Well....Hughes picked the players most of us were asking for and we seem to have played well in the 1st half. BUT.....I just don't have any answers or suggestions now. As Goldhawk said on another thread, we seem to be the "nearly" team. Lots of shots and possession considering it was an away game, but it appears that there was little fight once we fell behind. No point in asking for Hughes to be removed, as TF has made it clear that he's staying. I'm all out of questions or solutions now. For whatever reason, a squad of good players are simply not performing well enough to stay in the Premier League. We look doomed to relegation I'm afraid. Time for a bottle of shiraz to try to forget.
Cant disagree. Just cant understand why things are not working. But for me Hughes is too slow to react. Stoke made 3 subs before we made 1 and Mackie was left on the bench. As soon as Zamora cant on we started long ball which is useless v Stoke.
Im holding onto the fact that he said the same thing about Warnock. The difference is here he is admitting he made a huge mistake hiring Hughes. A new manager and a couple of forwards and a couple of CBs would see us safe, it will be too late if we leave it too many more games.
I think something happened among the players at half-time. They played well first half ( for a change ) and then came out for the second half all over the place. Bizarre. I've never seen the players moaning at each other so much either. It's not looking good.
I think the players are good enough to keep in touch until then, we need a more attacking manager to give them self belief.
I've been resigned to relegation for a few weeks I just hope we're not worse than derby en route down Cold manager no heart in the squad chairman with head in sand The only way is up
Sun is over the yard arm on this side of the pond, so I am slumming it with a beer and cheese & Branston sandwich! Done my chores, hiding in my office, looking forward to watching a stress-free game, Villa vs. Man Utd - wife not impressed - she just doesn't get this R's obsession of mine.
The problem is we don't have co-ordination in key areas, we were ok in possession till we reach the box, then there is nothing incisive. Adel messed up our best chances today and often picked the wrong option, but you can't blame him for at least having a go. There was clearly no Plan B and we ended up playing out time with little urgency or belief. If he's still manager after the Southampton game and we're still winless then prepare for Championship football next season...
Hi Col, my glimmer of hope all but gone now. The final nail for me will be next week. Draw or lose to Soton at home and I am joining you in The Relegation Blues. All very sad, nearly team, great players as individual, bla bla. The sun has nearly set on what we thought was going to be a bright future. I'm afraid Tony will be dubbed 'Too Late Tony' if he's waiting for the Jan window. Onwards and downwards. PS - great credit and respect the supporters who went all that way. God bless 'em.
Many of us have criticised Adel in the past for his poor attitude and lack of hard yards. I honestly never thought I would see the day where Adel was our hardest working player. Incredible.
I get the feeling Cortese is more likely to pull the trigger now rather than wait, Swansea probably represented their best chance of a win in their next few matches, will he be prepared to wait when Harry lives not too far away?...
Well I for one will be doing all the away games this season on the basis that it may be a wbile before I visit a lot of these grounds again!
Enjoy your little drink Col. I'm not sure we are doomed yet. Lets see what action Fernandes takes and who he brings in instead. If he gets the right man, we still have plenty of time. If he maintains the status quo well then we definetely are doomed.
Turning into quite a big drink now mate (lovely shiraz). I think I said we're doomed if Hughes stays? If not, that's what I meant. We could stay up, but not if Hughes is given more and more time to keep on failing imo.
