[Albion] Fab out?

essbee1 · 2025-02-01T23:06:20+0000

Affy said:
In Fabs defence, he has insisted on consistency and got it. We’ve been consistently underperforming. Not sure that’s what he was going for though.

For underperforming you mean SHIT?

Affy · 2025-02-01T23:08:33+0000

essbee1 said:
For underperforming you mean SHIT?

Yes

Munchkin · 2025-02-01T23:08:54+0000

Affy said:
Chelsea will be rubbing their hands with glee tonight. They smashed us to pieces when we were in a decent run and winning games. If we play like we did today Palmer will have 7 by himself befor half time.

Need a huge reaction. What and how that is I don’t know. I’m always willing to find excuses for poor runs and see the best/positives but even I’m starting to struggle. I’m putting today down to losing Baleba and Ayari at short notice and, and, and.… no I can’t. Today was awful. Let’s at least hope lessons learnt.

I think it could work in our favour. The players know the fans will demand a response. No better way to bounce back than by beating Chelsea and progressing to the last 16 of the FA Cup.

portlock seagull · 2025-02-01T23:09:19+0000

oldboyroy said:
I do think Bloom has made a big boo boo with this but time will tell. I just hope we can turn Chelsea over and have some cup joy.

Yep. Concentrate on the cup, get to the final. And if we really go for it, we can grab the last relegation spot too

portlock seagull · 2025-02-01T23:09:49+0000

The Fits said:
Where’s the heavy metal football? Where’s the intensity? Where’s this innovative tactician new heard so much about?

Hamburg

Bold Seagull · 2025-02-01T23:11:58+0000

sakooshi said:
When Alex Ferguson first took over at Man U the results weren't very good initially, but the board kept faith and he ended up winning countless titles and doing the treble.

I think there is some mythology about SAF. His first full season in charge they finished runners up - so he had some credit in the bank.

oldboyroy · 2025-02-01T23:12:48+0000

Affy said:
Chelsea will be rubbing their hands with glee tonight. They smashed us to pieces when we were in a decent run and winning games. If we play like we did today Palmer will have 7 by himself befor half time.

Need a huge reaction. What and how that is I don’t know. I’m always willing to find excuses for poor runs and see the best/positives but even I’m starting to struggle. I’m putting today down to losing Baleba and Ayari at short notice and, and, and.… no I can’t. Today was awful. Let’s at least hope lessons learnt.

I imagine Chelsea will be confident but also hoping we put in a performance to at least get some pride back. The players themselves will want to put things right let alone the coaching team.

oldboyroy · 2025-02-01T23:15:15+0000

portlock seagull said:
Yep. Concentrate on the cup, get to the final. And if we really go for it, we can grab the last relegation spot too

Made me chuckle with the last relegation spot

. Think we're pretty safe already with the points we have.

portlock seagull · 2025-02-01T23:17:49+0000

oldboyroy said:
Made me chuckle with the last relegation spot. Think we're pretty safe already with the points we have.

Well, 1983 was simply glorious despite everything!

Pevenseagull · 2025-02-01T23:18:37+0000

Agnostic

I don't know enough about the subject to be 100%

Fence

Oh_aye · 2025-02-01T23:22:37+0000

Balebas trajectory is on its way regardless of who is managing us. I honestly think he'd be even better in a more supportive midfield. Ayari is the main one. Veltman has had a purple patch.

peterward · 2025-02-01T23:30:26+0000

sjamesb3466 said:
What players have improved under Fab would be one of the key indicators of his tenure:
Apart from Baleba and possibly Ayari I'm not sure any players look better now than they did at the start of the season. Even the new players like Rutter seem to have declined under Fab. Couple this with sidelining major talents like Enciso, Barco and Ferguson with some shocking man management, Fab needs to go.

I was slaughtered after the Chelsea debacle when I stated that he was tactically naïve in the extreme and I couldn't warm to him. I'm getting closer to thinking he's just a talentless ego that doesn't learn and is incapable of admitting his own mistakes or shortcomings

Ayari is doing better this season if we're gonna be fair, but I dont think Baleba was down to Fab, he was already on an upward trajectory and hes better this year in spite of Hurzeler not because of him.

But tactically naive is spot on, the formation today, and thrusting Hinshelwood out there on his own, was suicidal. To say he had no regrets of his decisions and would do it again was arrogant imho..... he's always using the words "staying humble" but when he really needed to be that, he doubled down on his errors.

edit: @Oh_aye I hadnt seen your comment when I wrote mine, but its strikingly similar!

Home and Away · 2025-02-01T23:40:23+0000

Sir Alex had some minerals. RDZ had minerals. Potter and Hurzeler not so much...

Ike and Tina Burner · 2025-02-01T23:46:39+0000

Napper said:
He’s actually a massive bell end which doesn’t help

I was talking to a player's spouse on the train back down. She described him as a big baby and bipolar. Essentially he has to win all the time or he has a temper tantrum for a bit but then calms down and goes into Potter "take the positives" mode. Add in a couple of other things she said and I am even more in the out camp than I was at full time.

Pevenseagull · 2025-02-01T23:50:50+0000

Home and Away said:
Sir Alex had some minerals. RDZ had minerals. Potter and Hurzeler not so much...

Potter's minerals were talc.

RDZ didn't have the right apatite.

Fab isn't the diamond we all hoped he would be.

Edit...
(It's a corundum where we go next)

oldboyroy · 2025-02-01T23:56:51+0000

Ike and Tina Burner said:
I was talking to a player's spouse on the train back down. She described him as a big baby and bipolar. Essentially he has to win all the time or he has a temper tantrum for a bit but then calms down and goes into Potter take the positives mode. Add in a couple of other things she said and I am even more in the out camp than I was at full time.

Something isn't right in the camp and it will get sorted eventually. I have no idea what goes on inside the dressing room or training pitch but stories of fall outs and players being sent out on loan when, the players we've bought in aren't (presently) any better makes you think a bit. Getting annihilated by a team we really should be competing with certainly doesn't help.

Oh_aye · 2025-02-01T23:57:29+0000

Ike and Tina Burner said:
I was talking to a player's spouse on the train back down. She described him as a big baby and bipolar. Essentially he has to win all the time or he has a temper tantrum for a bit but then calms down and goes into Potter "take the positives" mode. Add in a couple of other things she said and I am even more in the out camp than I was at full time.

To be honest, that sound like everyone involved in football. Care to elaborate on the other stuff?

OzMike · 2025-02-01T23:57:44+0000

Out, the only consistency he has is getting the set up wrong and having to change it dramatically during the game to try and correct it.

Ike and Tina Burner · 2025-02-02T00:03:09+0000

Oh_aye said:
To be honest, that sound like everyone involved in football. Care to elaborate on the other stuff?

Yeah, not exactly groundbreaking in fairness.. We all knew it from his touchline behaviour anyway. Not fancying some of the players and playing favourites was the other stuff basically. Again, not breaking news but still worrying.

peterward · 2025-02-02T01:18:02+0000

Ike and Tina Burner said:
I was talking to a player's spouse on the train back down. She described him as a big baby and bipolar. Essentially he has to win all the time or he has a temper tantrum for a bit but then calms down and goes into Potter "take the positives" mode. Add in a couple of other things she said and I am even more in the out camp than I was at full time.

If that info from spouse is true, then sounds like our gaffer has slipped through the "no dickheads" policy

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