Sorry, but can't agree. This is 18 games now, and a grand total of 13 points. And one of our two wins was fortunate and due to the players showing some guts rather than anything CH did. He has had 18 games and has done nothing to change things. This suggests that he will continue to do nothing to change things. He just doesn't have the adaptability.
Yeah but he hasn't signed any players so he presumably feels that he needs players he wants before he can open up a bit. I don't deny these last eighteen games have been dreadful, but the one thing about Hughton that I think we can all agree on is, the bizarreness that is Becchio aside, he has a good eye for a player. He obviously and rather (stupidly) vocally doesn't have any faith in most of Lambert's players. Given that his time at Newcastle can't have been a complete fluke, I think it is well worth giving him, as ICHB says, about eight games to show that the players HE has signed, he trusts. If we're still playing negative football, which I appreciate there is a good chance we might be, then we should change managers. There is no point changing managers right at the beginning of a season, unless you have just been relegated and then no sign of improvement. Either we get rid of Hughton at the end of May or we at least wait until early October. I say the latter, purely because of his obvious skill in the transfer market. In my book, he will then be given a three line whip as to how we play.
Only just come back to the forum post-game, and I was surprised nobody's really mentioned that Stoke should have been down to 9 men. Nzonzi should have seen red for his early assault, and Jerome a second yellow for diving when booked. Equally on a rare foray forwards a Shawcross handball was missed. Still, we weren't good enough, it was a dire, dire game and Stoke weren't much better than us. To not work the keeper once is a real worry, but nobody looked capable of doing anything today.
Correct me if I'm wrong but he had two transfer windows to bring in"his" players. Do we now have to give managers two seasons before we judge them? Managers now have to hit the ground running. Whether that is fair or desirable is irrelevant. While a manager can't always get the player he wants he can get the players he has at his disposal to play the way he wants. Trouble is the way he wants is not what the majority of us want.
carrabuh: If Hughton keeps us up, stays with us, gets his 'own' players in and starts to to try to play a different game. Would you reconsider your stance on him? I know it's a lot of 'ifs', but you never know. Am Just interested, that's all. Not trying to catch you out or anything.
With a very tight transfer budget, yes he has had 2 windows. BUT £15mil isnt going to get you far in this league, he's already signed 1 player for over half that budget for next season! On another note, as much as CH is negative in his approach to the vast majority of his matches. We can't pass, Crossing ability has gone wayward and we can't get a shot on target... Is this down to Hughton, NO! This is why im willing to give him a chance to hopefully bring in much needed quality into the midfield and who can actually find a pass! Say if we signed, a player of Biglia's ability and we carried on with the same old dross then DM is left with no choice in my mind. Stay up or don't stay up this form cannot and hopefully will not go unoticed. I just hope McNally would have the b***s to give him the boot if it came to it!
If the players can't do the things you say then he is even worse than I thought. What the heck are all 4 of the coaching staff doing? We have been play poorly for months and if it is solely the players fault then he wants shooting for allowing them to get away with it!
I'm sorry, but if a player can't pass a ball 10 yards to someone on there team then thats purely down to them being s**t/nervous or whatever. Not the managers/coaches fault! If only the manager could sit in the dugout with a xbox controller.
Rob - He's the manager, it's his job to get the most of his players whether they are his choice or his predecessors'. He doesn't. Boots - We know from last season that these players can pass a ball, cross, etc. If they're not doing it now, it's his fault for dragging them all down with his negativity. Boots - Re players doing badly, there is also no competition for places in the team any more. The current eleven know they can more or less play as poorly as they like because the ones CH has no faith in will never get a game. Then, when injury finally forces a change, the guy who comes in is so rusty that he has a shocker and CH feels justified in his prejudice against the player. Compare this with how Lambert used the squad so imaginatively.
