I think our Mr. Hughes should grow up and be his age! What he did on Saturday was childlike and handbags at 5 paces! Not needed at our club, well I think so,: bad show and form! He should get the team(?) to start playing football and thanking themselfs for the money they are being paid! James the one!
No, it looked pretty stupid, but both Managers have said it was nothing and it doesn't matter too much. What is increasingly concerning me is that we are still playing like strangers, there is little discipline, and worst of all the heart and enthuisiasm which we usually showed under Neil seems to have gone. As someone said on the local Scandinavian site here there was always life both on the pitch and sidelines when Neil was mamnager, now it seems dead both places.
There is a reason why MH's nickname name is Sparky. He is a bit glum. And that trickles down and influences the entire atmosphere.
I disagree. There was a fair few games under Neil Warnock this season where the players didn't look up for it and were playing like strangers. Also, MH needs to force Barton to let other players take some free kicks and corners.
Jol wanted to pat MH on the head, that was the problem. If you look at the incident you can see Jol's left hand come up towards MH's head. Anyone would react the same, so no blame on MH at all.
We could argue all day about tactics, but you only got to take a look at a recording of almost any Championship or PL game under Neil to see that if nothing else we looked like we were giving it a much bigger go than we are now. We played with an enthusiasm and a belief that we could win, that looks totally lost now.
Remember Milton Keynes away. No shape, no passion, no idea. Think the rot was set long before MH took over.
That's not what Warnock said before the game and he didn't exactly pick a reserve side. Ultimately it cost NW his job.
It is the tactics that are all wrong. And I question whether we have the right band of players to adapt to the right tactics. Too many upfield punts, no first touch, no consistent possession football, no real shape, not enough clear goalscoring chances. A team bereft of ideas.
All attributed to MH's lack of coaching skills. Everybody knows that the teams he coached before had players who all just got up and played enough for themselves enough to muck about. Unless I see something this next match, I am going to keep saying the above. Sorry. I really am.
Sorry to intrude on private grief but I think MH was a major mistake.February was your big chance with four games that you could reasonably have expected six points from.QPR needed that sort of haul because you are running out of opponents who you can expect to get anything from.Everton really is your last chance.On top of that Hughes has spent on players who only seem good at getting sent off.
Mark Hughes was well within his rights to react like he did, stupid gesture by Jol. I woud have decked him. And to say we had fight under Warnock in the Prem is only half right. Almost every first half were crap and only a NW rant at half time got the players going, hence Warnock in 90% of his post match interviews saying "we had a talk at half time". And Yappy, can you do us all a favour and FOOOOOOK OFF once and for all! Thanks.
You would have decked someone for patting you on the head? Think you and your manager are a touch over sensitive.
To be perfectly honest there isn't much difference at all between our two managers this season as it stands. The only difference is that someone said it takes Mark hughes about 10 games to get going (I wish the board had done the same research and we instilled him for our tricky run in November rather than sacrificing the games we should be winning). Regardless, that squad of players should be good enough to do a good job irrespective of circumstance (any of us could get the same level of performance out of them). Couple of points:- 1) play central midfielders in CM (no SWP there please). 2) Whoever said that we should hire a sports psychologist is spot on - we should be instilling a go out there and get them (one footed, well-timed tackles only though) mentality from the start of the week and build them up like it is a cup final (the teams around us will start doing that soon too).
When a player come off a manager often puts there hand round the players head, agree its much to do about nothing. media blowing it up, it did seen a bit condesending. but i think jol was being showing his warmth, again if rangers would of won, it would not of bothered him, hughes hates losing and is a passionate man
