Although this isn't supposed to start a debate on CH since everybody else seems to be sniping at him so I'll just say; we finished 11th (I think) under Hughton the previous season so he can't be all bad.
He should have left us 12 months or so before he did. He kept us up, if he'd left with his head held high he could have walked into another Premier League job. As it was, the longer he held on the longer his lack of ideas were exposed, and he left effectively with a relegation on his CV, even if it was never confirmed during his reign. The fact he's now got to big himself up in the press to try and get the Leeds job shows how far his stock fell in his second season with us really.
Deluded but he's not sounding arrogant IMO Hughton told The Mirror: "I honestly thought I could have kept them up. Yes, we had tough matches against top sides left, but the first of the five was at Fulham and I felt we could win that."
Great post Rob Not too many terrible managers manage wins against Man United, Man City Arsenal - and construct a ten match unbeaten run in the PL - in less than two seasons either. Amazing how that's all forgotten.... Don't think the Leeds gig would be a bad one for him, even if it did to tits up he's have a few more quid to go in his coffers - can't imagine Dave Hockaday is grumbling too much about his pay-off.
It's all about what you do over the season he spent a fortune and did not get his signings to blend in and play and he alienated the ones who tried so hard such as Holty and Wes He got it wrong and should be man enough to admit it he did a great job with Toon and Brum not all things work out If he goes to Leeds hope it all works out for him a nice bloke just can't see him surviving the Italian
I love how when Jarold writes using his phone it always looks and reads like a poem. I often assume it's RBF that's responded at first glance!
Personally I don't give a monkeys where he goes next and how he gets on, if it's Leeds and he does well then fine by me, I'm just glad he's not in control here anymore. But I'm over it and bear no malice towards the man as a person, so good luck to him.
he scraped over the line in his first season, when, with 3 or 4 games to go, we were widely expected to go down. wigan gave that to us, and still, even with that escape fresh in his mind, still didn't have enough the following year. he isn't cut out for the top table. whether that be that he cant handle the egos, the tactics, or he can't motivate - whatever it is, he isn't up to it. It's not just me thinking so. I imagine its the majority of boards that have already pressed the button - and aren't interested in the nicest man in football. i wonder why. leeds is about the best he can hope for.
Honestly, this ignorant load of crap is the argument I hate the most on these boards, it simply beggars belief that people actually believe it, it is plain embarrassing All this rubbish about "false positions" and opposition "being on the beach" is ill-informed, blinkered and just plain wrong and from my perspective it makes anyone who spouts it appear that they know nothing about football at all and are simply hell-bent on re-writing history to make Hootun look far worse than he was for some reason. Some people had an agenda against him from day one and never gave him a chance, always looking for a negative and overlooking the good stuff he was involved in. That's not a real fan if you ask me, and shame on them I say.
Is that all he got? Blimey, so he has been well and truly shafted from all angles Still, I wouldn't mind being lobbed 10k for under-performing at work for a couple of months.
I predominantly agree with Munky on your post I'm afraid gruffnuts, but, putting aside those moot points, I did accept that he wasn't ultimately up to the first team job. The overriding point I was trying to make is that a manager of the Hughton sort should be measured more than just on his first team performance, because he was in control of the whole club. And it is on matters beyond the first team that Hughton was, without a shadow of a doubt (and no matter what the Hughton-haters throw at me in terms of luck, beaches and nice-but-dim), a resounding success. By contrast, Adams is mostly in charge of just the first team, with much of Hughton's powers taken out of Adams' hands, so should really only be measured by first team success. I accept that Hughton's first team efforts were, ultimately a failure, that he rode his luck at times (though note he also suffered horrendous luck in his second season) and that this is the most important measure. But it's not the only one. He's not the devil. Ultimately he did much more good for our whole club than he did bad for our first team and our league position. He would have made a brilliant DoF.
FFS man calm down - not a real fan my arsehole - and the problem with arseholes, like opinions is that we all have one.
I think it's probably about time to move on from Hughton's tenure now don't you lads? All we end up doing is falling out and to be perfectly honest I'm fed up talking about it. Hughton's critics are certainly in the majority but it's all history now, IN NEYUL WE TRUST, don't we ?
Fair do's, bit below the belt for me to pull the "not a real fan" card so I'll retract that straight away, that's nonsense. Still completely disagree with what you say and think you are very wrong however, but as you say we're all entitled to opinions so apologies if I went over the top chap
