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[Albion] Fab OUT



HangletonGull

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Apr 10, 2023
2,386
He's in a new league, with a bunch of new players and a load of injuries. He'll learn and hopefully improve. Hence why I say give him time.

I didn't see anyone complaining when we were winning and top four. Maybe that's when he WASN'T out of his depth? Or was that down to the players and now it's solely the manager's fault?
The old excuse like last season it’s the injury’s
 




Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
21,117
Born In Shoreham
It's pathetic because it's the sort of short term, kneejerk, idiotic sort of thing that noddy clubs do and playing the long game that Tony does is EXACTLY why we are where we are. It's why we didn't sack Potter when he went on bad runs. Because it's dumb.
Now we have more expectation than just staying up and having a go at the big sides. TB has matched the expectation with transfer funds in the plenty.
With all the talent we have we should be doing much better.
 


PILTDOWN MAN

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Sep 15, 2004
19,771
Hurst Green
He's in a new league, with a bunch of new players and a load of injuries. He'll learn and hopefully improve. Hence why I say give him time.

I didn't see anyone complaining when we were winning and top four. Maybe that's when he WASN'T out of his depth? Or was that down to the players and now it's solely the manager's fault?
The players have to take on the chin, some of the decisions are school boy.
 


US Seagull

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Jul 17, 2003
4,812
Cleveland, OH
I'm not "Fab out" by any means. But I am "mindless, naive optimism about Fab has taken a bit of a ding lately".

Hoping a couple wins will buff it out.

As for the people saying Tony should have backed RDZ, remember that would mean we'd be playing with Mason Greenwood in the squad right now...
 


trueblue

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
11,027
Hove
Yeah but he turned into a ****, gave up and slagged the model off having signed up to it. Dead man walking from the moment he started mouthing off in post match interviews. Very silly boy
And wanted to sign only the players he wanted. So we'd never have spent £200m on that basis. Plus he threw in the towel for the final 4 months while he was looking for/being tapped up for other jobs, which is hardly a glowing recommendation.
 






Super Sub

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Aug 13, 2016
297
FH has to be given more than 15 games to get things right but equally he has to learn very, very quickly imho.
Every player we have bought in this summer were stand out players for their previous clubs. Mitoma, Ferguson, Enciso have not become bad players in the last few months.
Who has stepped up this season… maybe Ayari and Hinsh. Baleba was already improving.
I genuinely believe we have a top 6 squad and so for me there can only be 1 conclusion and that is that we aren’t playing to our strengths. Only FH controls this.
Give him time, yes, support him, for sure but let’s not think for one second that we always get these appointments right.
 






Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
24,815
GOSBTS
Given the German bloke we’ve taken from their FA it’d take a huge negative run to put his job at risk. Building season with young players but missing out on Hummels or an experienced leader type appears to have been a mistake
 








The worrying thing is Palace were well worth their win. It could've been 5 or 6 had they put away their chances cutting through our defence like butter. Defeat for them tomorrow and we could face them with new manager(possibly Potter) and Brentford can score for fun. After them, its top 6 sides to come so no let up in fixtures to come.
 


Sarisbury Seagull

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Nov 22, 2007
15,122
Sarisbury Green, Southampton
Still a nonsense suggestion at this stage.

He’s making some mistakes but you’d expect that of someone his age and he has also shown signs of promise.

I would also say that despite the £200m spend in the summer, he’s been left with an unbalanced squad.

The fact we didn’t bring in a RB and CB after all that money spent is ridiculous to me, it was patently obvious we were lacking in ability and fitness in those positions. And we still have a few too many weak links that have to feature regularly in the matchday team. If we want to be a top seven team, I really don’t think we should be relying on the likes of Dunk (sorry), Lamptey, Adingra and Ferguson to play much as they’re not at that level. We are also putting out an incredibly young and inexperienced centre midfield in every game which is the most important area of the pitch.

Plus we’re also having to rely on very talented but incredibly raw players like Enciso, Minteh and Gruda etc to produce but who will all be very inconsistent due to their age and the types of players they are and all need time to develop.

It might be a large and promising squad, but Fabian has got a lot of hard work on there.
 


Tim Over Whelmed

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Jul 24, 2007
10,672
Arundel
Fab IN … in Tony we trust
 




UnhingedSeagull94

Have a nice day….BANGBANG
Jan 6, 2024
94
Get rid now Tony. Too inexperienced. Got so lucky in multiple games that we’ve won already this year and is now being found out when the luck runs out. Not ruthless enough, get rid now before the slide gets even worse.
Only a few points off safety. We can limp over the line.
 


portlock seagull

Well-known member
Jul 28, 2003
17,929
I’m worried about his ability to get us out of a rut. Same with Potter and RDZ. Neither could. Feels like a long winter ahead.
 




DanRedman

Active member
Mar 18, 2014
282
Some of our fan base are so tin pot, or is it just modern football that a few bad results and we call for the manager to go?
We NEED to learn how to beat these shite teams who play anti-football, but we're picking up some great scalps of our own.
Not beating the bottom three isn't a new Fab thing. Potter couldn't do it. RDZ did it sometimes. Stick with until the end of the season, at least!
 






Withdean11

Well-known member
Feb 18, 2007
2,924
Brighton/Hyde
Nah.

We were spoilt under RDZ. He took us to heights that we can not maintain. He knew that, it’s why he left.

Fans are deluded if they think we’re going to be challenging for Europe every season while continuing to sell our best players.
 


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