[Albion] Bring back Potter

[tstanbur]

Spoken like a true halfwit cryptobro

But seeing as how you like to speak in crypto terms...

When the Albion lost Potter, nothing of value was lost (apart from some of the backroom staff)

Wondered when you'd turn up.

It's your round Gumbo!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

f*** off is too polite. If that snake somehow manages to slither himself back in, I'd cancel my season ticket.

Yup, same as last time he raised his gormless head post-RDZ - ST would be going permanently on the ticket exchange

 

[Han Solo]

Yup, same as last time he raised his gormless head post-RDZ - ST would be going permanently on the ticket exchange

Are you going to make a look-at-me thread about it this time as well?
The last one was great once the first "oh shit this is cringe" feeling was out the window.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Are you going to make a look-at-me thread about it this time as well?

I don't know, I don't recall doing it last time. But I'm sure as a serial man-stalker you'll remind me

 

[Beanstalk]

4th when he left was flying high, why are you choosing to ignore that? without that start to the season Europe doesn't happen.

I'm just looking at the overall position when he joined and when he left, a huge difference.

Much easier to maintain and improve momentum like RDZ did when you inherit a great squad.

Sounds like you're the sort of person who might buy Bitcoin at 50k, it then drops to 20k for a year but you keep hold of it and eventually sell for a tidy profit 2 years later at 100k.

Instead of being very happy with your gains you can't help but focus on the period where you were at a loss.

TL;DR: Zoom out.

You're a weirdo. I'll refrain from being personal and odd towards you and answer your question before logging out.

We were 4th after eight games in the previous season under Potter. We finished 9th after going the next 10 games without a win and then going on that awful run later in the season. The problem with saying that him leaving us in 4th, is that it was six games into the season and 2 of the 4 sides we'd beaten were relegated that year (Leeds and Leicester). It may have been the case that we'd repeated the previous year and gone on a long run and dropped down the table. Maybe we'd have finished 6th, maybe we would've won the league if he'd stayed. We don't know and to take a league position after six games as success is not something many people would do.

Did we improve under Potter? As I've said to you in previous posts, yes - he did a good job at transitioning the club from surviving to competing. Is he responsible for us achieving a spot in the Europa League because he won a few games against weaker opposition (and Manchester United...) at the start of the season? Not at all. He has openly said he wasn't responsible for recruitment either so not sure why you'd put RDZ inheriting the squad as a plus for him.

TL;DR: You should zoom out. This is a weird hill for you to die on.

 

[Han Solo]

I don't know, I don't recall doing it last time. But I'm sure as a serial man-stalker you'll remind me

Meh, sorry. Unfair to think you'd remember your own "I'M CANCELLING MY SEASON TICKET, please tell me kind things so I change my mind" thread from a few years ago. Sometimes I forget that some people are 40 years past their cognitive peak. Apologies.

 

[tstanbur]

You're a weirdo. I'll refrain from being personal and odd towards you and answer your question before logging out.

We were 4th after eight games in the previous season under Potter. We finished 9th after going the next 10 games without a win and then going on that awful run later in the season. The problem with saying that him leaving us in 4th, is that it was six games into the season and 2 of the 4 sides we'd beaten were relegated that year (Leeds and Leicester). It may have been the case that we'd repeated the previous year and gone on a long run and dropped down the table. Maybe we'd have finished 6th, maybe we would've won the league if he'd stayed. We don't know and to take a league position after six games as success is not something many people would do.

Did we improve under Potter? As I've said to you in previous posts, yes - he did a good job at transitioning the club from surviving to competing. Is he responsible for us achieving a spot in the Europa League because he won a few games against weaker opposition (and Manchester United...) at the start of the season? Not at all. He has openly said he wasn't responsible for recruitment either so not sure why you'd put RDZ inheriting the squad as a plus for him.

TL;DR: You should zoom out. This is a weird hill for you to die on.

If you can’t understand that simple analogy then I’m not going to explain it to you.

You like to remember and highlight the bad, short periods.

I like to base my opinion on a longer time frame.

P.s. Call me a weirdo then say you won’t get personal? Make your mind up

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Meh, sorry. Unfair to think you'd remember your own "I'M CANCELLING MY SEASON TICKET, please tell me kind things so I change my mind" thread from a few years ago. Sometimes I forget that some people are 40 years past their cognitive peak. Apologies.

Was that anything whatsoever to do with Potter? Um, nope. That was entirely to do with me being near-crippled with gout that entire season and feelin a bit sorry for myself. If you've been lucky enough never to have experienced it, it feels like somebody's smashed your foot with a hammer. Most of that season I had it one foot then the other then back again. As I say I was feeling very sorry for myself and hating every step of the near enough five or six hours round trip excursion to the Amex. Would have felt exactly the same under any other manager.

Taking the positives, it's good I still live rent-free inside your head to this day

 

[Han Solo]

Was that anything whatsoever to do with Potter? Um, nope. That was entirely to do with me being near-crippled with gout that entire season and feelin a bit sorry for myself. If you've been lucky enough never to have experienced it, it feels like somebody's smashed your foot with a hammer. Most of that season I had it one foot then the other then back again. As I say I was feeling very sorry for myself and hating every step of the near enough five or six hours round trip excursion to the Amex. Would have felt exactly the same under any other manager.

Taking the positives, it's good I still live rent-free inside your head to this day

Fair enough.

And congratulations to your housing solution. What a wonderful place to spend your life.

 

[boik]

Kinda weird that the people that are willing to forgive Potters poor streak(s) seem unwilling to forgive FH his. Mind you, if I look back they might have been calling for GPs head too?

Short-termism - it's the future!!

 

[Flounce]

Kinda weird that the people that are willing to forgive Potters poor streak(s) seem unwilling to forgive FH his. Mind you, if I look back they might have been calling for GPs head too?

Short-termism - it's the future!!

I am not really calling for Fabian’s head, I was just floating an idea, and no I never called for Potter’s head as I could see what he was trying to do. I am currently struggling with what Fabian’s tactics are though, I confess.

Anyway it will never happen as the majority of fans would turn after one bad game such is the bad feeling from many towards him.

It was a silly thread to make, I accept

 

[Justice]

Kinda weird that the people that are willing to forgive Potters poor streak(s) seem unwilling to forgive FH his. Mind you, if I look back they might have been calling for GPs head too?

Short-termism - it's the future!!

Weird they pile on to the most successful manager, 11 injuries how dare we have a bad second half of the season.

 

[Han Solo]

Kinda weird that the people that are willing to forgive Potters poor streak(s) seem unwilling to forgive FH his. Mind you, if I look back they might have been calling for GPs head too?

Short-termism - it's the future!!

Fabian Hurzeler doesn't have friends or enemies.

Potter had both the day he popped up to replace Hughton.

Both the real "sack the Hurzz!" or the "Hurzz is the new messiah!" campaigns haven't even begun yet. Everyone is as confused about everything as our team looks on the pitch. If I'm perfectly honest I don't know who the f*** Fabian Hurzeler is, I just assume he's either good or will turn really good.

 

[OzMike]

Amazing how some of you just don't get it.
After the way he treated Tony for all his support and the utter disrespect to everything Albion related, he will never ever be back.
Regardless of any circumstances that arise, Tony will never ever have him back.

 

[Justice]

Still the tops for me.

Yet not the second time, never go back.

 

[boik]

About 18 months ago, there was a team that had splurged a shedload of money on an assortment of potential world class kids. They were playing like a disorganised rabble, losing games they were "expected" to win and sinking to the lower reaches of the league. Look at them now.

They tried changing managers, including one who is on this thread and one who had a rep as being great with kids. They lucked out in signing Cole Palmer who almost single handedly scored enough goals to buy them some time.

Time is probably the answer my friends.

 

[Taybha]

"I'm extremely Happy here, I've a wonderful relationship with TB& PB add enjoy every minute working with the players and all the wonderful people at this football club".


Oh hang on Chelsea have just offered me triple what I'm on here, I'm off.

Yeah well you can fkn well stay off you slimy shyte.