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Post by davidm on Mar 9, 2016 8:37:41 GMT
What is the manager up to with the following statement:-
“Woolery was going to start but he was sick pre-match,” he told The Bolton News. “He needed a fitness test and then felt he wasn’t well enough to take part so we made a change.
“I have never been at a club where players pull out on the day of the game so much in my life. I always thought you wanted to play.
“If he’s sick, he’s sick. It’s just another situation where you have to change the team, with 55 minutes to go before kick-off.”
He may well believe what he said but to come out in public and basically slag off a young player (one who is out of contract soon and has the option to leave) is crazy.
Mr Lennon's man- management skills leave a lot to be desired. How many players have disappeared from the squad/been slagged off in public this season?
Too many!!
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Post by andyl on Mar 9, 2016 9:00:19 GMT
Yes disgraceful! If he felt sick should he have kept quiet? Really harsh!
And also to say Vela was off the boil. Presumably much as Derik was off the boil. Feeney meanwhile is the old kettle who boils furiously and sets fire to the kitchen
And isn't it obvious that Wilson and Derik should have played more? When I think how often he has picked Dervite!
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Post by OohMac on Mar 9, 2016 14:19:20 GMT
Lennon is a bully, simple as that. Said it before but everything he does now confirms that to me. Woolery not fit to play slags him off. Heskey not fit last week anything said? Vela, Wilson and Derick exiled after a mistake or form Dervite will play every minute when fit. Walker and Silva not consistent enough, Feeny and Pratley in every game.
I suspect there's a core group of Bolton players a nucleas in the squad that Lennon dare go up against, the rest of them young lads, new signings etc are open to his public crisitisism and rash mood swings.
Gary Madine gets an easier ride now he told Lennon what he thought. Made him back down like the sheepish bully he is.
I can see Neil getting his commupance shortly. Someone, probably Madine, will see through his short man Napolean complex and give him what for.
I hope the fans make it plainly clear next game that they don't support the manager any more as Marc Iles tried to portray it as the fans were anti Dobbie.
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Post by realtrottersforever on Mar 9, 2016 19:48:34 GMT
seeing as Woolery was edging closer to a start, you wonder whether there is different spin being put on that story. was Woolery fed up being benched again, and has refused to go on the bench or had a row about not starting & then dropped. just seems odd that if he's sick, you would know that beforehand unless it has genuinely come on very late. if he had only been physically sick late in the day, why not just then drop down to the bench...see how you are in 75 mins etc. also odd outburst from NL..so just a case of putting 2 and 2 together. I could be totally wrong. time will tell.
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Post by andyl on Mar 9, 2016 20:29:40 GMT
Certainly Silva after his cameo stalked down the tunnel. Not difficult to work out his thoughts. Wouldn't class him as typical though. Definitely an outlier!
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Post by andyl on Mar 9, 2016 20:32:00 GMT
Plenty of precedent. Le Fondre sick in Ipswich. Prince sick in Yorkshire. Heskey pulled up at Leeds and now Woolery.
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Post by spanishjonny on Mar 9, 2016 21:50:33 GMT
When Wilson scored the first goal he didn't high five Lennon, he seemed to do a 'Madine' , a mouthful of abuse aimed at the manager
Don't think he's lost the dressing room totally because he doesn't upset some of the senior players, but Danns was a favourite early season but can't get any game time now
Overall poor man management, was that Maltby's job?
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Post by andyl on Mar 10, 2016 11:35:04 GMT
I didn't read more into Wilson ' s reaction than elation. and ifNeil fell out with Vela..he's not the first...
Arguments and quarrels are inevitable. What's important is that they don't spill over into detrimental or capricious selection policy..
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