Garry Monk defends managerial record

brain_in_a_jar said:
The part which particularly stuck out was his justification of the situation at boro that we wanted to completely change the style of play and that taking longer than 6 months...

Its taken wilder about 6 weeks to do exactly that and he hasn't had about 50 million quid to do it with
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It didn't take Pulis long to change our style either :sleep:
 
I was listening to Talksport yesterday when he was on and couldn't believe how much of an easy ride he got from White & Jordan.

Nothing about the dodgy contracts that came to light after he was sacked.
 
Lefty said:
Did he play broadly the same team or even formation twice in a row ever?

He seemed to choose his teams and formations at random. I don't think the players ever knew what the plan was or their role in it.
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He never knew his worst eleven players, let alone his best. Complete fraud, and could only promote himself with real conviction. That’s the only promotion we were anywhere near that season.
 
His distinctly medorce management record aside, didn't the club launch an investigation into his association with a particular agent, the suggestion being that some transfer values were artificially inflated?

Didn't Birmingham do the same after he left?

I think that's the more likely reason he's not in work.
 
Monk was a genius who revolutionised football…..the way he made Clayton a type of quarterback, sat behind the defence, dictating play and spreading balls about everywhere……yeah, the football world followed and everyone plays with a quarterback now.…..errrrm
Monk, legend in his own mind.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
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Garry Monk defends managerial record

As a former manager of Swansea, Leeds United, Middlesbrough, Birmingham City and Sheffield Wednesday it is fair to say that, on paper, Garry Monk looks like a manager who is not likely to stay long at any club whether that be through choice or the decisions taken upstairs in a boardroom.After 22...
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“I went to Middlesbrough and lasted five months. They wanted to change their whole approach and even though we were 2/3 points off the play offs with half a season to play and I have to question that decision."

You have to wonder why he's been out of work so long if he's so good.
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He had the biggest budget in the championship, and of the other 7 sides in the top 8, he lost 5 games, and drew 2. Those are games he should have been winning with the players we had. Very poor manager.
 
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I recall his post match interviews where he waffled in footballing idioms. He would regurgitate the same old garbage about 3 times when answering questions. The biggest waste of money by any Boro manager in my time. He has more faces than Lon Chaney.

When you look examples of the word monk up in the dictionary it should read: A smug ginger haired con artist, roaming around the country hoodwinking a living from unsuspecting company owners, talking in riddles until the penny finally drops.
 
You don’t feel you get managers that want to coach players nowadays like they used to , spending sky money seems to be the way of a modern manager far too much . Wilder seems more old school in getting the best from what he has or finding a latent , then when we need that top player we can spend a bit more on quality rather than dilute what money we have in the future
 
I think he hated Boro from the start.
If you wanted to destroy a club from the inside you would do what he did.
I am surprised Mel Morris didn't put him in charge at Derby.
Imagine the horror show they could have produced together.
 
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