Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Never happened to Hyypia's Albion. Or Oscar's Albion. Or Gus's Albion. Or Slade's Albion. Or Adams's Albion.
Whats your point ?
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[Albion] Graham Potter joins on four-year deal
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Never happened to Hyypia's Albion. Or Oscar's Albion. Or Gus's Albion. Or Slade's Albion. Or Adams's Albion.
Whats your point ?
albionfan37
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It was kind of why I typed it that way one of them most certainly is our manager (taps nose)
phoenix
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Prove it now !!
Sorry to have to say this, I do like Hughton. But,he always get's the sack before he get's relegated !
I don't like being childish but you are as clueless as me .
all supposition. both mine and yours. There was nothing that guaranteed that under Hughton we would have gone down.....nothing!!!
Potter has drifted to as big as 1/2 on SkyBet now. Phil Neville 2/1 with them.
I trust TB on his decision, but he needs his head checked if he appoints Phil ****ing Neville.
I trust TB on his decision, but he needs his head checked if he appoints Phil ****ing Neville.
Overall, except for Hyypia, who knew enough to quit, we've had decent managers. I like that word decent. My cousins in Chicago use it a lot.
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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Graham Potter
Oh dear, what a mess
Recruitment team waiting to find out if they have a job.
If they do have a job, recruitment team waiting to find out what sort of players the manager will want.
Recruitment team waiting to find out who their boss will be, or maybe who their bosses boss will be.
Transfer window open
Players unsure of their future playing roles, or even their future at the club.
Oh, and I would rather have Mike Bassett than Phil Neville
Oh dear, what a mess
Recruitment team waiting to find out if they have a job.
If they do have a job, recruitment team waiting to find out what sort of players the manager will want.
Recruitment team waiting to find out who their boss will be, or maybe who their bosses boss will be.
Transfer window open
Players unsure of their future playing roles, or even their future at the club.
Oh, and I would rather have Mike Bassett than Phil Neville
Whitechapel
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Another post from the multi-team forum; this time from a Swede who explains just how miraculous the job Potter did out there was.
“Not sure how he's done at Swansea, what the expectations and circumstances were for him here. But when they signed him, I did drop an essay (or three) regarding what he's done in Sweden. Basically, what he did during seven years in Sweden is the most impressive managerial feat I know of, in any sport. There's not a single manager in the world I'd back to repeat it. In sheer unlikelihood, it trumps Leicester by a country mile. Here's what happened:
He took over a small club called Östersund, and small in this context means it had existed for 15 years and the crowds were at around 500. Furthermore, it was in the middle of Sweden, which basically is very far north in Sweden, there's nothing there except snow and well, this random football club. I like to refer to my local club as minnows to give myself some credibility as a football fan, but we're ****ing giants compared to what ÖFK were when Potter took over.
So, what was there was basically what you can expect from a 15 year old club pulling crowds of 500. No scouting, no academy, no talent and no bloody money. But there was a driven chairman and in 2011 when they were lingering in the Swedish fourth division*, they hired Potter. The tickets were for free for his first game, and a record crowd of 1284 people showed up. They went on to win the division by a whopping 9 points, which wasn't all that surprising, the third division was probably their level. Potter, in his second year in charge, took them straight through it. This was already raising eyebrows, after all, he did it where you can't bloody kick a ball for a good eight months a year. And he was foreign!
Potter continued to defy the odds in the second division, as they didn't get immediately relegated. They spent three seasons there, before gaining promotion to the first division. In five seasons, he took a club with nothing going for them at all from the fourth division to the top division. Here, we're talking about Leicester heights of unlikelihood, give or take. Take my word for it, this should have been very much impossible.
Now this not yet 20 year old club was in the top division and expected to finish dead last. Probably by about as many points as the team finishing second to last will have in total. They finished eighth. The season after that, in 2016 they finished fifth and won the Swedish cup. At this point, I'd argue he's managed something I'd back no one else to repeat. And it probably never will.
Yet the craziest thing was yet to come. They qualified to the Europa league through their cup win, and drew Galatasaray. Knocked them out, which was ridiculous. Miracle-on-ice level of unlikelihood, on its own. I think every player in that Gala team earned more than the team combined, or something crazy like that. Fola Esch was probably only like a one in five underdog, but definitely ten times your value when they came up against PAOK. Knocked them right out to make it to the group stage, where not even the biggest Swedish clubs ever go. And when they do they finish dead last. By about as many points as as the team finishing second to last will have in total. ÖFK, however, finished level on points with Athletic Bilbao, and made it to the knockout rounds. There hasn't been a Swedish team in the knockout round of the Europa (or the CL, of course) since English teams were banned from Europe.
They drew Arsenal, and lost 3-0 at home (somewhat unfortunately). But they did win 2-1 away, and that was where the saga peaked. Graham Potter took this team, where the tickets were free when he came in, to a win at the Emirates in the space of less than 7 years.
There's nothing I've ever seen in football that is more impressive than what that guy did with ÖFK. If you get him, congratu-****ing-lations because this guy is a genius. It's not always enough, and managing in the Premier league is different from managing in a league where I've seen matches paused because the goalkeeper's car was double parked. But that's where he's started, and he managed to win at the Emirates with the same club. You won the lottery, imo.
* You, as an English person reading this, likely can not fathom how poor the quality is at the Swedish fourth division. It's baffling that people who have practiced playing football for all their lives can be so bad at it. It's so bad and so tinpot that my local club, playing in the third division, had the full time whistle 17 minutes too early last time out. The ref forgot to stop his watch during halftime. This actually happened this weekend.”
“Not sure how he's done at Swansea, what the expectations and circumstances were for him here. But when they signed him, I did drop an essay (or three) regarding what he's done in Sweden. Basically, what he did during seven years in Sweden is the most impressive managerial feat I know of, in any sport. There's not a single manager in the world I'd back to repeat it. In sheer unlikelihood, it trumps Leicester by a country mile. Here's what happened:
He took over a small club called Östersund, and small in this context means it had existed for 15 years and the crowds were at around 500. Furthermore, it was in the middle of Sweden, which basically is very far north in Sweden, there's nothing there except snow and well, this random football club. I like to refer to my local club as minnows to give myself some credibility as a football fan, but we're ****ing giants compared to what ÖFK were when Potter took over.
So, what was there was basically what you can expect from a 15 year old club pulling crowds of 500. No scouting, no academy, no talent and no bloody money. But there was a driven chairman and in 2011 when they were lingering in the Swedish fourth division*, they hired Potter. The tickets were for free for his first game, and a record crowd of 1284 people showed up. They went on to win the division by a whopping 9 points, which wasn't all that surprising, the third division was probably their level. Potter, in his second year in charge, took them straight through it. This was already raising eyebrows, after all, he did it where you can't bloody kick a ball for a good eight months a year. And he was foreign!
Potter continued to defy the odds in the second division, as they didn't get immediately relegated. They spent three seasons there, before gaining promotion to the first division. In five seasons, he took a club with nothing going for them at all from the fourth division to the top division. Here, we're talking about Leicester heights of unlikelihood, give or take. Take my word for it, this should have been very much impossible.
Now this not yet 20 year old club was in the top division and expected to finish dead last. Probably by about as many points as the team finishing second to last will have in total. They finished eighth. The season after that, in 2016 they finished fifth and won the Swedish cup. At this point, I'd argue he's managed something I'd back no one else to repeat. And it probably never will.
Yet the craziest thing was yet to come. They qualified to the Europa league through their cup win, and drew Galatasaray. Knocked them out, which was ridiculous. Miracle-on-ice level of unlikelihood, on its own. I think every player in that Gala team earned more than the team combined, or something crazy like that. Fola Esch was probably only like a one in five underdog, but definitely ten times your value when they came up against PAOK. Knocked them right out to make it to the group stage, where not even the biggest Swedish clubs ever go. And when they do they finish dead last. By about as many points as as the team finishing second to last will have in total. ÖFK, however, finished level on points with Athletic Bilbao, and made it to the knockout rounds. There hasn't been a Swedish team in the knockout round of the Europa (or the CL, of course) since English teams were banned from Europe.
They drew Arsenal, and lost 3-0 at home (somewhat unfortunately). But they did win 2-1 away, and that was where the saga peaked. Graham Potter took this team, where the tickets were free when he came in, to a win at the Emirates in the space of less than 7 years.
There's nothing I've ever seen in football that is more impressive than what that guy did with ÖFK. If you get him, congratu-****ing-lations because this guy is a genius. It's not always enough, and managing in the Premier league is different from managing in a league where I've seen matches paused because the goalkeeper's car was double parked. But that's where he's started, and he managed to win at the Emirates with the same club. You won the lottery, imo.
* You, as an English person reading this, likely can not fathom how poor the quality is at the Swedish fourth division. It's baffling that people who have practiced playing football for all their lives can be so bad at it. It's so bad and so tinpot that my local club, playing in the third division, had the full time whistle 17 minutes too early last time out. The ref forgot to stop his watch during halftime. This actually happened this weekend.”
Wrong-Direction
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Sheebo
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Chill mate...
A) Bookies odds mean next to nothing and are based on very limited stake bets - they change a lot to cover themselves.
B) The season isn’t even over yet - we will take a few days to get things sorted - even a few weeks if needed.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Apart from the fact he worked with Ashworth at the FA
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my life my word
The thing is Dan Ashworth was committed to getting more English managers in the prem when he was at the FA
So one thing we know is the new manager will be English.
How many candidates are there?
Neville
Lampard
Potter
So one thing we know is the new manager will be English.
How many candidates are there?
Neville
Lampard
Potter
ferring seagull
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It would have been inevitable as indeed it will be for at least half the clubs in the EPL !
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Nobby
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Cheers Sheebo.
Rather pissed off about all this
But I don’t think we have a few weeks, it needs to be sorted very quickly, otherwise why did we sack our manager?
And Phil Neville. Turn the lights out
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Just no.
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Hopefully we get some further clarification today, so we know what direction we are going in.
saafend_seagull
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Neville would be a complete disaster as everyone will be on his back after he loses the first two games
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Sheebo
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You make some very good points re recruitment and time etc and the delays. Hopefully TB etc have told them to get on as normal. Time will tell if it’s the right appointment whoever we get. Trust in TB...