A bit early to say. I guess we will be playing high balls up to him, to utilise his height advantage but I can only remember us landing the ball on his head twice, during the half of the game that he played. The first one he flicked on, giving Theo a clear cut chance on goal. The second was a lofted cross that he got his head to and directed on target. Not going to big him up, based on that, but also not going to start comparing him to someone who had more time to prove himself.
With all due respect, I'm sure he does work hard, no-one is disputing that. Which gives even more reasoning to the fact he needs to go now - if this is him working hard, then christ, no wonder we're ****ed.
Tbh, showed some humility... People are slagging him off over any word he says... a couple things I didn't really like hearing.. Like not confident in himself to take the Club forward and that could relay poorly on to the players, or it could galvanise them and ask them questions that they should do more on the pitch.
As expected today. Agree he doesn't exactly come across as being terribly confident (again, unsurprisingly after this week), and he doesn't look like the manager we want or need right now, but I thought he answered the questions reasonably enough in the main.
I mean, he talks balls when he was saying that he was taking responsibility and wasn't blaming others for the compromises. He clearly was. But then we're getting used to this.
Yeah, I thought he did better, Hopefully the team can put on a good performance and prove to us that they are fighting for us and for Jones.
That was a pretty normal press conference yet fans still seem pissed off and are slagging him off - and that is part of his problem. He has completely lost the fanbase, many of which will be against him regardless of what he does or says which makes it even harder for NJ to turn things around. I really think he is beyond saving so the board should get it over with. The only way he wins fans back is with a ridiculous run of wins to take us away from the relegation zone and we all know that isn't happening.
I think that the fans at least will give him at least 20minutes on Saturday to see what the team can do, the longer it goes where we are playing poorly or losing I could see it getting bad.
Probably yeah, but even then any small mistake will get a moan of frustration. I just want to see us play the way we did against City in the league cup in the first 60 minutes. We sat back at the end and saw it out, but the first 60 minutes we were so aggressive and front footed - just what NJ says he wants! After that performance I had hope he could get us playing good football and picking up results - seems a long time ago now though.
New record time hat-trick from Onuachu may do the trick of winning fans over. Or a £50 note stuck on each seat.
He came across as totally out of his depth in my opinion. He didn’t accept that he’d reacted badly. Didn’t admit that he’d said anything stupid. Just tried to pretend he hadn’t done anything wrong. Is that real leadership? I feel a bit sorry for him now.
****ing hell. Its like having Boris Johnson running your football club. You don't like him, you don't believe him, he'll trash everything that is good and you know it will all end in tears and that is not politics that is a simile.
