In this edition of Supporters Forum, Orlando Pirates supporter Phillip 'Jwara-Bucs' Jwara pleads with fellow supporters to give Moroccan coach Abdeslam Ouaddou more time to fix his mistakes.
There are already calls from some of the club's supporters asking for the new coach to be sacked following the two defeats in Pirates' first two league games.
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On Saturday, the Buccaneers will host their rivals Mamelodi Sundowns at Orlando Stadium for the first leg of the MTN8 Cup semifinals.
"We still have hope of doing well in the MTN8 Cup. I'm sure the recent bad results will give the new coach a wake up call so that he realises in time that the MTN8 belongs to Orlando Pirates Football Club. The only thing he needs to do is to help us defend it for the fifth time in a row," Jwara tells KickOff.
"As a supporter, my job is to support the coach even when days are dark and friends are few. I feel like, as Pirates supporters, we will be divided by the head coach issue.
"I plead with my fellow Pirates supporters to continue supporting the coach, maybe by luck things will turn out for the better," he added.
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"The biggest mistake the coach made on his arrival at Pirates was not to continue where Jose Riveiro left off. He wanted something new, he wanted his own thing.
"The happiness that Jose Riveiro introduced to the Pirates supporters is beyond control, it's difficult to understand why Abdeslam Ouaddou rushed to make changes at the club when he has a three-year deal. He should take things slowly in terms of introducing the new players. He wanted to do too much too early.
"But I'm asking the Pirates supporters to calm down. I know we have become the laughing stock to the Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns supporters, but let's not behave like the old school supporters who resorted to wrong ways if a coach was not doing well, two wrongs don't make a right."
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