It's why I so in support of Farke, if Leeds had decided to ditch him. Promotion this season isn't a given. There's no point looking ahead and thinking about whether an appointment might assist with keeping us in the PL, when we're not currently in the PL. The sole focus should have be promotion, hence someone with a strong promotion record made sense to me.
We need to ply Quarshie. Literally our only physical centre back. The others are too soft for this league.
Agree to an extent, but you have to keep that mentality going forward, eg if you appointed someone like Steve Cooper (who was my first choice) you sack him when you get promoted and try and get someone in who gives you a better chance of staying up, which unfortunately just wouldn’t happen. SR have a clear model which is completely on developing players and (it appears) managers as well. So they are always looking at the future with the hope of it also working in the now, but they clearly are willing to roll the dice on the now especially
We aren`t doing the basics right, and earning the right to play. Getting bullied by teams that are better organised than we are. And there are another dozen teams or so in the league who are just like Hull.
This feels like the Sunderland away game under Martin. But with two (quite big) differences - we already had a decent haul of points on the board, and Sunderland were coming off the back of a decent season where they made the play-offs.
Its not exactly the first left field managerial appointment by SR though is it? I think most if not all have been. Russell Martin - Never heard of him Will Still - Never heard of him Nathan Jones - Only heard of him because my mate is a Luton fan Ruben Selles - Never heard of him, but I know he was a coach with us Ivan Juric - Never heard of him and he was at his last job for 2 months. Surely that must give you a fairly big clue
How we are still playing Jack Stephens is beyond me. I remember complaining a lot about the new contract and a lot of people defended it saying that he would never be starting, the club isn’t thick and that it’s for his dressing room experience (which I always thought was weird as his experience is batterings and two 9-0 losses) but he has started and played the full 90 almost every game now. But hey I’m sure he’s just about to become a reliable defender.
Not sure you can develop managers and a players at the same time. Experienced manager will help young players and old pros can help a young manager
How THB got an England cap was at the time, and still is, a complete mystery. Incredible how many passes we make whilst looking utterly dreadful at the back and up top. Downs, Azaz, Stephens and THB were utterly dreadful today.
The thing that is pissing me off a lot is watching us make 50 passes to end up back at the keeper yet other teams have no issue at all slicing us apart in 3 passes. Yet we never do that to anyone. And that’s been going back to Ralph ****ing Hassenhuttl.
Re McBurnie - he’s not a good striker, technically, but it’s aggression. Making a nuisance of himself. None of ours do that. The closest we have is Adarma, and he’s 4ft 6.
I don't know when the correct time is to pull the plug - this week, next week, next month, next year? But clearly, if results don't turn, it will have to happen. Quite obviously, the sooner it happens, the more games a new manager would have. But that doesn't necessarily mean it has to happen imminently. I suppose my position is who else is available? The options tomorrow will likely be different to the options, in say, two months.
You don’t need to have tough CBs. We also need to be good at claiming the 2nd ball which we are not. We just don’t seem set up to expect a long ball. Every team has done this to us apart from Ipswich
