I just want to get some goals happening again. We need to be banging them in again, if not then sparky won’t last. To do that we need to re invest, no question, you simply cannot be starting Shane long and Redmond game after game so at least two new players up front for me plus sims and hesketh getting a chance to show what they can do. I don’t know why sims hasn’t been getting a go, he gave Liverpool a hard time FFS. We’ve abandoned our youth completely it seems. Maybe waiting for our European feeder team.
I think most managers have a shelf life. Sparky probs reached the end of his at Stoke. He isn’t likely to be with saints for 16 years. If he can bring sone discipline organisation and steel back to the side for a season we will do all right. We can reset ourselves and look at sneaking back up the league under the radar, with our tail between our legs, hoping that the big clubs don’t go into a frenzy on us once more.
Sorry Qwerty, yes it's the counterfactual but what we achieved with Hughes was by a fine enough margin, that even a manager almost as impactful as him wouldn't have achieved it. That level of impact was well beyond Pellegrino.
Not too many of Fergies disciples have been hugely successful in management. That man was a special breed, almost a one-off.
Good point. One never stops learning, and I think Sparky maybe learned as much from his last season at Stoke, than he did from his successes elsewhere - and we should be the beneficieries of it.
Sometimes things just fall into place...the right man for the right side. I don't see Hughes suddenly becoming the greatest manager who ever lived, but, you never know, he might just gel with Saints. Isn't it the hope that kills?
Isn't it about time we had some official posed photos and comments from Mark, Les and/or Ralph. If not, we've given far too long a holiday to the manager....get your butt down to the training ground.
Saints and Mark Hughes is a good match and we know that the players connected with him and his team So I feel good about this appointment I have seen tons of ****ty comments on BBC, etc from other fans but I really dont agree with all the pessimism
What I liked about Mark Hughes in the few games we played, he took risks. You are not going to win any games of football without taking risks. If he can setup us up as attacking team that’s good to watch I will be happy. If we can turn draws from last season in to wins we will be fine.
Maybe, but I guess if Hughes won that battle, he may have pushed Saints to bring in more players than they originally planned. But of course, plenty variables in that equation.
May be true, but also an easy rumour to put around....especially if promoted by those ITKs who thought it wouldn't happen. Rather than be wrong, it's easy to say that it nearly didn't happen.
