Just wondering where people currently stand on Poyet and his employment at our club. I think he's living on borrowed time, personally and would be getting rid of him at the end of the season to get someone else in with less of an ego, better media handling and a applied desire to win football matches.
None of the above options..I want him to stay, but I also want him to learn from his mistakes and develop a more attacking and adventurous style of play..
I mean from the clubs point of view mate. The first option should say keep him on with the limited budget he currently has, ruled over by his DoF. The second, I mean to say keep him on and give him more power of transfers and more money to spend on them. Too long to stick up there though.
@A Northern Soul Disco when does this poll close marra? I'll make my decision after that. Mind you, tough call to make without knowing who's available but I'd be working on a replacement as it stands.
I just stuck it up for a week mate. I considered a longer term poll in which people could change their answers but I wanted a snapshot of where we currently stand on what to do with him. If it causes some debate and looks interesting it might be worth doing another longer term poll which can maybe be stickied so we can keep track of what everyone is thinking. Having said that stickies are about as welcome as merges aren't they? Maybe not then.
For me that boils down to do we stick or twist? If we stick we have to back him in the next window otherwise what's the point - Ellis and Maggie either buy in to the philosophy he sold at his interview or they don't! If we are going to twist then I hope the club are doing some succession planning already and we make the change as soon as possible rather than drag it out with a 'dead man walking'. I think we should stick BUT on the assumption that results start to go our way and we get some much needed further points on the board in the next 4 games.
Guess he is here until the end of the season. On the back of Coates, Buckley,Bridcutt, Jones, Rodwell and Gomez, I would move Gus on I'm afraid at the end of the season even if he kept us up.
Living in Horsham,I have number of friends and work colleagues who are Brighton fans.They all comment that he is repeating the things( at Sunderland), what he did at Brighton,ie team selection,tactics,no apparent plan B when things are going wrong in games plus a reluctance to change or at least adjust his philosphy and mindset to play a more attacking format (especially at home). I have heard on a number of occasion this season and in previous seasons, after an indifferent or poor performance,0-0 draw or bad defeat,from both players and manager,that they will learn from this!They then go on and produce further inept performances.So is anything really learned??? I am clinging to the hope that Poyet does change his stance and starts a game with the intention of winning rather than not losing. I guess the West Brom game will sway me Still keeping the faith
I don't think he will change his ways. His philosophy his continued from Brighton to safc, so that's a sign of him not learning. He once said that bridcutt could play for Real Madrid, I think that comment alone leaves his managerial status in great danger. I think keep him to the end of the season, hope that he keeps us up, and bring in someone that can build some excitement at our great club.
As a totally impartial spectator to goings on at Sunderland, I would have to say stick with him indefinitely.
Unfortunately he had to go. He'd lost the fans and the dressing room. I'd have liked to have seen him get rid of the players he really didn't want to be working with in the summer. It didn't happen. He had to go as we were midway through a season and the players wouldn't play for him.
It's hard to get rid of deadwood when they're **** and on 40k a week though. He should have been backed to the hilt, allowed to put those he wanted in the reserves until they got sick and agreed to leave, and allowed to bring in his own personalities. You have to question the precious mindsets of the players who couldn't handle his strictness.
