Time for a vote of confidence in Oscar - In or OUT ?

[Lawro's Lip]

In, in, in.....

 

[Seagull73]

Another transfer window in July / August like we have just had, and I suspect this question will be null and void anyway.

 

[halbpro]

Come on now Ernest. I actually found you funny at times last season, but you've really slipped since then. Are you even trying any more?

 

[Footsoldier]

Oscar in, the welsh Wally jones out

Did Oscar know Jones before? Or did the club bring in Jones because he's an ex Albion player and can speck Spanish?

 

[Zebedee]

Where's the fence option?

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

Who do you think forced him to pick the flapper then ? As far as I can see only Oscar can take the blame / credit for the team selected.

It'll probably be blamed on Jones.

Apologies to Mustafa if that wasn't the suggestion but it seems to be the current thinking that Jones wields all the power at the club, for reasons I really can't fathom.

 

[Triggaaar]

Oscar ****ed up by naming Brez in the first team in the biggest game in years... but something tells me that wasn't completely his decision....

The biggest game in years was last May. And of course it was Oscar's decision to play Brez, who the **** do you think our manager is?

 

[The Camel]

He probably told Brez and the players at the start of the Cup campaign that it was his job throughout the run

If this is right - and he changes now - it risks losing the confidence and respect of the whole squad.

 

[Rugrat]

Did Oscar know Jones before? Or did the club bring in Jones because he's an ex Albion player and can speck Spanish?

That's where I am. Oscar in, but with his own Assistsnt, then let's see what he can do

 

[Rugrat]

it seems to be the current thinking that Jones wields all the power at the club, for reasons I really can't fathom.

Maybe the way he talks at pre/post match interviews?
Maybe because more than 1 of the transfers in are "known" to him?
Maybe because he spends as much time in the tech area as OG?

I just can't warm to the bloke and not just for his antics of yesteryear, but maybe others are seeing even more than these things?

 

[perseus]

Honour the two year contract both ways. He does not seemed to have earned a new contract quite yet.

We don't want to be like Palace, Cardiff, Swansea, Blackburn, West Brom etc !!!

or like Newcastle !!!

 

[Trigger]

Oscar is being seriously hampered in his job by the interference of Burke & Jones, if they pissed off I'm sure it would be a totally different ball game.

 

[chaileyjem]

Oscar is hardly going out on a limb playing his #2 goalkeeper in the FA Cup. Everyone does. Hull did and Gus did last season. Call it "premier league ready" if you like.

 

[chaileyjem]

Oscar is being seriously hampered in his job by the interference of Burke & Jones, if they pissed off I'm sure it would be a totally different ball game.

Albion's Head of Football Operations started work at the Albion in Jan 2012. He's supported the manager, along with his scouts, in finding and being behind the transfers of Ulloa, Orlandi, Bruno, Lopez, Crofts, Ward, Bridge, Andrews, Hammond, Dobbie, Stephens, Agustien, and Obika but also a whole bunch of other players that we don't know about that presumably Gus or Oscar didn't think fitted into the team. Not 100% success but given our budget, competition a pretty good strike rate.

OG could have insisted on bringing his own #2 but the club identified a young successful English coach who also spoke Spanish and had considerable experience of the Championship and Tony Bloom sold the club to him.

But clearly its all David Burke's fault.
Its clearly all Nathan Jones fault.

that we're a few points off the play offs with a game in hand, 15 or so games to go and still on track to make our 2nd best finish in 30 years.

 

[Hamilton]

Can someone please remove the poll rights for [MENTION=1416]Ernest[/MENTION] just for a bit? Until he calms down and makes a sensible poll contribution.

These inane questions just clutter up the site. He's like a friendly fire troll.

 

[Hamilton]

Albion's Head of Football Operations started work at the Albion in Jan 2012. He's supported the manager, along with his scouts, in finding and being behind the transfers of Ulloa, Orlandi, Bruno, Lopez, Crofts, Ward, Bridge, Andrews, Hammond, Dobbie, Stephens, Agustien, and Obika but also a whole bunch of other players that we don't know about that presumably Gus or Oscar didn't think fitted into the team. Not 100% success but given our budget, competition a pretty good strike rate.

OG could have insisted on bringing his own #2 but the club identified a young successful English coach who also spoke Spanish and had considerable experience of the Championship and Tony Bloom sold the club to him.

But clearly its all David Burke's fault.
Its clearly all Nathan Jones fault.

that we're a few points off the play offs with a game in hand, 15 or so games to go and still on track to make our 2nd best finish in 30 years.

Can I suggest that we all just copy this post to our desktops and then just cut and paste it in as a reply every time Ernest, Midgettwit or whomever asks the tired question as to whether the management (that are challenging for a playoff place) should go?

 

[BBassic]

He probably told Brez and the players at the start of the Cup campaign that it was his job throughout the run

If this is right - and he changes now - it risks losing the confidence and respect of the whole squad.

This!

 

[Albion_Dave]

Still definitely in for me. Full pre season with no distractions & then he can be properly judged.

 

[Randsta]

IN OUT IN OUT shake it all about you do the Oscar Garcia an' you turn around, that's what it's all about....

 

[Rugrat]

OG could have insisted on bringing his own #2 but the club identified a young successful English coach who also spoke Spanish and had considerable experience of the Championship and Tony Bloom sold the club to him.

A lot of that is supposition. We don't know that Oscar could have insisted on his own No 2, maybe it was the compromise he needed to make in order to get into English football at a decent standard.

Not sure that NJ can yet be regarded as a successful coach, and he definitely doesn't have experience of the Championship ... he does speak Spanish though!

Fact is none of us know the chemistry between the 2 and how it's working out. I guess those on his case are just looking for answers to some of the tactical, selection and formation "oddities" that they see, and there aren't too many places to look