Gartside - Coyle is safe

At least another season of Owen ''fine margins'' Coyle then.

Owen Coyle will remain as manager of relegated Bolton, chairman Phil Gartside has told BBC Radio Manchester.

The club's 11-year stay in the Premier League came to an end on Sunday with a 2-2 draw at Stoke City.

"I want Owen to stay and I'm certain he will stay," said Gartside. "We've formed a good working relationship and I respect the way he works.

"He's been very unlucky this year. He's a young manager, he's learned a lot and we've invested in that."
"During the season, we've had 15 trauma injuries, including four broken legs. I've been on the board for nearly 30 years and I've never seen a season where we've had such a horrendous injury list.
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Excellent news.

im not 100% behind this decision....but hey, fuck all i can do about it.

If we are playing around at the top (or near the top) of the league next season, i wont give two shites.

but if we are just as crap by January as we have been this season, regardless of injuries, referees hating us, moon phases or any other bullshit excuses coyle uses for the team looking like they are not actually footballers...he will be getting it both barrels.

I'm pretty sure though, that the lads in the ESL would have hounded him out by then anyway.

the rest can just carry on clapping...

I reckon he will live or die by next seasons results. If we are not in the top ten by Xmas then the knives will be out.

It's a really stupid decision and one that will probably hurt us for many years to come.

I can understand Coyle wanting to keep his job, I can undrstand Gartside wanting Coyle to keep his job, what I can't understand is a successful businessman like Eddie Davis letting Coyle ruin the club even further.

Yes we've had injuries, yes we've had some decisions go against us, but Coyle is still responsible for the crap team, the lack of effort and the awful signings.

Here is a good interview with Phil on Coyle, the injuries, the debt at the club and his hopes that many of the squad will stay.

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Hipster_Nebula wrote:Here is a good interview with Phil on Coyle, the injuries, the debt at the club and his hopes that many of the squad will stay.

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I also remember him stating that 'securing our premier league status is of paramount importance' a few months ago.

coyle failed in that respect.

by extension, so did gartside.

they are both full of shit...

And some.

largehat wrote:Excellent news.

WUM.

xmiles wrote:

largehat wrote:Excellent news.

WUM.

Largehat is very opinionated, and i very rarely agree with him, but hes defiantly not a WUM...

Oh well more of the same next season - no wonder Wednesday's and Palace's odds of promotion are far superior to ours.



If most of us fans and bookies can see the problem, then why can't gartside!!



League one this time next year? I predict so, if we keep with Coyle.

The bookies don't think we'll go up?

Well that settles it!

xmiles wrote:

largehat wrote:Excellent news.

WUM.

You're the WUM.

My belief in Coyle is well established and documented.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:The bookies don't think we'll go up?

Well that settles it!

But we are one of the favourites to go up - joint 3rd favourites.

How this translates to "the bookies don't think we'll go up", I haven't the foggiest.

largehat wrote:

Hipster_Nebula wrote:The bookies don't think we'll go up?

Well that settles it!

But we are one of the favourites to go up - joint 3rd favourites.

How this translates to "the bookies don't think we'll go up", I haven't the foggiest.

I hadn't checked until just now and i can report we are joint favourites and no worse than second favourites with ALL bookies.

Leicester are favourites.

Crystal Palace are 80/1 and Wednesday at 20/1

I go to matches with somebody who feels indifferent about Bolton and even he (somebody with no emotions clouding his judgement) has been left astonished by Coyle's performance from August to May.

Ostensibly, what's happened is understandable to an extent given the injuries to key players, but what he could have done differently to better deal with that is debatable. A good manager would have made big decisions sooner (how long did it take him to even try 4-5-1, and drop Kevin Davies?), been keener to try out different players when the usual suspects offered nothing at all (Tuncay, Sordell, Kakuta) and wouldn't have reverted back to a proven failure of a system for the final four games of the season.

Well I was looking at Skybet last night and were 66/1 whilst Palace were 50/1 and Wednesday were 33/1.

You must have been looking at the wrong odds.

bwfc71 wrote:Well I was looking at Skybet last night and were 66/1 whilst Palace were 50/1 and Wednesday were 33/1.

Can you put £10k on for me at 66/1. I'll have to owe you the cash

largehat wrote:You must have been looking at the wrong odds.

Nope. In fact checked it 3 times just to make sure.