So players don't like McGhee ?

[Icy Gull]

That was the frustration of the situation though wasn't it. For the large part of it McGhee was getting excellent results and performances out of the players, but then it all started to really surface in December of the relegation season, and the decline from then on was unbelievably quick and dramatic. Barely a fortnight was going past without another story of unrest within the changing room.

I know a lot of people see everything to one extreme or the other, but don't think just because I was highly critical of McGhee towards the end that means I didn't rate him at all. Up until the last 6-10 months I think he'd done an excellent job. Just, when it did go wrong, it went horrendously wrong.

I accept it fell apart but so many McGhee critics fail to applaud the good things and only point to the 2nd season in the Championship struggle. McGhee's biggest mistake was hanging around when he could have left a hero. He should have taken a leaf from the three previous successfull managers who all jumped ship when they felt they could take us no further.


Pisses me off big time because for the most part Mcghee was good for this club but history has been re-written by so many to only take account of the last season and 1/4 that he was here and ignored the 1st 2 seasons.

 

[Yorkie]

Not really. If a group of players are very unhappy, and reporting two distinct groups within the dressing room, then that would seem pretty clear to me.

I admire the way you always try to back McGhee Yorkie, but during the last 6 months the place was falling apart, and that seemed pretty obviously without talking to anyone.

I agreed that point with you. My point is that everyone still slates him a year later when he's gone and instead of wishing him well are still slating him.
He did far more good than bad.

 

[Yorkie]

I accept it fell apart but so many McGhee critics fail to applaud the good things and only point to the 2nd season in the Championship struggle. McGhee's biggest mistake was hanging around when he could have left a hero. He should have taken a leaf from the three previous successfull managers who all jumped ship when they felt they could take us no further.


Pisses me off big time because for the most part Mcghee was good for this club but history has been re-written by so many to only take account of the last season and 1/4 that he was here and ignored the 1st 2 seasons.

Thanks Icy. You put it more eloquently than me.

It's because the antis are so anti and still going to extremes with their criticisms that others still feel the need to try and redress the balance and stand up for him.

 

[sir albion]

Good luck to mc ghee,porter is a great signing although not a great career move mmmm

 

[Windmill]

But Leon Knight has proved to be a difficult player at a number of clubs, and responsible for a degree of unrest, so you can't blame that on McGhee. And the Adam El Abd fracas took place long after McGhee left.

He may not have been the best manager we've had, but he wasn't the worst either.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

My point is that everyone still slates him a year later when he's gone and instead of wishing him well are still slating him.
He did far more good than bad.

Like Leon then?

 

[TonyW]

I know it's early Sunday Morning but I can't see anywhere that it says" i like Mark MCGhee".

As for big Impressions he made that alright at the Albion.

 

[Trigger]

Like Leon then?

Indeed, plenty of two-facedness round here.

 

[NMH]

If someone gets remarried, and their new spouse seems very happy with your old one - does that suddenly mean your marriage was great after all, and that you should never have divorced?