaper options. It’s cost us so much already.
Go for an experienced manager, let them bring in their own staff and let’s turn this absolute shit show around.
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Get an experienced manager in with his own staff and let them turn the shitshow around.
Tony Pulis or Mick McCarthy.
Either would do much better with this squad.
Nothing fancy, more industrial football. We’re Wigan Athletic, not Barcelona. Until Martinez we were a direct team. Direct under Mathias, Deehan, Benson, even Paul Jewell had us direct and going 442 and it served us well. How many goals did we score off a long punt up for Ellington and Roberts, or Teale crossing over and McCulloch smashing a header in? Loads.
We are what we are. We’re Wigan Athletic, we do better off direct football and that is an absolute fact.
Bloidy rubbish Wiggin
Tha’s shud just kick up up’t field an chase afer it.
Fetch mi a swetty clog I need a drink!
Long live the Latics DNA
I respect the points made on here but we are where we are through no fault of the current management. There is no pot of gold, magic wand or uncle Dave anymore.
Though, sometimes gritted teeth like testerday, we have to stick with what we’ve got.
Because we’ve less than nowt in the the bank, and we’re lucky to have what we have.
Just watched his post match interview.
Ooh, very cringe worthy.
His body language is very uncomfortable indeed. What does it reveal 🤔I’ve been saying this for months, his body language scratching twitching, rubbing makes for an awful watch.
Now you might say “But wtf has this got to do with football ?”
It’s in his job description to manage, manage players. The way he comes across to the players individually or as a collective group will determine how they perform on the pitch.
What I see everytime he speaks is an awkwardness coupled with uncomfortable body language, a nervousness that puts you right on the edge of your chair.
Good successful managers in any walk of life project that air of confidence. They walk a fine between asking nicely and demanding from their staff making them believe in what he says is right.
After I watched Maloneys most recent interview as soon as it finished I stopped holding my breath, it was such awkward watch.
What I see in his interviews is a guy who has a total lack of confidence in himself and if he comes across like that to his players I can only see the players feeling how I felt, on edge and on pins.
Take Neil Warnock, was he a good tactical manager ? far far from it. What football club owners would do was, they’d called on him in pure desperation to keep their clubs afloat.
He’d start by instilling self belief within the squad that they can do the impossible. He re-lit the players confidence with self belief and within weeks he’d be turning losing sides into winning ones using the exact same players he took over with.
He had the gift of the gab which he used to the best of his ability to lift and motivate teams and more importantly, the players all bought into what he preached. Again, these were exact same players who only weeks before couldn’t buy a win and were on losing streaks.
Back to it, Maloney for me doesn’t have those management skills we desperately need right now, what he projects to those young lads doesn’t seem to be working. We don’t have millions of pounds to rectify the situation we just have a squad of young players who right now lack in belief and leadership.
We need a new manager asap to give us a chance of keeping away from any relegation dog fight. Someone who can come in, motivate, bond and unite all these young lads, someone who can put arm around a players shoulder, bully them up, make them believe their Messi and at the same time roast them when their sh!te.
Who? I’ve not a scooby but I do know one thing, Maloney doesn’t possess those management skills that we need.
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