Ian 'tractor boy' Holloway

[kyle09uk]

feel free to delete once ive got my answers

Basically im in a bit of a deep discussion at the minute with my my old college staff and mates...

basically some are saying Holloway is the 2nd best manager in the premierleague bladee fookin blaaa!

And that he did shit here because he inherited a bunch of no hope players and got sacked by a fire trigger happy chairman

Im wondering what players did he sign for us which will prove that he did have his own funds to mould his own team..

and didnt Holloway at times field mainly defenders in the team that was maybe part of the reason he did us no favours being here.

As much as i do like the guy he has his moments just a bit annoyed that all this praise is being heaped on him because hes managed to

get them into the Premierleague with still half a season left!!

Cheeerz

[JoeyB]

only 2 i can think of, off the top of my head are Howard and Oakley

[THEBIGJOHNSTEADER;]

Barry Hayles was a smashing little coup

[beemeroo]

Before us, Holloway had taken a 'lower' quality of team and made them perform far above expectations. He came to us and tried the same formula and failed.

As far as I'm aware after Leicester Holloway went away and re-assessed his approach to management and his general tactical style. It seems to have done him wonders at Blackpool, and all I can say is fair play to the bloke and it's a shame we were the catalyst to cause his rethink rather than the team that benefited.

Second best manager in the Prem is a little over the top, mind you.

[kyle09uk]

Didnt he sign DJ too?

[DJ Barry Hammond]

feel free to delete once ive got my answers

Basically im in a bit of a deep discussion at the minute with my my old college staff and mates...

basically some are saying Holloway is the 2nd best manager in the premierleague bladee fookin blaaa!

And that he did shit here because he inherited a bunch of no hope players and got sacked by a fire trigger happy chairman

Im wondering what players did he sign for us which will prove that he did have his own funds to mould his own team..

and didnt Holloway at times field mainly defenders in the team that was maybe part of the reason he did us no favours being here.

As much as i do like the guy he has his moments just a bit annoyed that all this praise is being heaped on him because hes managed to

get them into the Premierleague with still half a season left!!

Cheeerz

Holloway has pointed out he had learnt a lot of things from his time at Leicester, saying that one of the most important changes he's now instilled at Blackpool is for the team to attack.

Probably wrong manager, wrong time - he was under so much pressure to sign players in the window he probably ended up panic buying and picking up the dross he ended up with - he didn't have the same level of backing and name that Sven has after all.

[Bugg]

Didnt he sign DJ too?

No, Maddog Allen signed him

[DJ Barry Hammond]

Didnt he sign DJ too?

For Blackpool - Martin Allen got him in for us along with Stephen Clemence (remember him?).

[cc_star]

We had good enough players to be mid-table, he kept going on about how Martin Allen had unbalanced the squad by signings so many, then went about signing a load himself.

His tactics were rubbish typified by the final game against Stoke where he played for a draw whcih saw us go down.

The guy was an erratic **** who loved the sound of his own voice & whilst I don't doubt he can fire up players for a big match he was naive (at best) whilst he was here. Obviously Manderic had more money than most in the division and Holloway signed people like Barry Hayles, Steve Howard & Matt Oakley who were doing amazingly in the division at the time, Howard had banged in loads for Derby, and Oakley was Derby's captain, so he certainly added above average players (at the time) to a reasonable squad

Holloway was also heavily criticised by his previous club, Plymouth (where he had great success) for allowing their 5 best players to leave.

To sum up; the guy is a publicity seeking cock, but he seemed lively & full of energy at Playmouth & the same now at Blackpool, when we had him he was glum & didn't look like he could motivate anyone. Strangely

[Guest Mee-9]

No, Maddog Allen signed him

Seems like ages since he was manager!

[Kitchandro]

Holloway is a whinging hypocritical clown and I've got no time for him.

He took us from 14th in the Championship to 3rd bottom. I don't care how unstable the club was or how bad the squad was, that is a pathetic end of season result.

There were only 2 sackings by Mandaric that were justified:

Sousa and Holloway

He is obviously a good motivator but I'm not having that he is a great manager or the second best manager in the Prem having watched him manage us.

He's also made himself look a fool by making stupid threats to resign. I assume he did try to resign this evening because the Chief Executive refused to deny it. If this is the case then it shows how arrogant he is. The problem is he now looks a pratt if he does resign and a pratt if he doesn't, all because he talks too much.

My favourite was him having a go at other people complaining about not being able to go on holiday, saying that it's not worth complaining about

I do admire his honesty, I'll give him that. But he sticks his ore in when it doesn't concern him. He goes on angry rants and now it has got him into trouble. He should shut his trap and open his mind.

[kyle09uk]

Just from these comments within the space of 20minutes ive got a fully justified counter argument

thanks a lot ya'll..

I cant believe i actually asked who signed DJ Campbell, ive been coming on these boards religiously

for years now i get excited every morning i wake just to see whats happening in the world of LCFC

id say this club is up there with being one of THE most entertaining clubs around and im so

proud to be a Leicester fan! To be fair to myself maybe with all the players we have signed over

the past few seasons kind of lets me off a wee bit

[Kitchandro]

Don't forget he played Hume on the wing. That was criminal.

[kyle09uk]

Tom:

Second best manager in the league. The mans a genius! He actually said he will quit if his chairman thinks its in the best interest of the club. He turned Adams into the player he is. He is now worth at least £12 million. All down to his management, of course he should get a percentage of it!

Tom:

Holloway, taken a team consisting of players, many of which were playing non league foo...tball 2-3 years ago and giving them the confidence and coaching them to play at the highest level. Without a doubt he is second only to Ferguson (and maybe ancelotti) on success in the last 2 seasons.See More

Moi:

wo wo wo wooo! I cant believe Holloways even being mentioned as being as one of the best managers... he did well to get a team like Blackpool into the Premierleague... no shit, but seriously Feguson which uve already said WAY better, Harry who managed to ...get Portsmouth and achieve with them who tbh were a mediocre championship team before if not less, What he's done for Tottenham speaks for itself, Martin Oneil just look at his track record, Steve Coppel managed to get Reading to the Premier league n finish summat like 8th to get to then get relegated..

Blackpool are living in a fairy tale world, enoy while it lasts... Adams heart aint at Blackpool no-more now he's had a sniff at the chance of playing for Liverpool etc... If he can keep them up this season and then again next season THEN you can heap his praises but for now... best to keep them reserved.

Cliff:

Kyle, you are missing the point your chairman sacked manager after manager and let them spend all the cash. Then put Holloway in charge. It the players Leicester had that were shit! As for Harry its not his team it’s the squad build by Martin Jol. If he’s that good why was he going sell Bale to forest last January?

Moi:

after Leicester Holloway went away and re-assessed his approach to management and his general tactical style. It seems to have done him wonders at Blackpool, upto now but like its been said still a second half of the season to go yet... mos...t teams when they go up to the premierleague put in 150% work rate in every game, just have to see if it continues.

Holloway went away and re-assessed his approach to management and his general tactical style Fair play to the bloke, it's just a shame Leicester were the catalyst to cause his rethink rather than the team that benefited. He did go on to say that he had inherited a shit load of players that unbalanced the squad and then went out and bought more without offloading any. To top if off on more than one occasion he would play 7 defensive minded players most notably on the last day of the season when he played a defensive team for a draw and got us relegated..

we had a squad atleast capable of mid-table championship..

Kyle Kyle Kyle….Clemence, Oakley, Dickov, N'Gotty, Clapham, Hendrie, Hayles once good premier league players were all ready for the treatment table in the sky. The problem with city that season was old players that were brought in before Holloway and strikers who couldn’t score in a Brothel Fryatt , Campbell, Howard.and Hayles. Remember 42 goal in the league!

Moi:

When those players were brought in though they were for obvious reasons... Howard was on fire at Derby and helped get them up with his GOALS, Oakley was Derby's captain and was doing the biz in the champ, Hendrie was still a decent player, ...Hayles ran his socks off but no real end quality, we had HUUUUMMEEEE! who he was playing on the wing (which is just criminal!) we were 14th in the championship when the Hollo(motor mouth)way came to us... and for what turned out to be a relegation battle its usually best to go with the more experienced players to help avoid the drop...

Holloway admits himself that he went about it all wrong tactically wise and thats why he has come back and improved as a manager but to be honest it wouldnt suprise me if all his focus on talking and interfering in stuff will be the fall of him as a manager and for Blackpool...

Anywayy Leicesters on the up now so all shall be forgiven... its been a blessing in disguise being relegated... In Sven we trust (y)

Just incase anyone wanted to no what was said there were loads more but to do with other teams too i just extracted the Leicester bits

[Kitchandro]

And they sat there speechless, unable to even attaempt to rebut your brilliant argument

[Tommeh]

Holloway is a great character, speaks his mind, an awful lot of sense usually and apart from his spell here has performed minor miracles everywhere he's been... Blackpool, plymouth (top 6 of CC when he left, look at them now) even QPR back when they had no backing financially. Unfortunatly 6 months here has pretty much put him on par with Dennis Wise around here, which is utterly ridiculous. City were doomed to hit league 1 long before Holloway took over what was a poisoned chalice.

[Kitchandro]

Holloway is a great character, speaks his mind, an awful lot of sense usually and apart from his spell here has performed minor miracles everywhere he's been... Blackpool, plymouth (top 6 of CC when he left, look at them now) even QPR back when they had no backing financially. Unfortunatly 6 months here has pretty much put him on par with Dennis Wise around here, which is utterly ridiculous. City were doomed to hit league 1 long before Holloway took over what was a poisoned chalice.

Why were we? Our squad wasn't even that bad and we were mid table when he took over.

And we didn't have any money but neither do portsmouth and they're probably going to stay up.

It wasn't the easiest job in the world but I'll never buy this 'we were doomed' stuff.

Besides I don't dislike him for that, I've only started to really dislike him since he's been in the Premiership, mainly because he's always complaining and being defensive.

[easilee]

Holloway learned how to be a better manager at our expense. Didn't chat so much crap when he first went to Blackpool In fact it was almost like he was trying to emulate Nigel Pearson's downbeat demeanor. Looks like he's gaining some of his old confidence back and with it the blarney. He got lucky with a group of players who can tolerate his bullbob but one soon gets wise to these kind of people dont'cha know. 2nd best gaffer ? No chance.

[shailen]

Tbh it all worked out for the best, we were able to rebuild our squad with pearsn, who brought some top players in, and gain promotion. Tbh of we had stayed up that season i think w3 would be fighting relegation season after season then challenging for promotion.

[CosbehFox]

We flirted twice before with relegation before that season. It was coming, just like Wednesday have suffered last season after flirting. Palace is the same. Once you start losing, it's difficult to shake it out of a squad. It's no surprise that we've had three good seasons in a row fired by the habit of winning.

Still think Holloway's a hypocrite for recent comments and he's still naive by Premier League standards. He'll get eaten up when B'pool lose confidence or he tries to take his squad to the next stage.