CEF wrote:Sluffy - are u pissed or just taking the piss???
DF isn't worthy of lacing Coyle's boots yet in the managerial stakes. Coyles first 16 months in the Prem were a huge success. Yes we were ultimately relegated, but that season was unbelievable. Holden and Lee with broken legs. Muamba cardiac arrest. And Gary Speeds suicide!! No manager on the planet could have that much bad luck and still take us to the last game of the season. DF is a bog standard Champo manager and shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as a Prem manager!!!
Neither mate!
Let me give you a few facts back - feel free to check them out if you doubt them.
Coyle's record for the first half season he was given the job was more or less identical to the roughly half season Megson was sacked for.
Iirc correctly we won the last game of that season which was basically the difference in the stats between the two.
The following season we did indeed have a good run up to Christmas but we had relegation form from there on in - long, long before the Stoke Wembley debacle.
The following season we got relegated even though we were still the bookies favourites not too with just three games to go.
That season Coyle gave the club its worst home record in our 139 year history!!!
His performance with the team who were clear favourites to bounce right back to the Premier was nothing short than woeful. His performance since at Wigan mirrored that and you only have to look how Wigan's done since he was sacked to see how once again he had no clue how to manage a team.
His dealings in the transfer market have been shocking - big money for us spent on players such as Ngog, Sordell, Mills as well as stupidly high wages and contract lengths given to players such as Pratley (5 years!!!), Andrews, Mears, Knight (a further 2 year contract) and even Kevin Davies for an extra year when he had clearly gone past his sell by date.
He clearly only had one plan on the pitch and that was 4-4-2 with two attacking wingers - leaving our defence completely exposed. Everybody we played knew what to expect, planned for it - and usually beat us!
Yes the death of Speed was a shock but he had already left the team and the club was already in transition with plenty of players who had not known him now at the club.
Muamba's illness was a shock too BUT if you were to look at the stats Coyle had long since stopped using him as a regular in the team.
Probably the most daming moment for me about Coyle's tenure was the January transfer window when the team was crying out for a Holden replacement for midfield and instead he went out and panicked bought Sordell - clearly without any research on him at all.
His dumping of the backroom staff - medical and performance proved a disaster and his team training - playing 5 a sides - was a joke and even senior players commented on this late in his regieme.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but factually our performances during Coyles reign were dreadful and I honestly believe we are in the mess we are in now because of him as any competant manager would not have signed the crap he did, tied them to the club on long contracts and top money, nor had got relegated with the squad he had at his disposal.
We still have the millstones of Andrews, Sordell, and Preatley around our necks for at least another season and I know for a fact Wigan supporters feel the same way as to how he's lumbered them in a similar way with the signings of the likes of Grant Holt!
The facts show that Coyle enjoyed just half a season of success with us and my God we've paid a heavy price since for that brief spell.
That's why I judge him as the worst fulltime Wanderers manager in my lifetime.
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