But depressing that it has come to this so early in the season. Hoping that our probable rivals for relegation are losing.
surely we knew who would be in the mix before the season started give or take one or two possible emissions like swansea maybe. top 6 or 7, bottom 12/13. any three from those 12 or 13 will go down and we were always likely to be one of them involved. were expectations raised too high simply because we spent a bit of money? did they not notice that we spent that money simply to keep up with everyone else who also made big signings and improved their squads?
Point taken. Makes me wonder if the gap between the PL and Champ is going to increase very noticeably in the next few years. All the relegated sides doing reasonably well so far, unlike past seasons. (Against this, though, Hull - a very moderate automatic promotion team - are currently doing ok in the Prem.)
What you say is true Superman but as it happens I believe we were the fourth or fifth biggest spenders last window? Fans expectations were always going to be higher than previous seasons, nature of the beast. The first real rumblings of discontent yesterday at Carrow Road, Hughton needs to turn things around with immediate effect starting next week at Stoke. Regardless of what you have stated previously, I genuinely believe that a bad October (those fixtures don't look great), and McNally will be forced to wield the axe
but would you say that following last season, we required more work than say west brom or swansea for example? its all relative and we should be playing a little better than we are right now. but there's no question a few fans were expecting a top half finish or at the very least, to not worry about relegation at all this year which was never likely to be on the cards although i still maintain we will finish with a nice little margin above the drop zone, but little all the same. THAT is the nature of the beast called the premier league when you aren't one of the big boys!
A lot more than Swansea, West Brom? Hmm not so sure. My real point is that once the fans start to turn on the manager there is normally no way back, let's hope I am wrong anyway
my point is, swansea spent around £22m this summer - we spent around £16m (£24m if you include rvw from the previous year), west brom have spent around £10m but both sides finished top half and were declared to have great seasons, even though there was only a couple of points between us! but we needed more surgery than they did and our major surgery came up front, the most expensive area of the pitch to buy. both those sides still spent big sums to improve - we are merely spending big to keep up with these teams. anyway, no, i agree with you about hughton having a struggle now. when a section of the crowd get on your back vocally its normally only a matter of time before a manager's position becomes untenable but the booing yesterday at the substitution was grossly unfair and if anything, just showed up the fans lack of nous as it was pretty bloody blatant that redmond was having no effect whatsoever on the game whereas snodgrass was at least a threat, even if he blew a number of good opportunities. so yet more pressure has been heaped on him for literally no reason at all!! and now, is he going to get booed every time he takes redmond off? honestly, sometimes our fans really let the club down. we might be loyal but many fail to engage their brain often enough imo. they've just made a tricky situation a whole lot worse for us now
He's only got himself to blame. he has an aura of negativity around him which he has failed to put out of peoples minds when interviewed. bad tactics, dull persona, dull football, they are not qualities people respect. You need to realise pyjamas, he's not a good manager, the penny will drop with you and others eventually.
I was happy enough with the appointment of Hughton at the time - not thrilled, but certainly not dead against. It has become apparent, though, that he is negative in everything he says and does - he persists in trotting out the line that we are about the weakest team in the division and therefore should be grateful for any point we pick up. I honestly don't think he knows how to get the best out of the group of players he now has at his disposal, and I guess it is no coincidence that for the vast majority of his career he has been a defence coach and not a manager. We will continue to see results go against us, and the quality of entertainment fall, until he is replaced.
I'm guessing where this is heading and it's strongly reminiscent of Stoke/Pulis.A manager who just about manages to keep the team up albeit with football of dubious quality.
I still think it's early in the season, if after 10 games we are in the relegation zone we should be worried. We have only seen Hooper in one game(and only about 20mins) and Olsson hasn't featured fully yet. I think if we are still doing badly after both these players have featured in a few games we should be concerned. At this stage I'm on the edge of my seat, I haven't fallen off it yet.
