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Post by iancransonsknees on Feb 10, 2024 18:03:09 GMT
Can we finally appreciate how good he was for us given the circumstances? He certainly has a bad rep for bizarre reasons. I would be happy to have his steady hand in charge right now. That season we stayed up was as good as a promotion season. He should have been backed.
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Post by gawa on Feb 10, 2024 18:14:42 GMT
Hate him or love him the stats show he's been better than what came before and after him. He left the club in a better place than it was when he took over and can hold his head up. Dean Holden too was also very much part of that success too imo and another lovely bloke.
I still personally like Schumacker alot from a personality perspective too and really hope thinks turn round for him. Had Schumacker replaced MON and didn't have Tricky Ricky and the bald frauds mess to clean up maybe we'd have done better. Alex Neil erased any progress made by Michael.
The board also messed up too. You don't back the manager until 5 days before the transfer window closes and then sack him. They should either have got rid in May or given him till the international break at least.
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Post by swinny on Feb 10, 2024 18:23:59 GMT
He had a good start. But was sacked about half a year too late.
"Bloody good team" is bollocks though, we were turgid for vast swathes of his tenure.
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Post by bigvern on Feb 10, 2024 18:25:41 GMT
The only manager since TP who left the club in a far better position than when he joined.
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Post by prestwichpotter on Feb 10, 2024 18:26:27 GMT
Too hasty sacking him after 5 games……
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Post by bertiestan on Feb 10, 2024 18:26:49 GMT
Hate him or love him the stats show he's been better than what came before and after him. He left the club in a better place than it was when he took over and can hold his head up. Dean Holden too was also very much part of that success too imo and another lovely bloke. I still personally like Schumacker alot from a personality perspective too and really hope thinks turn round for him. Had Schumacker replaced MON and didn't have Tricky Ricky and the bald frauds mess to clean up maybe we'd have done better. Alex Neil erased any progress made by Michael. The board also messed up too. You don't back the manager until 5 days before the transfer window closes and then sack him. They should either have got rid in May or given him till the international break at least. I don’t think anyone hates him mate
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Post by mickstupp on Feb 10, 2024 18:29:01 GMT
He did a good job but it could have been better. Why did we have Collins full back and Chester stinking the place out at centre back. We kept a club record of clean sheets.
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 10, 2024 18:31:29 GMT
If he could have harnessed and developed whatever it was he had for the first year or so he’d have had us in the playoffs at least. He could probably still do a good job at a Champo club with the right set-up, i.e. not ours
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Post by jzime on Feb 10, 2024 18:32:19 GMT
Too hasty sacking him after 5 games…… Or premature, depending on your interpretation of things. To back a manager all summer and let him sign players only to let him go after five games was an abysmal decision either way. Either had to sack him at end end of the season and let a new manager have a summer transfer window, or keep hold of MoN until Xmas. John Coates managed to somehow find the worst possible option. My two cents is that it was a very rouge decision to not sign proper wing-backs and then go into the season wanting to play 5-3-2. Increasingly unsure who was actually at fault for that, though, given our bizarre aversion to signing proper left-backs after selling Pieters back in 2019 and after selling Tymon this summer.
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Feb 10, 2024 18:37:27 GMT
MON looks like Fergie compared to Schumacher
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Post by bertiestan on Feb 10, 2024 18:40:58 GMT
In all honesty I’d feel a lot more confident of us getting out of the shit with him in charge now…looked to have everything under control, I like Schumacher but he’s giving me the eebie jeebies atm.
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Post by gawa on Feb 10, 2024 18:41:08 GMT
Hate him or love him the stats show he's been better than what came before and after him. He left the club in a better place than it was when he took over and can hold his head up. Dean Holden too was also very much part of that success too imo and another lovely bloke. I still personally like Schumacker alot from a personality perspective too and really hope thinks turn round for him. Had Schumacker replaced MON and didn't have Tricky Ricky and the bald frauds mess to clean up maybe we'd have done better. Alex Neil erased any progress made by Michael. The board also messed up too. You don't back the manager until 5 days before the transfer window closes and then sack him. They should either have got rid in May or given him till the international break at least. I don’t think anyone hates him mate Agree mate maybe wrong phrase. But you know what I mean. Some don't hold him in as good a light as others.
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Post by Gary Hackett on Feb 10, 2024 18:42:22 GMT
Bring him back to replace Martin as DoF I said a couple of years ago he should have moved to DoF when it started going wrong for him on the pitch.
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Post by cvillestokie on Feb 10, 2024 18:49:17 GMT
Certainly steadied us from the moment he arrived when we were in a similar position to now Had the worst injury list have ever seen here to deal with as well I’m not sure if that wasn’t on him to be honest. He ran players into the ground at times. One of his biggest failings was not making substitutions.
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Post by bertiestan on Feb 10, 2024 18:49:30 GMT
I don’t think anyone hates him mate Agree mate maybe wrong phrase. But you know what I mean. Some don't hold him in as good a light as others. Definitely the best we’ve had since we came down.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Feb 10, 2024 18:52:47 GMT
Certainly steadied us from the moment he arrived when we were in a similar position to now Had the worst injury list have ever seen here to deal with as well I’m not sure if that wasn’t on him to be honest. He ran players into the ground at times. One of his biggest failings was not making substitutions. The keeper situation was mad stuff Was a bit like the Spinal Tap drummers
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Post by cvillestokie on Feb 10, 2024 19:20:27 GMT
I’m not sure if that wasn’t on him to be honest. He ran players into the ground at times. One of his biggest failings was not making substitutions. The keeper situation was mad stuff Was a bit like the Spinal Rap drummers The keeper stuff was nuts, I absolutely agree there.
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Post by moon on Feb 10, 2024 19:31:03 GMT
Agree mate maybe wrong phrase. But you know what I mean. Some don't hold him in as good a light as others. Definitely the best we’ve had since we came down. True, but the competition is pretty dire. MON steadied the ship, and brought the best out of the decent batch of youngsters we had at the time. He was another one who was only interested in attacking players though, he signed some shite at the back and neglected the defence as AN did.
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Post by bertiestan on Feb 10, 2024 19:39:32 GMT
Definitely the best we’ve had since we came down. True, but the competition is pretty dire. MON steadied the ship, and brought the best out of the decent batch of youngsters we had at the time. He was another one who was only interested in attacking players though, he signed some shite at the back and neglected the defence as AN did. It certainly is pretty dire mate hence the situation we’re currently in
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