| Mick Beale 22:26 - Oct 4 with 5794 views | bosh67 |
He's quite good, inni! I feel strangely confident. |  |
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| Mick Beale on 10:55 - Oct 5 with 2415 views | Tonto |
he looks and speaks like the sort of geezer you see in some dodgy boozers that I wouldn't look at twice for fear of what might happen.
I was also concerned about letting Warburton go. This was a crucial appointment by the club and probably sh!t or bust for Les/Hoos as I suspect the supporters would have been right on their backs if it had gone wrong.
Its early days, but the start was important. Getting us out of the funk of last year and going again isn't easy, we could easily have spiralled.
its been a great start, but the injuries of last night could stall it. lets keep our fingers crossed. |  |
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| Mick Beale on 10:56 - Oct 5 with 2415 views | robith |
When Warbz left I was gutted, I thought he was great. I was also really gutted how last season panned out given it felt the play offs were right within our grasp.
Of all the appointments we could make, Beale was the one I was most excited about. It was an interesting angle over "guy who plays possession football in league 1".
But there was risk - he was a novice to the big chair, we'd lost a lot of experience, leaks coming out of the club on finger pointing and a squad whose confidence was absolutely blown
So my enthusiasm was tempered by the feeling he'd need some time to navigate the wreckage.
We're not the final deal yet and there's a long way to go - but I've been so impressed by how quickly he's got his ideas into the team, his use of soft and hard power with the squad (some notable improvements after he threatened to bin some of them) and that mentality shift from a broken team in May. More please [Post edited 5 Oct 2022 11:05]
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| Mick Beale on 12:50 - Oct 5 with 2240 views | The_Beast1976 |
I'm hugely impressed by Beale thus far. |  | | |
| Mick Beale on 13:28 - Oct 5 with 2213 views | NorthantsHoop |
Trying not to get carried away with things, but Mick Beale is becoming another great managerial appointment by the club, following on from Mark Warburton's successful period as manager. Like the way he feels Loftus Road and giving fans a real show is just as important as the great away wins. Just a plea can we have a goal from the Rangers at the Loft End, last goal we saw up our end was against Derby in April. |  | | |
| Mick Beale on 13:40 - Oct 5 with 2183 views | ManinBlack |
| Mick Beale on 13:28 - Oct 5 by NorthantsHoop |
Trying not to get carried away with things, but Mick Beale is becoming another great managerial appointment by the club, following on from Mark Warburton's successful period as manager. Like the way he feels Loftus Road and giving fans a real show is just as important as the great away wins. Just a plea can we have a goal from the Rangers at the Loft End, last goal we saw up our end was against Derby in April. |
I second your appeal for a Loft goal. Trouble is we have lost Willock and this is the sort of fixture after two great away wins where we drop points live on Sky. The Queen's Park Spiders just had to win at home last night to go top of the league after good away wins. Sure enough they lost which is what we are good at. I just hope that is not a bad omen for us. |  | | |
| Mick Beale on 13:48 - Oct 5 with 2169 views | Monkey_Roots |
I think he is so good for the club, but almost too good, too soon... someone else is bound to notice, and there's always a big job out there now that managers get next to no time in a job. His ability to come in, show smarts in the transfer market, get his ideas across to the players and that actually translating to getting points on the board in a relatively short amount of time is like the holy grail for a relegation threatened PL club in need of a quick fix.
We'll lose him before too long, I guess we just have to make the most of it while we can. |  | | |
| Mick Beale on 14:21 - Oct 5 with 2086 views | PinnerPaul |
| Mick Beale on 23:08 - Oct 4 by gazza1 |
He is doing ok, still time one way or the other........ |
He's doing better than OK, but 2nd part is correct.
After our recent 'half seasons' we should all be aware of that. | | | |
| Mick Beale on 14:25 - Oct 5 with 2076 views | PinnerPaul |
| Mick Beale on 23:48 - Oct 4 by numptydumpty |
I was one who was not happy we got rid of Warburton and I felt the injuries to Willock and Dieng did for us last season.
We definitely got greater squad depth this season due to Beales signings but it seems Willock injured now and Dieng took a knock - hope Willock not serious but its at these times then we can make judgements.
But I have to say Beale seems to be a great student of the modern game and his ability to learn the value of substitutions seems currently to be his greatest strength followed by an excellent ability to give fabulous post match interviews which give a great insight into his man management and also game management skills.
Both those qualities he seems to possess which are an upgrade on Warburton. |
Just to dispel the old injuries myth, ONE more time.
Willock only injured well in to the terrible run and even then that's no reason for 9/10 other players to then put in 4/10 performances match after match.
Whatever the reasons for last season's collapse its FAR too simplistic to just say 'injuries' | | | |
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| Mick Beale on 14:49 - Oct 5 with 2028 views | francisbowles |
| Mick Beale on 13:48 - Oct 5 by Monkey_Roots |
I think he is so good for the club, but almost too good, too soon... someone else is bound to notice, and there's always a big job out there now that managers get next to no time in a job. His ability to come in, show smarts in the transfer market, get his ideas across to the players and that actually translating to getting points on the board in a relatively short amount of time is like the holy grail for a relegation threatened PL club in need of a quick fix.
We'll lose him before too long, I guess we just have to make the most of it while we can. |
Hopefully, he'll have the sense to not jump in at the deep end too soon. Look what happened to Rob Edwards. Forest Green promoted in his first season, as a manager at league level, and then sacked by Watford after ten games and when only a couple of points off the top six. Probably a few other examples around too.
The journey with us won't be finished any time this season or next. Leave too soon and he risks returning to being a number two. | | | |
| Mick Beale on 15:26 - Oct 5 with 1955 views | kensalriser |
When was the last time a PL side appointed a Champ manager who's never managed at PL level or equivalent? |  |
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| Mick Beale on 15:33 - Oct 5 with 1911 views | Northernr |
| Mick Beale on 15:26 - Oct 5 by kensalriser |
When was the last time a PL side appointed a Champ manager who's never managed at PL level or equivalent? |
Potter? |  | | |
| Mick Beale on 15:45 - Oct 5 with 1856 views | WatfordR |
| Mick Beale on 14:49 - Oct 5 by francisbowles |
Hopefully, he'll have the sense to not jump in at the deep end too soon. Look what happened to Rob Edwards. Forest Green promoted in his first season, as a manager at league level, and then sacked by Watford after ten games and when only a couple of points off the top six. Probably a few other examples around too.
The journey with us won't be finished any time this season or next. Leave too soon and he risks returning to being a number two. |
My view too. Comparisons with Potter are a bit off the mark I think, he had a lot more managerial experience when Brighton approached him, including in European competition.
For Beale, whatever he achieves this season, it won't be with "his team", it's made in large part of what he has inherited. By this time next year, whatever division we are in, he'll feel that he has the playing squad he wants, which best reflects his coaching and managerial ethos. If I were him, I'd be planning to spend this season and next as our manager, and I think any Prem club looking to take him on would have been looking to that kind of experience as well. |  | | |
| Mick Beale on 15:55 - Oct 5 with 1813 views | cpgerber |
What Beale said in one interview is important. He also recruited for the style of play he wanted. He literally said "I asked Paal and Laird to just play their normal game". So it's not exactly like he had to install brand new ways in the entire squad.
Not saying he's not a great manager, I really do think he is! Just saying his recruitment was very good for what he had in mind. |  | | |
| Mick Beale on 16:09 - Oct 5 with 1736 views | Mick_S |
| Mick Beale on 06:33 - Oct 5 by PlanetHonneywood |
Reading many posts above and elsewhere, the good thing about Beale is that he won't be getting carried away with things.
However, if he continues to progress and impress as much as he has in the first few months of his managerial career: I'd be surprised if he didn't end up at Liverpool after Klopp goes in a few years. I'd also be annoyed if those dumbfuks at the FA didn't appoint him as the England manager in time. |
He could do them all at the same time, innit. |  |
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| Mick Beale on 17:12 - Oct 5 with 1577 views | WatfordR |
| Mick Beale on 13:40 - Oct 5 by ManinBlack |
I second your appeal for a Loft goal. Trouble is we have lost Willock and this is the sort of fixture after two great away wins where we drop points live on Sky. The Queen's Park Spiders just had to win at home last night to go top of the league after good away wins. Sure enough they lost which is what we are good at. I just hope that is not a bad omen for us. |
Funnily enough, the thing that crossed my mind during the last 20 minutes or so is how many times I've seen us in this position, expending enormous effort and energy to hang onto a lead, and ultimately end up conceding late.
Invariably, I'd go home thinking, jeez, there's two points gone that we really deserved, I'd realise then that we'd now need to win the next game just to make sure we were no worse off points wise than we really should have been. And then of course, in the next game we'd lose or draw.
We've deserved six points from the last two games, and we've got them. If anyone had offered up six points out of this week, I suspect we'd all happily have said yes please.
So as much as I want to beat Reading - and living around there these days, I REALLY want us to beat them - whatever the outcome on Friday, I don't feel we'll have shortchanged ourselves. It's not the way the manager or players will be looking at it, but to me, after a very very hard week, this Friday's game is a bit of a free hit as far as I'm concerned.
Don't know if any of that make any sense to anyone but me. And I know if we miss a penalty in the last minute to win it, I'll still be raging! | | | |
| Mick Beale on 17:40 - Oct 5 with 1488 views | NorthantsHoop |
For me with Mick Beale it all clicked at Watford, he got it spot on, very similar to Mark Warburton where it clicked for him at the 2-1 away win at Millwall in September 2017. As Beale has been banging on about get the home form right, that in my mind was a bit of the downside of Warburton's 3 seasons we still lost or drew against sides where we should have won and on average lost about 8 games a season at home, far too much if you want to challenge for top 6 place. | | | |
| Mick Beale on 18:18 - Oct 5 with 1377 views | enfieldargh |
THe players obviously love him too.
During a break in play during the 2nd half, Kenneth Paal trots over to MB with a big smile on his face and mouths a few things. I am sitting stressed out in my living room expecting them to score at any minute and our players are all calm.
What a man |  |
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| Mick Beale on 20:20 - Oct 5 with 1188 views | kensalriser |
| Mick Beale on 15:33 - Oct 5 by Northernr |
Potter? |
And I think that may well be a solitary exception. Potter had been a manager for ten years and took Ostersunds from the fourth to first tier and into the Europa league. Obviously we all like Beale a lot so far, but there's some exuberant and somewhat previous talk for a manager whose entire management career consists of a dozen games in the Championship. [Post edited 5 Oct 2022 22:17]
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| Mick Beale on 20:56 - Oct 5 with 1105 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Mick Beale on 20:20 - Oct 5 by kensalriser |
And I think that may well be a solitary exception. Potter had been a manager for ten years and took Ostersunds from the fourth to first tier and into the Europa league. Obviously we all like Beale a lot so far, but there's some exuberant and somewhat previous talk for a manager whose entire management career consists of a dozen games in the Championship. [Post edited 5 Oct 2022 22:17]
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You’re looking at it too rationally. Chairmen don’t think like that.
You’ve got a coach those in the game knew about for years, who several clubs tried and failed to lure. He does well at a basket case club. He’s English. Villa look sh1te without him.
If this continues any club lower than 12th in the prem down to any larger club than us in the champ (almost everyone now) will have him on a list.
If we get to the play offs or higher, we won’t hold onto him past next summer |  |
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| Mick Beale on 16:28 - Oct 6 with 811 views | hantssi |
| Mick Beale on 20:20 - Oct 5 by kensalriser |
And I think that may well be a solitary exception. Potter had been a manager for ten years and took Ostersunds from the fourth to first tier and into the Europa league. Obviously we all like Beale a lot so far, but there's some exuberant and somewhat previous talk for a manager whose entire management career consists of a dozen games in the Championship. [Post edited 5 Oct 2022 22:17]
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Lampard!!
FLDC to The Scum!! | | | |
| Mick Beale on 12:04 - Oct 7 with 636 views | PinnerPaul |
In the pre match for today he said "3 games in SEVEN days" - I love him!  | | | |
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