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Spot on
Hughton did a great job, but something has obviously gone wrong halfway through this season and Bloom has made the choice to move on.
That is the polite version. Reality is Hughton lost his bottle and the plot.
Spot on
Hughton did a great job, but something has obviously gone wrong halfway through this season and Bloom has made the choice to move on.
I'm going with Harry.Can we call him GP yet, or does he have to be singed first?
I'm going with Harry.
It's fairly clear that Tony Bloom doesn't see the recruitment team as the problem otherwise they would of been sacked instead of Chris Hughton and his assistants... Tony believes the players weren't coached as well as they could of been the tactics were wrong and they didn't get the best out of a lot of the players
I'm going with Harry.
That's insulting. Why not Pansy or Beatrix?
No, GP every time.
Yes, indeed. I'm a bit hacked off with the vilification of the recruitment team as well.
Unfortunately, pushing back against this involves having a further dig at Hughton - which now he has gone, also seems a little ungrateful.
My view on Hughton - great manager for the albion, on a downward spiral sadly, time to go now rather than taint his legacy with an ( in my view ) inevitable relegation. Go out on top as a man who left us in a better place than when he arrived.
Best for everyone when the new man is officially in and we can stop slagging off the recruitment team, and also muddying Hughton's legacy.
If you can't remember then it didn't happen.That's the first I knew about it. Rohypnol, was it?
I hope not. Whenever I see 'GP' the 'ees comlicated' earworm wakes up.Can we call him GP yet, or does he have to be singed first?
Yes, indeed. I'm a bit hacked off with the vilification of the recruitment team as well.
Unfortunately, pushing back against this involves having a further dig at Hughton - which now he has gone, also seems a little ungrateful.
My view on Hughton - great manager for the albion, on a downward spiral sadly, time to go now rather than taint his legacy with an ( in my view ) inevitable relegation. Go out on top as a man who left us in a better place than when he arrived.
Best for everyone when the new man is officially in and we can stop slagging off the recruitment team, and also muddying Hughton's legacy.
We didn’t have a run like that without those signings in our first premier league season and we did not have one in the first half of the season with them either.
Granted our squad was always going to be one of the weaker in the division but 3 in 23 quality? Not for me.
Here's an extract from a Guardian story which looked back at the reaction to Wenger's appointment as Arsenal manager in 1996:
" Nick Hornby says: "I remember when Bruce Rioch was sacked, one of the papers had three or four names. It was Terry Venables, Johan Cruyff and then, at the end, Arsne Wenger. I remember thinking as a fan, I bet it's **** Arsne Wenger, because I haven't heard of him and I've heard of the other two. Trust Arsenal to appoint the boring one that you haven't heard of."
"The bookies wanted Cruyff, but the Arsenal board went for Wenger. Club captain Tony Adams was unimpressed: "At first, I thought, what does this Frenchman know about football? He wears glasses and looks more like a schoolteacher. He's not going to be as good as George Graham. Does he even speak English properly?"
"Adams was not alone in his scepticism. On Wenger's first day at training, a meeting was called and the new manager was presented to the players. He had won cups and leagues in France and Japan, and expected to be greeted by players who were familiar with his work and respectful of his success. But, as Lee Dixon recalls, it didn't quite pan out like that: "The players filed in and in front of us stood this tall, slightly built man who gave no impression whatsoever of being a football manager."
"Wenger was very much a football manager and his language skills were not going to be a problem. Sir Alex Ferguson once derided the link between Wenger's linguistic abilities and his mental acuity: "They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages. I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages."
Potter is English, not French, and, as far as I know, does not speak five languages. Nor does he look like a teacher. Otherwise..........f
ast forward a few years and it is possible that Potter will be acclaimed as a world class manager.u
Tbf; Hughton gave James Tilley 15 seconds in the playoffs.
I really don't think you should be calling Mr Bloom names like that!Also, whilst Bloom has shown he is willing to swing the axe at recruitment (Burke),