Paul Jewell

I got the feeling from Jewell that our promotion to the premiership had seriously gone to his head.

I think he genuinely put our rise from div 2 to PL down to himself.

Sometimes great managers fail objectives for a number of reasons and sometimes average managers can acheive everything with a club because a number of factors go in their favour.

Moral of the story is to know when you have something good going for you as the grass always looks greener on the other side.

You on about Brenda?

I think his limitations as a manager were always there to see even when he was at Latics:
1) Man management – In those difficult first few months he just couldn’t handle the bad attitude of the players & it took Dave Whelan getting involved for that situation to get turned around. I read an interview on line the other day from Ipswich’s captain who said that he needed to stop being so nice to some players
2) “He’s no plan B” – as a mate of mine repeatedly & drunkenly slurred at me when we lost at home to Sunderland in the championship promotion season & that was evident all through he reign. If Plan A wasn’t working he seemed to have no idea what to do to change things around & we regularly saw changes in such games like taking a right back off & putting a different right back on as if that was going to make a blind bit of difference to proceedings
3) Attitude – I thought his “I’ve already written this game off” attitude to matches against the “big boys” in this division was wrong & you could see how that translated to the players out on the pitch. Can’t rememebr which player it was but one of em said early in bruce’s reign that “for the first time we’re going into these matches believing we can get something from them”. I also don’t think he ever really endeared himself to the Latics faithful beyond what he achieved out on the pitch

From occasional views on Derby & Ipswich websites it appears these limitations were still there and, as someone else in the thread has pointed out, without the relatively big money backing he got at Bradford & Latics these limitations got exposed mroe & more

That’s nto to take anything away from what he achieved at latics like coz he got far more right than he got wrong during his time here & (regardless of where my 06/07 season ticket ended up) I consider him a Latics legend

A decent arguement you put forward there tyldesley.

I also would go as far as saying a few of our big signings were actually not from Jewells choice but were already being scouted by Benson.

I liked Jewell and i think he had more positive attributes we could look at than the negative ones. However it is very difficult to disagree with your points on his mnagement style.

Paul Jewell is the greatest manager Wigan Athletic have ever had. His record speaks for itself.

absolute fantastic first season in prem,memories never to be forgotten, pissed every so called expert off good style (not forgetting rod marsh) actually went top for a few hours if not mistaken. good man wish him all the best (but keep it in ur pants this time )