Yes, fair summarisation, but if you recall the first 3 months of his last season we’d done well initially, given the poor signings in that era. Locadia, AJ etc..Replying to your first sentence - Chris Hughton did a wonderful job to get us promoted to the Premier League and then enabled us to survive in our first season. Our second season, 2018/19, was a case of us not being relegated because there were three teams worse than us, just. Our survival was down to Crystal Palace, our only win from January to May was at Selhurst Park and Palace overturned Cardiff late on to enable us to survive four points clear before we played Man City in the final game, we lost 4-1 and Cardiff won but were relegated. In the end we escaped demotion by two points.
Much as I like Chris Hughton I feel in that 2018/19 season he’d run out of ideas on how to take the team forward. It got progressively worse with some awful performances. Southampton 0-1, Bournemouth 0-5, Cardiff 0-2, all in short order at home. Then you had Wolves 0-0 and Spurs 0-1 both away where Albion fans got dog’s abuse for the way the team played in parking the proverbial ten buses. So yes, we survived but Chris didn’t as the writing had been on the wall for some time.
Wolves away, we actually started with the 11 from the previous season (17/18), with no summer signings (appreciate it was at the end of the season), but that is an indictment on the quality we’d signed during summer 18.
But the 0-0 at Wolves, park the bus, call it what you like, got us over the line and was necessary. Without that we wouldn’t have evolved to where we are.
As we are witnessing the first 2 seasons are really challenging for promoted teams.
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