Jones reigned over what was probably our best performance of the season at Fulham in tough circumstances and seemed to get some passion into the performances from a team that looked like they couldn't care less under Hyypia. He wears his heart on his sleeve and has evident passion for the game and for the club as well, I believe (despite the Yeovil stuff).
He's clearly highly-rated further afield, considering he's out coaching the England under-21's side at the moment and has supposedly been interviewed for the Plymouth job. Which makes me wonder, should we have given him until the end of the season to show what he could do with a view to a full-time contract if he did well? Or were we right in appointing Hughton, who was obviously seen as a safe pair of hands to keep us afloat but ended up keeping us up by blind luck (other teams being shit) after a brief honeymoon period?
Not intended as a dig at Hughton, it's just a thought. He's come into a tough job with at a club expecting promotion but with a below-par team, and he needs to be given time to rebuild.
But the performances at the end of the season were very worrying, and were probably worse than anything we experienced under Hyypia.
I'm not saying I think NJ should have been appointed necessarily, as it'd obviously have been a big risk, just thought it may be a topic for debate.
He's clearly highly-rated further afield, considering he's out coaching the England under-21's side at the moment and has supposedly been interviewed for the Plymouth job. Which makes me wonder, should we have given him until the end of the season to show what he could do with a view to a full-time contract if he did well? Or were we right in appointing Hughton, who was obviously seen as a safe pair of hands to keep us afloat but ended up keeping us up by blind luck (other teams being shit) after a brief honeymoon period?
Not intended as a dig at Hughton, it's just a thought. He's come into a tough job with at a club expecting promotion but with a below-par team, and he needs to be given time to rebuild.
But the performances at the end of the season were very worrying, and were probably worse than anything we experienced under Hyypia.
I'm not saying I think NJ should have been appointed necessarily, as it'd obviously have been a big risk, just thought it may be a topic for debate.