Will Still

[SW5 SAINT]

Will Still didn’t instil much confidence with his interview technique…

 

[Osvaldorama]

Absolutely unforgivable how bad he made us. 
 

Has to go down as one of our worst managers of all time.
And that’s quite the accolade considering the absolute muppets we’ve employed. 

[Saint NL]

How shit was this guy? An absolute fraud. 

[Mr Saints]

Should never work in football again based on what he produced here. Dog shit.

[Disco Stu]

Maybe he can work as his brother's assistant at Watford?

[whelk]

We have some fucking weird fans 

[Colinjb]

Still not sure exactly what that was. He did objectively good work elsewhere before failing here. 

Still; we are fine now.

[Mattio]

8 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

Still not sure exactly what that was. He did objectively good work elsewhere before failing here. 

Still; we are fine now.

I feel like he’d have done better than Martin last season, he seems like he gets a lot from teams expected to fail. Maybe he’s not honed his skills in a team in the opposite position. 

[Disco Stu]

21 hours ago, whelk said:

We have some fucking weird fans 

You'll find there's tons of weirdos on online forums. I guess it's inevitable with lots of terminally online types with tens of thousands of posts.

Edited 17 hours ago by Disco Stu

[Badger]

The early posts exclaiming optimism over the appointment now make interesting reading. Some people clearly taken in by one programme with Carragher and some  media hype. 

[Lighthouse]

41 minutes ago, Badger said:

The early posts exclaiming optimism over the appointment now make interesting reading. Some people clearly taken in by one programme with Carragher and some  media hype. 

No, some people were cautiously optimistic based on a fairly respectable recent record, at a decent level in Europe.

[Turkish]

50 minutes ago, Badger said:

The early posts exclaiming optimism over the appointment now make interesting reading. Some people clearly taken in by one programme with Carragher and some  media hype. 

I was optimistic. He had a very good reputation hailed as one of Europes best young coaches. saw a few podcasts, interviews and analysis of him and he came across really well. I was pleased when he joined us. As it turned out he was awful, I still can’t believe he was as bad as he was. Even Nathan Jones and Juric had some mitigation factors. Still no idea what was going on there.

[Dman]

11 hours ago, Turkish said:

I was optimistic. He had a very good reputation hailed as one of Europes best young coaches. saw a few podcasts, interviews and analysis of him and he came across really well. I was pleased when he joined us. As it turned out he was awful, I still can’t believe he was as bad as he was. Even Nathan Jones and Juric had some mitigation factors. Still no idea what was going on there.

Comfortably, pound for pound given resources and expectations, the worst manager we have ever had - at least in my living memory anyway. 

[Dman]

I do wonder how Still would have done if we'd started the season with Larin and Stewart as our 2 options up top. I do susepect it would have been better. 

He was given a duff hand with Downes and he simply couldn't adapt to having Armstrong as a lone number 9. 

[Turkish]

52 minutes ago, Dman said:

Comfortably, pound for pound given resources and expectations, the worst manager we have ever had - at least in my living memory anyway. 

Quite probably. I go back to that Blackburn game. We had good seats right in the middle at the back, you could see it all unraveling before your eyes. No one knew where to be or that to do, 4 centre backs and 6 defenders on the pitch, no shape, no plan it was an absolute shambles. Defend a lead throw a defender on, chasing a game throw another striker on seemed to be his only plan. You couldn't get much further away from the eloquent, thoughtful, intelligent guy he came across before he joined us.

[hypochondriac]

38 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Quite probably. I go back to that Blackburn game. We had good seats right in the middle at the back, you could see it all unraveling before your eyes. No one knew where to be or that to do, 4 centre backs and 6 defenders on the pitch, no shape, no plan it was an absolute shambles. Defend a lead throw a defender on, chasing a game throw another striker on seemed to be his only plan. You couldn't get much further away from the eloquent, thoughtful, intelligent guy he came across before he joined us.

I just found it so odd that he played all preseason with one formation that he'd previously said he favoured then immediately changed and stuck with another formation once the competitive games started. I'd love to know off the record why he did that. Almost certainly Jack Stephens was the unnamed captain from unnamed club that went to the owners to say how poor he was.

[Patrick Bateman]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

Quite probably. I go back to that Blackburn game. We had good seats right in the middle at the back, you could see it all unraveling before your eyes. No one knew where to be or that to do, 4 centre backs and 6 defenders on the pitch, no shape, no plan it was an absolute shambles. Defend a lead throw a defender on, chasing a game throw another striker on seemed to be his only plan. You couldn't get much further away from the eloquent, thoughtful, intelligent guy he came across before he joined us.

Makes you wonder if he wanted out and regretted the role for some reason, but wanted a pay off to get out ... surely the only explanation for the bizarre nature of the teams selections and "tactics".