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I imagine many of those defending Rosenior when the football was ****, will be the first to 'overreact' and pile on the new guy when we lose our first game. Or Acun, seeing as he's been taking somewhat of a pasting recently. Those that do won't even see the irony.

I really don’t think this will be the case.

The majority of pro-Rosenior were happy because they were pointing to the progress we’d made in his time at the club. Clearly they weren’t as vexed about ‘exciting football’ as the people who were anti-Rosenior. (Although I really dont remember being bored that often).

If Walter doesn’t look like he’s taking that progress further, regardless of how exciting the games are - I think that’ll be fair criticism. If it looks like we are pushing on towards the top six, I assume most will be happy enough - as that’s what they were happy about before.

If we are challenging for top 6 or higher - I’ll be happy. If not I’ll be frustrated by a change that hasnt had us continuing the journey up the league.

Regardless, everyone needs to give it a few months before deciding on anything, which wouldn’t be different for me with a new manager or if Rosenior had stayed as regardless we’ll be integrating loads of new players.
 
I would bet good money those that complained about Rosenior’s style of play are going to get whiplash when they see Walter’s.

Those who like Rosenior and his play style will probably be more willing to take it on as it’s basically the same at its core

Mm, I disagree. Rosenior’s brand of possession football was often boring and overly-cautious. Ranking 1st in the league for touches and passes in our own third isn’t a good stat. Walter’s style of possession football seems to be more expansive, fluid and direct in the final third. His Hamburg team looked a lot braver in possession from what I’ve seen.
 
how long until the anti walter posts?
october? whenever we lose 2 games?

thoughts on a postcard
 
I really don’t think this will be the case.

The majority of pro-Rosenior were happy because they were pointing to the progress we’d made in his time at the club. Clearly they weren’t as vexed about ‘exciting football’ as the people who were anti-Rosenior. (Although I really dont remember being bored that often).

If Walter doesn’t look like he’s taking that progress further, regardless of how exciting the games are - I think that’ll be fair criticism. If it looks like we are pushing on towards the top six, I assume most will be happy enough - as that’s what they were happy about before.

If we are challenging for top 6 or higher - I’ll be happy. If not I’ll be frustrated by a change that hasnt had us continuing the journey up the league.

Regardless, everyone needs to give it a few months before deciding on anything, which wouldn’t be different for me with a new manager or if Rosenior had stayed as regardless we’ll be integrating loads of new players.

Completely agree and I hope that's the case :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
I think the fact people are talking about each other and themselves on here as Pro-Rosenior and Anti-Rosenior says it all really. He was a good coach and manager but his comments around his style of play (when in defense of it) really hasn't helped in polarising the fan base... Not that we needed any help with that on here :emoticon-0136-giggl
 
This was how close Walter was to getting HSV promoted last year btw. Heidenheim ended up winning the league with HSV 1 point behind in 3rd (this was the last game). It was also a very dodgy penalty too by all accounts.
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We didn't have to go full-on high-risk though. My gripe is that in his first full season the wage bill rose massively (87% I believe), but actually, the quality on the pitch didn't. We were a little better, but a lot of the signings were either unfit, injured or useless and we wasted a lot of money and we had the KLP income too.

We're 2 years on and we've still not replaced the bite from Smallwood and Honeyman or the leadership from those two and Magennis.
Just ****ing wow!!!!