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Here’s my take, for what it’s worth.
RM has consistently said that he needs 3 transfer windows. I don’t think he would keep saying that without having had some agreement from DW that he will get at least that. Assuming the summer he started wasn’t his first window, he has the January one to come before he would get binned.
Assuming, the first summer was deemed his first window, then he has had his three already. I think he has until end October/mid November before Whelan would get shut. And I think he will get shut at that point, if things carry on as poor as they are at the moment. And he would probably be right to do so, though personally, I think it would be a sad day.
Agreed. lmao at the your new sig.
Roberto le dice `su subsidio de desempleo para mi’ :lol:Dave – it was a light hearted ribbing & I hope you took it that way
The points I was trying to make last week were in the main about Bobby himself. I do think he has strenghtened the starting XI (although i don’t think the squad itself is strong enough) but to me he showed last season that he thinks his way is the right way even when it doesn’t work
I heard people say over the summer that he would have learned his lessons from last season but if he hadn’t learnt them by the middle of May (when he was still making the same errors he had been in August of the year before) then I doubted whether 3 months of the close season would have changed anything
Last season he showed himself to be naive and stubborn personally, and tactically one-dimensional & inflexible and I didn’t see anything from what I saw of Saturday’s game that convinced me he has changed or is capable of changing
But I wouldn’t have over-reacted if we’d battered Blackpool 4-0 so I aint over-reacting coz we got beat 4-0. Like you I don’t believe that giving him 5 or 9 more games will make much difference to his approach but I do believe he needs to be given a certain number of games to be able to prove that one way or the other. One game is not enough in my opinion to prove conclusively that he has or hasn’t learnt from last season no matter how bad that game was – I don’t believe an 8-1 scoreline would have flattered Blackpool
As for pre-season friendlies – I learnt a long time ago to not pay a blind bit of notice to how well or badly Latics perform coz its no indication whatsoever of how it’ll go when when the serious stuff starts
Ok. Sorry for the ‘W’ comment.
I’d just like him to resign, now, being honest.
He’s lost most of the support he had, and is clearly out of his depth. I predict he’ll be gone by the Sunderland game.
If we leave it too long, we might be rooted to the bottom with other teams 6 or 9 points ahead of us. I just think a complete change is required, as soon as possible.Roberto was a decent lower division player, and is a lovely bloke. But he’s not the man for this job now, and I’d hate us to embarrass him by trying to bring in someone to work alongside him. I doubt he’d accept it, anyway.
The signs that he was out of his depth have been there for a long time but I think people were, & some still are, clinging to the hope that coz he’s a Latics legend that he’d come good, learn his lessons etc…
Unfortunately for Bobby Saturday’s game amplified all the problems that were there last season for everybody to see & coz it was the first game, with “his team”, against certs for relegation, at home I think the pigeons have come home to roost for alot of his previous supporters & many are realising that that faith seems to have been misplaced
I’d have liked him to have resigned a long time ago (around the Spurs away game) but now he’s had the summer here & the season has started I think he’s got to have a minimum of 5 games & a maximum of 10 (as I said before) to be able to prove one way or the other – 1 game isn’t enough.
If he was sacked/walks after 10 games if it hasn’t improved still gives someone more than enough time to turn it around. Latics were able to get a fellow premier league manager to jump ship in 2007 to join us after 14 games when we looked dead & buried. Not only were we able to attract that manager but he was then able to have the side in relative comfort soon after the turn of the yearWhy i think he should be given 10 games I can’t explain to myself as I’m convinced he aint good enough – I guess it just seems right to give somebody a chance to prove themselves
And no need to apologise for the “w” comment – I’m sure there are many people who think I am ;)
On a positive note we are only three points behind Chelski
Agreed. lmao at the your new sig.
Roberto le dice `su subsidio de desempleo para mi’ :lol:Babelfish? Deary me that’s some poor Spanish :oops:
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