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O'Dea - Reason For Our Downfall?

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Odea is becoming a very convenient scapegoat. The stories being pushed the week before Sheehan was sacked that suggested he was the problem felt like cover for Sheehan and now people think he was a corrupting force. The whole coaching group did not do well and the buck stops with the head coach. It also goes back to the overemphasis the club and the fanbase put on the performances at the end of last season. They were good but they were not free flowing and dominant attacking performances and styles that Odea came in and singlehandedly ruined. This week would have been very tough for him, like Sheehan, even if it turns out he is a hopeless coach he goes with my best wishes and thanks for the work he put in.
 
Odea is becoming a very convenient scapegoat. The stories being pushed the week before Sheehan was sacked that suggested he was the problem felt like cover for Sheehan and now people think he was a corrupting force. The whole coaching group did not do well and the buck stops with the head coach. It also goes back to the overemphasis the club and the fanbase put on the performances at the end of last season. They were good but they were not free flowing and dominant attacking performances and styles that Odea came in and singlehandedly ruined. This week would have been very tough for him, like Sheehan, even if it turns out he is a hopeless coach he goes with my best wishes and thanks for the work he put in.
No doubt it was difficult for him. And the club has had issues before his arrival. But he was in the passenger seat alongside other staff. It's not exceptable in anyway for the team to lose the way we have been irrelevant of how nice someone is or what he has put in. As I said in my opinion he has added more salt to a wound that was already opened before his arrival.
 
Odea is becoming a very convenient scapegoat. The stories being pushed the week before Sheehan was sacked that suggested he was the problem felt like cover for Sheehan and now people think he was a corrupting force. The whole coaching group did not do well and the buck stops with the head coach. It also goes back to the overemphasis the club and the fanbase put on the performances at the end of last season. They were good but they were not free flowing and dominant attacking performances and styles that Odea came in and singlehandedly ruined. This week would have been very tough for him, like Sheehan, even if it turns out he is a hopeless coach he goes with my best wishes and thanks for the work he put in.

It started to go wrong when montague left … maybe he was the brains behind the outfit 🤣
 
It started to go wrong when montague left … maybe he was the brains behind the outfit 🤣

He may be facing at least another eighteen months in League Two. Knowing our luck, every single player we signed and staff member we hired over the last 12 months will turn out to be complete duds. We will find out the Kitchen staff failed their hygiene rating and the secretary can not use excel.
 
It is pointless speculating how much negative influence O Dea has had because there are so many other variables involved compared to last season.

That said, it certainly won't harm us when we get shot of him and Stearman early next week because they are both tainted by association by what has happened this season.

Personally I'd get rid of O Leary as well, I don't see what he offers. Only one I'd keep is Marge because he's a specialist coach, and one of the best around. Would seem silly to turf him out.
 
It is pointless speculating how much negative influence O Dea has had because there are so many other variables involved compared to last season.

That said, it certainly won't harm us when we get shot of him and Stearman early next week because they are both tainted by association by what has happened this season.

Personally I'd get rid of O Leary as well, I don't see what he offers. Only one I'd keep is Marge because he's a specialist coach, and one of the best around. Would seem silly to turf him out.
Of all the coaches Matos hired at Maritimo the only one confirmed not coming to us so far is the goalkeeping coach which suggests Margetson will be staying thankfully.
 
The problem is every single one of the players in this squad. It doesn’t matter who the manger or the coaching staff are, this shower of shit need to ask themselves are they fit to wear the shirt.

Watching what I did today, they can all fuck off. I actually feel sorry for Sheehan trying to get a tune out these overpaid pricks.
 
I think this Darren O’Dea hysteria is getting a bit too much tbh…
Aye, what you see is what you get. A completely vacant cone boy, looking totally bemused at trying to manage a football team. You only had to look at him today, none of the gear and no odea
 
Aye, what you see is what you get. A completely vacant cone boy, looking totally bemused at trying to manage a football team. You only had to look at him today, none of the gear and no odea
I mean we can call the players out. But frig me. The tactics and making a sub of 2 players and what 5 minutes later to sub to get on Santos and then a sub for Fulton. And tactics. Was awful. No wonder the players leave spaces and look clueless. No post match interview. O Dea imagine was on first plane back to Scotland.
 
O'Dea took charge of Swansea for the first time at Bristol City, and the 3-0 loss could prove to be his only game at the helm with a home match against Blackburn Rovers coming up on Tuesday.

But the former Celtic defender and coach does not know whether he will be involved for that fixture, or any future game.

"No. I genuinely have walked out of the dressing room with the players directly to here [media interviews]," O'Dea said.

"The club have told me what they can, when they can, and I'm sure, once I leave here, I'll have an update on what tomorrow looks like.

"I've had to live for the last couple of weeks not knowing what the next two days bring. It's 24 hours at a time."

Former Liverpool elite development coach Matos emerged as Swansea's top target after they missed out on Kim Hellberg, who is poised to take over at Middlesbrough.

Matos, 37, has only been a head coach since taking over at Portuguese second-tier club Maritimo in June.

"Football moves on pretty quick and there's another game in a couple of days time so all my thoughts are with the players now to make sure they recover right," said O'Dea.

"There's definitely enough there to bring the club in the right direction. Now someone needs to lead that.

"The circumstances are difficult but, when you put perspective on it, working with these lads has been a pleasure."

These BBC journos can’t even get the game right for Tuesday ffs.
 

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