Gary O'Neil

I don't think we should overplay or over-celebrate Foley's "ruthlessness". He's not Ming the merciless or Darth Vader killing everyone who makes a mistake ...or Watford.

He stuck with O'Neil for the remainder of the season, it was a brave choice and it was vindicated with our survival. Continuity and culture are as important in football clubs as tactical nous. New manager bounce doesn't exist.

I have mixed feelings about the decision. While it's sad we couldn't keep GON in some capacity because he felt a good fit culturally it does feel like we need a longer-term plan. The idea with Parker was exactly what I hoped for but the reality after promotion was the opposite.
 
Audenshaw Cherry said:
Where is btk? He is ALWAYS first with this kind of news.
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Been out in the country having a nice walk around a lake.

Must say I feel sorry for Gary O’Neil, seemed a nice bloke when you see him interviewed and when there were rumours about his future before he was appointed manager, he handled the press interviews in an honest and professional manner.

He believed as did his players that we would stay up and proved it with four games still to go.

Wish him the best of luck in a new job when it comes along, which I believe clubs in the lower leagues will be after him.

Says a new manager will be appointed later today, so this has been kept well under wraps and away from those in the ‘know’.
 
I'm just excited to see a summer thread on here that is of interest to me and not just the usual "it's summer, we're bored, let's just argue about something trivial because there is no actual news to comment upon :punch:" sort of threads.

Bearing in mind that Bill has stated that there would be no new player announcements until July 1st, I was thinking that this June was going to drag on a bit.

Good old Bill, he clearly likes to keep us entertained through the off-season too (y)
 
Shocked to call up the BBC website for an Ashes update and see this news sitting there!

GON did an excellent job in keeping us up given how inexperienced he was in management - but as other have said - I could see him struggling to meet Foley's ambitions for the club. So more surprised that it has come completely out of the blue rather than that he is being replaced.

At least the timing is good from a club, and even GON, point of view with time for the new coach to assess the players, make changes and engage in pre season. Hopefully GON will also find himself a new position in time for next season - many clubs could do a lot worse than appoint him.

The big question is obviously who it is going to be - some good and some frightening names being suggested above. Also a good few other staff at AFCB probably looking over their shoulders too and dreading a phone call at the moment.

Yet another bump on the AFCB rollercoaster!
 
NWCherries98 said:
O’Neil is a nice guy, who did his job last season. I like him, I’m very thankful for what he did. I hope he gets another job soon and can have a good career as a manager. He’s conducted himself with dignity throughout, it was up and down but he made me like going to games again. He reminded the footballing world that we have a talented squad that’s here on merit, and he achieved his objectives.

It’s a very harsh decision on paper, but the right one. He would’ve been sacked by November most likely. Our form for most of last season, outside of one off month pockets of form, was dreadful. I’m actually very excited by this bold, cutthroat style of leadership from the very top tbh, as morbid as that might sound.

For too long as a club we’ve accepted “good enough”. We are where we are because of one man, Eddie Howe. The infrastructure around him had been “adequate” at best, with no concrete improvements to any level of the club to show for our last decade of over-performance. The stadium saw next to no touches or improvements, the commercial activity around things like sponsorships has been revealed to be rank amateur recently. Our entire legacy and approach was built around one man; this was an approach that proved to be demonstrably unsustainable.

I believe we’ve had this en-mass attitude of “we’re not REALLY supposed to be here, it’s a fluke, enjoy the ride, we’ll be League 1 again soon” for too long. We’re a top level Championship to lower level premier league club now. We have been for a decade. It’s time we start acting like it. That means being harsh.

We enjoyed 9 years with EH, with whom we started the philosophy, “Together, Anything is Possible”. It’s an easy philosophy to stick to when you’re sticking by the special one. A champions league quality manager, the England manager in waiting. It’s not so easy when he’s followed up by the likes of Tindall, Jonathan “Vibes” Woodgate, “It’s every man for himself” Parker and, unfortunately, meek O’Neil.

O’Neil had a chance to prove he was the man for the future as well as the present. Remember, it was reported to be a Foley decision to keep O’Neil on in the first place. Foley clearly has a vision for the club. A new training complex, a bigger stadium, a team full of winners, players that are as elite as we can possibly attain being drawn to the club. O’Neil isn’t the man for this vision, let’s be honest.

I think he made Foley’s mind up for him when he announced that we were safe with 4 games to spare. We lost all 4. This isn’t the mindset of a winner, he’s not the captain of the new ship Foley’s building. This is the same old, grateful for the opportunity, “the lads did really well to get this far” attitude that’s employed by swathes of our fanbase. We have a PL level squad, that could’ve finished 12th this season. O’Neil settled for mediocrity. Foley, clearly, won’t. And personally, I think that’s quite exciting tbh.
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Totally agree about the last 4 games. Imagine ending on 51 points after winning all 4? Much harder decision for BF.

I'll never forget how bad Palace was.
 
I don’t want an aggressive American owner who knows nothing about football making decisions that are football related. It is a plan for a disaster. We are in the PL and the current staff and management have put us here. If he wants to blow it up the first move should have been dumping the management staff. We’ll see who he appoints and who is retained. I don't like meddling owners. They are the type, once they figure out the limitations of the market…well, MK Dons. In any event, Foley now owns this. I’ll give him all the credit if we wind up in Europe and all the blame if we find us in League Two in three years. And, personally, I don’t give a crap about his Las Vegas hockey team. Other than Bournemouth is not Las Vegas, it is a far nicer place than Las Vegas, and having attended a few Golden Knights games I find their game management repulsive. He owns three American teams: one has been OTT with success, one a complete failure and one so so. Time will tell what happens here. O’Neill deserved to start the next year as manager based on merit.
 
From the Mirror:

"It is understood that despite handing him the manager’s job on a permanent basis, the owners had only done so because their first choice was not available. It is believed that that man is now free to take charge."

www.mirror.co.uk

Inside Gary O'Neil's Bournemouth sacking with 6am phone call delivering his fate

Bournemouth have announced they have parted ways with Gary O'Neil despite the interim-turned-permanent boss helping to keep the Cherries in the Premier League last term
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

Basically, he was always a place holder and was never going to last past this season.
 
Newman104 said:
From the Mirror:

"It is understood that despite handing him the manager’s job on a permanent basis, the owners had only done so because their first choice was not available. It is believed that that man is now free to take charge."

www.mirror.co.uk

Inside Gary O'Neil's Bournemouth sacking with 6am phone call delivering his fate

Bournemouth have announced they have parted ways with Gary O'Neil despite the interim-turned-permanent boss helping to keep the Cherries in the Premier League last term
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

Basically, he was always a place holder and was never going to last past this season.
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Despite the histronics on here it did always seem that O'Neil was a stop gap option and that they were pursuing other avenues behind the scenes. Looks like it was done quite well tbf.
 
Wow, just wow. Didn't expect this. It's the New Bournemouth way, " Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" as the original Eddie and Jason said : )

On the one hand, he was already the 10th longest serving Premier League manager. On the other hand, we looked good in some matches but poor in some others. Not consistent enough and very poor against Palace, just after we stayed up. Liked him in his media dealings, committed to doing his best but.... Bill is building something here, his idea is a team to challenge for Europe and he's not taking anyone that "might" learn and prove their worth. We're starting another journey, Bill's vision is upwards and he's going to apply the thrust as and when he feels he needs to : )

Having said that, the "little ol'Boscombe" fan in me feels sorry for Gary O'Neil losing his job because he's not deemed good enough to "take us to the next level" and ones above that. I not complaining at all, just something I didn't expect us to be doing, queueing to buy Playershare Raffle tickets 10 or so years ago. As they might have said in the Wizzard of Bozz, " We're not in Kinson, anymore"

: )
 
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