Weren't you a Hughes apologist a few months ago? The tide has truly turned now - the club were utterly naive in giving Hughes a three year contract. The fact that that is an issue in whether we hold on to him a bit longer is enough to say we deserve relegation. Just idiotic decision-making - day after the last day of last season was clearly the moment we should have said our goodbyes. At least it cost Les his job - someone had to be accountable.
I’m afraid the earliest you’ll see Hughes depart will be if we lose to Cardiff. No one within the club is going to be expecting us to get anything against Man Utd or Tottenham. But this isn’t a here and now situation, this has been building for years, but now Reed has been given the Spanish archer and hopefully Ralph the mouth soon follows we can get back to something like playing some sort of football that might win us a game. Just my opinion though and could be completely wrong. Come on Mr Cortese you know you wanna
If by 'apologist' you mean wanted to give him a deserved chance then yes. When we appointed him I think I said on here that I'd love it if we'd have the bottle to let him go even if we stayed up but had changed my mind after getting carried away with our survival.
All that was equally true of Koeman - he was a pragmatist, like Hughes, happy to let the system fit the personnel rather than the other way around. Nothing at all wrong with that approach imo. The difference is the results. Koeman was getting them right off the bat, how long do we allow Hughes to try and turn it round?
If/When we sack Hughes mid season our only options will be the same as when we appointed him, a journeyman ****house manager who might keep us up. At this point I think it is almost better going down as we are just getting into the same cycle as Sunderland did a few years ago, and that will end up with us going down anyway. May as well just go down and at least try and bring in someone with some forward thinking ideas, very hard to do that in a relegation battle at Xmas.
He earned his contract. It hasn't worked out, but he deserved the chance to manage us going forward. Now things have changed, fair enough, but appointing him was only a mistake in hindsight.
Kelvin is such a top bloke I wouldn’t want him being put in charge of this mess that has been created by others which would cause him to fail through no fault of his own. I’d rather sit and watch Hughes continue to **** things up , leave SKD out of it.
Have never supported the 'better to go down' theory....it can be bloody hard to get back up and you could slide through into League 1 with the financial complications that that entails. I'm sure there are examples out there of teams that struggled for a few years in the EPL and then came good as things fell into place. And if it is hard to get a good manager for an EPL side....how can it be easier for a Championship side.
That's why I said only appoint Kelvin if he really wanted it. I wouldn't want him hung out to dry, like we did with Gray and Wigley. I'd love to see us give him a chance, at least from now until January. When does the transfer window open, Jan 1st? Give him from now til then
Nige, there is a bus outside your front door. Come back and cheer us up.... You would undoubtedly be better than the current and previous joker!
This, this, this. If we go down it is an utter disaster. We have to throw the kitchen sink at staying in this league.
