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[Albion] Bring back Potter
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London Irish
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Potter only if we were bottom 6
papachris
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Undoubtedly fabulous in first season and half but towards the end he pretty much signed his own P45 with his constant moaning in public and total lack of a plan B once pretty much all the other teams had worked us out
Not now. Sacking a coach after a little over a third of a season while (just) in the top half screams “entitled”.
Were the vacancy to become available though, I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a Potter return. Reckon he’d have a decent chance of a getting a tune out of this squad with a bit of shopping for the back line.
Were the vacancy to become available though, I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a Potter return. Reckon he’d have a decent chance of a getting a tune out of this squad with a bit of shopping for the back line.
Kalimantan Gull
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No way I'm sacking Fab now, that would be farcical, so there is no vacancy.
However I can't help looking a little wistfully at Potter sitting there unemployed whilst we have a younger, rawer, less experienced version of Potter in charge of the team.
Its a similar vein possibly to Wolves fans looking ruefully at Nuno managing Forest into the top 4
However I can't help looking a little wistfully at Potter sitting there unemployed whilst we have a younger, rawer, less experienced version of Potter in charge of the team.
Its a similar vein possibly to Wolves fans looking ruefully at Nuno managing Forest into the top 4
I get this.
You do wonder what the situation would be if Potter had never gone to Chelsea, and we still had him now.
I'm confident he would've gotten Europe last season or the season before - we were starting to look seriously good just before he left.
We said it at the time and of course the money etc, but he really shouldn't have left. He didn't realise how well set up it was for him to succeed here.
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Well, I agree. And I'm fairly certain that Potter would have been the preferred choice if the club could have brought him back if the snowflakes weren't melting over it.
Instead, we had to go with another option and overall its been working out and I'm in camp KEEP THE HURZ no matter the options. Over time I think it'll work out very well.
But yeah lets see and evaluate after the season. If things go well, all is great. If it goes shite there are other options, including GP.
wolfie
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Bring back Chris Hughton as defensive coach ?
Robinjakarta
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Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Where's the Alan Mullery option?
- Nov 11, 2009
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The ice is melting.
After a rebound fling and some Italian passion, then trying your luck with a youngen who didn't know what they were doing, you start to reminisce about the good times of the one who ditched you for the bigger better deal and now finds themself single and on the market again!
After a rebound fling and some Italian passion, then trying your luck with a youngen who didn't know what they were doing, you start to reminisce about the good times of the one who ditched you for the bigger better deal and now finds themself single and on the market again!
I never saw us look as clueless under Potter, we may not have won games or scored but we NEVER looked so f***ing fragile in defence and he had nowhere near the quality of players we now have, so you can take your sarcasm and shove it where the sun don’t shine
Must've had your eyes closed then.
Care to explain how that screenshot shows we were "Clueless under Potter" (or fragile) ?
I'll give you the Burnley game - that was horrendous but both Dunk and Webster were out and we had a makeshift pairing of Duffy and Veltman that day.
The rest of the results in the list where we conceded are against bigger and better teams and they hardly battered us.
- Nov 15, 2006
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Not convinced any of them were relegation threatened clubs, maybe Villa and the Burnley game was a complete anomaly from memory. But as you like. We could have lost to Saints, Leicester and Wolves were unforgivable and Palace blew us away, so those results above did not result from being f***ing clueless in defence…imo. The last four or so games HAVE been due to being absolutely clueless in defence, not comparable to the ones you list.
We went 7 games without a win, 5 of which were home games and 6 of which were losses. Scored 1, conceded 13. If it needs explaining, the very basics of football is that to win games and succeed as a football manager your team need to score goals and not concede them.
I didn't say we were clueless under Potter. Just as we're not clueless under FH. I'm merely stating that pretending that Potter was a gilded saint and Hurzeler should be dumped for him ignores objectively looking at Potter because you liked him and are happy to make excuses for us not scoring a single goal at home between 18 January 2022 and 25 April 2022.