What has he actually achieved with kids though, I would be interested to know because unless I have missed something and apologies if I have, I am not sure he’s had much success.
When he was there before and Bobby we seemed to have a constant flow of young uns coming through and they were winning trophies if I remember right but that of course is my opinion, it looks as yours varies.. a lot of people liked Clarke in charge but I didn't. Opinions again
I am tipping you mean what am i on about well we always had a young player who could step up if an emergency happened with injuries, suspensions etc. Plus the under 18s were winning. Remember it must be best part of 5 years ago since he was coaching the kids. But we do not have the same amount of good bench fillers now
Get what you mean, I just not sure he’s been productive enough in past to justify sticking with him, we need to move on imo mate,
This idea we somehow used it to sell season tickets is rubbish isnt it? We’d sold most of our season tickets before the point he was announced. My view is he was indeed struggling with training and doing a coaching role as he has suggested and actually there is no conspiracy going on here. The evidence when it comes to season tickets sales certainly doesnt support the narrative.
Except the club DID use his arrival to sell season tickets. They literally included the line "join Connor at Oakwell" (or something similar) on their posts announcing his return along with links to buy season tickets. My view is that either he, or the club and he, never intended him to carry on playing and it was a ruse to get him in as the next manager completely undermining Clarke's position. What I find absolutely laughable is that he has slagged off the players fitness and coaching under Clarke yet he himself, a supposed professional with high standards, literally quit his job after a few months apparently because his own fitness levels weren't good enough. But hypocritical in my opinion to slag someone else's fitness off when you've just quit your job because of your own.
Perhaps it’s because he can’t reach the level of fitness that he thinks is required, so decided to quit playing. Maybe he’s used that to tell players that’s what they need to do if they can’t reach the levels required. Who knows, it could be a load of tosh, but I suppose I know as much about it as most on here,
Tbf he ticks a lot of boxes on paper to become a decent manager, played in every division, had quality managers to learn from and take advice from, has a hardworking work ethic and a desire to succeed. Might well be too soon for him but personally I think we've looked more attacking under him these last few games he's been in charge.
We’d have sold 90% of the season tickets we are going to sell at the point he signs. People make out it was some big plan to shift tickets. Its nonsense.
I'd prefer some continuity as a new manager would come in, not know anyone, give everyone a 'fresh start' only to realise 6 months later who is irredeemably crap. Whereas Conor should know that already. That said, if he thinks MDG has been solid up to this point, and this has just been a minor blip in form, as he suggested in interviews, he can **** right off.
Even the poll ran on here backs that up very few said they bought as a result of him signing. Any sensible business would use a good news story to plug sales, doesn’t make it a conspiracy or underhand though.
Could be that he underestimated how much time he was gonna have to put into the coaching side and as a result couldn’t manage his fitness to the level he wanted.
I think he was signed to be the next manager. Didn't one of the owners or directors say something like that early on? I think that was the plan all along. Bring him in, undermine the manager and groom him to be his replacement. But then someone had a brainwave of using the coach signing to sell a few extra tickets last minute by making out he was going to be a player. That or hourihane himself was the one being underhand as ****. Signed as a 'player' but with his eyes firmly on Clarke's job so just didn't train very hard, no interest in playing and quit to magically become full time coach at the first opportunity. Keep undermining the manager and before you know it you've got his job.
