ive had enough, i want to stay positive but i cant,hughes stands on the touch line arms crossed and shows no passion,the players dont seem to respond to him
I must say, I always said I would support Hughes until the end of November but Im really struggling to tbh. Why on earth did he not bring mackie on.
I'd buy into that. I don't want to hear TF tell us again that Hughes is a fantastic manager and safe...even if he is...safe, I mean
From what I could see on the live stream, he spent most of the second-half lolloping around the technical area looking more and more hapless as the match progressed to its all-too-inevitable conclusion. Do you remember all that 'the team needs time to gel' stuff that went on on this board a month or two ago? Well, haven't they had that time now? And yet it is pretty evident that there's still a collection of individuals out there week in, week out; and not very good individuals at that. One things that I noticed today which, when I think back to other recent games was also true, is that the players seem to stop and watch Taarabt when he's on the ball, rather than look to aggressively support him in his endeavours. It's as though they are all in awe of the guy's talent and simply stand a watch him in anticipation that he'll do something brilliant. Here's the headline news, guys: as good as he is, he can't do it on his own (as much as he might often think so). There is so little attacking option I could cry. Just no physical presence in the box, few darting runs, no aggressive challenging, few players storming up in support, little occasion when an 'R' is first to the 'second ball'. All this BS we get, such as the Bowen interview this week, is really starting to grate. I've been wrestling with what's to blame: the manager's tactics or the players' desire, and now I know it's most probably both. But, let's be honest here: whose job is it to kick the players up the jacksie and get 'em motivated? It is a shame that DT is currently banned. I would be interested in his opinion of things, as he was so forthright in his belief - especially after the Spurs game - that a Brave New Dawn was just around the corner. As it has turned out, a lot more **** was just around the U-bend. I'm sorry, Tony-boy: I respect the defence of your manager that you mounted*; you had to do this for a period of time, for sure. But you simply have to act now. [*I meant the defence was mounted, not the manager]
I couldn't stand watching at various points in the game today when no one seemed bothered to push up when the ball was going in the right direction. How many crosses went in without anyone bothering to be there or even go for the ball if they were there. It's like they have such little believe now that they don't think it's worth trying.
There's no heart, no drive, no belief. I really fear we'll lose next week as well and be too far gone to pull it back. TF has to bite the bullet but may now be in 'pig-headed, we'll do it my way' mode. Fiddling while Rome burns. If he ran his airline like he runs his football team it'd be crash and burn...
this...................... the game was crying out for changes and he makes one sub in the 79 minute, the players just look lost out there i can't take this no more i really cant.
Oh dear I am not a visionary no Hoilett hat trick. Very very poor in the last third. And please t get me started on corners. I reckon we could take corners for a full 90 minutes and not score or even get an effort on target.
Well we are usually outnumbered 10 to 4 in the box so its hardly surprising. Our manager is probably making sure the other team dont score from our corner.
