Quote Originally Posted by PedroTheFisherman66 View Post
This is what does my head in.
Yourself and others state that hes not very good or a steady manager.
But then bend over backwards to praise and defend him and make excuses for his teams negative style and poor performances.(do you disagree that hes a negative manager?)
My own negativity towards him is purely down to his poor management of a club I love.
I wish him no harm, I wish him well,hes a lovely chap I'm sure he is.
But he is a poor negative manager.
Even if he gets us promoted we should get rid.that is my argument full stop.
In my eyes hes a poor manager,we are currently achieving despite him not because of him.
So when attacking this opinion or view can you please state why hes not a bad manager , and not refer to moniz nolan or hardy and focus on his ardleys attributes as opposed to other managers owners short comings.
I said steady, not bad and if I was pushed I would say better than steady in that he got Wimbledon up and kept them up.
I never overly praise him or vice versa, in my view he’s doing a decent job this season and last and yes made mistakes in the relegation season but I’ve let that go as I think the circumstances didn’t help (that’s been done to death too).

I would say his pros are recruitment, organisation and also appears to have the players working extremely hard in games which isn’t a given and moral seems high.

Cons: Probably overthinks things, probably a little too much focus on opposition which I think can be a good thing if players tune in and that was my main criticism of him when we got relegated as we didn’t have those players. The place was full of 40 odd pros when he walked in, which of about 3 are probably playing that standard still, it needed something else, it actually might have been Kewell for that situation as he was more hard nosed.