He's right about the young/hungry confusion thing though. Evans is highly rated solely for being young. I'm still hopeful he's going to be a lot better this season but last year he did very little but everyone liked him.
Pure coincidence that I'm posting more tonight, I forgot we had a match tonight, and I highly doubt a friendly win against Bradford is that relevant.
Hi Percival, What were your expectations for last season exactly? Eleventh place was a brilliant position for all players and staff involved. The way we finished the term was superb. At the beginning of last season we had a completely different side to the one that finished the season. First game of the season vs Swansea: Matt Duke; Nolberto Solano, Kamil Zayatte, Anthony Gardner, Andy Dawson; Will Atkinson (Devitt 70), Ian Ashbee [captain], Tom Cairney, Kevin Kilbane; John Bostock (Barmby 83); Richard Garcia (Cullen 78). Last game of the season vs Bristol City: Matt Duke; James Chester (McShane 34), Jack Hobbs, Anthony Gerrard, Andy Dawson [captain]; James Harper, Robert Koren (Mclean 34), Hope Akpan; David Amoo (Cairney 46), Matty Fryatt., Jay Simpson As you can see, only Duke, Dawson and Cairney featured in both games. This highlights that we were in a transitional period throughout the season. Transitional sides are not promotion chasers nor are they playoff sides. The fact we came up a few games short of the playoffs was a fantastic achievement in itself. The closest comparison you should be making is with Portsmouth, as they were relegated in the previous season and had major financial and playing issues like us. We finished 7 points ahead of them and put a serious challenge together at the tail of the season. Furthermore, we have a very ambitious, hungry and talented squad to develop and train for future success. Kind regards,
I agree that we have a good squad and NP has assembled it brilliantly. But our home form last season was nothing short of unacceptable. He did underachieve in that respect. The squad he inherited wasn't ideal but was better than a lot of teams in this division and they still beat us at the KC. Scunthorpe, Sheff Utd. Milwall etc.
Hull: Don't bother typing long stuff like that when it's TWF (Percival). He will only keep WUMing. "We should have won the league easily. We should have signed players who weren't budget signings (The Man U-kids, etc). Adam Pearson sucks and wants to destroy the club. Nigel is useless and the players would have loved Brown more....." Etc etc. The list is endless.
I agree that we have a good squad and NP has assembled it brilliantly. But our home form last season was nothing short of unacceptable. He did underachieve in that respect. The squad he inherited wasn't ideal but was better than a lot of teams in this division and they still beat us at the KC. S****horpe, Sheff Utd. Milwall etc.[/QUOTE] The squad is looking far far better than it did at this stage last season. I'm quietly confident we'll do well this season .
It will probably depend heavily on injuries . If we have a bit of luck and can keep a fit squad I'd say top six as well.
To be fair, I'd take that bet. I would be absolutely gutted if he does go - I think he is literally our best asset - but I dont think he will be here at the end of the season.
WHAT UTTER CR AP. I would suggest the latter. Only the pro Duffen and Brown muppets would wish for this. I would say that NP is as safe as houses or as safe as any manager can be except for maybe SAF.
Oh I dont think for one minute he'll get the sack. I just feel that there is absolutely no doubt that Adam will go - probably this year - and devote his time to Eff Cee and I fear that Nigel wont want to work with Mark Macguire.
