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Chris Hughton does one

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  1. GLP

    GLP Well-Known Member

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    Sacked by Brighton
     
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    Christ, didn't waste time.

    Seems harsh to me, though I haven't really watched them this season. He kept them up ffs, if he had got relegated, then fair play, but they stayed up.
     
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    Did all that could be expected, kept them up. Harsh.
     
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    I agree really harsh decision. He seems a good manager.
     
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    Hope they go down.
     
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    He's getting a lot of sympathy, unsurprisingly, as he's a thoroughly decent bloke, but Brighton have had a really poor season.

    They bought 11 first team players in the summer, have a squad that cost more than Watford, Newcastle or Bournemouth, yet lost over half their games playing poor football. They only stayed up because three other teams were absolutely terrible and even then, only by two points.

    He's obviously been great for Brighton, but they tried to push things up a level this season and fell well short.
     
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    Seems harsh but it must have been a planned decision and I suppose it gives Brighton time to regroup.
     
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    Clubs need to have reality checks! They’ve been up 2 seasons in the hardest league in the world! What did they want? Maybe wolves have raised the bar?
     
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    Really harsh IMO, Stoke did a similar thing when sacking Pulis and that didn't go well. Sometimes you have to careful what you wish for.
     
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    I wonder if some of these owners are looking at what Leicester did and think they can get near that ?
    Not gonna happen anytime soon as they where superb and caught the big clubs on a poor season .
     
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    Not sure what influence he's had over transfers, but the better ones at face value have not been the overseas imports with maybe 1-2 exceptions.

    Top bloke who's clearly seen as NOT the one to try and get Brighton to the next level.
     
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    That’s the problem. 11 new players takes time to settle in. I’m sure they would have a better finish if they’d given him another season.

    Now all they’ll see is another manager come in and want to make wholesale changes and a more unsettled team.

    Too knee jerk in my opinion.
     
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    Potter hasn’t done anything at Swansea. Strange move.
     
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    Seems like a massive step backwards. Makes Hughton's sacking even weirder.
     
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    Chairman Tony Bloom: “Chris has done an excellent job over the past four and a half years. First stabilising our club, reaching the play-offs in his first full season, securing our first-ever promotion to the Premier League, and retaining our status in two successive seasons.

    “Undoubtedly, this has been one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make as chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion, but ultimately one I have made due to how we struggled in the second half of the season.

    “Our run of 3 wins from 23 Premier League matches put our status at significant risk. It is with that in mind, and the performances during that period, that I now feel it’s the right time for a change."
     
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    Don't blame them for this decision, the football under Hughton at all clubs he's managed is ****ing turgid, ultra negative defensive boring ****e, my mate at work who supports Norwich says he's never seen worse football in his life then when he was there. They went something like 8 games in a row without scoring in the 2nd half of the season, that is ****ing horrible form. It's all a bit Pulisesque, whilst you're playing awful stuff but staying relatively safe mid table people let it slide, particularly pundits who bizarrely have lavished praise on him for 2 seasons and esp now he's been sacked, but finish 17th stumbling to safety with an awful run of form, 3 wins in 23 and none in the last 9 and people start to get noisy about it. It's a gamble on the owners part, but there is absolutely no guarantee that they'd stay up next season either.

    If you look at it, Brighton's season has been similar to our first season up there under Brown, started well but the last 6 months utterly utterly dreadful, and well that didn't exactly turn out well did it..........
     
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  19. cannon67

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    Think Adkins will apply.
     
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    I know Swans love Potter as he plays, or tries to, very attractive football and is seen as a true 'modern' type manager. Not that he's actually achieved anything but maybe they think he can step up with a better squad of players.
     
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