Jolley Appreciation Thread

As others have said thanks for keeping us up in that first season. Really hard to imagine where we would be if that miracle had not been performed. A shame that it ultimately did not work out.

Some people forget how excrement we were when he came in. Slade and Fenty had put us in pole position for the drop and to be honest, the job MJ did to bail us out was superb. We were in a bad patch but I think Jolley warned the right to see out the season will a team he only assembled a matter of weeks ago.

Not only kept us up but in my opinion put us in a much better position for future success by clearing out the dross and converting an oversized squad of mainly past it journeymen into a balance of proven performers and promising young talent. And Moses Ogbu who I can’t categorise but is definitely not a past it journeyman.
I know that players like Hanson and Green have not fulfilled their early promise but I don’t think anyone can fault their effort, and based on early season performances it was looking very promising.
To those who say that he doesn’t learn from his mistakes I would point to the fact that he seemed to have addressed last season’s lack of pace and power with his summer recruitment.
Ironically I wonder if the lack of depth due to a smaller, higher quality, squad has bitten MJ on the backside by forcing him to play players out of position. Probably a bit of that and a lack of experience resulting in a temptation to experiment a bit too much.
Whatever the truth I would ask those saying he hasn’t taken us forward to think about which players he inherited that they would prefer to have over the current squad.
IMO a case can be made for pretty much every player in the squad apart maybe from Cardwell and Ring. When he took over I’d say there were at least half a dozen passengers and very few you would be enthusiastic about retaining.
And that’s about management, not coaching.
I was certainly not enjoying the performances of late but was hoping that the January window would give him the chance to use the Chelsea money to plug a few gaps and create a balanced squad.