I just wish I could get my point across as well as that, well said VC, well said .................. P.S. Have some Rep
The way I see it is; Will we go down? Probably not, because there are a few teams that are as bad as us at least. Have the performances improved and the results as Hughton has invested in the squad? No. Think we can all agree on that? Can't we? Are we seeing the squad develop and play the football that you may expect from the investment in the team? No. Are we going backwards or standing still despite the investment In the squad? Yes. Probably even regressed rather than standing still. Do you think Hughton is the right man to take us forward as a club and if so why? I would love to know.
I agree with each and every answer, and based on those answers, then the answer to the last question should be quite obvious........but he is currently doing just enough to keep heads above the water, and for as long as he does that, he has a job (just about). I am all but resigned to accepting that what we have, is what we are going to get. I am far from happy with it, but what can I do?
There are more than enough problems he has asked for and got. They are pretty much the same as last season.
Your sarcasm is noted. I am glad you are content with the utter **** that we have had to put up with for the last twelve months. I am glad that you are happy for your team to scrape survival season after season whilst turning out dire performances. You are a hero and it is a pity that more of us are not like you.
You also have no need to be sarcastic. You have won. We are clearly going to have Hughton for the rest of this season. So just enjoy being right and pity us poor fools who think he is going to relegate us. See you in May.
It's not sarcasm, the club is much more than a manager. If all you see is ****e, then I genuinely feel sympathy. I don't think I've won anything, and I don't think CH is the most wonderful manager. I wish the team were playing better, but having redmond, Johnson in a midfield i'm surprised we aren't even worse
I don't wish to fight with you either. It looks like the board have decided that CH is the right man to take us forward. I think this is a wrong decision; I get the feeling that you don't think this. We have no say over what happens, so let's see. I have to say I don't envy them having to make this choice. It is easy for me, as an armchair punter, to sack CH and get someone else in, but these guys are genuinely responsible for the choices they make.
Exactly the point I was just about to make. Any amount of ´on board´ bickering isn´t going to affect in any way any decision that McNally might make, so irrespective of all our different views on this, at least respect the opposite point of view, even if you don´t agree with it. As far as I can see, nothing that happened out there on the pitch today, had very much to do with Hughton, if Fer decides to be totally unprofessional (not once but twice) and Mike Dean quite blatantly opts out of giving a red card, for a clear red card offence, that can hardly be layed at Hughton´s door. The non-red card was a game-changing decision, and in terrible conditions I´d say a point was a good point.
And look at where we were two months ago: 14 West Ham 10points Since then 5points 15 Fulham 10points 6points 16 Stoke 9points 13points 17 Cardiff 9points 9points 18 Norwich 8points 12points 19 Sunderland 4points 10points 20 Palace 3points 14points
If we had our first choice team out there, all fully fit, would we have won that? by first choice let's say a similar team but with Tettey, Howson and Pilkington coming in. A fully fit RVW if you wish.
I don't think any of us know for sure what is going to happen, Vietnam. Like many I'm still on the fence about that, but I genuinely think that changing the manager now would be worse than carrying on with CH. If that proves not to be the case, then you're welcome to point out the 'error of my way'. With Tettey and Pilks due to return next week or the week after, RvW ready to go now, and the opportunity for new players over the next month, I still have room for optimism over the second half of the season. I just hope I'm right! OTBC!
What I don't understand is why so many people are so content to keep things as they are. Do you just not like to see anyone sacked? Because that is the only reason I can think of. At the moment, the club and management are doing the absolute bare minimum required to keep the club up and not a smidgen more. Wouldn't you like to see us take the gamble and change things around? This is, after all, only football. It's meant to be an entertainment form, an escape. I'd much rather we took a gamble and actually looked to take the game to teams, score goals and entertain, than continue to put up with a form of football that actually aims to destroy most games we play in. I just don't see the fun in this anymore. On the Ball City.
I am, at the moment, giving the benefit of the doubt because I don't think at any point this year Hughton has been able to pick his best side and disruptions have been so regular that a different player seems to be injured or suspended each game. This has been the case especially in midfield and attack. I am, however, worried by the inability to do the basics right and the lack of substitutions and tactical changes to alter the outcome of a game. If you look at it squad for squad I think we have a better one than the three promoted clubs and Sunderland and comparable ones to West Brom, Stoke and Fulham. On that basis, fifteenth is towards the lower end of what I would expect.
I can't see how CH can take us forward tbh, Even if we do stay up. I find it all a bit limited and we seem to have lost our identity a bit. Maybe we need a Pochettino moment? If not now maybe in the close season if we stay up. People keep saying that there isnt anything out there but the saints pulled a rabbit out the hat, maybe we can? I would love to watch a fluid game where we can pass and we also attack, instead of sitting back.
