Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
We did get the results to get over the line. The draws with Newcastle and Arsenal saved us.
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[Albion] Chris Hughton leaves with immediate effect
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We did get the results to get over the line. The draws with Newcastle and Arsenal saved us.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
That's just silly. The season is 38 games long and that's what was played.
Albion Dan
Banned
Burnley had an awful first half of the season - but stayed up with ease
Cardiff got relegated - by only 2 points from us and approx £70m less in player investment and beat us twice.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
He's desperately trying to validate his view by putting any outlandish bollocks out there.
Palace would have come third if the season was 96 games long.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Which shows how shite some of our recruitment was. Also, that Warnock is a wizard.
Weststander
Well-known member
With a bottom 3 budget, CH kept us up, proving the 4-fingered lot from Norfolk wrong TWICE.
Respect to CH from Albion fans. Thank you.
Now it’s time to move on.
It will be interesting to see how the new manager assesses the following, all condemned as crap by their noisy haters:
March
Murray
Stephens
Respect to CH from Albion fans. Thank you.
Now it’s time to move on.
It will be interesting to see how the new manager assesses the following, all condemned as crap by their noisy haters:
March
Murray
Stephens
I think that comes with what is deemed as "progress" these days. Fans are much more involved when a club needs them, as ours were in wilderness years, but the bigger and better run a club is, the more disconnected fans feel because their voice is less relevant. The clubs needs us now as bums on seats, supporting the club and buying merchandise - don't go and another fan will take your seat.
It's a sad reality (although also just my opinion). I think I'd prefer us to be less involved but the club does well, than massively involved because the club is going to the wall.
I find this a very interesting comment in the latest Arsegas piece from Naylor confirming our interest in Potter:
"Bloom alone took the decision to dispense with Hughton late last night". Looking like Barber and everybody else were in the dark as to what the Chairman was planning before last night (I suspect he told them first before telling Hughton!!)
"Bloom alone took the decision to dispense with Hughton late last night". Looking like Barber and everybody else were in the dark as to what the Chairman was planning before last night (I suspect he told them first before telling Hughton!!)
blockhseagull
Well-known member
Palace beating Cardiff saved us
symyjym
Banned
I find this a very interesting comment in the latest Arsegas piece from Naylor confirming our interest in Potter:
"Bloom alone took the decision to dispense with Hughton late last night". Looking like Barber and everybody else were in the dark as to what the Chairman was planning before last night (I suspect he told them first before telling Hughton!!)
https://youtu.be/Xd5ESRqpz3E
blockhseagull
Well-known member
No fair point.
I think my point was when we got dragged into the fight we didn’t seem to be able to respond and we were fortunate maybe that we didn’t start the poor run before we did.
You can’t argue we simply didn’t look up for it whatsoever in those important games where as the other teams did
TSB
Captain Hindsight
I find this a very interesting comment in the latest Arsegas piece from Naylor confirming our interest in Potter:
"Bloom alone took the decision to dispense with Hughton late last night". Looking like Barber and everybody else were in the dark as to what the Chairman was planning before last night (I suspect he told them first before telling Hughton!!)
Already heard, indirectly, from one player who had no clue it was coming.
Mental.
Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
warmleyseagull
Well-known member
Quote was that AK can leave ‘if he wishes’ . I take the implication is that he is too hard work and if he stays he will be Carabao Cup player, and bench warmer.
But new manager may see it differently...
A wizard who has never finished a season by keeping a team in the top division.
I'm pretty sure that CH would have had a fairly large say in who came and went on the player front.
Clear you don't agree with TB's decision this morning, but I daresay it is you who is venturing a rather false opinion to justify a position.
Alas, now is not the time to fight. TB was clearly uninfluenced by anything any of us had to say - we just need to accept his decision and move on. For those that can't, there are 4,500 (approx) others in the Season Ticket waiting-list who will almost certainly will.
That doesn't surprise me in the slightest. If for no other reason, considering the social-media use of many lacking-in-common-sense footballers, they should nearly always be the last to know.
My surprise was that Naylor appeared to be suggesting that nobody else in the senior management team was aware of Bloom's thinking. That would be a shock.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
I don't accept that premise.
warmleyseagull
Well-known member
See post #414. ITK flagged a month ago. They must have targets at least.
Knowing it was coming? Would just have been PB and TB I would think. Ashworth's growing influence might have precipitated the decision but there's no way I would have thought that he would know much before the embargoed press release went out.
Suspecting it was coming? The players must have realised at some point in that awful run that they were deeply in the shit and that put the manager's job at risk. If there were tensions between two ways of doing things emerging these would have been apparent (I don't know if there were but any tension eitther between the players and CH as was reported in a paper or TB / Ashworth / CH as purely an alternative example would surely have been scuttlebutt round the training ground). I heard from a reasonably decent source that Paul Trollope was worried.
But this is all speculation really. The only person who knows exactly what went on and why is Tony Bloom so Naylor's phrasing is hardly surprising.