Fair enough, must have remembered that wrong as I thought his miss towards the end was from the bench. Just Lovren, Fonte, Morgan and Jrod missing then...
Yeah! I mean I really didn’t want to go to Wembley for a cup final, but feck it, I went anyway. **** day out and probably ruined by me moaning about the Frenchman that made me travel there. Blue ink
I am going to stick my tuppence in on Puel... Personally, I think he was worse than a lot of you are giving him credit for. Yes, he arrived to a team in Europe that wasn't really of European quality, but he also arrived to a team that played neat football and was generally forward thinking in possession. Over that season, in his attempts to "preserve energy" he coached the dynamism out of the team and began a slow rot of backward passing football which was only exacerbated by the appalling decision to bring in MP2. I was all for his sacking - but not for MP2! We got the sacking right, but the replacement was a panic move and made no sense. Watching football that season - particularly all the home Euro games - was painful. A real horror show of negativity. I could see the same things in Leicester and it reminded me that I was glad to see the back of him. Now RH is a real manager. He wants us to win and entertain... (and he has a personality to boot).
Nope. Me too. He was blessed with the best squad we’ve put together in donkeys years and still nearly cocked it up (remember the Christmas period). We’re the anomaly on his CV. Unlike Ralph (hence my second comment).
Sparta Prague at home? Inter Milan at home? Me thinks you’ve allowed the one euro game when I agree he got it wrong, home to the Israelis, to cloud your Europa view.
Anyway, I really do understand why we let Puel go, but the difference between the way Puel and Hughes were treated by fans/media was so obvious. Puel had ten times the ability and dignity, and only one of them was boring too. The way you olds talk about Branfoot is what I will be like forever about Hughes.
Yes fully agree. The squad was peaking and we really should have been comparable to Leicester. And I'm automatically sceptical of managers who got there by being great players, this is a great 2017 article about the Dutch old boys club. http://www.espn.co.uk/soccer/blog/e...us-leapfrog-barcelona-and-liverpool-to-go-top Ok, off my soap box now.
I must've dreamed us selling our first choice Striker, AM and Captain, RB, CB and LB (all Internationals) then and our two record signings, admittedly flops, were loaned out as well that Summer.
And a fair few of the successful signings were his. Poch was also blessed with a talented young squad who had played together years along with no sales and money to spend on players.
Btw I'm not saying that Ron is a better manager than Poch because he's not, but he undoubtedly did a better job here and by saying he was lucky etc. I think it's incredibly harsh and does a huge disservice to the job he did here in let's be honest not ideal circumstances. You also have to apply those standards to Poch.
