Match Day Thread Hull City v WBA

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tigermaul said:
Can’t agree with this. Da Silva Lopes has been excellent since he started getting a regular berth and was good yesterday. Alongside him, Stewart looked sluggish. I’d have been tempted to do a straight swap Stewart for Toral so as not to break up the Irvine/Lopes fulcrum that was working so well. That said, I agree that Batty knocks Honeyman into a cocked hat. The latter is energetic enough but not enough end product.
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I thought Da Silva and Stewart were both decent yesterday. We looked worse when Stewart was replaced by Honeyman.
 
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balkan tiger said:
Fair enough, but I would have thought he had enough on his plate sorting out the players, training, tactics and games, without getting involved in stuff the commercial and marketing dept. should be doing.
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I think he's been pushing them to do things differently, rather than actually coming up with all the things we've actually done recently, though he was apparently instrumental in getting the Allams to come back.
 
Second lowest gate in the division again.

No idea how honest other clubs are in declaring their attendances.
 
petersaxton said:
Whistle before last post and after minute's silence
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except the ref* obviously got my memo because he didn’t blow his whistle before and after the silence on Saturday and it was the best observed remembrance we’ve had in a couple of years.

*It’s about the only thing he got right the entire match.
 
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The thing is no other club has had the problems we have had over the last few years so it's deffinatly more difficult for us. Recent crowds with the offers have been encouraging but still a long way to go. Think it will be a long road with or without new owners but hopefully with more encouraging offers and improving displays from the team then steadily it will rise. There is a lot of people still interested but getting them back will take a lot of hard work.
 
augustatiger said:
Schoolboy errors from the manager defending short corners.
They went close from the first one..conceded from the second one.
Against the team who have scored most goals from outside the box in the league this season.
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Interesting that Bilic was aware ot this blatant weakness and had practised overcoming it. Seems so odd that we should persist. Presumably all other coaches have spotted it as well
 
GLP said:
I like what McCann is trying to do. On and off the pitch. Some of his substitutions I could question, but he’s quickly recognised what needed to be done off the pitch. He seems a very strong character, stronger than Adkins and he doesn’t seem like he’ll accept the deterioration that had set in. It won’t please some I’m sure.
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I think that just go to show Nigel's character, he's a very likeable chap, but a bit of a yes man, he very much played Ehab's tune to a large degree. McCann seems different, likeable but determined to get his own way.
 
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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
I think that just go to show Nigel's character, he's a very likeable chap, but a bit of a yes man, he very much played Ehab's tune to a large degree. McCann seems different, likeable but determined to get his own way.
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I think that's very harsh. Getting your own way with Ehab is easier said than done I'm sure. The crucial difference of course is that Adkins worked for Ehab before his realisation that the money had run out.
 
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PLT said:
I think that's very harsh. Getting your own way with Ehab is easier said than done I'm sure. The crucial difference of course is that Adkins worked for Ehab before his realisation that the money had run out.
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That's true, and maybe I was being a bit harsh, I said myself in a previous post that this was all about money, and McCann was just fortunate to hit the timing right, but I still feel he is more forceful than Nigel, but not knowing either of them of cause I could be completely wrong.
 
John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
That's true, and maybe I was being a bit harsh, I said myself in a previous post that this was all about money, and McCann was just fortunate to hit the timing right, but I still feel he is more forceful than Nigel, but not knowing either of them of cause I could be completely wrong.
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I certainly think McCann deserves a lot of credit. I just don't think Adkins should be brought into it.
 
I still think some are reading in between the lines too much. I'm sure all the managers hoped the Allams stopped been ****s to the fans. At the end of the day the Allams hold the purse strings, also noticeable is some new staff on board in the marketing and social media departments.

In short I just can't see the manager going to Ehab and saying we need to do A B and C and Ehab says yeh your right.
 
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balkan tiger said:
I still think some are reading in between the lines too much. I'm sure all the managers hoped the Allams stopped been ****s to the fans. At the end of the day the Allams hold the purse strings, also noticeable is some new staff on board in the marketing and social media departments.

In short I just can't see the manager going to Ehab and saying we need to do A B and C and Ehab says yeh your right.
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McCann has been instrumental in these things happening.
 
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